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Comment Re:"Officials" (Score 1) 31

Dominic Cummings is not, and never has been, an "official". He was a special advisor to the Buffoon in Chief during his premiership. He was never a civil servant nor elected as a minister and as Mr. Moore points out above is best known for breaking COVID lockdown rules and giving the most absolutely fucking incredible* explanation I've ever heard. Well, that and being responsible for the first use of the word "cunt" in a select committee hearing that I know of.

* The traditional sense of the word. In fact it was sort of meta-incredible; not only was his excuse (that he drove a hundred miles to check his eyesight) hard to believe, it's also beggars belief that he expected anyone to fall for it.

Splitting hairs, I know...But your message sparked the question' if not a civil servant, what are they. But they are indeed: Spads are a specific kind of political adviser first introduced in 1964. They are appointed as temporary civil servants and work in government. According to https://www.instituteforgovern...

Comment Re: Price of electricity (Score 1) 315

At 32 cents per kWh it costs under $20 to charge a 60 kWh EV.

32 cents per?!! I wanted to ask what the price of gas was if it costs more, but I dunno now, my chin is busted and hurting from hitting the floor so hard.

I live over on the east cost and here electricity is 8 cents per kWh.
Gas hovers around $3/gl, usually is about $30-35 to fill up, which is about every 1.5-2 weeks for me.

It sounds like an EV would be stupid cheap to charge at home if not for the small detail I do not currently have power to my garage. Something I've been meaning to look into the cost to have run but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Comment Re:I can't make much of it. (Score 3, Interesting) 64

On some Dell tower PC's from around 2008, the notification was that at the next boot, the BIOS firmware showed a message saying something like "A single bit memory error was detected and corrected, press F1 to continue."

I have some sticks of RAM (in a box of junk somewhere) that caused the message on the hottest days of the year.

Comment Re:Hope the Z-Library Team wins (Score 0) 19

Thus, the efforts of Z-Library are committing or facilitating mass intellectual property theft, (A.K.A., copyright violations,)

Sorry, but no. You do not get do redefine copyright violation as theft. They are two totally different things.

Copyright had the moral high ground when it balanced the needs of creators and the common good. It not longer does, so naturally many people do not feel morally compelled to obey an unjust law.

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