DeShaney v. Winnebago County 1989 the SCOTUS ruled that police do not have a duty to protect citizens unless they are in their custody.

Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales 2005. Police do not have a duty to protect even a person from their estranged spouse who there was a restraining order against.

The duty of the police is to investigate crime and arrest criminals. Not to protect you, or anyone not already in their custody.

In the case of Gonzales, she had a restraining order against her husband and the police did not respond to her call. He ended up killing their kids. The SCOTUS found that they had no duty to enforce it. Sure, they can have a conversation as you stated, but they are not obligated to do so. Like it or not, the second amendment is your only legal protection before a crime is committed.

Adderal, duh.

(Well, in the quantities he *wants*, anyway.)

This is the prevailing dogma, but has recently been challenged from more recent observations. (In defense of the dogma, we have very aggressively tested for preferred rotations with local experiments involving high energy particles. If there *is* a preferred rotation, its effect is vanishingly small, to the point of being functionally indestinguishable from flat spacetime at local scales, to an astonishing level of precision. This strongly suggests 'sampling error' for JWST data that follows)

https://academic.oup.com/mnras...

Recent large area surveys by JWST suggests that there is a preferred rotational direction and axis to disparate galaxies. Such a finding is inconsistent with the presumption of widescale anisotropy. (But again, that's a very bold statement)

It may yet be ruled out through further observations as a sampling error, but the statement that there are *no* indications isotropy is incorrect. The mere existence of this survey says otherwise.

If there really is a universal preferred rotation, then a 'fuzzy', 'proximal' position could be given as a baricenter. It wouldnt be definitive; too much can happen as random events to compute an exact baricenter, but a statistically probable, proximal area could be defined with some confidence threshold.

Again, *assuming* the JWST readings arent just a sampling error. Which it probably is.

It depends on the area. If you live in a geologically stable area then burying lines is great. If you have frequent earthquakes, then it's foolish. There are a lot of flood prone areas in the US as well. Above ground is a lot easier to deal with in those areas as well.

NYC has all of it's power infrastructure underground. It was a nightmare after tropical storm Sandy flooded it.

It's funny to think that not long ago just getting a bipedal robot to even walk was difficult. WABOT-1 took it's first steps in 1973 and looked like it was made from and Erector set and needed wires to connect it to it's power and control systems. It walked about as well as an old windup kids toy on a flat surface.

The Honda P2 was the first self contained robot that could walk and was introduced in 1996. It walked about as well as a 1950's sci-fi movie showing walking robots.

Honda ASIMO in 2000 was a bit more natural, but still fairly clunky at walking. I believe it could "run" at around 6mph.

The number of advancements in computing, material sciences, etc to get to the point where a bipedal robot can run faster than a person is astounding. In another ten or twenty years we may be looking at general purpose robots who can not only outrun the fastest human but also cook dinner. Hopefully it will be more Big Hero 6 and not Chopping Mall.

It's an opt-in feature if you want to use it. That doesn't mean it's opt-in if they want to use it. Don't forget that every contract you sign today has a clause that terms and conditions can be changed at any time. All they have to do is state it in the fine print of your bill. If you don't notify them that you don't accept the change, then it will be in force. If you disagree they may turn it off. But if you live in an area where that's your only high-speed internet option they can drop you as a customer and you're fucked.

Even if they tell you it was shut off, it likely won't be. Telecoms are notorious for doing things and saying, "whoops, it was a mistake" Back in the early 1990's I had an AT&T phone plan that allowed for 50 calls per month. I didn't call out much and it was a lot cheaper. I was traveling a lot for work, so I used auto-draft against my checking account. At some point I actually looked at my bill and discovered that I had an unlimited plan with caller ID and every option. When I called they told me their database got corrupted 3 months prior and everyone automatically got switched to this. After a fight with them they agreed to refund the difference. A year later I noticed my bill went up again. Apparently they were charging me for anonymous call rejection. I didn't even have caller-ID. I had to fight with them to refund that as well. I got an $800 phone bill sometime after that because they decided to bill me for an ISDN line. I'm pretty sure there's a satellite with my name on it from back then. ;-)

You must live in a different US than I do.Only three presidents have ever been impeached and not a single one of them resigned and all were acquitted by the senate.

