When did military leaders become so spineless?

Wellesley must be spinning in his grave (he probably was already at the lack of hats in parliament, but that’s besides the point)

I only know about this because of zero escape lol.

One box, I’m not messing with anything powerful enough to predict the future.

Everyone lost their marbles

Their security was a bit wank.

“we can excuse mass surveillance, but we draw the line at racism” is what I get from that.

But still boring

I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.

They’re arguing it under section 20, probably this part

the making available to the public of the work by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.

It looks like they’re arguing that by hosting the games valve are acting as a pirate MP3 site.

I think they would have to prove that they did so knowingly, which can only really be done if they ignored takedown notices.

This was inevitable after valve caved to pressure from card processors. The sharks have smelt blood.

Juries are very unpredictable in such cases. And that’s what they are playing on.

This is in the UK, except in very rare exceptions, we don’t have juries for civil matters.

Interesting

The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register of modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a clipping of until, which it is not (until being an enhanced form of till). The spelling 'til, itself also deprecated by some writers, was born of that same misapprehension.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/till

You’re a little late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_v._Wilkins

Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed legislation into law last week that authorizes challenges by individuals and election officials.

It would be a terrible shame if a bunch of people started challenging Larry’s citizenship.

Oddly, due to maritime law, it’s the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.

I used to be an editor on there so have a lot of mixed feelings about it, there’s a lot of bullshit that goes on.

It’s good for hard sciences, but most articles on “soft” subjects like history do have a pro western liberal capitalist bias. Although the amount of bias usually depends on what senior editor decided he owns the article, despite “owning” articles being against the Wikipedia rules.

I’m pretty sure 200km of fibre isn’t going to be cheap either

To analyse the impact of this study I recommend that we set up an interdepartmental committee with fairly broad terms of reference so that at the end of the day we’ll be in the position to think through the various implications and arrive at a decision based on long-term considerations rather than rush prematurely into precipitate and possibly ill-conceived action which might well have unforeseen repercussions.

It’s odd they found this in the unit the manufacturer sent them for review. With this kind of scam they would normally make sure the review models had the correct processor. I wonder if this was done by a supplier or subcontractor without them knowing.

And a monitor that supports usb-c, I assume.

How do you enforce the fines? Wouldn’t you have to invade the USA to enforce any meaningful fines?