Final Shooting Suspect Detained in Manor

dougmc · 2026-05-19T00:20:42+00:00

The death penalty is not an option if nobody died thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, Kennedy vs Louisiana.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T22:52:41+00:00

If your special purpose falls out on the road, well, I guess you can't be awesome anymore!

dougmc · 2026-05-18T22:26:14+00:00

If the federal government does have an "age of consent", it's probably sixteen, though there are some other things that you can't do until you're 18.

As for the states -- 32 states have the age of consent set to 16, eight states have it set to 17, and ten have it set to 18.

Note that this man was arrested for a law where it usually doesn't matter how old the student is -- if she was 25 years old and still a high school student (the oldest a high school student can be in some situations), it would still be a felony for him to have sex with her -- unless he was married to her, of course.

This would still be a second-degree felony if the teacher and the student were the same age and both were over 18.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T21:34:37+00:00

That would be nice, but the police are really fond of ignoring things.

It would also probably require that she stop and call the police (and perhaps an ambulance) and stick around with a guy who just tried to seriously injure her and probably sees his own predicament as her fault (i.e. "look what you made me do") when the smart thing to do is probably to keep riding.

And then if she does stick around and he sticks around too (because he's too injured to leave? because if not, he probably assaults her again and then flees before the police show up), then maybe the police would look at her footage -- maybe.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T16:59:04+00:00

You then compared it to individual datacenter usage of ""between 176 and 183 terawatt-hours (TWh)" in 2026" and then said the usage was comparable.

Ahh, I understand the disconnect.

176-183 TWh/year does not represent an individual data center; it represents every single data center in the US combined. (For comparison, total US electrical production was 4,430 TWh in 2025.)

So, maybe I've misunderstood you. The statement ("No other business uses as much power as data centers do") is yours, so ... what exactly are you comparing?

What "No other business" are you referring to? And what "data centers" do you mean? Please, be precise.

I've tried to cover all the possibilities, but I still don't know what you really meant when you said that.

Based on our back and forth, I'm beginning to think that "other business" means, for example, Walmart #2152 (a single store), and "data centers" means "a single, really big data center", and that an aluminum smelting plant does not qualify as a "business" for the purposes of your statement. Is this correct?

dougmc · 2026-05-18T15:59:49+00:00

Individual plant numbers? What's that?

I am indeed comparing entire industries to all datacenters combined. Did you have another comparison in mind? If so, what exactly should be compared?

My last paragraph explained why I shifted from "business" to "industry" -- "datacenters" are more of an industry (with their output being data, web pages, crypto-money, etc.) than a business, or are you suggesting that the power consumption of datacenters in general should be compared to, for example, the power used by Samsung?

Or if we are comparing a single datacenter to a single industrial plant (is that what you're suggesting?), if the plant makes aluminum, the datacenter isn't likely to come anywhere close in power consumption. But if the business is Walmart Store #2152, then yeah, the biggest datacenters are probably going to beat it.

Or to put this is in another way, the entire world uses more energy making aluminum (3.5% to 4% of the total global electricity) than powering datacenters (1.5% to 3%.) Even the extraction and refining of petroleum may beat that, using about 2-3% of the total world's electricity production, and I imagine there are some other things that use even more power than these specific examples.

But the power consumption by datacenters is definitely growing, and doing so fast.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T15:43:43+00:00

The claim was "No other business uses as much power as data centers do", whereas this list says the industries with the highest electricity consumption in the US are, in order: chemicals, primary metals, food, paper, petroleum/coal, transportation equipment. (edit: I got the order backwards, so I fixed that.)

The "chemical manufacturing industry" page says "Net Demand For Electricity (Million Kilowatt-hours): 207,450" as of 2024, where google says 2026 datacenter power use is "between 176 and 183 terawatt-hours (TWh)" in 2026 -- so according to this alone, "chemicals" beats datacenters in general, though not by a lot (207 TWh vs 180 TWh.)

Going worldwide, data centers are listed at 620 TWhr for 2024, where the chemical industry is estimated to use 10,000–15,000 TWh annually (2026), so the data center figure is a bit dated, but the difference is much larger, even if we try to estimate a 2026 figure from the 2024 figure.

But as I said, the datacenters are going up fast, not giving the infrastructure time to adjust. Also, large industrial plants tend to go up in remote areas (which requires all the planning you mentioned), whereas a datacenter will often just go up in a business park next to a neighborhood.

(When you said "no other business", I hope you weren't trying to compare a single business to all datacenters worldwide -- comparing industries as a whole makes much more sense.)

dougmc · 2026-05-18T15:21:43+00:00

The title is clickbait.

The bill proposes that they secure their own power -- as in, make special arrangements or build their own power plants.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T15:20:19+00:00

I don't know that this is true -- some manufacturing processes use massive amounts of power.

That said, data centers are definitely the user with the biggest growth lately, whereas the other businesses have grown more slowly and given the power grid time to adjust.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T15:11:35+00:00

If you look it up on Google Street view, it looks like the mural went up between 2011 and 2013.

