A few weeks later.
Aw man, someone coded the routine that checks if the person is from Hamas to always return true. Woopsie Doodle.
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Depart policy is to have the taser on the opposite of the body. Sgt. Langan had his taser strapped to the front of his vest.
Failure to follow department policy.
Training is to happen every year. Sgt. Langan had training maybe two or three times.
Department failure to uphold document protocol.
I mean just these two alone they're going to be ripped apart in a civil suit. There's just this whole chain of broken from start to finish, literally none of the links interconnect. This department probably has a ton of systemic issues that State level oversight ought to get involved, but we know that the issues won't be addressed, the department will ask to settle out of court, and literally no one will be punished except the tax payer who will float that settlement.
White phosphorus in general is not a war crime.
General document for covering this is the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, in this particular case Protocol III, Article I §1(b)(i).
Munitions which may have incidental incendiary effects, such as illuminants, tracers, smoke or signalling systems
Of which White Phosphorus is typically within that category. It is incendiary and can randomly burn people, homes, and fields but the intended use is usually not to set fire but to provide cover, illumination, tracing, or signalling. There just happens to be a burning side effect that the UN usually shrugs off.
How it's used however can become a war crime. Article II of the same Protocol § 2 and 3
It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons.
and
It is further prohibited to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary weapons other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except … and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective…
So basically, you cannot deliver via aircraft, which video indicates that these were ground launched 155mm white phosphorus artillery projectiles, so check on (2), BUT it's debatable that Israel followed (3) and took all precautions to minimize civilians getting in the way. But I mean, does anyone really believe the UN holds anyone to any kind of scrutiny?
So… I hope that answers your question.
You can literally build one. Here's a guide on doing it.
If you cannot find a header you can snip off a DVI-M1 header and with a Dremel or a small hammer "coax" the shield around the pins to agree with the mating end of an ADC. At least that's going to be "good enough". You can also do stabbing with 20 AWG and then epoxy pour, solder DVI stabs, and then pour again to make a "good enough" cable.
The thing is this cable itself is passive. There's not special circuits, power, or anything inside the cable. In general, ADC is just DVI + USB + Power for your monitor, that's it. It's just those wires all bundled up into a single cable. And technically speaking, if you're handy with desoldering, you can take a Cinema Display and do a breakout to DVI, USB, and a barrel plug and just ignore the bake your own cable. Or if you're going to a modern monitor from an old Mac, you don't need to bring power and USB with you, you just need to break out the DVI that's coming out of the video card.
The thing is, getting into vintage computing is a challenge. And likely these folks are hitting a new challenge to them, that for folks who've been doing this for a while have just come to embrace. Learning to solder, learning digital electronics, and lots of patience. Specifically to this group, it looks like they need a solution to the G4 Cube. There's multiple video cards out there that will fit into the machine, the Apple Radeon 7500 is one that would provide VGA ports that can go to modern monitors.
But I think what gets me is this part of their petition.
The ability to service and maintain our technology not only extends its lifespan but also reduces electronic waste. By enabling vintage Apple Macs to connect with modern monitors through the Belkin F2E9142-WHT ADC to DVI cable, we can prevent unnecessary disposal of these iconic machines.
Getting into vintage computing or arcade boxes or whatever, yeah "the ability to service and maintain" is paramount. But the onus is on us, the people doing the collecting, to service and maintain. I get that the Belkin cable provides a nice easy solution but ultimately, not to sound corny, we do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard to do.
And also, as I mentioned, this cable is passive so it's fairly easy compared to say the Nintendo GameCube's Component Video cable that had an active circuit inside the cable that took a lot of effort to eventually reverse engineer. But the point being is that vintage digital collecting is a very rough thing to get into, it takes a lot of love and really getting that enjoyment out of very complex challenges. It's one of those "I love it, but I don't recommend it" kind of things.
EDIT: Also I think this part of the article hits best.
As always, you should also consider the fact that Apple has made many proprietary connectors in its day, some of which are easier to find than others. There's lots of iPhone Lightning Adapters out there these days, but who knows where we'll be in 30 years.
Yeah, this is why open standards and the right to repair is really important. And one of the main things about FOSS and the open source community is this really important thing to remember:
Everyday, more of your life and technology will intersect. We are living in an age where Internet access and technology to access it is as crucial as having a mailbox for mail to get to. Proprietary solutions, closed standards, and planned obsolescence are modern ways to gatekeep your ability to freely access this new modern society. We are getting closer everyday where this technology dictates if you can or cannot participate in society. It is vital to have as the bedrock of this technology, the principal of free access to all, so that everyone can freely participate in this society we are growing into.
There's a joke about shift registers and delay-line memory but you'll have to wait till it comes back to me.
Principal Lance Murphy is literally just going to die on this hill apparently. Between the massive cost the school district took because of the 2020 court loss over this exact same thing, and this giant L the school district is about to take for not only being now in Violation of Federal Law but also Texas literally passed a law, because of this asshat and the 2020 loss, indicating that he's not legally allowed to do exactly what he's doing.
The school district also filed a lawsuit in state district court asking a judge to clarify whether its dress code restrictions limiting student hair length for boys violates the CROWN Act
Which if you are unsure if your policy is violating a law or not, you should likely not have the policy until the court gives you more clarity. Because if the Courts do indeed indicate that the school is in violation of Texas' CROWN Act, they've just handed this kid millions of dollars in restitution, which I guess they can just pile on top of the millions this school district has blown so far on litigation.
