... that registrars outside India's borders told those overreaching Indian courts that their power to order registrars based in other countries to do their bidding ends at India's borders - and sent Italy's courts a cc
fantomfive suggested:
You might enjoy The Clone Wars
Here's the thing that absolutely ruins Clone Wars - and every Star Wars production that includes military conflict, for that matter - for me:
It's blindingly obvious that neither George Lucas nor any of the other scriptwriters who have penned stories for one or another of the franchise's productions has any meaningful experience with or knowledge of actual military science. Every freaking battle scene is straight out of the Homeric Age. Significantly-sized forces simply advance straight toward one another, and all combat is basically hand-to-hand. Other than the Jedi, the combatants pretty much all have ranged weapons, but they don't even take advantage of cover as they advance. It's essentially all human wave (okay, droid wave) assaults, culminating in single combats at close quarters, over and over again.
That pitches me out of my willing suspension of disbelief, every time. It's obliviously stupid, and wrong, wrong, WRONG, and it just poisons the entire franchise for me.
Having said that, Andor was pretty damned good, as was Rogue One
business_kid misattributed
To quote BSD Fortunes: "An honest politican is one that when you buy him, he styays bought!"
That quote is from the notoriosly-corrupt 18th-century American politician Simon Cameron. And you misspelled the word "politician," btw
There has been a bill proposed to have Trump derangement syndrome classified as a mental illness.
Sponsored by 4 first-term MAGA senators (a fifth had himself removed from the bill's list of sponsors after it was referred to committee). Speaking of which, the bill was referred to the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee on March 17th of last year, without thus far even having been given a pro forma hearing by the committee
How I wish I had mod points
Don't feed trolls.
Parent deserves a +1 Funny upmod
Swilden opined:
I don't think it counts as a dupe unless the original is still on the first couple of pages.
Seconded
... and I move the previous question.
Fly766 noted:
Major peeve of mine... Ohio University is a very different (and much better) place than that buckeye college... Headline should read "AN Ohio University..."
Upmod +1 Informative, please
Have your robot call my robot and THEY'LL do lunch.
FTFY
Retired Chemist opined:
It is notable that the USSR did even try to compete and that once the initial missions were done, we have never gone back. Simply there is no reason to go there.
We never went back to Luna because Nixon hated the manned space program. It was strongly associated with JFK (whom Nixon also hated), and Nixon's telephone call to the Eagle's crew while the world watched the original Moonwalk on live TV didn't change the public perception that the technological triumph of the 20th century was Kennedy's accomplishment, not his.
Since the manned space program was important to the defense industry's bottom line (and their contributions to Republican lawmakers made them politically indispensible), Tricky Dick couldn't afford to simply choloform it, so he directed NASA to concentrate its manned spaceflight efforts on LEO missions like Spacelab and publicity stunts like Apollo/Soyuz. A fresh programe of manned missions to Luna was thereby relegated to "nice to have, maybe someday" - and, gradually, the voters forgot it had ever seemed important
The mice refused to use them, because, in order to do so, they would've been forced to sign up for Meta accounts
DarkOx lied:
I think if you took the time to think about how the framers intended checks and balances to work and the consequences direct election of senators has had instead of you 'derp democracy good derp derp' reaction you'd see a lot of the dysfunction and frankly anti-democratic behavior that goes on today has a lot to do with our 'administrative districts' not having any voice of their own in the federal government.
Except that, due to generations of gerrymandering at the state level, very close to 2/3 of state legislatures are firmly in the claws of the Republican party, which would guarantee permanent GOP control of the Senate, with a large enough majority to allow the them to amend the Constitution at whim.
What was that about "frankly anti-democratic behavior" again
Posting to undo accidental downmod of parent.
(I meant to mod it +1 Funny
ShanghaiBill blathered:
It was the institutional knowledge and traditional zero-defect mentality that killed them.
ULA was beaten by the young engineers at SpaceX, who were willing to apply TDD to space hardware and then learn from each explosion.
Nonsense.
It was the defense industry-style cost-plus project management mindset, and Chicago School MBA management principles that killed them, not SpaceX's engineering team.
There's a good reason that Boeing's C suite has decided it wants no part of fixed-price contracts in the future: those idiot children have no idea how to make money on those terms. And - surprise! - outsourcing, buck-passing, and treating highly-skilled engineering teams with massive accumulated institutional knowledge as completely fungible assets doesn't work, either
"Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to get more wax!!"
