I always assumed pardons do not make the conviction go away, only the sentencing.

TBH honest pardons should be rare and far in between. Neither side has a good track record of using pardon powers for the greater good. It is now mostly used to reward political allies and family members.

I could see a pardon for cases that are ambiguous. Say someone kills their spouse after a lifetime of abuse where the system failed them. I can see why a pardon might be appropriate there.

At least sates still have the option to go after people that got a pardon from the POTUS, so some justice can still happen. In some cases.

He probably wants to filter out potential victims capable of rational thinking. The same reason scam emails are often obvious to most of us.

My brother is swearing by a confidence man that has been convinced of financial fraud in multiple countries. He pays hundred of euros for the honor of having dinner with the guy and keep on sending me marketing/scamming material about the guy.

It turns out some folks see anything shiny as probably gold and will jump on any opportunity to invest in get rich quick schemes.

This guy will probably find fools to give him money. Even Holmes is trying to reboot her business through her husband.

I guess they thought that making an expensive phone just to be expensive would one up Apple. Meanwhile Apple built the very reasonably priced MacBook Neo, which is much more capable than a similarly priced ChromeBook, or other Windows based laptops.

TBH, this was probably more of a technology showcase to brag about what they can build, while most, but not all, Apple releases are for products that are actually usable by the masses.

I was on my phone and could not double check the name. I was not being intentionally cryptic, sorry for any confusion this caused. I think, we can close that subthread now. :-)

I was talking about Polanski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

To answer your question we do have use cases such as that cinematographer whose pregnant wife was brutally murdered in LA. He later raped an underaged girl during an audition and ran away to Europe where he continued to have a somewhat successful career.

Some folks do not care about the bad parts.

Treble damages for law enforcement which do not care for putting someone in jail for no reason.

Which means 18 months in jail, and why not have them pay triple the equity she lost for her house.

Qualified immunity has been repealed in some states and should be repealed at the federal level. There just too much abuse because of it. See ICE murders as examples of where qualified immunity has lead us.

I'm a bit concerned that the federal government agents can get away with ignoring court orders repeatedly. The only fix is going to be for congress to pass strong reforms for stricter government accountability when the rights of innocent individuals are being ignored.

From what I gathered, the last Mac released with an Intel CPU was in 2020 and it was discontinued in 2021.

You can find refurbished Intel models here and there, but Intel CPUs are long gone from the official Apple lineup. I hope they will keep the emulation layer for a little longer since it runs x86 containers nicely, but even containers are getting more ARM supports thanks totaling the push by the cloud providers: ARM virtual machines are cheaper and generally faster than the Intel/AMD options nowadays. If you are running Python, go, Java, NodeJS, ... code in AWS on x86 hardware you are wasting money nowadays.

I was very impressed by the performance of the Apple CPUs when they came out. While the CPU in the Neo might seem underpowered compared to a M5 MacBook Pro, they are still superior to the CPUs in most chromebooks, especially with regards to video, including 3D, performance.

As someone who used to managed development stacks at several companies. NodeJS is particularly a PITA to keep up to date with. The other languages that have better tools such as Go and Python do have issues but not as much as NodeJS.

My experience is that unless the NodeJS dev team really craves a new feature of NodeJS, they would rather not upgrade at all since there are less things to learn but also less conflicts to resolve in order to upgrade. There are many libraries in active use that have now become abandonware and these need to either be forked as a new project or fixed.

Unfortunately I have seen devs just copy the abandoned project source code into the private Git repository so that 3rd party tools will no longer flag CVEs. This is bad for the obvious security issue, but also is often a violation of the license. Of course many Devs do not give a crap, and it never becomes an issue until M&A Discovery finds out about it, if it ever does.

And it was as changed years ago to 'Do the right thing', which leaves it open to 'for who?'.

Google is, for sure, nowhere near as bad as Microsoft or Oracle, but they are still a business which primary goal is to make money.

Which is not entirely a bad thing. If the studio is (was) still earning money from macOS players but were still x86 32bits... maybe they can recompile for 64 bits or even better for ARM so it can run natively on Apple CPUs.

My son likes to play terraria and the latest update a few weeks ago is now native and it really helped with the performance on his M1 MacBook.

Now if folks really really want to be able to play these older titles it is always possible to run older macOS versions, legally, through emulation with virtual box, at least AFAIK.

The last Microsoft product I actually liked using was an ergonomic keyboard, a few years back.

The last time I used a Microsoft product was for work but it was a Microsoft shop with the entire Office suite including Teams (ugh). You could include GitHub and LinkedIn but I don't use these much anymore, their post acquisition versions have taken a hit from what made them nice, especially LinkedIn.

Tbh, printing has a large amount of plastic and chemical waste linked to it. One bigger issue is that the printers get bricked too easily and it can sometimes be cheaper, for the consumer, to buy a new printer than get new OEM cartridges.

At home we switched to laser printers exclusively with good 3rd party support for non OEM ink. Does it print as well as the expensive ink, no, but it is close enough.

In the rare cases where we do need to print actual photos, like for passport pictures, we'll just print them as regular prints at the local Walgreens, CVS or Walmart. Prints are always good, and there is no frustration about clogged ink or whatever.

The thing is that a ban need to be careful. Banning single use plastic bags caused an increase in plastic waste as folks just paid for the thicker re-useable ones, and tossed them like the disposable ones. Many re-usable bags were made with plastic that disintegrated in tin of microplastic.

Personally I prefer cotton tote bags or netting style. Lasts for years and years, can be thrown in the wash when needed and cotton will naturally turn into compost if left in wet dirt. It could be made from many other natural fibers.

LG and Samsung have piss poor reputation when it comes to service their products under warranty.

I would much rather buy a low end TV at Costco for a fraction of the cost of a big brand one, slap an Apple TV behind it to do the smart stuff (I have a PS5 that can do that as well, but it don't want to wear the ssd), if you are concerned about the spyware.

We have a 1080p projector with a 120" screen (not used much), a 4K 55" Vizio that is many years out of warranty but looks more than fine. If it goes bad we will probably replace it with the cheapest 75"+ model at Costco. You can get an 85" tv with a 5y warranty from $800. A 75" QLED starts at $550.

I don't know enough about LED vs QLED vs OLED vs mini LED, nor do I really care.

The shame of having bad data would have made them lose face, which is very very bad in Japanese culture. Fabricating facts and manipulation of data is just a normal part of the culture unfortunately.

https://www.ucanews.com/news/w...

One interesting thing is that one of the reasons Japan has such a low official violence and murder rate is that the police will categorize dead bodies discoveries as "abandoned body" rather than declaring a homicide. If they do solve the murder case, then, and only then, will they classify it as a murder case and keep their statistics high on resolving murders. The police is very willing to fabricate false evidence in order to obtain convictions, again, to keep high conviction rates.

https://www.straitstimes.com/a...
https://www.iias.asia/the-news...

They will even condemn innocent mothers. Imagine having your child die in a horrendous fire, then be thrown in jail for murder on top of it.

https://newsonjapan.com/articl...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...