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It would be kind of ridiculous for them to publicly announce that. You can call Iran a rogue state because what are they going to do about it?

Publicly calling out the US is a bit more dangerous.

It’s always funny when the BBC report things about themselves. They always talk about themselves as if they’re a third party.

“The BBC understands that the BBC is been sued”

Despite this glowing endorsement the BBC can be kind of shit at times, especially with political stuff. But the reporting on US stuff is normally ok because they don’t have any dog in that race.

That’s mighty considerate of them, I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the current president of the United States is undoubtedly all over the files.

I suspect that’s what the gun charges are for. Proper gun etiquette is not to keep the damn thing loaded.

Sure but neglected child is always going to turn out worse than one that was properly loved and taken care of. You can’t just go oh well child psychology is complicated, so let’s just ignore the parents responsibilities.

Depends on the school. Some teachers shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near children

What happened was they did the standard thing of being really far behind in terms of software and were not able to compete. Apple is not a software company it’s a hardware company with delusions of grandeur. If a software feature is good enough they’ll eventually steal it and claim that it’s some major innovation on their part but they will never get away from the fact that they brought the atrocity that is iTunes into the world.

He wasn’t in the Rockies. It was France in October. The issue would have been to stay warm so I don’t imagine dehydration was seriously an issue obviously it would have become eventually but not after 3 days.

No you have to use something that doesn’t really help anyone understand size because nobody really really knows how big it is. I saw a news article that described a boulder that had fallen from the side of a cliff onto the road as, “a large boulder, the size of three small boulders”.

That’s almost the size of 95 corgis.

Or you introduce unnecessary macabre

It’s the size of two and three quarter elephants

He has to be the most French person ever.

Everything about this story is totally believable, the fact that a French person would have wine in a shopping bag and that they would choose to transport it via bicycle along a dusty road by a cliff. The French just do not seem to believe in putting up barriers near the edges of large cliffs, you just have to path and then 1 mm of grass and then a drop to the bottom of the world.

And thanks to the fact that they’ve now brought cryptocurrency into economic calculations, any financial crash will take down cryptocurrencies too. So the one thing that they kind of do actually have a use for, protecting financial assets from economic collapse, will be destroyed as well. Fantastic.

Everyone should probably just start investing in gold or something.

Got it, don’t invest with JP Morgan.

Why are they doing this this is a seriously stupid idea. “Will need some collateral for this mortgage, but don’t worry we’re perfectly prepared to take this completely unregulated highly fluctuating pseudo currency”. There’s a reason steam stopped accepting cryptocurrency and it’s because it’s unworkable.

Allergens aren’t dangerous to your health they’re just dangerous to some people’s health. Personally I can stuff my face with peanuts and nothing happens, there should be people that we kill.

If somebody ordered an omelet and it turned out to have peanut in it for some reason and they subsequently died that would be a pretty hefty lawsuit, so I’m honestly surprised this isn’t already a requirement.

Wait they currently don’t?

The United States is a seriously weird country. You can get arrested for crossing an empty street but restaurants don’t have to tell you what’s in your own food. Seriously.

Yes but there’s no way to do sci-fi Hollywood stuff like taking over the car and driving it off at cliff. You’ve been able to open car doors by emulating the remote control for years but there’s nothing you can do that would compromise the operation of the vehicle in transit.

Hang on I don’t understand what the tax has to do with anything but whatever.

Electric vehicles aren’t unsafe it’s just Tesla’s stop equating the two things

It’s called a fail safe the clue is in the name. The failure mode of a mechanism is it’s safe mode.

In cars with mechanical locks they require power to be in the locked position in the unlocked position a solenoid loses power and a mechanical spring pulls it into the unlocked position. So when it fails and loses power the default is to unlock. Sure the mechanism could become damaged and bent out of shape but we’re talking about a sliding bolt here, something that can be manipulated with a mechanical lever like a key.

There are some real dumps in the world. The house can be fine but if the neighbourhood is bad it’s going to affect the price no matter what else is going on.

You can hack cars and it has happened in the past but usually it requires physical access to the car. Even today they don’t really have network access which would open the entire car OS up to the internet (For what should be fairly obvious reasons). So you can’t just install a virus.

Of course if you do have physical access to the car you could just do something much less sophisticated like planting a bomb, it seems unnecessarily complicated to develop a system that would wait until the car is in a vulnerable position and then take control and crash it.