The sentence length is not the problem here. The problem is that the judge has established legal precedent for "upgrading" a crime to terrorism. Secretly at that, without informing the defense or jury.

So now any crime can get you punished under terrorism statutes at the judge's discretion and the judge can announce that after the jury has delivered a verdict. That's not how a justice system should work.

I hope that the defense will move for a mistrial and win. Not that I think the perpetrators should walk free; they certainly seem to be guilty. But they should be convicted under the correct statutes for their crimes.

He wanted to mess with the Borg. He designed a ship to mess with the Borg. They didn't show up in his part of the woods so he demonstrated what happens when someone has a ship designed to mess with the Borg.

In my case I wasn't paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter's wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.

Getting hurt a little bit is very useful.

I've forgotten about plenty of situations where things could've gone wrong but didn't but I can still vividly remember accidentally hitting myself in the dick with my bike handle.

(Since I know someone will want to know: I misjudged my speed and the impact a wet wheel had on my braking power. When I noticed I was going too fast to take a corner I braked and the front brake locked the wheel immediately. Inertia did the rest.)

That and a (thankfully merely scary) run-in with aquaplaning a few years later taught me to be wary of wet driving conditions, especially of braking in them.

That is... a rather byzantine list of requirements to get a captcha service to work as opposed to just running a Firefox derivative with tracking protection on standard and a default-configuration uBO (which is the specific configuration that led to the 100 repetitions, not some kind of recommendation).

"Hell" sound like an accurate description. I wouldn't want to live in such a place as an adult, much less a minor.

I am perfectly aware that these settings aren't very private and I usually run something a bit tighter. My point was that even a mostly vanilla setup couldn't get past hCaptcha.

The problem is not that you lose that theoretical job, it's that they have one. Mind you, it's also a problem if they don't have one. In this socio-theoretical framework anything immigrants do or not do is a problem.

Companies, meanwhile, are only at fault for anything if they're foreign and not multinational corporations.

Please not hCaptcha. It's basically guaranteed to generate infinite loops.

It's almost every time for me. Maybe they don't like my ad blocker or my browser's privacy settings but it's rare for hCaptcha to let me through after three or four repetitions.

Usually I give up after ten because of it won't let me in by then it won't let me in after a hundred. I tried.

So while times are hard right now for home PC users, I’d expect there to be period in the near future of oversupply and cheap components.

From where? Data center equipment isn't really suitable for the home. A used SXM module on an adapter might give you reasonably affordable compute but is completely useless for graphics. Data center memory is often HBM, which you can't just transplant into your home PC. Getting an EDSFF SSD into your PC might work with an adapter but it's also going to take up a lot of space.

Plus, there have been cases in the past of companies buying up and destroying the inventory of closing data centers specifically so it doesn't end up on the market to compete with current products. That might very well repeat.

When the bubble bursts I expect to see a semi-decent supply of high-end hardware for specific use cases. If you have a space for a rack with noisy fans and a 3000 W power draw you'll be able to build a kick-ass AI inference rig for like 2000 bucks. Or a really fast file server. But I don't think there's going to be much in it for people who just want 60 FPS in current games and an SSD those games fit onto. That'll take another couple years.

I think it'll be 2030 at the earliest until we see actually interesting consumer hardware from the usual companies. Maybe China will swoop in and deliver something worthwhile in the meantime but I'm not holding my breath.

I'd certainly like to assnuke all those slop videos. Close enough to what they typed.

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Sorry, what was that? My attention somehow wasn't there.

Those aren't even particularly fitting stereotypes. The common stereotype for Poles is that they're all car thieves. For Czechs... probably that they're even more drunk than us but that's just the default stereotype for everyone east of us.

(And of course both of those are just cultural memes and nothing I actually believe.)

People in most parts of Germany see themselves as two things: Firstly, as someone from their own region. Secondly, as sometime who isn't Bavarian.

Mind you, the German system is one of the most expensive in the world. It's also only of middling quality in terms of outcomes compared with other wealthy nations.

But it's still less than half as expensive as whatever it is the States are doing, still has effectively universal coverage, and is actually competitive with other wealthy nations.

All because we regulated the everliving shit out of the whole process. You can't as much as fart incorrectly in the German healthcare system without having an army of bureaucrats breathing down your neck in one of three prescribed breathing rhythms, one of which only applies if you farted in a hospital. Reports will be written, filed, and sent to recipients who can only change their mailing address on one of four specific days a year and only if they announced the move four weeks in advance by sending special crafted EDIFACT files to the right people.

As much as it sucks, that bureaucracy also shuts down a lot of nonsense. Insurance networks, deductibles, most copays, and ruinous hospital bills straight up don't exist because everyone in healthcare has zero leeway to do anything in a non-prescribed manner and the prescribed manner was designed to keep as many people as possible reasonably healthy.

It's a very German approach: Massively bureaucratic, regulated to an almost comical degree, and reasonably effective.

I don't think those sellers are going to have much lower prices when the bubble pops. DDR RAM prices are high because not much of it is being produced. What is being produced is HBM, which isn't compatible with DDR and doesn't even come on DIMMs. Even if DDR production picks up quickly after the bubble pops, it's still going to take a while until consumer products appear again.

Someone should maybe tell them that they shouldn't do that to themselves.

You can argue that it was set off when the Northern states passed laws that freed any slaves who set foot there and the Southern states demanded that the laws be abolished and all states be required to enforce slavery. They didn't get their way so they decided to throw a tantrum.

Of course even with that slavery remains the lynchpin of the whole thing.

It would be nice but someone would have to rip them out of existing products and put them into new ones. Theoretically possible as a (probably fairly janky) one-off product but unlikely. Still, similar products have been made.