My dude, velocity is a vector, if you accelerate a body in a perpendicular direction to its velocity, its velocity will change direction, but not magnitude.
Grab a yoyo, start spinning it around. You are constantly accelerating it towards your hand. If you stopped and let it loose, it would move in a straight line and break the window and mom would be sad.
No acceleration means constant speed in a straight line. If it does not go with constant speed in a straight line, it's being accelerated.
I would present a counterargument to that, as all states in the world ultimately have this power, only the circumstances differ. I mean, grab a gun and try to shoot at armed police anywhere in the world. You will be killed, and nobody can sue the state or the police who shot you for unjustly executing you. Killing you is always fair to protect other people from being killed.
From there, we are arguing whether states should be able to kill in cold blood, which is a different conversation, and my opinion is that we should keep making penalties for "financial crimes", which usually kill more people than any mass shooter or serial killer could, harsher and harsher until there is a clearly visible deterrent effect.
The case of the lady in Vietnam is not even a direct "cold blood" case by the way, as the state agreed to spare her if she puts at least most of the money back, which means that lives lost because of the absence of that money might be spared. In my view, this is analogous to shooting at an active shooter, and an okay thing to do. Lives are being saved by doing this.
That is a very good argument, however these financial crimes are on the one hand much more trackable than direct violent crime and can affect more people.
My opinion is that we shouldn't execute serial killers who kill dozens of people, because usually it's hard to prove beyond doubt to the point such an irrevocable act can be taken and the process takes very long and is very expensive and is not that useful as a deterrent since these people are usually mentally ill in the first place.
But with the Boeing CEO whose actions caused several plane crashes, it's pretty easy to prove since instructions had to come from somewhere and the buck stops at the top, it has deterrent value, just look at UnitedHealth, and the crime is much more severe than that of a serial killer, as most serial killers don't kill multiple hundreds of people.
I think it's less of "Putin wanted peace", but that "Putin is amenable to peace if he gets everything he wants", which might have even been true before the Russian economy got so wrecked that stopping the war would crash it.
Yeah, but the Taliban couldn't have existed without the funding of the US against the USSR, so I hope the US invades the US next. That said, from what the news looks like, that's already happening.
I knew that after all, Eurovision is going to be the last straw /s
Seriously though, I can totally see the EU only being on board with unlimited support to Israel because they wanted to present a united front with the US, to give the US less excuse to leave the EU and Ukraine to its fate.
After Signalgate though, it showed how contemptous that relationship was, and how the US leadership views defending trade routes critical to the EU against the Houthis as a European task, despite the fact the danger to them came entirely as a result of the US-Israel alliance of the EU. I was totally thinking back then that this was not going to stand if these really are the cards, and there is no point for the EU to antagonise the Houthis just to please Trump for nothing in return.
The reason why Merz is saying something now is because Germany is getting more and more isolated.
Yeah, I also don't believe anything a German politican says, but this is welcome news then, right? Opinion on the genocide seems to be turning in the EU?
Honest question, I can't see the wider opinions from my info bubble.
He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever
That White House Starlink connection must have a huge ping, like at least 3, but more like 11 years.
The big thing though about Proton is that it's not an additional translation/emulation layer. It doesn't translate into Spanish for Linux, as that would be slow, it makes Linux talk English.
So in your example, imagine you, the English speaking program, want to catch a taxi in Madrid/Linux but all taxi drivers speak only Spanish. An emulation layer would be "translating", so you would have an additional guy in the taxi that you could talk to that talks to the Spanish driver. Proton is not that, it's an English-speaking taxi driver.
Honest question, why do people pay 50-70k a year for school? If it was higher education, I presume that's worth it for the connections you get there, maybe, but this is high school. Isn't it possible to get into the best unis from a good state school?
My dude, velocity is a vector, if you accelerate a body in a perpendicular direction to its velocity, its velocity will change direction, but not magnitude.
Grab a yoyo, start spinning it around. You are constantly accelerating it towards your hand. If you stopped and let it loose, it would move in a straight line and break the window and mom would be sad.
No acceleration means constant speed in a straight line. If it does not go with constant speed in a straight line, it's being accelerated.