I disagree. Anyone should be allowed to vote. But I’d happily support mandatory civics classes to be able to do so, where you actually have to pass to get your voter registration number.

You could also use the 3 segment method to do matrix math in binary :D

I taught my kids to count in binary on their fingers before I taught them base 10.

Having that skill also makes base conversion relatively simple because base 10 is intrinsically understood to be a way of expressing quantity instead of the literal truth about that quantity.

It’s not just useful for lawsuits (creating them and defending against them) — it also helps you identify early if a new job is going down the same path.

You’re still doing a lot of glossing.

My parents listened to Roy Orbison, Chubby Checker, Buddy Holly, and some of the very early Elvis. Would they consider Elvis “oldies?” Probably not — he was pop music to them. Roy Orbison? Yeah; he’d be oldies.

To me, Madonna and Prince are oldies.

Think of them not as means of differentiating musical style for you, but as historical ways of explaining how a band or musical movement differed from the norm.

Take a band like The Beach Boys. In the 70s, what they were doing was alternative rock — that is, they took the dance/music genre of classic rock and roll, and re-imagined how it would sound on a sandy beach at a surf party instead of in a dance hall.

Enter the 80s, and their music became part of the cultural norm, so they were popular/“pop” music.

And yet, as a band, they kept adding new techniques and writing new music right into the 2000s, often drifting back out of popular culture while doing so.

The point of this is, see what the subgenre tells you about the musicians; it isn’t really a useful way to clearly divide musical works themselves into subcategories.

The only reason XP was decent was that it stuck around for so long so people got used to it, just like OS X 10.4 for Macs. XP SP2 fixed a lot of stuff, as did the yearly patches after that, but it was still a usability and security nightmare that tried to hide what it was doing from the user.

Personally, I feel like NT4 was pretty good, but didn’t have driver support. Windows 2000 onwards was intentionally breaking stuff to make NT more like Windows 95. And just this month, some buggy driver code ported from Windows 98 to Win2K was FINALLY removed from Windows 11.

The challenge is that the DoJ is obstructing state justice and withholding evidence.

They wouldn’t run away; they’d shoot to kill. And then they’d start firing on anyone with a water bottle because that’s a potential weapon.

6 years old and it’s still a pretty powerful computer.

If they didn’t, they should have.

Defendant crashed its website, slowed it, and damaged the servers, and Defendant admitted to the same by way of default,” the ruling said.

OK, so if I set up a lawsuit against OCLC in my country where they don’t reside, and they fail to show up to contest the charges, I get to claim they admitted guilt by default?

Also, since the claim is they used bots that behaved like legitimate search engine bots, are they also suing Google?

I can see why they might not want AA putting undue stress on their servers, but that doesn’t seem to be what they’re suing over.

If you think you’re limited in your options to represent you in government, then it’s not the land of the free.

It may seem like there’s only two viable options, and those two options will do all in their power to convince people of that, but anyone can be elected if they gain enough support. There are independents after all, and primaries still count for something too, if enough people show up to vote.

So if congress does not support his plans, is he imposing tariffs on the US?

MS cares about one thing there: download numbers. Because when people using Edge go to the extension store, Microslop will be featured as a popular extension, which will lead to people learning about why that’s so.

That wouldn’t work, as Trump probably already wants to deport them as traitors.

I don’t think bribes actually factor in here; nobody but them wants the coal to continue. There’s already more profitable replacements for those who would bribe them.

I think it’s more a reactionary thing — progressives want to eliminate coal, and so that must be prevented at all costs. Which ties into the historical culture thing.

I thought it was determined by whether or not it worked?

If you’re on Mint 23, just open up the file browser and double click the file, entering your password when prompted.

If you’ve got isos set to open as archives instead of auto mount, right click and select mount image from the menu.

“Here’s the medal you were asking about!”

“Ooh, pretty. May I look?”

<grabs it from her hands>

“Very nice. All the best people should have one of these.”

“So… may I have my medal back now please?”

“Your medal? This is my medal! I took it fair and square!”