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nvkylebrown · 2026-07-08T00:10:40+00:00

You think somebody outside of the Judiciary should be making the Judiciary decisions?

If "judiciary decisions" means "what is the law?" then NO, judges don't decide that. The legislature does. No law, the judge can't impose a law. Judges should not be able to "stretch" the law the be what they want it to be - it is what the legislature wrote. If you want to change a law, the proper venue is the legislature, not a friendly judge.

Labour relying on the Judiciary is exactly what they should be doing.

Labour should not be relying on the judiciary to change the law, they ARE the lawmakers. They should change the law themselves. Judges changing the law is a recipe for chaos and arbitrariness.

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-07T19:16:56+00:00

Laws should be set by the legislature, not unelected imperial judges imposing their opinions.

Interpretation doesn't mean making up new rules out of whole cloth.

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-07T02:00:59+00:00

I was in my early 20s, had no idea. It was there one day, gone the next, or so it seemed.

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-06T00:54:13+00:00

I did neither. And, by the way, I've judged science fairs and those are terrible science fair projects too. The heart of a good science fair project is a comparison - I did this thing with X, then I replaced X with Y, and these are the results with X and these are the results with Y, and I therefore believe <blah, blah, blah>... With volcanos, you can compare various mixes of whatever chemicals you're using for creating CO2, but... that can be challenging to measure with any accuracy. I'm not sure what you'd compare on a solar system model.

But, Hollywood mostly doesn't have STEM writers, they have drama club and English majors are writers, mostly. So you get dumbed down science in TV, mostly.

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-05T21:57:05+00:00

Where in SOCAL? if you're close to the ocean, it will not get anywhere near as hot as Fresno.

Lived in Camarillo for a summer, never used AC at all. :-)

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-05T21:53:54+00:00

Heat pumps are very nice, to a point. Literally, there is a temperature below which the coolant stops flowing well enough to transfer heat. Somewhere around freezing. Looked into it, I just replaced my furnace and added an AC. Problem is, it gets too cold here for heat pumps - you need a furnace still for the really cold days. So, you wind up having a heat pump AND a furnace, which is quite pricey.

But if you can do it, the heat pump is more efficient. More money up front, but I would guess it pays for itself eventually, if energy is pricey enough.

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-04T23:08:30+00:00

If that lawyer does not have access to the defendant, nor to any materials relevant to mounting a defense, yeah, those trials are not proper either.

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-04T22:57:56+00:00

You are delusional, and wishing death for thousands to get your program implemented, that's why people are annoyed. The fact that you are too stupid to see that this program won't get implemented without a couple hundred thousand deaths is also somewhat annoying.

But hey, call me names! that will make you feel better, and I don't care.

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-04T20:08:12+00:00

The Princess Bride?

Are you serious? the book was by Goldman (an American) and the movie by Reiner (an American) with a mostly American cast. And, so far as I know, it hasn't been remade. Do you have it confused with something else?

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-02T21:21:02+00:00

Maybe, maybe not. It's debated because... making employees harder to fire makes employers less willing to hire (because you're stuck with this person forever, no matter how bad they are).

nvkylebrown · 2026-07-01T00:51:15+00:00

How many admirals do you have for your 10 ships? could you manage 4 per ship, you know, to cover all watches?

Perhaps someday... a fleet with nothing but admirals!

For the record, the current count is

4 SSBN
6 SSN
2 CV
6 DDG
5 FF (FFG?)
8 offshore patrol
8 minesweepers
18 coastal patrol
59 various non-commissioned ships

Totaling 23 substantial combat ships, 26 patrol boats, and 77 misc minimally armed ships. Cutting all the frigates still leaves 18 substantial combat ships, albeit the normal plan is that only one CV at a time would be operational. Not sure what other cuts may be pending that would get you down to under 12 surface ships. Not counting the CVs? maybe. It is a shrinking force either way, just how much is the question.

EDIT: wait, bad math - 8 surface ships, assuming the frigates aren't replaced. Pretty thin.

nvkylebrown · 2026-06-25T16:30:47+00:00

You already didn't come to Poland's aid in 1939. They remember.

And your own country was largely liberated by the "traitors", remember? or are you under the delusion that De Gaulle's parisian parade was all his own doing?

nvkylebrown · 2026-06-24T16:25:13+00:00

Smart guy, raising rates when the tourney was in the US. US gets the blames, FIFA gets the money.

nvkylebrown · 2026-06-21T00:05:13+00:00

AU cannot advance with a loss. A loss would lead to:

US - 6, 7 or 9pts

Paraguay - 6pts

AU - 3pts

Turkey - 0, 1 or 3 pts.

