don’t blame capitalism. People are that shortsighted about everything. In your own niche you are not but I don’t have to know anything about you to state with 100% confidence that you have already been shortsited about something in your life.

On the other hand you can’t do everything correctly - you don’t have enough time. You have to make hard choices about where you place the redundancey. Aften people focus an the last crisis and so they over invest in fire protection in the next house after a house burns - but the odds of a house fire are still low and they are likely putting less into the real next problem - whatever it will be.

There is a station I used to listen to 8 years ago when I saw heavy traffic (to decide if I need an alternate route) - this is in a tiny city which rarely has traffic issues. everyonce in a while I hear it in a store a something and I still know the song that will be next.

Rotating passwords are less secure pecause people chorse a short password and then append an incrimenting number. Thus if it leaks for any reason the attacker knows them all.

If you only force rotation after a known breach (that you admit to) people choose a new - good - pasword. Make sure the source of the breach is fixed though or people will give up when it happens too often

i set things up so I’m close to net zero, owe the state a tiny amount, tiny refund from the feis. There is no hurry, but I want them done late March just in case there is something weird I need to figure out (which has happened a couple times over the decades I’ve been eoing them.)

In the 1970s some car makers advertised that there would be no damage to the bumper/car at all at 5mph.

At what speed? At 5mph - walking speeds - I’ll take the 1970s car with the 5mph bumper any day. However at more realistic speeds the 1970s car will still need expensive repairs - it will be a lot cheaper repairs than a modern car, but it still will need significant work. Meanwhile the modern car means I’m much less likely to need major repairs which often cannot be done at any price.

I don’t have a choice. Either you defend Iran for funding everyone who wants to kill the Jews, or you defend the US and Israel for attacking Iran. There is no middle ground, either way you are defending genocidal maniacs. I hate both options.

it uses the Hebrew calendar which is completely different from modern systems. It is always exactly the same day every year. That Catholics and orthodox sometimes use different days is historically correct usage of the Hebrew calendar. First full moon after the spring equinox is an easy simplification (and likely what the ancients were trying for desbite not having modern astronomy) - but it isn’t correct.

There are lots of options - if you have a few million dollars to pay the lawyers. If you win you get that back. Sometimes lawyers will accept cases on pay only if you win - but generally only if they are sure of winning which this doesn’t seem to me. Still check with a lawyer if you want to consider it.

Or you can make war and kill innocents. Or you can turn your back and watch them kill innocents.

there are other variations, but I have yet to see an option that isn’t awful.

I do not know how hard it is to get access to this. That is a good question to ask - but also read the fine print if you get access as it may not be any better than the legal process for you.

Legislation that requires giant trillion dollar companies actually employ living breathing humans who can perform a task rather than automate it despite that not working and then just not caring.

They do. If you or I submit a claim it will go through the process. They have an automated process for the “big boys” that is not the legal copyright process, but it is faster and cheaper for both - it looks like the process, but it isn’t.

On what grounds? Google’s terms of service say they can take down anything they want for any reason. If someone starts a copyright case you can go go court, but all this is carefully/legally designed such that there is no downsides to “mistakes”

Copyright claims are under penalty of perjury - you can go to prison for making them in bad faith.

What Patamount/CBS/etc are doing is not a copyright claim, it is a backdoor google has given them - but not you - that lets them bypass the legal process and get things taken down - but if they are wrong there is no legal issue for them. From the outside it looks exactly like a copyright claim, and in spirit it is - by legally it is not a copyright claim in important ways.

No he isn’t. He is putting a few brakes on in places but there are too many ecconomic tail winds and so green energy is being added despite his efforts. There are only a few places his position even has power, most green energy is a state permit only.

saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)

Maybe. The average driver is spending just under $200 per month now on gas (14000 miles per year at 20mpg, gas $3/gallon - you can adjust numbers as you want, these are reasonable but some cars better fuel ecconomy) if you drive more than average it is possible to make payments on fuel savings in some cases.

or in my case the old car was going to be replaced anyway. Paymets were a given, so saving over $100 a month in fuel was a nice bonus. There are a lot of people who are buying something different anyway who care about their budget.

Reserection is tied to passover, which in turn is tied to the spring equinox. Bunnies and many of the other things done then have pagan roots, but the date has a real meaning anyway.

Which sects? Some of them are very combined. Some of them are not. The puritans refused to celebrate Christmas because of the paganism influences.

Iran’s government has done plenty to deserve those sanctions. War is wrong no matter which side does it, and Iran is very guilty.