This was one of the few things I still used Chrome for. Just hope there are not stupid restrictions like not being able to access the serial API from local files.

This was one of the senseless crashes I've ever heard of. "But I've had the stick back the whole time!"
There was nothing reasonable about the crews reaction to it. This is right up there with Eastern Air 401.

The stock market is a game of chance you win by gaining money and lose by losing money. Hence "playing the market". Many people consider the market a form of gambling.

Ditto for horse racing and sports betting.

Risk depends on what stocks you buy.

I don't think this kind of differentiation works. The prediction markets have mechanisms that resemble stock trading. You can for example buy and sell positions. This isn't a fixed decision you make once and that's it. You can change your mind as you get more information about whatever you are betting on.

I don't think relying on nebulous concepts like what is or isn't gambling works. It is a good approximation for humans to communicate in some instances but the details of legislation is what matters.

Always the same rhetoric. Agitators, Mossad behind everything and of course all the numbers are bullshit even though up to 30k dead was a figure that came from officials in the regimes own health ministry.

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the countryâ(TM)s Ministry of Health told TIME"

https://time.com/7357635/more-...

Doctors and nurses attacked, murdered, dragged out and raped while treating patients. Patients shot in the heads in their hospital beds.

What state of emergency? Millions of unarmed people were out in the streets protesting enmasse for over a week since late December triggered by the economic crisis. The regime only decided to start massacring unarmed civilians enmasse on the 8th. If protesting is an existential threat then you are justifying massacre while saying you are not justifying massacre.

Getting rid of the Iranian regime has only positive implications for the world especially when coupled with Russia losing its global influence as it continues to wreck itself in Ukraine. For decades the region and the world has been terrorized by Iran relentlessly "exporting the revolution". Assad is gone, Hezbollah on the way out of Lebanon, Houthis losing their support, Arab states normalizing relationships with Israel, Hamas death cult in Gaza cut off and bye bye assistance to the Russians to wage their failing bloody war of conquest in Ukraine.

This must be why they imported over 5k of their foreign proxies into Iran and are having trouble paying and feeding their own forces because "stronger than ever"? BTW where is Mojtaba? Do they even have a leader? Remnants of the regime seem to be quite busy fighting each other.

If the regime has huge popular support why not flaunt it? Why are they instead silencing their own people by keeping the Internet shut down? Wouldn't it be better for the world to hear from Iranians how much they now support the regime and hate Americans following massacres of tens of thousands of Iranians?

Since this all started regime people involved with JCPOA came out and publicly admitted of course they were going for a nuke. Other regime folks have subsequently publicly made their intentions clear following the Feb 28th attacks. I was a big supporter of JCPOA as it would have credibly kicked the can down the road many years into the future. That's gone now and we have to live with the world as it is. Nukes are a valid reason for regime change now even though it was a problem of the orange clowns making.

Violence on earth predates history. All anyone has to do is draw whatever arbitrary box suits them regardless of actual merit or nexus to present day reality.

Yea "the violence" started long before there was either a calendar or written history. It all started with the monolith or Cain or whoever.

Recall what you said "Equally, this is a war that has been going on for the past 4,000-5,000 years now without showing much sign of anyone coming to their senses. This might not be enough to push everyone else over the edge."

Thousands of years of history should be materially relevant to the present and it should be explainable.

Are you saying corruption is the reason for the 4,000-5,000 year war?

I have no other words to characterize idiocy like "A 5000 year old country doesnt forget its roots or what a brutal dictatorship they were ruled over by the Shah for 26 years" so yea if the shoe fits wear it. I provided objective reasons to support my characterizations of your remarks. You on the other hand have nothing substantive to say and can't support your positions. You are just wasting everyone's time.

Your statements were factually incorrect. What is your issue with the NYT article? Are there any facts in it that you dispute? If so which ones? Do you dispute Mossadegh held a sham referendum that got 99.96% of the vote to give himself powers he was not constitutionally entitled?

