The economic disruption will cost Israel hundreds of billions. Much of which would normally would have been spent on their war machine so as a lead up to a shooting war, not stupid. Besides saber rattling to force concessions in whatever they're fighting over this month as an implied lead-up to a shooting war, would be a little dumb but totally in character for Iran.

All neoliberal philosophy can be broken down into one statement. "Anything done in the pursuit of wealth is justified." Bringing your host country to the brink of civil war by promoting hate mongering speech because it gets you the most ad clicks and ending democracy itself are justified, when you have internalized the values of the psychopath-class. And yes research shows that the majority of the rich are indistinguishable from sociopaths.

A lot of Legacy technologies settled on blue cue text on light color backgrounds that predate HTTP ubiquity. You used to see this a lot on ANSI bulletin boards, although they tended toward magenta on black backgrounds, (I remember there was one pre-mosaic protocol that created a buttoned interface with blue text as a replacement for the ANSI menu that I thought was going to rule the internet until the day Mosaic dropped but for the life of me I can't remember its name. Probably Amiga tech.) but since all these systems in the early days including HTML were all hand-coded by whoever set up the system with few defaults until it had already became standardized by use. I think what we're looking at here is convergent usage standardization. Where the community decided that Magenta wasn't working anymore, blue looked best with a minority preferring green. Just as we all agreed sometime during the fall of Geocities that static backgrounds that the text scrolled in front of were universally a bad idea and contributed to the fall of both Geocities and later Myspace that did not learn the Geocities lesson. As a result that by the time Netscape released their groundbreaking HTML editor, they had settled on blue as default with a few holdouts on the Mac platform that liked green for good reasons but lost in popularity to blue. TLDR version, this is a social phenomenon that became a defacto standard.

Change my mind.

If I were an optimist I'd say, "The End of the Stupid Age" or if not "Thank God Those Bastards are Dead."

OF course Billionaires want a solution that will cost trillions, keeping them space dollars coming on a project that will take decades we don't have and will still result in a mass die off of mostly the subhuman poor. Instead of spending a few hundred million to pull carbon out of the atmosphere with algae blooms and could considerably remove all excess greenhouse gasses accumulated since the industrial revolution in a few years. Reference https://www.the-scientist.com/... Why do the rich only support solutions that will effectively wipe out the poorest 80%? You know why. https://www.the-scientist.com/...

We could solve this by creating algae blooms in the middle of the ocean and once that algae sinks to the bottom it takes all that carbon with it. Considerably cheaper than the solar shade proposal and we could start doing it this year if we wanted to. For more information. https://www.the-scientist.com/...

What's bit disturbing to me is that the red flag laws don't include psychopath, sociopath or narcissistic personality disorder as "red flags" when they can be screened for with fMRI, despite being the 1 percent of the population responsible for 50% of all crime and let's face it, most of the mass shootings. Do you think that might have something to do with the leadership in both parties and the Overclass being packed with psychopaths? But I'm just a prole, what do I know..

By an incredible coincidence that's how long mobile phones last on average. I wonder if it's related? It's like people are only replacing them when they wear out...

I'd be more likely to buy it if it was a handheld. I can emulate this console on my cell phone hardware so why does the mini have to be so huge?

Well, it depends, if you are from one country and break the law while in another, you absolutely are subject to that countries laws, if you leave that country before they prosecute you are subject to extradition. Their argument is he was performing an intrusion on a server on US soil and is therefore subject to extradition.

One dicey bit here is if a digital presence constitutes a physical one, and that's probably determined by the extradition treaty.

Ultimately the dumbass probably would have gotten away had he dealt in Sweeden swiftly, getting the issue resolved before the extradition could go through instead of running away and hiding, essentially volunteering for house arrest without resolving this shit.

Next, you'll be telling me that Coke Zero is not a taste explosion or that women won't automatically find you attractive if you wear Axe body spray. Where do you get off exposing the lies of an industry that exists to lie to you, how dare you!

I'm sorry Mark but you are a soggy stinking sack of hooker genital sores, Every time you've said this in the past you've been proven a liar, so you can shove a broken beer bottle sideways where the sun doesn't shine.

Word of the Day: Guillotine: the inevitable outcome of the neo-feudalist stage of capitalism.

"The problem has raised questions about whether the city had taken appropriate measures to prepare the network for the GPS rollover." I would say it raised answers not questions. The question, did NYC prepare for the GPS rollover, was answered a resounding and emphatic NO, they did not even try to prepare.

All I can say to Microsoft is that revenge is a dish best served cold with a side of irony. It sucks that the other browsers have to deal with this shit but Microsoft deserves this since it was their favorite thing to do back in the 90s.