JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

JUDGE: No, a “light maiming” is also not acceptable, nor is “getting medieval on their asses.” Please constrain yourself to statutes approved by this court.

JUDGE: A further follow-up question from the jury, and no we cannot 'dunk them in a lake and let God decide, like they used to do with witches'. That has not been considered a valid means of determining guilt for several centuries at least.

JUDGE: The jury has sent another question and the answer, again, is no. "Excommunicado" is not real - that's only a thing in the John Wick universe. Civil penalties DO NOT encompass revoking all protections under the law for Mr Altman and Mr Musk.

JUDGE: Court reporter, please note that the jury's latest request, quote, can we let them hang by their thumbs for a few hours, end quote, is also denied.

Again, your asserting something in the absense of a justification. Then pointing back at it to justify it. Its tautological.

More to the point, your making the descartian fallacy by assuming that body and mind are separate things. The human consciousness is not necessarily some aetheric essence that sits on top of the brain, its perfectly capable of being a *state* of the brain. Translated to computer, consciousness COULD be simply a specific arangement of software states. Trying to separate it out and say its something different without asserting why is fallicious.

Instead of taking this into account and putting more effort into single player games that were actually making them more money than they expected, they chased the fleeting extractor shooter market (which anyone could tell them is severely limited because its player base have to be cool with the risk of losing everything every time they play... that's a pretty acquired taste eh) on the premise that they might catch the next fortnite.

Theres always a flavor of the month. What the kids now call Boomer shooters, Doom, Quake, etc, where that flavor for years, Team shooters, ie counterstrike where that flavor for the longest time. Team shooters with classes, ie Team Fortress and later Overwatch, that was popular for a while. Battle Royale, ie Fortnite and PUBG , yeah that was huge. Now its Extraction shooters. These genres have *always* had the money because the finance dudes notice a certain game is making silly money and decide they want in. Meanwhile the lesser well known but still loved genres (I'm a big fan of survival games) just keep on keeping on getting ignored by the AAAs and.... I'm OK with that. Too much potential for micro-transaction hell, so the longer they fail to notice the genre, the happier I am.

A proper government or a government who pays the gangs/warlords to stay out of their city?

Its Kenya. There are no warlords, and gangs are kept out the same way they are in any western country, by the police arresting them.

What country is stable without being run by a white man? For that matter, which stable one is run by a white man?

Well, for one theres Kenya.

Typo: By "Roberts Administration", read "Roberts court".

But since it seems that the court has practically nullified any oversight by congress, it might as well be the Roberts Administration.

GG America. You got played.

At the moment the Roberts administration appears to be interpreting the constitution as "Whatever the administration says it is, because we've made it nearly impossible to enforce" thanks to a serious of malicious rulings that seem to mean that any decision that finds a law unconstitutional only finds it unconstitutional for the specific person suing.

Hell, legally Trump isn't even supposed to be president because he's convicted of leading an insurrection which specifically disqualifies him, but the roberts court decided that seemingly nobody is allowed to sue to enforce it.

America does not have a constitution anymore. Not in any sense that counts. Why americans are not flipping cop cars in open rebelion is beyond me. You had a good thing, then you let it go.

The africans (The Africa CDC specifically, not to be confused by the currently managerially incapacitated US CDC) have pretty extensive experience with this particular pathogen and keeping it under control under very adverse conditions. This aint their first rodeo. With that said with USAID being taken off the board , and the fact that there is a particulrly gnarly war going on in the Congo, the current scenario may well prove more challenging than previous outbreaks

I dont think any serious commentators thought there was much of a danger of hanta going pandemic. It was newsworthy because of the rolling horrorshow of a cruise ship stranded at sea filled with the disease.

But I cant remember any serious news outlet , and definitely no government, UN, or QANGO agencies suggesting it was going to going to go pandemic.

I'm very surprised it's legal here. I thought the electric companies were legally required to serve their customers reliably, and not solely when they found it desirable to do so -- that's the agreement they made in exchange for being a natural monopoly (natural because you can't economically run more than one set of electric lines to every household). Apparently I was wrong about that?

In a lot of juristictions there is a concept called the "natural lifetime" of a product. When you hear a product has a "lifetime warranty" thats what is meant by "lifetime" (its not YOUR lifetime, its the products lifetime). and largely thats a term of art that means roughly "whatever a reasonable person would expect that product would last for". For software this would be "for as long as a computer can still run it". So it would be unreasonable to still expect Powermac software to run in a world where you cant get Powermac's anymore.

And for single player games, a reasonable person would NOT expect that the natural lifetime would be "for however long the company could be bothered to run the DRM server for". A multiplayer game would probably have a different expectation, but the stop killing game campaign is mostly about single player games.

And in a *lot* of juristictions, Europe, Australia and *probably* many US states, all purchases have that "lifetime" warranty by law so there is definitely grounds to say that if a company intentionlly disables a product that otherwise would still run, then the customer is entitled to a full refund, even if its 10 years later.

Yeah. It's bloody exhausting reading articles with the singular they.

If you don't like english, there are many others to choose from. But the singular they has been with us since english was still laden with thees and thous with the oldest examples going back to the 1300s so I'm afraid the ancestor to which one should direct complaints died long ago. Probably aged 30 of some sort of medieval plague.

As astronaut Frank Borman put it, "a superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations which would require the use of his superior piloting skill".

The programmer's version of that would be "a superior programmer uses his superior judgement to avoid creating the bugs that would require the use of his superior debugging skill".

The risk in this scenario is that after a few iterations of people applying AI-generated "black box" modifications, users start reporting that the ancient app is crashing on them now and then, and nobody has the first clue why, or how to fix it... and since the crash isn't readily reproducible, you can't even do a "git bisect" to figure out which commit introduced the regression. Now you're left with two unappetizing choices: either live with the instability forever, or roll back all of the "blind" commits to the last known-stable version and never touch the codebase again.

Nuclear reactors use most surface water, not ground water.

Datacentres are no pickier. You can even cool a datacentre with saltwater, you just need a heat exchanger.

Also, closed loop does not evaporate. The loop is not closed if stuff escapes from it.

You're arguing with the actual terminology used in the nuclear industry. "Closed loop" or "closed cycle" designs have the water pumped in a cycle through cooling towers. The towers lose water to evaporation, taking heat with them, but the rest of the water is returned to be reheated again. "Open loop" or "open cycle" designs have no cooling towers. The water is heated and just discharged hot. They consume much more water (over an order of magnitude more), but most of that is returned. Closed loop are more common, but you see open loop in some older designs, and in seawater-cooled reactors.

"How often do you think I print?"

Seemingly not very.