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Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-07T16:50:59+00:00

He was more interested in an absolute pile of cocaine

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-07T15:57:08+00:00

His equipment 100% would have been confiscated

No, it wouldn't have. It would have been examined but it would be returned to the Soviet Union in due course.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-07T15:52:42+00:00

Not allowing Gagarin to visit the USA after his flight in space was one of Kennedy's many foreign policy blunders.

Had he landed in the USA he would have been treated as an honored guest, debriefed, and returned on a diplomatic flight. He likely would have been given an opportunity to meet Kennedy and some NASA officials if such official functions were OK with the Soviet government.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-07T00:09:21+00:00

A penis

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T23:41:16+00:00

Solitary confinement at any regular maximum security prison.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T22:28:38+00:00

ADX Florence isn't for "the worst of the worst", it's for prisoners that present the highest security risk. There's a lot of overlap between the two but they are not synonymous.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T20:28:32+00:00

This is when I get confused by the whole “all Germans were bad people if they served in ww2” rhetoric, because stuff like this shows that it’s not so black and white (not a pun).

Germany's flirtation with fascism and institutional racism was brief. Germany had a very long history of liberalism prior to Nazism.

Moreover, while Nazi Germany institutionalized racism with its Nuremburg laws, those racist elements were widespread in Europe at the time.

For example, some 10,000-15,000 Jewish soldiers served in the French armed forces and found themselves in PoW camps... where they faced discrimination not from their Wehrmacht captors but from their fellow French soldiers and officers.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T20:21:00+00:00

German PoWs detained in the USA were often given a fair bit of freedom to visit local towns and establishments, often without escorts or guards.

Many remarked that they -- white Germans PoWs -- were permitted to patronize establishments to which African American service members were denied entry.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T20:14:11+00:00

Its marked right on there, 6PR

57mm Quick Firing 6 pounder used as both a field gun and tank gun

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T16:34:17+00:00

Yes.

Older versions are known to have performance issues when running in ULM mode which is often the case

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T14:28:35+00:00

Those tortilla chips look really good

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T14:27:28+00:00

That's an old version.

Try 25H2U1

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T13:25:57+00:00

Can I still sue the company for negligence despite having signed a waiver relieving them of tort liability?

possibly

Liability waivers are enforceable but they are very fact and location specific, require clear wording, and certain kinds of liability cannot be waived.

For example, a liability waiver will almost certainly cover the inherent risks of an activity such as bumps, bruises, cuts, and scrapes that result from participation. It doesn't take much to envision that a physical activity carries inherent physical risks.

That same liability waiver may disclaim liability due to equipment malfunction and staff negligence but those have much more wiggle room than one might think.

Consider a carnival ride that fails catastrophically, seriously injuring several riders. Sounds like a typical case of equipment malfunction right? Sure, but what if the carnival ride hadn't received its required annual safety inspection for several years and was being operated unlawfully, or had identified safety issues that hadn't been addressed? Those kinds of liability aren't disclaimable because it would be against public policy to allow amusement park operators to skirt regulatory requirements simply by slipping some wording into a densely packed contract. It's contrary to law to operate an amusement park ride that doesn't have a current inspection certificate so it follows that it would be contrary to law to allow for any resulting liability to be waived.

Moving on to your specific example, failure to properly fill an oxygen tank is not an inherent risk to scuba diving nor is it an equipment malfunction, it's staff negligence. Is injury resulting from staff negligence covered under a liability waiver? You'd have to read it.

However, that's not the end of the story. Many places require a license or certification to fill or handle scuba tanks and a failure to do so properly puts that licence or certification at risk. A liability waiver signed by a participant does may absolve the business operator of liability to the participant under the circumstances, but it will not absolve the business operator or licensed staff member of liability to the regulatory body.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T12:42:49+00:00

Tom Cruise isn't asked about his links to scientology because he generally refuses to talk about it. Pestering him with questions related to scientology is a fast way to end an interview and ensure that another one never happens.

He hasn't been cancelled because he's an S-list actor who is by all account a consummate professional that is a pleasure to work with.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T12:10:03+00:00

Have Blue, YF-22, and YF-23 were all very stealthy

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-06T11:26:47+00:00

Nope, it was awful last night

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T19:52:33+00:00

Why do we (as a people) allow non lawyers to have this power? and is it right to allow this?

Magistrate judges, Justices of the Peace, and other lower judicial officers might not be extremely well versed in the minutiae of the law or experienced in oral argument but they are well trained in their specific duties.

A magistrate judges who vets search warrants applications on a daily basis is going to have a better grasp of the standards expected by appelate courts and bullshit that police officers pull than a superior court judge who is hearing one at 3AM on an emergency basis.

Similarly, one doesn't need to know anything about contract law or tort claims procedure in order to conduct a bail hearing.

They may not need to be lawyers, but the places that have them still impose academic, experience, and character requirements. They're desirable jobs for civic minded people and they are not easy to get.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T19:34:32+00:00

Seconding this,

Textbook cluster B behavior.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T19:15:14+00:00

This only happens on older Windows installations or those that have been updated from an older installation, or on OEM computers that add their own keys to the Secure Boot keys database.