FDR would take up a book of illegal actions. From the Japanese internment, warrentless surveillance, Lend-Lease without congressional approval, etc. No resignation

Eisenhower was probably the last great president we had. However he did overthrow the government of Iran and put the Shah back in power at the behest of England. Operation Wetback violated a lot of folks 4th amendment rights and the CIA went wild while he as in office. No resignation

Truman seized control of the US steel mills via EO during the Korean war. He also didn't go to congress for approval to go into Korea. No resignation

Kennedy used the CIA to monitor journalists in project mockingbird. Then there was the warrantless FBI wiretap he ordered on on MLK. No resignation.

Besides being one of the biggest piece of shit people to be president in modern times, LBJ used the FBI and CIA to surveil and wiretap his political opponents and war protestors.No resignation.

Nixon did actually resign, though what he did would end up in the back of the D section of most newspapers today. While impeachment proceedings had started, he was never actually impeached. He was the only president to ever resign

Carter was incompetent as a president, however I don't know of anything illegal during his administration. I always admired him as a person though.

Reagan had the whole Iran-Contra thing. No resignation.

George H. W. Bush was likely involved in Iran-Contra. I wasn't a fan of his at the time he was president, but in retrospect he was a better president than I felt at the time he was in office. No resignation.

Clinton was actually impeached and, unlike Nixon, didn't resign. While I know of no one who ever met him that didn't say he was an affable person, he committed perjury. The Clinton's walked out of the White House with almost $200k in "gifts" when they left. It violated the law, but no charges were ever filed. They returned $30k of them and paid $86k for the remainder. No resignation.

I don't think I need to say much about things that transpired after 9-11 with regards to GWB. No resignation.

Obama's extrajudicial killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan as well as al-Awlaki's son in a separate drone strike was pretty bad. Going into Libya without congressional approval with the intent to overthrow Gaddafi was a violation of the war powers act. The DOJ surveilling AP journalists violated the 1st amendment. There were no arrests from sending thousands of illegal weapons into Mexico but at least one american killed by those guns. No resignation.

Trump was impeached for withholding $400 million in aid to Ukraine and Jan. 6. No resignation. The SCOTUS and other federal courts slapped down several things he tried to do. No resignation.

As a senator Biden illegally removed classified documents and retained them. As VP he threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine unless the prosecutor investigating his son was fired. Multiple women accused him of assault over his career. His family business dealings are actually as, if not more blatant than Trump. His immigration polices would have gotten any president booted anytime prior to the last 20 years. We'd probably need half a dozen super computers to tally all of the rights violations that occurred in the name of covid during Biden's time as president. No resignation.

Trump 2.0, I'm not going to try to sort through what Trump has done at this point. The Judiciary branch of the government has ended much of it. Probably not enough for some . While folks complain about Trump attacking Iran, I didn't hear the same regarding Libya in 2011. The same law applies. Congress can't selectively apply laws. Regardless, there will be no resignation methinks.

I can go back to George Washington and up to modern presidents (obviously) and list illegal things they've all done. There was little fear of impeachment, ever. Hell, Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel on the White House lawn a few years before becoming president.

But WE'RE MICROSOFT, and we've decided that YOU WILL GO HERE today!

All our extremely cherry picked analytics data says it's what you really want, deep down, and you KNOW IT, so stop complaining! (Honestly, this is just like the whole "you got rid of our start menu" thing all over again-- Cant you people ACCEPT the new future of computing?!)

They'll ban you for expressing forbidden opinions. Opinions that are extremely fucking common outside of Reddit.

