Kornblumenratte @ Kornblumenratte @feddit.de

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Not exactly a story. I just watched Babylon 5, and it's fascinating how the good guys are the bad guys are the good guys are the bad guys...

Oh no, 230 years. 1866 was just the first time the Senate was involved, as far as I know.

1866

IIRC the main mechanism of the mini pill is that they prevent nidation. That's why they are (were?) banned by the catholic church.

Just looked it up – there are three mechanisms. Yours, mine and an induced tibary dysfunction. TIL, thank you.

I don't know about the US, but in Germany, by using a vending machine, you are implicitely and automatically consenting with the ToS of the vendor by your action.

In the article is a sound explanation: the machine is activated by detecting a human face looking at the display.

If this face recognition software only decides "face" or "not face" and does not store any data, I'm pretty sure this setup will be compatible with any data protection law.

OTOH they claim that these machines provide statistics about age and gender of customers. So they are obviously recognising more than just "face yes". Still – if the data stored is just a statistics on age and gender and no personalised data, I'm pretty sure it still complies even with 1920s data protection habits.

I'm pretty sure that this would be GDPR conform, too, as long as the customer is informed, e.g. by including this info in the terms of service.

It's worse: if they ban the destruction of human morulae, they have to ban the use of the pill as well, at least the mini variant.

No, but yes.

In the book, he is Gentry.

In real life the Bourgeoisie took the role the Gentry/lower nobility had pre industrialisation.

While Frodo is not bourgeoise, the message is about the bourgoisie.

That is an important message of Tolkien, too! But the intrusion into Mordor highlights that the Sams of this world (the working class people) are the real heros whose contribution is crucial. In the end the war is not won by the wizards or the warriors, but by Sam's ability to carry on under all circumstances and to draw Frodo with him.

/dev/fb0 is the framebuffer. So yes, you can feed data into the filesystem and you'll see it on your display.

For Unixoids, being a file does not mean that this data is stored on a hard disk, but that all data, processes and hardware are accessible with the same toolkit. /dev/fb0, for instance, is part of the file-like interface of your graphics card.

So you missed the main message of Tolkien.

One of two big cutting boards that are the same size. The second largest would be "das zweitgrößte".

In an everyday colloquial way.

The directional particel "hin" is a commonly used word in German without an exact equivalent in English. "thither" is the best approximation I could find, though it's usage is completely different, of course.

The spelling "tho" was commonly used back at least in North American informal writing in the 1980s already, and was proposed as a shorthand brief already by Thomas Shelton in his 1626 Tachygraphy. Predating cell phones a bit.

linguistic convention, innit?

I hope you are right.

Depends on where you are in the world.

Did they screw it up? Hypoxia causes convulsions, that's a well known fact, so I don't get all the fuss about witnessing normal body functions in a dying body. Especially as people convulsing are unconscious.

The real torture here – and with all death sentences – is the years and decades long psychological torture while on death row. And rspecially in this case of course the first, botched execution attemped. Ramming needles for four hours into someone!

The only problem is that that's just the theory. There are lot of steps that can and will go wrong in practice and turn this method into torture. What is the rate of botched executions by injection? I don't know, but well above 0 %.

No volunteer army will ever be able to fight a war with Moscow. We don't need conscription now, but we need to be aware that we might need in 5-15 years time and be prepared.