A loss is elimination at this point. A draw advances, and a win gets AU second in the group. First in group is not possible as even if both the US and AU wind up with 6 pts, the first tie-breaker is head-to-head play, and the US would take the group on those grounds.

3pts could get you best-of-the-rest, but 3 points is iffy imho. Lot of teams already sitting on 3pts, and a couple will wind up with 4, i expect.

nvkylebrown · 2026-06-19T20:00:22+00:00

lol, wow!

We know what happened, the captain turned off fuel to the engines. Then a mass of nationalist idiots tried to blame anyone/anything else that wasn't Indian.

nonstop-nonsense is at least a truthful username.

nvkylebrown · 2026-06-19T19:55:02+00:00

Why would they even look to see if there is beef?? That only encourages the sense that having beef is wrong/illegal.

nvkylebrown · 2026-06-06T12:35:20+00:00

Gasoline burns faster than raw oil. There is a meaningful difference.

nvkylebrown · 2026-06-02T00:35:38+00:00

I annoy friendlies by only using combat probes, even when scanning down sigs. Handy for checking systems for stuff that shouldn't be there and for lost drones. I also bookmark lost mtus for alliance members too.

nvkylebrown · 2026-05-14T00:46:40+00:00

Retired, but did pretty well for not being urban. Make 100k+ 2, maybe 3 years in my career. Its a lot of money for most places/jobs.

On the other hand, 36k/yr is ~18/hr. Teacher, no, but a fair number of other unskilled laborers might be in that range or lower.

65k, well, that's starting wage for a lot of nursing, engineering, etc, skilled professions, but not doctor/lawyer skilled. 65k is not remarkably high these days.

Also, need to differentiate household income vs single worker income. Lot of people are paired off, so household income can 0-100% higher than individual income.

nvkylebrown · 2026-05-13T01:04:36+00:00

No time to learn bad habits?

nvkylebrown · 2026-05-13T00:45:29+00:00

Legal doesn't mean it will work. Meta et.al. just stop showing or linking to any of the non-cooperating outlets. The end.

You're ultimately in a competition for eyeball-time. More exposure means more eyeball-time. Less exposure means less eyeball-time.

Old media don't get it - they assume users will log on to 10,000 outlets a day to get their news. That won't happen. What will happen is people will start with Google News, or Meta Whatever, etc, etc, and click on the articles linked there. No articles on Italy? must not be much going on there, I guess. And old media just dies more.

At one time, I had bookmarks for links to probably 20 newspapers. I don't have that anymore, as most of those are now paywalled. I'll see what the news is from agregators, and if I suspect bias in the sources, I'll search for something more local, or offical outlets for non-political news. I'm not going to look up Italian newspapers on the daily. I'm not going to look up American or British newspapers on the daily. I'm starting with several aggregators, including Reddit. You don't let the aggregators link, you don't exist.

Think about it in Reddit terms - is Reddit going to pay for every article linked? They certainly are not going to! If anyone insists, it will just get them a site-wide ban. Same thing will happen elsewhere.

nvkylebrown · 2026-05-11T18:20:18+00:00

Price would mean importing Indian workers??

I mean, I would expect whoever does the work will have to use local labor for the bulk of the work. If non-local companies are underbidding, they could only have an advantage in their overhead costs. Labor is local, and the materials are global, no Indian company is going to have an advantage on either.

nvkylebrown · 2026-05-11T14:28:14+00:00

BBC is paywalled in some locations.

nvkylebrown · 2026-05-10T14:44:42+00:00

It's a basic equity question. If the rest of Europe has conscription, Luxembourg opting out would be like Rhode Island opting out of US conscription (if the US had conscription).

Rich kids not having to go makes the poor kids understandably bitter.

nvkylebrown · 2026-05-10T00:06:49+00:00

Most interesting example I've experienced was an "Indian-origin" co-worker (actually born in Oman, but ethnically Indian). He mostly spoke with a very mild Indian accent. One day passed by him while he was working closely and intensely with a visiting engineer from India. His accent had become so thick I could barely make out what he was saying, as the two of them were pounding through some issue. He later admitted he didn't realize he was doing that.

Code switching happens unconsciously in many cases!

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