There is no definition of coup that includes someone with the constitutional right to do something legally doing that thing. This would be like saying had Nixon not resigned and was impeached and the removal vote succeeded he was ousted in a "coup". That isn't a thing and makes no sense. The king always had the power to remove Mossadegh and he exercised it on Aug 15th 1953. This is an indisputable fact. A coup is when a member of the state exceeds their authority to gain power they are not legally entitled. Nothing like that happened.

As for the CIAs involvement it is way overblown. There was real popular support for the king and this at is how he won the legitimacy contest with Mossadegh who was convicted and jailed for three years for his illegal coup attempt. The CIA absolutely had plans and tried to help the king but their role was minimal. The real power came from a coalition of Iranian supporters who won the day.

Your ignorance is beyond words. The Iranian regimes raison d'etre is literally "exporting the revolution". It has wreaked havoc thought the region for decades doing exactly that. The fact Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terror is not merely an empty slogan.

The regime has the blood of the entire region on its hands in addition to oppressing and massacring its own people while severely lacking any internal legitimacy. I hope they get wiped out.

The Iranians are Trumps and BiBis biggest fans.

If you can't beat em might as well join em. Everyone should just create a network of spy cameras /w opencv or something and let anyone browse the database. That should piss off enough people to end this madness.

The only goal that matters is regime change.

You are spewing raw unadulterated nonsense.

The king ousted Mossadegh because he was perusing a coup against the state to install himself as a dictator. What the US did do was run a largely ineffective propaganda campaign the CIA itself considered a failure and pulled the plug on against Mossadegh. It consisted of acts like buying up radio ads, printing fliers, paying people to show up and protest/shit on Mossadegh whose popularity was already in decline.

The king didn't require the assistance of the US government to oust a prime minister. According to article 46 of their constitution the hiring and firing of ministers is by royal decree and firing is exactly what he did on Aug 15th 1953. Only the king can hire ministers. Parliamentary votes for new ministers required the kings consent.

For anyone confused about the history I recommend this article from Aug 4th 1953 on the NYT archive.

"A plebiscite more fantastic and farcical than any ever held under Hitler or Stalin is now being staged in Iran by Premier Mossadegh in an effort to make himself unchallenged dictator of the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/1953/0...

Savage is exactly what the dark age nonsense known as Khomeinism is.

FFS during the massacres of Jan 8th and 9th millions of people were chanting long live the king and writing the kings name in actual blood. I don't know if you are really that ignorant or what your malfunction is. The Iranian regime does not have legitimacy and has done nothing but shit on Persian culture going so far as preventing newborns from having Persian or non-islamic names.

Over a dozen nations in the region were just attacked by Iran. It has lead to increased isolation of Iran.

The war started with the imposition of Khomeinism in Iran which is just as incompatible with the world as the imposition of Nazism in Germany.

This requires Nazis losing the war.

Even there diplomacy preceded revolution.

Remember to buy only AGMs so EMPs won't fry the BMS.

Solar is the only practical renewable accessible to mortals. Wind is amazing at utility scale yet sucks otherwise. Hydro and geo are inaccessible to most.

I can't parse this. I don't know what you are trying to say. Again I've neither argued for or against wood burning. I simply pointed out the facts of limited utility of renewables WRT winter heating. Your statements are not connected to anything I actually said.

What is simple is the fact I have not offered any support or opposition to anything. Apparently this is too challenging a concept for you to grasp. Stop listening to the voices in your head and read what was actually stated.

Also your claim is flat wrong. For example nuclear isn't renewable and yet its use results in far less air pollution and GHG emissions than solar.

This is getting very old. Please stop putting words into my mouth. I pointed out the fact use of solar is economically infeasible for heating during winter. I have not advocated for solar or any alternatives and have no duty or interest in providing a comparative analysis or adding up all externalities to your or anyone else's satisfaction.