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Comment Re:My big beef (Score 1) 118

I have had women get mad at me for calling them maam as far back as 20 years ago or so. Depending on where you are the conventions change. What is considered polite in one place is rude in another. I have had people refuse to call me by my nickname and insist on "Mr. Robert" in the south. In other places they choose a different nickname, such that Robert is referred to as Bobby even after introducing myself as Bob. I find it rude to call me Mr. Robert when I say I'm Bob, but they would never call me Bob, because they think it would be rude to do so. People are wierd.

Comment Re:Drive-thru consent? (Score 1) 118

Recording audio in a drive-through generally does not require explicit customer consent in most U.S. states. You are in public, and don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. There are a few "all part" states. There are 11 of those, so in the other 39 you aren't assumed to have given consent, because it isn't required.

Full disclosure: I used Gemini to verify that I remembered the generalities correctly, and determine the exact number of "all party consent" states.

Comment Re: So can I come to the US illegally...? (Score 1) 146

You should have led with the fact that you have no idea of the actual facts and then not posted once you realized that you need actual facts in order to say anything intelligent at all about the events in question. I'm this particular case the facts are will known. Trump openly bragged about the situation. Go find the audio of the interview with Billy Bush that is widely available. Once you do come back and read what you wrote if you don't mind facing how completely out of touch you are and admitting to yourself that you are at best an apologist for a man who openly admitted to grabbing woman by the pussy (his words) in a public setting without their consent, because he knew he could count on them "letting him" due to the fact that they knew he had all the power in that situation.

Comment Re: So can I come to the US illegally...? (Score 3, Informative) 146

They weren't willing dipshit. They "let him" because they felt powerless, which is literally the definition of sexual abuse. Even he didn't claim that they *wanted* him to grab them. He claimed, in a rare example of honesty from him, that they allowed it because he was rich and powerful, at least I'm their eyes. Of course now we know that he wasn't rich, having filed the biggest loss in history with the IRS. To this day of you take away his fraudulently acquired wealth he is worth a very large negative sum of money.

Comment Re:DRM needs a name change (Score 1) 25

Why, when Keyboard/Video/Mouse is now essentially deprecated by VMs? Kernel based VMs are far more common than Keyboard/Video/Mouse setups in 2026, by multiple orders of magnitude. Indeed, most people who know about KVM never even think about K/V/M setups, often having never even heard of them.

Comment Re:all I want to know (Score 1) 42

By default it prompts to ask if you want to move it, copy it, or create a link, so it does in fact behave sensibly. If you prefer it to just do one of those without prompting you can configure it that way in configure/confirmations. so it seems they figured it out, but you haven't even tried.

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