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Comment Re:"where no one has ever looked before" (Score 1) 35

Thank you for explaining the closing joke of my comment. If anyone did not understand that the bit about checking between sofa cushions was a joke, I hoped the truism would indicate that the earlier suggestion was not intended as a serious approach to finding dark matter. Now I don't have to worry about people understanding that the finale was written with tongue in cheek.

(Full disclosure, in the interest of clarity: It is a lot easier to write things with one's tongue in one's cheek than to say things that way.)

Comment Re:So just to avoid misunderstandings... (Score 1) 51

Your blatant ignorance or denialism is not an excuse for calling people names. Scientists have been making the same point as the GP for at least 40 years now:

Although substantial progress is made every year in fusion research, the projected time to realize the ultimate goal of commercial fusion always seems to be 25 to 30 years away.

Comment Re:Immigration Reform [Re: What about not eating.. (Score 1) 188

Lol, Politifact. You'd have to go to Tucker Carlson or Truthout to find a more dishonest source. The headline says the law would not have allowed that many illegal immigrants, but the text explains why it effectively would. The bill was primarily intended to give political cover for record-setting paces of 4000+ encounters a day for months from well-deserved criticism on lax border enforcement.

Comment Re:Immigration Reform [Re: What about not eating.. (Score 0, Troll) 188

Yes, that was the bill that would allow (some would say strongly recommend) the government to ignore up to 5,000 illegal border crossing every day -- 1.8 million each year. With proper enforcement of immigration laws, it's now typical to have about 8,000 encounters per month: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/s...

Comment Re:What is the use case? (Score 2) 26

One of the key parts of ACME is that cert issuers are supposed to check the certificate from different points on the Internet, so that they have a good chance of seeing different answers if that kind of MitM attack happens. They won't necessarily know which is the true server response, but they will not issue a certificate if they see a mismatch.

Comment Re:Wrong Move... (Score 3, Informative) 143

There's been a broad obligation to do that for four years: https://www.canada.ca/en/reven..., although maybe some companies claim their goods or services are exempt. Google, for example, apparently collects and remits GST/HST for sales through its platforms unless the seller provides documentation that a Canadian official has determined that the good or service is exempt.

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