For example; even if it was something high-value such as you purchased car, and unbeknownst to you it turns out to be a stolen car. You are not subject to arrest for having unknowingly purchased it, and there is no probable cause for arrest. By the same token: the police are going to take custody of the car and return it, and in general your recourse will be a civil lawsuit against the person who sold you the car, which can only proceed to discover and trial after the conclusion of any criminal charges and investigation against the seller are resolved.

Actually, in real life, you're likely to be arrested for driving a stolen vehicle. Even if you legally purchased it from a dealer. Or you legally rented it from say, Hertz (not saying them because it happened, but...).

The police are going to arrest you and then you're going to spend a few days in jail until its figured out that you're innocent in all this. Even if you did buy it off a dealer (who bought it off someone else who bought it unknowingly stolen). Or you rented a vehicle the company reported stolen but then failed to clear the report.

So yes, you may be innocent, but you will have your life turned upside down for a few days. And that's if you're lucky - you might spend longer in jail.

Let's just say that it's no longer possible to claim the MIG Switch is just "a backup tool" because it's been proven now that people are ripping games and then selling the original cartridge back (which is a violation of copyright law - it's a legal grey area to do the ripping, but it's pretty definitive if you rip a copy and sell the original). Now, most people could get away with it back when Nintendo could only detect it when two people went online simultaneously with the same cartridge key. Now though, Nintendo seemed to have improved their detection.

Chances are this is going into a huge database that's going to be levelled against anyone making or selling the MIG Switch because it's obviously not being used for "legitimate backup purposes".

Chances are those banned Switch 2 consoles were the result of a similar sting because Nintendo caught people using game carts with the same serial number. Maybe they detect the MIG switch. Or maybe they detected that some cartridge was played consistently in Florida for the past several years, then suddenly popped up in San Jose, with the one on San Jose having run games that were played in New York and Seattle.

Even better is Nintendo didn't really say anything at all - they're letting the news hammer it home - people using the MIG Switch are setting their consoles banned and promptly returned open-box to retailers. Then this happening (which unbanned the guy relatively quickly from a call to customer support once he sent a photo of his used cartridge). It's now on the MIG Switch guys to have to reassure the public that they didn't just devalue used consoles and games.

As a bonus, they likely got some other user banned who was probably happy they "got away" with a MIG Switch and not getting banned.

Superhero fatigue I believe just refers to the glut of superhero comic book movies released the past decade - there feels like a new MCU movie coming out every month, a new DC movie coming out every few months, and "everything else", with the "everything else" doesn't really generate as much buzz. Maybe a handful of movies but always overshadowed by DC/Marvel movies.

I wouldn't even call it "woke" stuff, I'd call it just releasing tons and tons of comic book superhero movies that everyone's just tired.

Granted, the actual number is probably far less, but it always seems like ads for the latest MCU movie get replaced with another MCU movie regularly or a DC movie and the never ending promos for them.

Like I think along with Superman there's a Fantastic 4 movie coming out soon? I don't know, it's all a blur to me.

I get why it happened - they made one, it made a lot of money, then they made more and make more money and now there's so many you can probably bet one is opening next week. It's nothing about wokeness or anything - it's just the public is tired of seeing the same-y type movies constantly blared at them.

I've been on ./ long enough to know this isn't going to cut it for the ICE loyalists because they drive 800 miles, uphill, in -200 F weather before driving 800 miles, uphill in 700 F weather to get home. EVs are clearly not up to the job! /s

Yes, and sadly that's not the reality of an EV.

If you have access to electricity where you park your car, you can probably go EV. The mentality of "I need to stop and fill up" doesn't exist for an EV - because if you can charge at home, why don't you?

Even a plain jane level 1 charger will refill an EV between 30-50 miles overnight (10 hours). This is just a plain 110V outlet built into many garages. If your park outside, well, your house has outside plugs, same deal.

This will generally cover most commutes, and even ones with multiple stops for errands along the way. And if overnight it doesn't quite get charged all the way, well, likely it will get topped up the next day, or the weekend.

So even a level 2 charger might not need to be installed. Because unlike with a gas car, an EV you charge when you can. You don't fill up your gas car daily (if you do, then an EV likely isn't for you), but you can with an EV.

Also, 742 miles exceeds my comfortable bladder capacity by about 600 miles. Maybe I can push it 250 miles between stops, but that seat had better be comfortable because I'm going to need a long stretch. And a meal - 250 miles is about a 5 hour drive which may be doable between lunch and dinner but I think that's pushing it.

ECC may protect from a single bi flip, but may not protect if two bits on the same row are forced to flip during the same cycle.

