Lewk's paradise. 1-2 years in prison for stealing $2. With the additional catch that the criminals are pensioners.
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47033704
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Lewk's paradise. 1-2 years in prison for stealing $2. With the additional catch that the criminals are pensioners.
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47033704
I had dinner the other night with a very pleasant couple, one of whom was a relatively minor ex-official of the State Department. Only after they left did I learn that as part of this job, they were the stars of a reality TV show about their lives that actually got substantial viewership in the country they were working in.
Diplomacy is super weird.
Yemen Got Talent? :o
Well, sorta.
I'm just gonna leave this here for y'all
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0bqBuhW...jpg&name=large
Nope, not done with this day yet:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law...ademark-claims
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Francis, this is dark.
Most WTF story so far this month:
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/03/13...rus/index.html
Conservative thought-leader. That's not even the weirdest picture he used.
Some of those morons even ask: "Why don't we ever talk about the opportunities which climate change will provide?"
And then say that things like ocean acidification are "very complicated". One particular idiot even said that the increased CO2 will help shellfish building up their shells. I'm not sure where he missed the "acid" part.
And his solution to climate change is....for "us" to have more babies. Mike Lee (R-Utah) must drink the same kool-aid as Steve King (R-Iowa) who said we can't replenish our culture with other people's babies.
Yeah, he's the guy who also posted that "civil war" meme https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.bde467dcd73a
My local grocery store is under construction.....making changes for their new order-on-line/home delivery services. I watched them putting in rows of refrigerated glass holding cases from the self check-out line, which seemed rather ironic. And I bumped into a new computerized sweeper beeping down the aisles. It was tall and thin, and I said "excuse me" before realizing what it was. haha Then I noticed a shopper pushing a cart with "Cashier Test" on the handlebar. I asked an employee about it all, but she had no clue. :bulb:
Even weirder was that when I got home, one of their grocery trucks was circling my apartment complex, looking for the right address for their delivery. I spoke with the driver's assistant and helped them figure out where to go (why weren't they using GPS?). They only charge $6.99 for delivery, first 90 days free, and will bring groceries up 3 flights of stairs and into your house/apartment. I wonder if they're paid minimum wage and rely on tips?
The future is here. Are drive-up and drive-thrus slowly becoming obsolete....when everything can be delivered to your door?
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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...ence-this-year
I'm actually looking forward to Devolver's E3 press conference this year.
This probably deservesa a thread on it's own but it looks like Huawei is in a really bad position.
At least in smartphone segment. I would expect other companies, such as ZTE, to also get problems?
Not sure if Trumps blacklist is bad or good right now. It can potentially backfire in a few years.
Today news got out that pretty much could be a quick end to using ARM architectures. Not sure what they can do if that is the case, RISC-V?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48363772
...and looks like Android/Google services that makes Android usable as a smartphone is at a critical stage. Requires major work to do something about, pretty much need a new sw platform to stand on.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKCN1SP0NB
So don't buy a Huawei telephone. ;-)
(ok, I guess current will be uneffected for some time but I'm not sure)
The ARM license made me go WTF. Goes to show we need something else than Intel and ARM Holdings.
(*cough* a server mature RISC-V (open source) architecture) :)
Going RISC-V will take a lot of time. The RISC-V architecture is distributed as a sort-of high-level concept which means that the actual implementation of the circuitry has to be done by yourself (in contrast to ARM where a license gives you a concrete implementation of the core). The concepts for RISC-V which are out there also usually are for research and development, i.e. not very optimized.
So, first you need to design an actual chip - that takes about six months. Only then can you really get down to firmware development and drivers. Plus, there will inevitably be bugs as there always are some with a chip designed from scratch.
Managers brought together all our techie employees for a "tech heavy training and 2020 roadmap"
First presenter was an influencer they paid to teach us how to use the cameras on our phones. :picard:
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Originally Posted by rille
TIL RISC is still around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Yes, it's not a quick/easy fix for sure. :) Put it out on 10 years and it could be something else.
A bigger transition to 64 bit ARM should happen soon (especially on server side) since it's superior over x86_64.
But it's overall the same problematics, the architecture is property of one company, and this is one of the results.
Intel and ARM is a no go in the future anyhow due to this and Intel is fare worse since they dictate instruction set completely.
For ARM the ISA is the same but many implement thier own microarchitecture, like Appple etc.
Problematic part with RISC-V (the later is actually already used in china to some degree today) compared to Aarch64 is that it is not mature.
The basic specification exists which is good enough for primitive systems (like smaller embedded). Today other known companies actually
use RISC-V for controllers and Intel is going to have to battle ARM at some point as well so they have shown some interest in RISC-V.
Not sure if CPU is that much of a problem compared to GPU here.