You would think that at some point taxpayers would be up in arms, but nope it's Texas, blowing billions on stupid lawsuits is their thing.
Filing suit at this level is less bitterness and more asking the courts to weigh in on the legality of the matter. I'm the DNC can stoke bitterness and what not, but outside of the usual ho-hum of politics, these kinds of cases are meant to better define laws that on the face of the law seems to have counter purposes.
the lawsuit takes issue with provisions that require voters who register on the same day to produce additional documentation that other voters registering to vote are not required to produce
Elections are supposed to be "fair" which means that all that participate within them are held to the same standard for voting. Having one set of rules for one group and another set of rules for others requires a really good explanation on why that disparity exists. That you might hear is a burden to prove the State's interest. The State could absolutely have such vested interest in "protection" or whatever, but only a Judge can indicate that it is indeed valid. That's that whole separation of powers thing.
From the article:
These provisions are not justified by any sufficient state interest
And yeah, the State has to show that they are after some lofty goal here that can only rectified by have two different sets of rules. And that, that lofty goal is actually to help the people. So if the justification is "to protect the validity of elections" it obviously begs the question, "have you been having issues with the validity of elections?" If they have been having issues, then yeah, there might be a case for it, but if no, then it's going to be a hard sell to the Judge. It's up to the Judge to dictate that fair thing.
So when we say elections should be "fair", well it's up to the courts to dictate what that word means. And we just recently had a SCOTUS case (Moore v. Harper 2023) indicating that Legislatures can't unilaterally dictate that term no matter how hard one tries to squint at Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the US Constitution. I'm pretty sure that NC did this to bring this matter back up to SCOTUS to weigh in on... yet again.
The plaintiffs take issue with the fact that those same-day registrants’ ballots would then be discarded if one verification notice is returned undeliverable. The plaintiffs note that registration applications by other voters cannot be rejected unless there are two undeliverable verification notices, and even then, non-same-day voter-registration applicants have a method to appeal the ruling, which is not the case for same-day registrants.
Again the State may have just cause for these "protections", BUT they have to get those reasons validated by a Judge. The State I'm in had the whole "need ID to vote" thing and the Judge was like "Yeah, that's a good idea, but IDs need to be easy to obtain. If IDs are not easy to obtain, then you're creating more a problem than a solution." And like that, we got cheap non-driver license IDs that a birth certificate and a bill that was mailed to you (or your utility or landlord can sign a form) can get you. Having different sets of rules for something that is supposed to be "fair" has to be carefully balanced with a State's vested interest and sometimes to strike that balance requires a bit more from the State.
So just like Trump had his day in court to challenge elections and what not, the DNC is perfectly fine to ask the court "Hey, I don't think the North Carolina Assembly has properly justified the recently passed election laws." It's one of the things about our system, that's actually nice. Our ability to bring about laws into courts to seek clarification from those who wrote it and hold them to the letter of our laws and the intent of them therein.
I'm on board with this.
Oh man you flying high with that pun! You hijacking this whole thread.
You know there were a lot of folks who happened to be in New York City on September 11th, 2001, who happened to get the business end of some retaliation for the shitty things our country did during the Cold War. More so, a lot of them (if not all of them) distinctly didn't have any direct connection to the thing that was being retaliated for.
So do we get to take the innocent card from those folks who died that day? No? So curious as to the special circumstances that applies to the folks who are tired of Hamas' shit in the Gaza Strip but can't leave because Israel won't let them and they can't get rid of Hamas because they'll just kill them. What's the special case that means those people who are tired of this conflict don't matter or aren't worthy of being called oppressed?
The trick is thermohaline circulation, basically salty water moves differently then fresh water in cold and warm environments. So to promote that effect the stage is tilted to allow warmer fresh water above cooler salty water below. Then a membrane moves the salt out of the circulation so as not to accumulate and clog the system.
The thing is that scaling this upward would present some challenges structurally to do large volumes OR the complexity would increase if they kept the same size and just made thousands of these little stages. Not to mention that, depending on what they're using for a membrane for salt removal, having a larger surface area could make it easier or more difficult to maintain. Easier in that you only need to clean it every so often (the membrane helps spread the load) or more difficult in that such a large membrane requires delicate processes to change out.
Also commercial production requires a fixed output, so with sunlight being variable any commercial installation would require storage.
But reading the brine discharge always makes me wish that grid based sodium ion batteries would be researched more. But can't have that because oil companies already put large deposits into lithium mines.
James Whitehurst has been appointed as Unity’s interim CEO
James Whitehurst is the guy who played a part of the "IBM buys RedHat" deal that's been "awesome".
Roelof Botha, lead independent director of the Unity board, has been named its new chairman
Roelof Botha is from South Africa and one of Elon Musk's friends. He's one of the guys from Sequoia Capital who established part of the massive finical instruments that Musk used to purchase Twitter.
I'm actually shocked Shlomo Dovrat or Egon Durban didn't receive some role in this. This would have been a who's who of the likely five that lead the charge on the Board for the whole episode. But that said, the ascension of these two is hardly the indication that the company has learned anything. Scapegoat is indeed just a scapegoat.
For everyone not reading the story. The majority of this is from rich people, large businesses, and partnerships. The IRS is indicating that they need to go after those people I just listed more. Why CBS decided to write the headline in a manner that makes it sound like they are coming after everyone, is likely because they knew it would generate more "emotions" about those connotations.
But the story indicates that the IRS feels like they need to go after rich people even more based on their recently released data. At no point in the story did the IRS indicate that they needed to take the average household and put the clamps on them. Thank you for your time.