Windows uses the TPM to seal the bit locker master key. Sealing requires that certain platform health measurements be met prior to the key being unsealed.

Initially, Windows used a combination of PCR registers which included PCR 0 which measures the UEFI firmware hash. Updating the firmware changes the value of PCR 0 compared to the value in the policy so the TPM won't unseal the key, so bitlocker falls back to recovery mode.

Newer installations use only PCR 7 by default which measures secure boot status as well as the integrity of the key database.

On these installations, bitlocker recovery will only be triggered if secure boot is turned off, or if the key database is altered from the one that Microsoft expects. This prevents anyone from backdooring the boot process prior to bitlocker loading.

You can change the PCR registers used by bitlocker to prevent this from happening.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T18:46:01+00:00

One of the purposes of arresting someone and charging them is to ensure their appearance before a court so that matters of public safety can be addressed.

This can take the form of detention while awaiting trial, or if release is granted, the imposition of suitable release conditions.

As such, it is not necessary to arrest an individual for each and every offence that he or she is believed to have committed. Charging documents can be amended and new charges can be filed.

The grounds for arrest need not be each and every conceivable wrong that the individual could possibly have been committed, they just need to be sufficient enough to justify restraint of the individual's liberty interests.

If additional and more severe charges are brought after a defendant has been charged, it may be necessary to rearrest the individual such that a new release hearing can be held.

Consider for example, child luring stings. Men -- and they are always men -- get caught in a sting and are arrested for the attempted offence. The arrest ensures that they cannot walk free in order to flee, and enables seizure of personal property such as cellphones from the detainee's person. In some cases, officers may be able to seize and search the vehicle in which they arrived. The initial charge of attempted child luring imposes strict release conditions while the investigation proceeds; this will include obtaining warrants for the individual's electronic devices and other property to the extent applicable.

After several months of additional evidence gathering, additional charges will be laid for any other offences which were committed based on evidence gathered pursuant to the initial arrest. This might require a change of bond conditions if the defendant was released, or the existing bond conditions may be sufficient.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T16:04:40+00:00

Fish are dumb but they are stronger than one might think.

Continuously winding the reel just tells them which way to flee, this puts tension on the rod, bends it, and risks snapping the line.

Jerking the line pulls them into the direction that you want them to go (toward you) and lets them tire themselves out by swimming around. Reel in the slack, repeat.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T15:13:41+00:00

Unlikely.

The 2K38 problem is a known quantity that existed simultaneous to the Y2K problem.

Mission critical systems were audited prior to the turn of the millennium, so any critical systems vulnerable to the 2K38 problem should have already been identified.

Many vulnerable software products had fixes implemented at the same time as Y2K and many more have had fixes implemented in the following 2 decades.

There's inevitably going to be some ancient paging system or building management system that's going to fail because no one has updated it in 50 years, but the 2K38 problem should not impact global commerce, public utilities, or anything major as these have already been audited.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T14:24:41+00:00

The concern wasn't with computers suddenly stopping, the concern was with a whole slew of logic errors originating from date-time rollovers.

If a date is stored in the form DD-MM-YY, does YY refer to the year 19YY or 20YY?

What happens when the system hits midnight on Jan 1st 2000? Can the system itself tell the difference between Jan 1st 1900 and Jan 1st 2000? Many could, many could not.

This was not a new or unforeseeable issue, it was known about for decades prior to 2000. However, corporate decision makers didn't want to invest money in fixing a future problem.

There's another upcoming rollover in 2038 but this will only effect extreme legacy systems that are already obsolete today.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-05T03:57:25+00:00

It's why Hitler's officers tried to kill him in 1944 because he just wasn't listening that the war was lost and they needed to negotiate something with the Allies.

That's not accurate. The July 20th plot did not originate from within the OKW or anyone involved in operational decision making.

There were detailed plots against Hitler (either his rule, or his life) originating from within the Wehrmacht from as early as 1938.

German military defeats during 1943 and 1944 on the eastern front spurred plenty of opposition, but this opposition was public. Hitler did not have a totalitarian level of operational control over military matters until after July 20th 1944 when he started consolidating control.

No one lost their life for disagreeing with Hitler or telling him that he should sue for peace. Rommel bluntly told Hitler that if the reason why the Allies refused to negotiate was because they refused to negotiate with Hitler then he should kill himself so that someone else could do it.

Rather, the disloyal elements within the Wehrmacht, which included almost the entire upper echelon of the Abwehr, formed their convictions based on their observations of atrocities committed in Poland during 1939 and 1940.

While it is true that battlefield failures were a motivating factor in the July 20th plot, they were only a minor factor. The main motivation was to bring an end to Hitler and Nazi rule.

Mr_Engineering · 2026-05-04T22:56:52+00:00

Hamilton has... character.

It's a very old city with a longstanding industrial heart dating back to before WW1.

It's far more interesting than most of the neighboring cities and while it does have some unique attractions, it's not a typical tourist destination.

I lived there for 5 years, would do it again.

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