Unfortunately? What part of unreasonable search and seizure is hard to understand? You know how the Founding Fathers fixed what is accurately called an oversight? They’re called Amendments.

And we have plenty that should be preventing this abuse. Even written while the Founding Fathers were still around to declare “oh crap, we thou fucked up.”

If you need to use the term “loophole” to describe your job, then the only “job” you’re doing is marketing the bullshit required to call that anything but criminal.

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.

There aren't a lot of AAA PC games these days and Sony's releases were some of the few we got and they were all the very high quality.

But this isn't because they're trying to be evil or anything they just aren't selling enough copies to justify the ports.

If the cost of a PS5 was low I could see that because people would just buy the PS5 and not bother with the PC version but with a PlayStation 5 pushing $700 for the base console that doesn't seems like it wouldn't be the case. I don't know the demographics though but the facts of the matter is they aren't selling enough units for anything except the Spider-Man games.

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.

Not sure how true it is, but it was said that the taskbar problems were due to poor communication between the various developer groups at Microsoft, and not a deliberate decision to remove the feature.

Not to mention, movable taskbars confused no one. They weren't easy to move by accident, and even if those monkeys did eventually type out Hamlet, the resultant side-bar functioned exactly like the bottom-bar. And I'm sure there was a GPO to disable it in corporate settings.

Translation: A Federal agency purposely fucking bound by Constitutional limits within the Bill of Rights, is now so openly corrupt that they are brazenly requesting to spend taxpayer money in order to buy that which they are not allowed to legally capture.

You want new toys to do your job? Start remembering the fucking law first, children.

We the People, need to end the data broker loophole.

Windows 7 had the best UI with Aero. It introduced the application pinning feature on the taskbar that nobody can live without anymore. People complained about the resource usage, but I ran games for most of a decade with Aero enabled, and it never bothered me.

Obviously it had all kinds of problems too, "best Windows UI" isn't saying much. But it's definitely not the worst Windows UI either. That's probably Metro, or Bob if you count that.

Too late - already pulled over everything important to Linux, so Windows is just a game launcher now. And that doesn't need a taskbar.

The migration wasn't only due to the taskbar, but the taskbar was definitely front-of-mind when making the decision, as it's something in my face every time I use the computer. My other complaints about Windows are years (or decades) old, so this could be seen as the straw that broke the camel's back.

The 3rd party taskbars for Windows might be useful, until they break Windows Update, for users whose employer mandates the use of Windows. But those employers also probably don't allow their machines to install Explorer Patcher.

Ever tried running Windows Vista on a minimum spec computer? Painful doesn't even begin to describe it. That's where we're at right now with Windows 11 but at least in the case of Vista they were doing a bunch of fancy modern operating system tricks that brought new features, albeit stupid new features but still they were genuinely trying new features. The hardware at the time couldn't handle that, you really need it about four times as much RAM and an SSD to do what they were doing and that was just too expensive for oems at the time so when does Vista crawled on anything but a high-end gaming PC.

With Windows 11 we've got all that shit performance but absolutely no new features except the operating system spies on me now and feeds all my data into Microsoft's AIs so they can sell co-pilot to my company after firing me. Or at least that's the goal it's debatable whether or not it's going to work out for them but in the meantime my computer runs like shit unless I run Linux or Windows 10 and both of them have issues with games and other complex software...

The basic idea, which their own people have admitted, came from a old Japanese live action TV series called ultra 7 which is in the Ultraman series.

So it's patently ridiculous, pun intended, for them to be trying to get patents on something they didn't come up with on their own. Never mind the obvious ridiculousness of everything about this.

The only goal that matters is regime change.

They only care about the prediction markets because it can leak military plans. They don't care if politicians are profiteering.

Window 11 is painful to use. Things draw in like I'm on a Pentium 3 with 256mb of RAM.

If you can't spy on me without killing performance don't do it.

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.