LK

I was auto suspended because I quoted a 30 year old statement supporting the rights of gays and lesbians that made reference to "LGB communities". I was accused of Trans erasure or some other stupid bullshit.

I hope the stock price falls low enough for Elon Musk to buy it for a song.

LK

1) "smaller" = "Bigger" (in terms of sales, and modern utility. This is exactly what I meant, UV Light has a threshold over which the structures are smaller than the wavelengths you are trying to use to make them. this means you have to use some kind of mask technology, and you get strange quantum effects from the photons doing things photons do when they are restricted by tiny masks.

2) You are forgetting something here, to make a tortured inference that doesnt really fit anyway. Most of the technology used in a fab is either precision electronics (needed to control the energizing source's true positioning to efficiently control its beam), which you can do with less sophisticated chips than the ones you are making. The inverse creates a chicken and egg problem, and is nonsense. You dont need 2nm tech to make 2nm tech. You can make 2nm chips with 14nm ones though. The knowledge of how to make and run fab machines is not to be discredited-- Japan's big LED rise came from a single guy repeatedly rebuilding and tinkering with a vapor deposition machine at a university in the US, where he was treated like ass, because he didn;t have a pHD. DO NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE TOO.

3) It is not a breakthrough. It's a milestone on independent progress that is occurring at a very quick pace. Again, you are proudly crowing about how big your old growth forest is, while discounting how quickly your competition is doing forestry work.

Correct. The correct response is to massively build out the west's capabilities, and drive down china's market cornering potential.

the problem is that the western countries seem hell bent on doing this the most grift-heavy ways possible, sabotaging every effort, and then wondering why none of those efforts actually produced useful chipfabs--- (at least on one side of the coin)

While simultaneously nodding cheekily to the above, siphoning off every last dollar of grift, purposefully refusing to create local chipfabs (because western workers are too expensive! OUR PROFITS!), and pretending that technological gatekeeping and effective monopolies on supplies are in any tangible way feasible. (On the other.)

China's advancements might be small, but they are meaningful.

Ours? Look big on paper, but mostly just waste time.

I seem to remember a fable about a tortoise and a rabbit written by some greek guy.... Maybe it's my imagination.

UV has a top limit, sure. But homegrowing that tech expands what they can do *now*, builds local knowhow on building fab machines, and primes them to not be as stymied when they move on to building more recent forms of lithography. (You cannot cut off their supply of asics to prevent the manufacture of better fabs)

You kids cant see the forest for the trees, complaining about the saplings china is planting being small, while croaking pridefully about how big your own trees are.

In time, china will dominate chipfab.

I stream a lot of what I watch and listen to, but I never got rid of my physical media or the players. I'm old and a lot of what I like to watch isn't on streaming. I have three full 400 disk DVD players in my living room and a Blu Ray player. I still buy movies on blu ray. My media room has a blu ray player and a couple 400 disk changers as well. There are 12 DVD or Blu ray drives or recorders in the computers in the room I'm sitting in currently. I haven't used them much in some time, but they work and I don't see any good reason to remove them. Plus I don't feel like looking for the block off plates for the cases. The computers in my living room as well as media room also still have Blu ray drives.

Streaming is convenient and works well on a phone. But to my old my eyes and ears streaming looks and sounds a lot worse than just a standard Blu Ray. As the old adage goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

It depends on a lot of factors. pressed CD's put physical pits in the metal layer of the disk. Burned CD's use a laser to alter the dye in the data layer.

Cheaply made or defective pressed disks can allow air into the metal layer and cause oxidization of the aluminum. Apparently there's also an issue with some cardboard packaging as it can contain sulfur. Pressed disks should last you a lifetime if stored properly.

Burned CD's have a huge range. I've seen cheap generic ones go bad in less than 2 years. There are archive grade disks that are rated for 100 to 300 years. They use a reflective layer that is less prone to oxidation as well as more stable dyes that don't discolor as easily as cheaper disks.