Not a replicant

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel…

We’ll see. I’ve set the Group policy to limit feature updates to Win 10 22H2. I will be unhappy if they over-ride or reset a GPO.

I find interesting that there’s a lot of “might”, “maybe” and “possible” when talking about rehabilitation, but not as much attention is paid to the “absolute” of another person’s death. Possibilities and potentials won’t bring that victim back to life.

Takes care of recidivism, though. But I wouldn’t advocate it for that reason.

Someone who will commit murder at the age of 15 is very badly damaged, and will need a great deal of help to not be a danger to others in the future. That’s the compassionate route.

Almost zero governments will want to spend the money. Sadly, it’s cheaper to keep them locked up.

Nor is it helpful to cast Godwin so early…

Get Crazy (1983). Just a fun piece of silliness with a cameo from Lou Reed.

And Electric Larry

But you can feed a scrambled egg back to a chicken.

Last time I bought a Win 10 Pro DVD to install on a customer’s machine, it was AUD$195.00. And I still had to use powershell to de-provision some of the bullshit. Better than the Home version (AUD$165.00), at least I can use GPEDIT to disable some “features”.

Of course, a Windows licence on a pre-built Dell or HP would be a lot less.

“If you think this is expensive now, wait for 20 years” “Not a problem, I’ll be retired by then, it’ll be someone else’s problem”

Not really - the current British royal house is german-descended. There are noble families in the UK with longer english/british pedigrees than the ~~Saxe-Coburg Gotha ~~ Windsor/Mountbatten family. But the current situation suits them better than rocking the boat.

What do you mean by “The British should be held accountable”?

Who, exactly? And how, exactly?

The monarch, the government, the entire population?

Reparations? If you sell everything - crown estates, crown jewels, all the art, everything - are you going to deliver $7.28 to every single person in a former colony?

How about we look forwards, instead? There’s little to be gained in trying to make current-day nations pay reparations for things that their ancestors did.

I’ve got an Asus eeePC running WinXP. It’s air-gapped and the wi-fi is disabled in BIOS. All it does is play music, connected to dumb speakers. I update the music periodically via USB. Remarkably reliable and long-lived hardware.

I posted this upthread, but: rumour has it that they staged from Tindal in Australia. Chances are they returned to Tindal before heading home.

Rumour has it that they staged from Tindal in Australia - so, not quite a world trip.

Big trip to get there, but not quite as big to attack Yemen from there.

A poster in another forum pointed out that they staged from Tindal in Australia, and that was also a message to China, which can’t reach Tindal with their missiles.

In Australia we have pre-poll voting (early voting), mail-in ballots, and every election day is a Saturday - with democracy sausages.

Happened in 2022 to a 2017 MBP belonging to someone I knew. She went out and bought a new one, and put the old one in a drawer. She brought it to me in 2023, I investigated and found the shitshow - Apple saying “nuh-uh”, the ACCC (Australian consumer advocate) saying “you’d better”, then Apple quoting me $1100 because the ACCC never enforced it, and me getting it fixed locally for $550. It needed a new screen, not because the screen itself was faulty, but because the failing flex cable was integrated with the screen. Screw Apple.

Yes, I think it’s the house brand of one of the two big chains, Coles and Woolworths

Pretty much anything in the “Known Space” series by Larry Niven (et al - there are works by some other authors in that space).

Syncthing