This is a very lengthy examination of the primaries. It doesn’t really conclude anything except that the process in 2016 wasn’t as transparent as it usually was and it might be reasonable to think it might have been rigged.

https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=jlpp

Australia is the most expensive place in the world for cigarettes so… The latter. But they won’t ban it because it makes the govt. so much money.

I can’t believe I actually read the full transcript, but the interactions between Hunter and Matt Gaetz are hilarious

21 Mr. Lowell. Will the record show that we’re all laughing?

22 The Witness. I mean, are you kidding me? No. I don’t – again –

23 Mr. Gaetz. So do you –

24 The Witness. I’m sorry, Mr. Gaetz, I’ll take you seriously. And it’s hard to do –

Problem is I imagine a lot of their hardware is under NDA so they’re unable to. I appreciate what they’re trying to do but a lot of hardware companies sadly won’t allow them to publish a lot of things. I do wish there was more open-source hardware (and I say that as a huge open-source advocate)

This is my thing. I have about 122TB of spinning metal (with the same as an offsite backup) with SSDs as ZIL and L2ARC. And it’s awesome. HDDs I think will genuinely be important for for the foreseeable future.

Yeah it’s true in Australia as well

I honestly think it’s the best OS they released. Shame so many games would throw a shitfit at the time because it reported it was Windows NT (rightfully so).

But I was told it was all Antifa and not Trump loyalists and no matter all the evidence to say otherwise I won’t change my mind because (deep state|tribalism|lack of critical thinking)!

I’ve spent a lot of time in the US. I’m 6’5", shaved head, big beard, tattooed… The number of neo-nazis who thought I was ‘one of them’ was horrible.

I’m SUPER left (in Australia I’m closest to The Greens). But skin heads thought I was a white supremacist nazi because I looked like them… I had to (politely) tell them to fuck right off.

Edit: One night in a bar in Fargo, ND (of all places) after some skin heads tried to complain to me about ‘the black man’ and I moved them along, a bunch of black guys came over to me and I won’t lie I was worried they thought I was a skin head. The conversation was “You’re one big motherfucker. How’re you doing?” and realised I was an Aussie and we just got hammered. It was fucking awesome.

Yeah I remember IE5 and NS4, as well as the Firebird/Phoenix/Firefox naming joys back in the day.

If you want to blow your brains out, try getting XHTML 1.1 working in IE6. It is indeed possible if you modify the XHTML DTD. Interestingly it’d render shit so much better since it’d use MSXML instead of Trident as the rendering engine. Sadly it would add about 400k to the page since it needed to load a custom DTD…