(I guess that should be equaliy problematic)
The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in an 8-way tie. An historical first. Each will get $50,000 in prize money.
I watched the semi-finals, and these kids could spell every obscure and arcane word thrown at them. They basically beat the dictionary! :bulb:
https://qz.com/1632035/scripps-natio...-in-8-way-tie/
Steve Bannon's "Gladiator Academy". Set up in an Italian monastery, it's a school to teach acolytes of Populism and Nationalism, fulfilling the legacy of medieval Pope Innocent. He wants more Salvinis, Orbans, Le Pens and Palins ruling government across the globe. Seriously. :eek:
https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-p...b3bd9a0b0.html
Is Dinesh D'Souza dumb?
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Beyond parody:
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Trump surprises family at White House by having their teen son's killer there waiting for them.
I once read a story that was about quantum immortality. That's the idea that if there's any chance you survive an event, then there's a universe where you did. Since you can only perceive a universe that you exist in, from your perspective you'll always find yourself in one of the universes where you did survive, and so from your own perspective you can survive anything with a non-zero chance of survival. The story posited the additional idea that the more unlikely your survival, the more unlikely events had to have happened to cause it. So as you survive more and more events with a low probability of survival, you'll keep finding yourself in weirder and weirder universes. Sometimes I wonder just how many times I should have died to have wound up in this universe.
Not only did the pos plan this, multiple people had to coordinate and agree to help this happen. Including the murdering cunt that needs shipped back to the UK.
An entire organization of spineless and corrupt yes men.
The BS reality TV moment was despicable, yes, but there are actually very good reasons why the US (well before Trump) is fanatically zealous about guarding diplomatic immunity. It's just that even when Trump is broadly in line with accepted US government practice, he still manages to be a massive dick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
This is, shockingly, one of the less weird things he's done. She asked to meet the parents, which is understandable. He has no empathy and wants to make everything be about himself, so he decided to get involved and try to make something happen. It was a perfect conversation, strategically brilliant :up:
There's no good reason for invoking it in a friendly democratic state, especially when it wasn't even the diplomat who committed the crime. All this does is breed ill will from the British public.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
Caveat: I am not an expert on customary intl law, the Vienna Convention, or US history on invoking or waiving diplomatic immunity. With your background you may be, so feel free to educate me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
AIUI, the US has a long-standing and nearly irrevocable rule about not waiving diplomatic immunity in nearly any circumstances. I believe the general argument is that to grant seemingly reasonable waivers opens the way for more marginal cases, and eventually our diplomatic corps would not be able to do their work without fear.
I agree that in a fairly straightforward case like this there is every reason to believe that she would receive a fair trial and appropriate justice for the crime (the facts do not appear to be in doubt). I also agree that the US-UK relationship is very strong and that should be taken into account. If I were running the state department, I might believe the policy should make an exception.
That being said, I do not believe that this administration's refusal to grant immunity is a departure from established policy on this issue, Trump's offensive bullshit aside.
I'm not an expert and I'm too lazy to do my own research on this, but I thought it was generally policy to hand over the person if 1) somebody died, 2) it would have been a crime in the US (vehicular manslaughter), 3) it was not the result of or during sanctioned work and 4) we trust the country to give a fair trial and just sentence if guilty. All those boxes are checked here.
I'm pretty sure that even though all of those boxes are checked, the US in general does not make blanket policy exceptions for waiving diplomatic immunity. I believe it has happened in the past but not in anything like the systematic rules-based system you propose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
I should have chosen my words more carefully, I didn't mean actual policy. Standard practice would have been better.
I'll take your word for it. I did wind up looking for examples of similar cases, but the only ones I could find from this century were two instances from Pakistan where immunity was not waived and it probably would have been a bad idea. We have demanded other countries waive immunity when we were on the opposite end of this though, and they've done it.
The US is not known for its distaste of hypocrisy. It has no problem requesting a waiver even if it wouldn't grant one. In the case of the Georgian diplomat you referred to, the case was somewhat different in that he was driving drunk, but I take your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
I'm sure there are more cases, but the last time I found the US granting a waiver to the UK was in 1940 when a US diplomat was a spy for the Nazis - and if they had been able to prosecute him, they probably wouldn't have waived immunity. That's a pretty high bar.
That sounds like The Twilight Zone. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
You've got company in feeling like "this universe" we're living in is weird, and getting weirder. Every day comes with a WTF or how did that happen? But it's not a fictional story, or a TV show, or even a bad dream. And it's not just in the US but across the globe.
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This is dumb, but in all fairness there are photographers lurking around the White House all the time. Both sides are wrong to say there were "no" photographers and that there were photographers there to entrap people in a photo op.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Or, to take the quantum angle, there were and weren't photographers there for them at the same time.