Verdun 163,000 brave Frenchmen dead. https://imgur.com/gallery/lAqP...

John Ray III, now the FTX CEO and the man who cleaned up Enron has said this is the worst situation he's seen in his career, Much worse than Enron. https://www.axios.com/2022/11/...

Heck, the motherboard in my brand new gaming computer came with a combination of USB2,usb3, usb3 5gb, usb3 10gb ports AND a DIN port.Why a high end modern mother board came with one I have no idea, the comments I saw on reddit was analog keyboards useing DIN connecters were faster in some FPSs but there was no proof that I could find.

The only issue here is people Frooping it up for the rest of us gun owners. If you want to own a gun. Get a gun! They aren't expensive. If your a hobbyist and you want to buy a gun kit good on you! If the thought ever crosses your mind "I want to buy or build this thing because it gets around a regulation" YOU are the problem. Pistol Gun braces, while originally designed to help the handicapped have been perverted into a Item for tax avoidance. You want a Short Barrel Rifle, Go buy one! You just need to add the $200.00 Tax and fill out the forms and away you go! But you use a Pistol brace on your "Pistol" which is effectively a rifle but with out a Stock. Well you get to avoid the tax but you end up with a inferior rifle. The ONLY reason for healthy people to use them is tax avoidance. You want to build a gun in your home machine shop? That's perfectly legal. All this rule states is you need to put a serial number on it. You already had to do that if you wanted to sell it. You want to have a gun to evade, background checks, reporting requirements, restrictions set upon you because your a convicted felon or you have a restraining order against you, and again taxes? Well you are the Issue! When you set out to make or purchase items specifically designed to evade the spirit of the law YOU are the problem. Even if you are have no intention to commit "Real Crimes" you are avoiding the law, and supporting a ecosystem for avoiding the law. All this does is give gun owners a bad name, It gives people who want increased gun control Ammunition "See.. they evade the spirit of the law, they have no intention of actually obeying anything and can't be trusted. I've owned guns literally every day if my life (My grandfather gave me a 22 Riffle on the day I was born, to my mothers annoyance) I'm tired of people going "I don't like this law so Instead of obeying and trying to get the law changed, they find the screwiest way they can get around the letter of the law but clearly violate the spirit. It has never occurred to me in my day to day life that I needed to avoid the law like this, and then the rules change to make things more difficult for people like me because a small number of folks can't get their heads out of their behinds and NOT AVOID THE LAW. it's really simple. It's not hard. Don't evade your taxes, don't buy things that are transparently designed to evade existing regulation. I.e bump stocks and pistol braces. Because you avoid the law you give the folks interested in more regulation more reason to regulate and you prove you can't be trusted. So why should you be listened to? If your thought process ever encompasses the words "I want to avoid this law" STOP. That is the warning sign that you are screwing up.

I worked for IBM doing support for Workstations back in the late 90s. Because "Workstations" at the time included anything smaller than a AS400 I got to go to a bunch of Amazing places. The 6th and 7th floors of the CNA building Downtown Chicago. before I came there a full floor and a half, Almost a full city block was filled up with 1 mainframe. the other half floor was staffed with 20 to 30 IBM employees just to maintain it. The CNA staff were much higher up in the building. They replaced that huge monster with a unit that was a 6 foot Cube. the IBM staff would have stayed but CNA had a contract dispute with IBM it was in the process of losing I got left alown in that huge office for 9 months to repair CNA's laptops. Froze my behind off because the AC on 7 was designed for all the people and Machines that were not there anymore. CNA had a "Ford" manufactured by Ford which was a automated Tape library, at the time brand new. It was 30 feet long and went from floor to ceiling. It could operate dozens of tapes at once. It was cool watching the robot arms move back and forth at frightening speed. Oh don't forget the Dot Matrix printers that spit out green-bar reports so fast that they had thick metal plates to catch the paper and stacked it. Then there was the Chicago Board of Trade. In the Annex behind the main building, Behind a armed guard and several doors that scanned your hand was the server room. While there were servers in there the real reason for the place were 2 Tape library's called "The Silos" 3 Stories tall and truly the diameter of the Grain Silos they resembled. I have no Idea who made them. Main frames are so far from PCs and racked servers that they aren't comparable in any way.

If they can't track legs in VR, then why are there so many videos of folks playing Beat Saber and Feet Saber with full body tracking? If you can play a high speed rhythm game in VR with your legs than I think this is a solved issue. Even cheep VR chat can support full body tracking.

I think the difference here is that The Ukraine Whistle-blower is protected by "Whistle-blower protection Laws" they did everything correctly and the government being bound by those laws is supposed to keep the name secret. This is to encourage whistle-blowers in the future. Outing the whistle-blower is an attempt to punish the behavior. By Law members of the Government should not be revealing the whistle-blowers name as it will have professional and personal consequences that can be quite sever. As a individual you are not bound by these laws and may discuss him/her to your harts content. However by discussing the individual you are working to prevent such whistle blowing in future. If you wish to have your political opponents subject to whistle-blowers when they act corruptly then you should act to protect those who expose your political allies as well.

In the 1840s and 1850s "De-platforming" by Pro-slavery forces was usually carried out with mobs, They smashed the presses and killed the owners of abolitionist papers. This happened in places like Ohio. Local authorities usually took no action against the mobs. At least with modern "de-platforming". you get to live and still express your opinions. Free speech protections have never provided you immunity from the consequences of your speech.

Interestingly While Wargaming.net has this system. They have spent the last couple years trying to get rid of it or minimize it's effects. It warped matchmaking pretty strongly and negatively. They no longer introduce new vehicles with "Premium" matchmaking. In fact, they are actively working to slowly remove the existing "premium" matchmaking vehicles from the game. Mostly by attrition and changes to the overall game system that makes them unattractive to play.

According to the BBC. This wasn't a isolated incident from the accused trader. He has been using the tactic as late as April 6th of this year. He's made $40 million in the last 5 years. http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

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