Most ECCs are single bit-correcting, double bit detecting. So a 1 bit flip will be detected and corrected. Two flipped bits will be detected. (and if you wonder, 3 bits will result in an incorrect bit being corrected).

The problem with DDR5 RAM is internally, DDR5 chips have built in ECC. However that only protects the chip - it doesn't make the whole RAM module ECC. But there are ECC DDR5 RAM modules as well. And the problem is it's basically impossible to find because regular DDR5 RAM always mention "on chip ECC" so regular non-ECC DDR5 RAM modules pollute your search for ECC DDR5 RAM. Makes it harder to find.

Also vaccines are irrelevant since this is a bacterium.

Plague has a vaccine available. It's just not commonly given because so few cases of it actually occur every year that vaccinating everyone is pointless as it's relatively rare, easily treatable so why burden people with yet another shot for something they aren't likely to get. But it exists and can be given to hot spots of plague outbreaks.

Plague is also highly responsive to antibiotics which is why deaths are relatively rare as well - you get sick, you get diagnosed, you get antibiotics and you're cured. It's one of the diseases that we've cured to the point people are amazed it's still around.

The difference between knowing and not carrying. And the whole 'why'. Knowing how Trump has so often framed these actions, I suspect he sees the US global contribution as substantially out of proportion to that of the rest of the world. Regions severely impacted by AIDS are notably poorer and less able to fund their own programs. Whether we've spent more than we ought to have been expected to I do not know.

It's a "soft power" thing. Soft power is not Trump's strong suit - he's a very transactional guy. Soft power is something that you use to build goodwill - like when you provide aid to poor countries, you know what they see? They see a giant US flag on the box with aid. They get to know that flag and then when they get an education they learn that flag is the US flag and that there's this wonderful country called the United States. That's how you do propaganda these days - the US did not become the destination and the center of democracy and freedom without it.

Or when you're starving and that box of US grown wheat arrives to help you bake bread, that bag of individual serving is a powerful propaganda device because individuals read it. They may not understand it, but a few well placed photos certainly imprints on people.

The ROI isn't immediate, but it's something that's of powerful influence in the world.

What's with the need to glue on multiple face plates?

To customize the controller. You might not realize this but special edition controllers are a thing. With glued faceplates, you can make the core controller then glue on the decorative piece afterwards.

With this design, NIntendo is probably trying to after the Xbox Design Studio that lets you do basic customizations to your controller, but likely add the capability of adding your own design to the plastics that can be printed on using pad stamping or hydrodipping. Or the fancy events where a Switch 2 might be given away in gift bags, they could get Switch 2 Pro controllers customized with the event's name stamped on them.

If they can do pad stamping you can even do small runs relatively cheaply. Having faceplates means you get to hide the ugly screws, and the dirt-collecting holes they reside in and gives you the easy ability to do customization at the final assembly step.

I do believe you are 100 percent correct. From where he was to where he is, I fear the changes in Musk are probably due to drug use. He has said in the past that he "microdoses" ketamine, but has also said he uses more for partying. Some of the abuse indicators fit. His flipflopping from liberal to far right conservative, then getting into a fracas with Orange Daddy and making threats about the Epstein documents, then saying he over-reacted. Damn you need a scorecard to figure out where his mind is on what day.

I don't know how this can be addressed, he's too wealthy for an intervention - he's going to have to fix himself on his own. When the erratic behavior started a few years back, I predicted he was following the path of Howard Hughes. I haven't changed my mind.

What to you think about the fact that it keeps rapidly disassembling? I hear people talk about "Move fast and break things".

Would you buy a car that blows up every time, using the concept of move fast and break things?

Now that sounds kinda of specious at least to me, because liquid fueled Rocketry is over 100 years old. And modern rockets are pretty well based on the concepts of the V2 rocket designed and built in Germany in WW2.

Now if were me in charge of the StarShip program, I'd be placing a hard hold to assess why StarShip is so far - a failure. That thing is nowhere near ready for primetime.

This is not to disparage the Falcon Fleet - really good rockets.

Let's say I was in charge of StarShip. I'd change the "move fast and break things" concept to incremental steps. First thing I would do is wrap a stainless steel reentry vehicle that would simulate a upper stage Starship - but smaller - and it's tiling on a Falcon 9 heavy, launch it to orbit, return it and see what happens.

Assuming that worked okay, the next step would be to static launch an upper stage, and only after all the bugs are worked out, then mate it to the first stage and launch.

The real reason isn't too far off - high income countries can afford healthcare. This leads to the population in general being much healthier and living longer, and the biggest reason, lower infant mortality.

