He's got parallel New York state and federal charges going at the same time. Under double jeopardy rules, those are two separate cases, and if he wins one, he can still lose the other.
On the state case, at least, both 1st and second degree are charged. The jury doesn't decide on 2nd degree unless and until they decide not guilty on 1st degree. The process is:
Decide 1st degree charge.
if not guilty on 1st, consider and decide on 2nd degree.
is not guilty on 2nd degree, consider manslaughter or anything else on the charge sheet...
etc.
All of that happens after one trial, and it's all in one deliberation session. If the jury gets through all of that with a not guilty on everything, then the state can't try again, and they can't appeal.
Lai micromanaged her time and only allowed her to sleep for a few minutes over the course of four days leading up to the event. Further abuse included imposing daily Christian worship, forcing Sydney to write lines like a schoolchild, daily check-ins over WhatsApp of her outfits as part of "quality control", and humiliating her in front of colleagues.
Okay. This shit has nothing to do with productivity. That is not putting anyone "in the zone.". This is not "crunch" culture. This is just straight-up chauvinistic misogynist bullshit.
According to Piketty, anyway, general inflation did not actually start until the industrial revolution. The price level was otherwise stable throughout history up to that point. It's not just an incontrovertible fact of life, although it seems that way now.
The ghost movement is not random. They go in memorizable patterns. So it is possible to simply rote memorize the solution to all 256 levels or something.
The problem is that it is still relatively rare for someone to have the patience and attention to detail to be able to tell the computer exactly what they want from it. The fraction of people that have that kind of natural ability hasn't changed that much, and it's not really something you can train.
So while the schools are pumping out more grads, the average quality of those entry level junior engineers is going down, down, down.
This heartens me that there will still be a place those who can produce quality software. But the current situation is not going to do any favours for average software quality any time soon.
Edit: I want to clarify something. I think anyone can be trained to write computer programs. The natural ability I'm talking about is actually the ability to tolerate programming day in and day out, as an occupation.
I agree. If the republican party controls the white house and both chambers of Congress, they don't need to negotiate with democrats to pass a budget. So there's absolutely no reason to have a government shutdown. Unless you like stiffing government employees, I guess.
He personally doesn't need to know what's in the payloads, for the company to deliver on the rocket contracts.
The mechanical and electrical interfaces between the rocket and the payload are pretty standardized, and the payload can complete most of its testing in a separate facility from the launch vehicle.
I would guess the main concerns about classified data are people getting peeks when the spacecraft is being installed, launch technicians that need to get inside the fairing during checkout, loading last minute software and encryption keys, and secure function checkout for the spacecraft on the pad.
In the United States, at least, it's not illegal* for regular citizens to publish leaked documents of whatever status. It is illegal for security clearance holders to access information they're not cleared for, regardless of where that info is. If an Internet forum allows classified leaks, that would make it difficult for security clearance holders to safely browse that forum.
There are statutes on the books that would punish this type of behavior, but they are usually considered to be unenforceable because of the first amendment to the Constitution. Julian Assange was a notable example of a non security clearance holder non-US citizen who was prosecuted under the Espionage Act. (Or at least an attempted prosecution that never quite cleared extradition...)
The state capital on the cover was not in area code 318 or the listed coverage area of this directory.