Yeah, I think they forgot to include "stupid" in the long list of his faults.

THANK-YOU. The police have the means to get any info they want and can prove they have a legitimate need for. They just need to go through the proper procedures. I was a DSO long ago, and there are plenty of friendly judges that will listen to your arguments, but lazy a$$ cops don't want to do the paper work, or have shown they weren't trustworthy before. Show a judge you are a dirtbag and you'll never get anything.

I use the Meta AI for illustrations for my D&D game. I'm not sure I'd pay for it but it has made a positive impact in the game. ie the players rave about having images for bad guys.

At that point, why not just go VPin [vpinhub.com]?
because you can't hip check a virtual table.
Honestly I don't know. I've loved pinball since I was a kid and could play on a chair at the Mr. Video arcade. The touch, the smell of the electricity all combine into a thing I can't get enough of.

That is not a small project. How are you going to separate the CO2 from the general atmosphere ? I worked in a grow house briefly in college and they used commercial CO2 cannisters for that effect.

It's a shame because they were so good for so long. I used Rokus for 10+ years.....back when you had to actually pay for them. Once the $30 Roku stick became a thing it was all over.

Narcissits falling for a syncophancy machine? Who could have predicted such an outcome?

I dumped Roku a couple of years ago when they made it clear that I was the product rather than the customer. Generic android boxes work just fine these days and if you're just running Plex/Emby/Jellyfin or whatever you don't even need to sign into a google account - in fact you can remove the play store all together if you buy one that is ASOP. Add to this projectivy or some other sane launcher and you don't have to worry about ads or things changing that you did not ask for or want.

That's not the reason that both bombs were dropped. They were dropped because the military saw them as just another tool in the toolbox, just like the bombs dropped on all the other cities that continued to be dropped on other cities until the surrender. Truman ended the military's control of atomic bombs after Nagasaki, when the USAAF was preparing to use a third bomb, establishing civilian control of atomic weapons. Firebombing continued, though, right up to Kumagaya, Akita, and Osaka getting hit in the 24 hours prior to Hirohito taking to the airwaves.

The agreement expired in 2030. It did not authorize Iran to pursue nuclear weapons at that time. There's a difference.

The agreement was the best available at the time. Diplomacy sometimes requires taking a temporary win, and it usually means that neither side gets everything they want. The hope was that Iran would find that they would not want or need to develop nuclear weapons. If they did go down that path, there were penalties for doing so. Future negotiations were planned to modify or extend the agreement as it got closer to the expiration date.

That's how such agreements work. Every arms treaty signed between the US and USSR had an expiration date. The expiration date was not an agreement that at the end, both sides would immediately rearm. They were meant to establish a new normal and a baseline for future negotiations, and that's what happened. Over time, the arsenals were negotiated down from tens of thousands per side to a few thousand per side, with only a fraction of them deployed or even deployable. The last one expired a few months ago, but neither side is racing to add to their deployed warhead count.

There is no way to outright prevent Iran from developing a nuclear warhead without occupying the country and removing its entire current government. That is hundreds of billions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives, and an even worse look for the US than it has right now. Negotiating a deal like the JCPOA is the best option available. But every time Trump starts to talk about a deal and details start to leak out, they look a lot worse than the JCPOA. Trump is incompetent, he started a war that even Republicans are turning against, and he's arguably left Iran in a better place than it was before. Iran now knows that they can cut off the Strait of Hormuz, and no one can or will do anything about it. Worse, Trump has stated that he would be OK with Iran charging transit fees. If that starts, everyone else who controls a waterway that is otherwise internationally accessible is going to charge them, too. Indonesia and Malaysia would be the top two who could affect global trade, and while both have said that they would not, it's hard to say what future governments would do if they came under budget stress and had a precedent to point to.

I've got a Delta Queen 2 plays for .25 on the patio. Wouldn't it be easier to take an existing machine and redo the playing field to match ? Getting parts for my old machine is not fun. I've made rubber bumpers and swapped light bulbs to low power led's. I had an artistic friend recreate some of the decals and made a whole new playing field base to replace the sagging boards that were there.

I remember reading about the fight between polished aluminum planes and painted. The paint adds weight, and thus increases fuel consumption, but the paint lowers maintenance costs.
A dirty airplane can absolutely burn a noticeably larger amount of fuel.
A car is operating at much lower speeds, generally, so the effect is probably much less.

Electric bikes get far better range per watt. I can get 45 miles on a 500Wh battery without pedal assist, putting my consumption at ~12Wh per mile.

Like this is so basic of a thought exercise that anyone with a brain (or anyone that owns an e-bike) can see this story is utter bullshit.

I live in AZ. There ARE some issues with not having DST. It gets F'n dark early and the sun rises late in the morning. I walk dogs and for some time I start and finish in the dark. Kids ride the school busses in the dark. The winter Ag workers start in the VERY dark, but it IS cooler. Over all I like not having to change the time.

Setting the time backwards used to be a huge deal in the mainframe world, with duplicate transaction times logged and such, but as I read it now they are using Universal time and incrementing daily.

I'm surprised at appealing. That will likely cost more than the fine.
Still, not wanting the precedent is a thing.