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It’s like we’re in 1999 all over again.

Obligatory XKCD insertion.

This is one of those rare cases where regardless of where you place the hyphen, “old-ass clowns” or “old ass-clowns,” both are accurate descriptions of the clowns in question.

Nothing, which is why the letter phrases it as a “request.”

In order to be extradited he’d have to actually be charged with a specific crime, insofar as I am aware.

Even outside of scripting and so forth, which I use a lot, often it’s far easier and faster to just cook up a wildcard string or a regex or whatever when you’re faced with a folder with eleventy bazillion files in it, only some of which you’d like to move somewhere else.

Yes, you could point-and-click on all of those for the next hour and a half plucking them all out of your file browser window. Me personally, I’d really rather not.

Other similar use cases abound.

They already sell their vehicles to Altima drivers. I think doom was already on the menu.

Gamers Nexus did a whole thing on this a while ago. It was quite illuminating.

What it mainly illuminated to me is that I will never buy a prebuilt gaming PC from anyone, let alone lease one. If it’s not my own grubby fingers touching every component I don’t trust it.

You separate out the isotopes. You don’t create U-235, but rather you extract the fissile isotope from your sample. There’s only a limited amount of the stuff in the world and the majority of uranium still buried (and in fact, the majority of it at all) is non-fissile U-238. Only something like 0.7% of the uranium in the world is U-235.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium

I suspect this is highly dependent on the level of enrichment of said uranium.

Even buying it piecemeal in dinkum quantities from scientific suppliers as a private customer, I’m seeing depleted uranium — i.e., 99.9% U238 and not realistically fissile material — priced at $32.50 per gram online. 2 kilos of that would thus be $65,000. Although I’ll be damned if I know just what the hell you’d do with the stuff.

I reckon weapons grade would run you just a smidgen more than that.

Correct on that count. The whole thing is now just a boy-who-cried-wolf situation.

That’s not why. It’s because it’s cheaper for a manufacturer of your widget to just slap a Prop 65 label on anything and everything out of an overabundance of caution rather than go through all the testing and certification required to verify if there is or isn’t any such material in the product. There’s no penalty for false positives, so to remain “complaint” suddenly every manufactured good on Earth suddenly sprouted the warning.

That was Violet Beauregarde’s fate. Veruca was the one who was a bad egg (or a bad nut, in the book/Depp adaptation).

But in keeping with the theme, Trump wins nothing. He loses, good day sir.

Here’s the thing about that, the truly awful drivers who legitimately have no business owning or operating a vehicle do so anyway, but usually without insurance in the first place. Or, often, even a license.

I just ordered another knife from China. Hey, I’m doing my part.

Probably not terribly relevant if their only requirement is to drop one on Pyongyang if necessary. Japan’s got planes. I don’t think anyone else outside of their hemisphere is saber-rattling at them at the moment.

From what I understand from sitting in the comfort of my own armchair, North Korea’s air defenses and indeed pretty much all of their traditional military is pretty rickety at this point. They rely on the nuclear threat plus the assumed support and intervention of China, along with a battery of conventional artillery pointed directly at Seoul, to dissuade any other state from just steamrolling them. North Korea’s missile game is pretty weak, too, but likewise really all they need to be able to do is hit Japan. Hell, if all they wanted to do was cause chaos in the south they’d just have to truck a bomb to the edge of the DMZ and set it off right there.

So, what else is new in other words.

Not much. It only needs to have support for our screwball 4G LTE/5G frequency bands, which are different from the rest of the world Because Reasons (well, some of the bands are, anyway, especially for 4G).

From their specs, it looks pretty comprehensive:

4G supported bands B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/28AB/66/71

5G supported bands N1/2/3/5/7/8/20/25/28AB/38/41/66/77/78

This should work pretty well with Verizon or AT&T. It’ll work with T-Mobile, too, but it’s missing support for just one of their 5G bands (71).

This is the only correct answer in this entire thread.

No crimes should be thought crimes. All crimes should be action crimes. There can be no middle ground as long as freedom of expression exists.

Doing Nazi shit should get you locked up (or beaten up, or whatever). Talking about it should just get you ridiculed by everybody.

Ah, yes. Thoughtcrime and suppression of freedom of speech are totally okay as long as it’s our side doing it. No, no, no, see, when we do it it’s totally different from when other people do it!

It’s a cost thing. It’s cheaper to get a shitty commodity touch screen from Alibaba and slap it in a cheap bezel, hook it up to a potato, and then just outsource the design and functionality to the code team in India. It’s more expensive to actually do the industrial design to fit physical buttons and dials and source all the components required for the same. Engineers are obsessed with screens because their bosses are obsessed with cost.

It’s the consumers, not the engineers, who go all starry-eyed and get so easily wowed over a crappy $12 touch panel with shit for pixel density and fuck-all for viewing angles, because they’re the ones who have been bamboozled into believing this is all “futuristic.” Most people aren’t tech savvy enough to realize they’re being sold cheap bullshit at a premium.