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Don't forgive terrible acts people do because it's easier to think they are just stupid. That will just let them be more terrible next chance they get.
This is about trump.
This is about techbro billionaires.
This is about your city council.
This is about your abuser.
This about the cops.
This is about your maga family members.
This is about anyone with responsibility or authority, but never seem to suffer consequences for continuous failure, fuckup or actual abuse of the position.
Well, looks like acid in a hour or so, then:
"Night Flight - FM-TV (1983) Part 1
1983 : 48 minutes
Director:
synopsis
"More than music, more than television: it's FM-TV!" Tonight, let us take you on an incredible journey through 1980s entertainment ephemera. FM-TV was Night Flight creator Stuart Shapiro's short-lived prime time cable companion series aimed at a slightly different demographic. Fresh from the archives, this relic from 1983 features a dance sequence in between every segment. Alright!"
I think I am going to follow that up with Ralph Bakshi's Fire & Ice, along with Internet Comment Etiquette.
@reverendstanley it was named "Fire & Ice" because "90 minutes of animated asses" didn't fit on the poster.
@mcc “C structs don’t have guaranteed layouts”
So how does repr(C) work, then? Does it only work with a specific set of compilers? Is it based on platform conventions?
@bytex64 I may be about to say something horribly wrong, but the thing about repr(C) is that it guarantees you are using the same layout as the platform's standard C layout, but DOES NOT convey any information about what this platform is. This means repr(C) can talk to repr(C) but neither one can totally reliably talk to C# which is using pure pointer manipulation.
P/Invoke *can* talk to repr(C)… unless you fall into the hole with the disaster around boolean sizes.
Prometheus: The Gift of Science to Liberty at the junction of Taylor Street and Rottenrow in the Townhead area of Glasgow. Created by Jack Sloan and installed in 1994, it was part of environmental improvements to the Strathclyde University Campus.
The newsies say what they are told to say.
Journalist: No one tells me what to say or write! I am an independent journalist with Integrity!!
Of course you are! But, still, you know who signs your cheque and you may choose - of your own free will - to say what you know they would like you to say don't you?
You are perfectly free to choose between the simple desires of your employer and a paycheque or... something else.
Oh! Splendid! I see you've made your choice!
If you want to wall-mount your normal HomeView I made a nice little 3D printable mount for that too, you can't even see the base head-on (bonus: sound is a lot better)
(Klein) verzet in de digitale wereld - een toffe Zine waarvoor ik heb samengewerkt met o.a. @astridpoot bij @bibliotheekutrecht is gister gelanceerd!
Roxane van Iperen werd geïnterviewd over over hoe #Bigtech ons met minimale inspanningen gevangenhoudt. Door haar scherpte en diepgang was het publiek klaar om tijdens de borrel bij de overstapstations informatie op te halen om concrete stappen te zetten.
It took three fairies and two sips of Grandma’s special soup and I was down to my last heart. But Princess Zelda and I defeated Ganondorf and I’ve finally finished Windwaker. What a game! 
💚
@janl one of these days I will have to play these games. Everybody raves about them!
For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.
How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!
Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"
Buckle up, it's about to get real hot.
The World Will Be Exceptionall...
Podle organizátorů dnes na Letnou dorazilo 350 000 až 450 000 protestujících. Policie svůj odhad nezveřejnila. Na demonstraci se sjeli lidé z celé republiky. V hlavním městě kvůli tomu byla posílena hromadná doprava. Na podporu veřejnoprávních médií vystoupila během shromáždění taky řada známých osobností.
@mcc you don't need the modifiers in C, because they are the standard C layout! (you don't need things like pragma pack!)
@dotstdy perhaps you know more about this than I do, but does a standard C layout even exist on Windows?
Wikipedia says Ryan Lackey left HavenCo under acrimonious circumstances in 2002, citing disagreements with the Bates family over management of the company. The Volokh Conspiracy reports that he said HavenCo had been effectively nationalized, and that by 2008 even its website had fallen over.
If your plan depends on a legal loophole, ask who enforces it and what happens when someone ignores it. If you host anything sensitive, pick a provider whose rules you can read and a court you can reach.
Customers pay for a service that works. Build that first, then go looking for a clever address.
Wikipedia's Sealand article says Roughs Tower was constructed by the United Kingdom as one of the Maunsell Forts. Grimmelmann's verdict on how the venture ended is that HavenCo failed not from too much law but from too little.
The business had its own problems. The Volokh Conspiracy calls it a classic early-2000s dot-com flameout, overhyped and underused, and says there had also been a deep rift between HavenCo and its hosts.
Wikipedia says Ryan Lackey left HavenCo under acrimonious circumstances in 2002, citing disagreements with the Bates family over management of the company. The Volokh Conspiracy reports that he said HavenCo had been effectively nationalized, and that by 2008 even its website had fallen over.
If your plan depends on a legal loophole, ask who enforces it and what happens when someone ignores it. If you host anything sensitive, pick a provider whose rules you can read and a court you can reach.
Das halluzinierte Beispiel "Zum Stutenbeißen gab es frische Butter und Marmelade" ist aber rasend komisch (naja, also zumindest für mein kalauerverseuchtes Hirn), besonders wenn man es im Kontext von Stutenbissigkeit verwendet und wird mal direkt in den Wortschatz übernommen.
"Zum Stutenbeißen gab es frische Butter und Marmelade" - könnte auch eine Bildunterschrift von einem 1-Panel Cartoon sein ... zwei Anthro-Pferdedamen, die sich so gar nicht leiden können, beim gegenseitigen Ansticheln überm Büro-Frühstück ... Bestechungsgelder dafür, dieses Konzept NICHT irgendwann mal per KI in ein Bild zu verwandeln, werden ab jetzt entgegengenommen.
The Volokh Conspiracy describes HavenCo as offering an offshore hosting site for data of any kind, safe from governmental snoops, censors, and prudes. Grimmelmann writes that HavenCo built out Sealand as a data center, moving in computer servers and connecting them to the Internet, and that the idea was a data haven that would store content illegal in other countries.
The country was a fort.
Wikipedia's Sealand article says Roughs Tower was constructed by the United Kingdom as one of the Maunsell Forts. Grimmelmann's verdict on how the venture ended is that HavenCo failed not from too much law but from too little.
The business had its own problems. The Volokh Conspiracy calls it a classic early-2000s dot-com flameout, overhyped and underused, and says there had also been a deep rift between HavenCo and its hosts.
A hosting company set up shop on Sealand, a self-declared principality on an old fort off the coast of England...
A hosting company once tried to put its servers beyond the reach of governments by moving them onto a sea fort. Wikipedia says HavenCo was founded in 2000 to operate from Sealand, an unrecognised self-declared principality that occupies HM Fort Roughs off the coast of England.
The pitch was simple.
The Volokh Conspiracy describes HavenCo as offering an offshore hosting site for data of any kind, safe from governmental snoops, censors, and prudes. Grimmelmann writes that HavenCo built out Sealand as a data center, moving in computer servers and connecting them to the Internet, and that the idea was a data haven that would store content illegal in other countries.
The country was a fort.
A hosting company set up shop on Sealand, a self-declared principality on an old fort off the coast of England...
A hosting company once tried to put its servers beyond the reach of governments by moving them onto a sea fort. Wikipedia says HavenCo was founded in 2000 to operate from Sealand, an unrecognised self-declared principality that occupies HM Fort Roughs off the coast of England.
The pitch was simple.
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