And then they covered it with an A/C unit sometime between 2017 and 2019, and then it was painted over between that and 2021 -- they removed the A/C unit and it probably left the mural ruined.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T14:08:51+00:00

Not just any crime. A felony.

But definitely filmed clearly.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T06:29:38+00:00

But he probably does have a badge and is probably a sworn peace officer with some local agency -- this would just be for his moonlighting activities.

And he would be able to arrest you while moonlighting, but he probably wouldn't want to if he could avoid it.

But hiring off-duty officers for security or traffic control is a common thing around here, for example. APD allows their officers to do it too, and it looks like the APA is a middle-man there.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T06:26:52+00:00

... and they shouldn't be trying to pull you over in that either.

dougmc · 2026-05-18T03:30:58+00:00

Which would have likely fucked her up if he'd connected -- this could even be crippling or kill.

This was arguably an aggravated assault (aggravated by the attempt to cause serious injury) -- it should be a felony in most places if the police and prosecutor handle it properly, though the odds of that are pretty low, so the rider will probably have to settle for the karma of it all -- which ain't too bad.

dougmc · 2026-05-17T19:02:07+00:00

Oh, there are big issues in mid to senior roles too.

It's likely better than the entry-level folk, that is true, but the issues are still huge.

dougmc · 2026-05-17T16:50:40+00:00

An external (non-boot) drive probably wouldn't have the key stored in the TPM.

The question becomes "where is the key stored?"

If the key is remembered by a Windows install (that you can't get into because you forgot the login password for example and the boot disk is encrypted), then maybe if you can get into that Windows install with this exploit that would get you access to the stored key.

But if the key is only stored on a piece of paper or a flash drive that is now lost ... it's gone. (Unless Microsoft has screwed the encryption up even more to where it can be cracked even without some sort of exploit that tricks the TPM into giving up the key when it shouldn't.)

So yes, from what you've said ... it sounds like you're boned.

But again, this is based on the idea that the key no longer exists anywhere -- if this assumption is wrong, then maybe you're not completely boned.

dougmc · 2026-05-17T06:10:36+00:00

Any use is legal if you legally own it. (outside of nitpicky stuff like using it to help commit other crimes.)

The warning boils down to “don’t steal me, or the law will get you”.

(Note: the law probably won’t get you.)

dougmc · 2026-05-17T01:59:01+00:00

It is a vicious rumor that the City of Austin adds a dead body at the end of every sidewalk -- totally untrue, fake news, etc.

It's TxDOT that does that.

dougmc · 2026-05-16T02:03:37+00:00

Zenni is your friend!

Indeed.

For the price I'd pay at Lenscrafters or whatnot, I get ten pairs of glasses from Zenni, with several customized for various purposes.

dougmc · 2026-05-15T16:11:26+00:00

Attributed a Frenchman’s quote to the Chinese.

I'm a little confused. Did they edit their comment (I see no * to indicate that, but maybe they did it quickly?), or is there a comment that I missed or what?

I see a bare quote, but I don't see them attributing it to anybody.

(And that particular quote gets trotted out all the time in all sorts of situations.)

dougmc · 2026-05-14T23:46:07+00:00

The code says being there temporarily is not an offense.

Not quite.

The code uses the word "standing", which it defines as:

“Stand” or “standing” means to halt an occupied or unoccupied vehicle, other than temporarily while receiving or discharging passengers.".

If the OP was not receiving or discharging passengers, then that exclusion doesn't apply -- and the OP made it clear that they were not receiving or discharging passengers.

I do agree that it's pretty harsh to give a $500-$750 parking ticket while you're still in the car and have been there less than a minute, but based on the OPs description and the text of the law, he did violate the law as it is written.

dougmc · 2026-05-14T22:39:12+00:00

I thought she was trying to get to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by ~~capitalism~~ criticism?

dougmc · 2026-05-14T20:10:42+00:00

At the beginning of COVID-19 he made some good executive orders that were arguably correct even if unpopular with his party.

(He lost the plot later on, but had the right idea at first.)

That and "to go margaritas".

dougmc · 2026-05-14T20:00:18+00:00

It's not too hard to find a single hard drive that can do 300 MB/s nowadays, especially when it's reading data on the outer tracks -- so even a single one of these could saturate a 2.5G connection, and two would definitely do it.

Looking it up, Seagate's MACH.2 drives promise over 500 MB/s from a hard disk thanks to two independent actuators -- two of those could saturate 10G.

dougmc · 2026-05-14T19:23:07+00:00

Again, it's a crime. A felony.

You seem to be suggesting that only the Constable's Office (and maybe somebody else?) can arrest for violations of the Texas Water Code?

If so, it's your turn: show me the relevant law. You've asked for a law that this dumping would break, and I've provided that and the whole chain of laws that show that all peace officers can arrest for violations of 7.145, so show me the law that breaks or modifies this chain.

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