In poorer countries, you need to have multiple kids - this is a requirement because most of your kids will be dead before they reach adulthood. So you need to have multiple kids to have a chance that one of them will reach adulthood.

And moms, when they aren't having to constantly pop out kids for survival get to do other things rather than incubate babies 24/7.

Richer countries also tend to have better human rights, where the woman gets to choose in the matter of kids. Granted, this can leave the men somewhat unfulfilled once the woman calls it quits, but that's a different problem.

What does that have to do with the evil empire of Trumpistan? Apparently the US themed shops, selling outdated American candy and snacks plus overly strong vapes are largely shell companies based in Russia and Hong Kong. Anyhow - love to hear how this is US led organized crime money laundering.

I don't want to sound hyperbolic, but your TDS has left to be replaced by GDS. One does not plaster classified information on the intertoobz. I can find dozens of articles claiming old sleepy Joe was running a depression, and all manner of pro and con Humpty Trumpery purposely manufactured recession, and, and and, not a recession, a depression that Trump purposely created. In your Trump dictated 'Murrica - so evil it is responsible for the UK's Candy stores scandal, you can bet these people would disappear never to be seen again. As dictators do such things to those who inconvenience them. I suggest some Rexulti for ya. smooth off the GDS edges

Facebook is bad enough, but no one beats Google for harvesting and tracking. Install a script blocker, It might be a little distressing though as you plow through the results.

Talking about Orange Jesus is fine. Buy you people are at the point of being unhinged. You apparently believe every article is about The idiot.

I hold both Republicans and Democrats in utter contempt. You are slowly going insane, while he lives rent free in your mind, and if someone takes a shit you'll make it about Cheeto's gold toilet. For you see, there might be a better path. There is no doubt that the Democrats got a curb stomping. Whine or bawl, and make everything in your life about hating him and anyone who voted for him, and without introspection double down. Let us know how that turns out for ya.

Introspection on what created that drubbing might be in order.

America didn't suddenly turn into mid 1930's Germany. We elected a man of African ancestry - twice. Mrs Clinton would have been president after the 2016 election- she got 3 million more votes, but lost due to a quirk. Biden beat Trump fairly handily in 2020.

Even the Dems have come to understand that groups they considered in the bag eroded. Young males, Hispanic men, Men of African ancestry. middle class women. Organized labor. All shifted to the right or better stated shifted against the far left. - Find out why.

And in a bizarre response, the Dems spent 20 million to figure out why they lost the presidency, the Senate, the continued minority status in the house, and the previous loss of the Supreme Court.

How to talk to American men the result! https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fpoli.... And it isn't going all that well https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F.... It is pretty simple really. Young men understand quite clearly that the Democrats do not in any way represent them. In an op-ed for The Hill, Anna Greenberg responded that the party was right to focus on women. She wrote, “Carville may not like it, but the Democratic Party is the women’s party. Sixty percent of self-identified Democrats are women.”

So good luck now that the Democrats are a woman's party, and are pretty clear about it. Anyhow, I'm preaching to a person who will never ever change their mindedness, and won't take telling. Good for you! I sure as hell didn't vote for Trump.

Spacex is following in the tradition of companies like:

First stage of the Saturn V: Boeing

Second stage of the Saturn V: North American Aviation (which has since become part of Boeing)

Third stage of the Saturn V: Douglas (also now under Boeing)

Instrument unit for the Saturn V: IBM

Engines for the Saturn V: Rocketdyne (now operating as Aerojet Rocketdyne)

For the Apollo spacecraft:

Command and Service Module (CSM): North American Aviation

Lunar Module (LM): Grumman (now part of Northrop Grumman)

Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine and Reaction Control System (RCS) engines for the Apollo spacecraft: Rocketdyne

Descent engine for the Lunar Module: TRW (currently part of Northrop Grumman)

Ascent engine for the Lunar Module: Bell Aircraft (now Bell Helicopter)

Launch escape system: Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin)

Sauce: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapollo11space.com%2Fapol...

Seriously, the cult thinking that Spacex is using Elon's personal money and never taking a subsidy are delusional, and the idea that Spacex is somehow special, a first, never before happening thing, a paragon of perfection, and that they should be the sole provider, and NASA eliminated - well that's extra delusional

And let's compare the vaunted Starship to say, the Saturn V. One has never made it to space, and one had no launch failures. Which one was which?

What pure science has Spacex done? I mean to hear the cult talk, Elon Invented the Rocket. Granted, he designed and built the Voyager probes, the Saturn rockets and landed the first people on the moon/ When are people going to realize that we don't need NASA any more, only Spacex /s