It also bars ICE agents from entering city-controlled properties such as schools, hospitals, shelters and parking facilities without a judicial warrant.

Yeah good luck with that. Federal Supremacy is still a thing, just like it was when the Obama Administration was fighting Arizona’s state level immigration enforcement.

It’s well established that Federal Law Enforcement can enter nearly any space or building that is open to the public. They can potentially be barred from entering private spaces, such as offices, inside a building unless they have a judicial warrant but that’s about it. Basically if you or I can walk in there then Federal LE can too and no Executive Order is going to change that.

…but truth be told I think that is just propaganda boasting.

Perhaps but we do have more guns than people and a higher firearm death rate than anywhere outside of an active war zone.

It’s just the Cartels would bring about real terror with a message loud and clear “this happened because your government thought it be smart to attack us.”

Yes and I think they’d get a gun barrel shoved up their ass to deliver the message loud and clear “this happened because you came here to start shit.”

But the terror would go cross boarder.

Where the cartels would face Law Enforcement AND a population capable who are both capable of eliminating them. I’m not arguing for it to happen nor saying it wouldn’t be awful for Cartel terror to start happening in the United States however in the U.S. both our Law Enforcement and our population are capable of extreme violence.

I seriously can’t imagine the things I’ve seen playing out in Mexico over the last 48 hours happening here, at least not outside some of our very large cities and even then only for very short amounts of time.

As an example a cartel group trying to block roadways with burning vehicles is likely to get shot to literal pieces once people figure out what is going on.

A cartel pushing an overwhelming attack on Law Enforcement would result in a public call for help and hundreds to thousands of people with essentially unlimited arms and ammo would be there in minutes.

Shootout / killing in the streets? Sure those might work for a few hours, maybe a day, but after that 1/2 half of the country would be walking around visibly armed and ready to throw down.

My point here is that fights inside the United States would not end like they do inside of Mexico and that’s WITHOUT the US Military being involved. The United States is a violent country, always has been, and groups REALLY fuck themselves when they do something to get all that violence redirected at them.

This is an enormous “No Duh” to anyone who has been paying attention. Cooperation between Mexican Authorities and US NORTHCOM has been public knowledge for months now as is what they are doing and how they are doing it.

It’s also happening in areas where education HASN’T been defended or dismantled. It’s happening in areas that aren’t Republican controlled too.

Fuck MAGA with a moldy pine tree but blaming this problem solely on them means it can’t be solved because whatever is happening isn’t being caused by them.

Used to be a video on YouTube showing the whole process.

Article about the UK, comments immediately start talking about the United States.

Stop it.

I actually don’t believe that any of the accused in this care were intentionally cheating. Honestly it seems damn difficult to make any kind of consistently predictable trajectory change with the touches we’ve seen on video.

Your math and mine both show that a touch can impact the rock but I have to imagine that curling is like golf where you train and hone your swing (release) trying to make it as consistent and repeatable as possible. With that in mind you wouldn’t WANT a touch that mucks with the trajectory of the rock because you couldn’t ever do it precisely and repeatably enough to make it worthwhile.

In my opinion this controversy is happening because some curlers have an ingrained release routine that includes an unnecessary movement / flourish and competitors have decided to make issue of it because it’s getting close to giving a competitive advantage. That’s my two cents for what it’s worth.

Nope, that’s a user created account and a user created note. 😊

SMR are for site or temporary power, not grid scale. On paper they’re a good fit for data centers and other localized power needs.

What can fingers brushing against a 40-pound piece of granite do in any event?

This is a fun little physics problem.

The CoF of a curling stone on ice appears to be between .006 and .016 depending on fast its sliding.

So with a CoF of .006 that 40lb chunk of granite has an effective weight of just four ounces relative to that same chunk of granite at a CoF of 1. With a CoF of .016 it’s relative weight is 9 ounces.

So if the finger brush is in either the X or Y axis then basically anything more than what it takes to press a key on your keyboard will have an effect.

Trying to stop the stone from rotating is a whole different matter because then you’re working against it’s stored inertia and that will be much much higher. No way to calculate that though unless you know it’s rate of spin.

What context are you asking for? Seems like Draconic has explained why that account exists and even put in a note explaining.

They are…but the Secret Service isn’t.

F2B for ddos protection?! You have absolutely no idea what you’re doing. At all.

Yachts and mansions are depreciating assets. You aren’t borrowing against those and then passing them along as an inheritance.

Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They are twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.

+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.

As near as I can tell the HP PSC 1315 was released in 2004, over two decades ago. I can see how it’s aggravating for you but there can’t a double handful of those clunkers still working anywhere in the world. There’s no way it could be worth it to HP to rewrite drivers for the 10 or so people still using them.

Switch to Linux. :)

the US doesn’t have the amount of engineers it needs to move production to the US

Tim Cook can eat a bag of rancid donkey dicks. The reason we ‘don’t have enough engineers’, a point which I would emphatically argue, is because CEOs like Tim and companies like Apple vehemently refused to invest in domestic capabilities as they rushed to save money via Chinese outsourcing.

If we want “Tooling” Engineers, or any other specialty such as “Process Control”, the answer is as always to pay them what they are worth and that’s the rub; Timmie and his buddies don’t want to pay the high salaries for these skills.

…it’s simply impossible.

It’s no more impossible than having enough world class software engineers. The United States in general, and Silicon Valley in particular, used to be the world leader in developing and attracting Engineering talent and the only reason we aren’t anymore is because companies don’t want to pay for it.

Perhaps but the next Windows 11 update is NOT going to “break your printer”. If you already have a printer setup it will keep working even if its driver is an old V3 / V4.

Most of the old drivers are not distributed by vendors since we are talking about the era when CDs were included in the box.

I dunno about that. I just looked up an HP LaserJet P1015. It was a very inexpensive laser printer released back in 2003, over two decades ago, and it has drivers available for download from HP both Windows and Linux. The P2035 was released in '08 and it has available drivers to download.

Granted that is only two printer models from a singly company but I think you may be overstating the impact of this.

A lot of older printers may also support “Universal” PCL 5 or 6 Drivers from HP / Cannon / Epson etc.