mkwt

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Both options are better than private event spaces, which a lot of them are

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The Syrian deployments were covered by the 2001 AUMF. But that AUMF has finally been repealed now. It would be a serious escalation in claimed presidential powers to send ground forces into anything longer than approximately Grenada.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unless the car is governed at 325, it seems more likely that the telemetry stream dropped out for a bit, then came back. When no data packets were received, the client program just kept repeating the same stale values to keep the graphs going.

It's cheaper and easier to do it that way than to program graphics that describe "no telemetry received" into the graphs.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gumbo is a soup that is thickened with dark roux, and usually contains okra (also a thickener). I say "usually" because I understand some people omit okra or make filé gumbos or what have you. The word "gumbo" comes from the word for okra in various West African languages.

The choice of meats, proteins, and other ingredients is arbitrary. Throw in whatever you've got. More kinds of stuff is usually better. Chicken, sausage, and seafood are popular.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel

This is not true any more. Gentoo provides sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin as an option.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And just what happens when the network goes down? Some kind of degraded operating mode? Does the car just slam the brakes regardless of what it's doing?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It helps that DC 3 has an unpressurized cabin. In modern airliners, fatigue puts an upper limit on the total number of up and down cycles the airframe can ensure.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

For me 1.0 only means that I've delivered the software to a paying customer.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They're F15s, the older tech, and the American pilots were probably taken completely by surprise by the Kuwaiti attack.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Eh, the fucking cellular modems in my car that stream the camera data for training can be used to track me. Hell, the anti theft tracker that I paid money for can be used to track me.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They don't like the U.S. either, as they believe that they are an imperialist power that wants to take advantage of the Middle East. That is one reason that the United States deems Iran an enemy.

In 1953, the CIA and MI6 effectively ended representative democracy in Iran when they backed a coup d'etat that deposed Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mosadegh. Mosadegh had tried to audit the books of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (which later became a division of BP).

The 1953 coup resulted in the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, ruling autocratically and with heavy support from the United States. This status continued until 1979, when an Islamist revolution deposed the Shah and installed the Islamist government led by a clerical Supreme Leader that exists today.

In 2013, the CIA released declassified documents that showed that the CIA planned and carried out the 1953 coup using all kinds of abhorrent tactics, including bribery of public officials, astroturfed paid protesters, and false flag operations.

So hopefully that explains why the US is "the great Satan" to Iran, and why Iran keeps spouting "death to USA" rhetoric.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Before he puts boots on the ground in Iran, he's got to put boots on the staging ground somewhere in the theater. Unlike strategic bombing, invasions don't happen from Missouri.

 

A lawyer working with the Minnesota attorney’s office said she just wants some sleep, after working so hard to try to get ICE to follow court orders.

“I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” Le said. “The system sucks, this job sucks, I am trying with every breath I have to get you what I need.”

Edit clarification: This attorney works for the federal government, not the State of Minnesota.

 

Over the weekend, Judge Nachmanoff made it clear that a large amount of discovery material is to be delivered to James Comey today. The prosecution team from North Carolina seem to be engaging in a series of stall tactics to delay this.

The eastern district of Virginia is known informally as the "rocket docket" because of its fast resolution times for cases.

 

While sitting for a deposition in a defamation lawsuit that she filed, Laura Loomer was asked to explain under oath what she meant by the phrase "Arby's in her pants" (which she earlier penned in a tweet).

Transcript:

Q  Can you explain to me what it means to say to her that "the Arby's in her pants"?
A  Well, Arby's --
    MR. KLAYMAN:  Objection.  Relevancy.
BY MS. BOLGER:
Q Answer the question.
A  Arby's sells roast beef.
Q  Right.  Can you tell me what -- why you were talking about "the Arby's in her pants"?
A  Well, it's just a -- an expression.
Q  What is the expression trying to convey?
A  It conveys the reason why she got a divorce by her own admission.
Q  Because she had roast beef in her pants?
A  Yeah.
Q  She'd put roast beef in her pants; that's what you're trying to say there?  You're literally saying she put Arby's in her pants?
A  I'm saying she literally -- it's so ridiculous.  I'm saying she literally put Arby's in her pants.  Yes.
    MR. KLAYMAN:  Objection.  Relevancy.
BY MS. BOLGER:
Q  You're not making a slur about her?
A  No.
Q  You're literally saying she put an Arby's sandwich in her pants; is that right?
A  Yes.  That's correct.  That's correct.
Q  Why are you laughing?
A  Because I just think it's so funny.
Q  What is your basis for saying she put Arby's in her pants?
A  I just think it's so funny.  I just think it's so funny.
Q  What is your basis for saying she put Arby's in her pants?
A  She carries roast beef in her pockets.
Q  What is your basis for saying she puts roast beef in her pockets and in her pants?
    MR. KLAYMAN:  Objection. Relevancy. Harassment.
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