To add to this, it wasn’t just about looking good but the fact that, in later centuries, dueling scars most often came from academic fencing. So a dueling scar meant you went to university, and therefore a higher rung of society.

It’s only the specific blu-ray format that came out in 2006 (first working 2005). Optical discs themselves could be said to have been used since the late 19th century.

• as old as time_fast32_t

Me and my mother were looking into this because of a random discussion about dating systems and her time in the Navy; an interesting thing about the Julian calendar is that one of its date forms (ordinal) is still in somewhat-common use by the US military; just with the Gregorian leap days added in. So today’s date could be rendered as 25359 (2025 day #359).

The Vatican helps fund many churches that still provide sanctuary for the poor and those on pilgrimage. As far as I know, most if not all will provide even for those not of their faith.

There are many things about the church and its past that are fucked up, but they at least presently do some good.

Am an admin, funny thing about conditional access, we use various conditions but one is geolocation; we bar all logins outside of three countries relevant to our workers. We employed it mostly due to a continuous low-threat brute force campaign targeting a few exposed accounts that my data analysis had identified. In testing it out from Red Team’s perspective I quickly realized that conditional access will indeed prevent a login outside of the whitelisted countries, but it will gladly let the attacker know that the reason the login failed was due to conditional access and not an incorrect username/password. So all Red Team has to do is brute force the password and then VPN over to our country of operation and they’re in.

Settlements can go undisclosed by agreement of the parties involved. Civil court is different from criminal; the former is for the benefit of interested parties, the latter is for the benefit of the public at large. Criminal courts can do some things behind closed doors as well but that usually requires a need of the state (such as protection of a judge, jury, state, etc.)

This is assuming a legal system similar to that in OPs post.

Well it is a cross walk, not a cross fly.

The only problem is that any answer can be followed up with “But why does x do/cause that?”, and any answer to that can in turn be followed by the same question.

People accept, the classical explanation, that mass attracts mass so gravity “makes sense”, but when it comes to magnets the explanation isn’t so natural-feeling so most want, or at least feel that there is, more of an explanation.

And when the only further explanation left is that it works that way because it does, people feel like the phenomena has gone unanswered.

4Chan doesn’t have their own personal payment processor that they’re responsible for. They’re tied into processors like stripe and accept all payments that make it to them on the US side. So long as it is legal, which is typically the only way that a payment actually goes through as processors refuse the obviously illegal cases like encompassing embargoes. If the UK doesn’t want payments going to 4chan through a processor that operates in their country, it’s on them to stop the payment processor on their end.

The UK knows this, the fines are just one step towards them petitioning processors.

China is now considered America’s pacing threat, having replaced Russia due to what has been revealed, in Ukraine, of their ability to conduct war.

Learn to read.

Not who you replied to, but: there is no legal, ethical, or moral, requirement for a business of one country to comply with the laws of another. If there was, all business would be beholden to the most overbearing government on any one subject. And just to specifically state it before it’s brought up, being tied into the international banking system doesn’t change that; if a state doesn’t want its citizenry doing business with a particular entity, it’s on them to stop it on their side or come to an agreement with the other’s government. Which does happen, especially with the conglomerate hegemony of components of the international banking system, but naturally that means that the only time any entity of a state is forced to comply with the laws of another is when their home-state demands it, which ultimately isn’t the laws of the other.

It’s more like most countries. Maps like the one shown in this post that place Asia as a central focus are common in Asia.

Maybe it’s not national narcissism, rather just focusing on what’s most relevant to any one people.

Or just set a reminder.

I used to just set alarms but then there’d be a 50% chance I wouldn’t remember what it was set for.

I guess you missed the part where he quoted the exact part of your comment that he was replying to. Or do you just want to ignore that part so you don’t have to defend it?

Wikipedia is the most accurate encyclopedia to date; its perceived unreliability as to its correctness is largely a misunderstanding that arose from misconceptions as to why one can’t (or shouldn’t, depending on case) cite it in academia. People think that it can’t be cited because of its unreliability but in reality it’s simply because it’s a third hand source; i.e. a resource.

Wikipedia is built near-purely on second hand sources, which is how all encyclopedias are intended to be constructed. As long as one ensures the validity of the second hand source used, encyclopedias are great resources.

Read mastercard’s actual rule that is literally in the OP. The processor’s interpretation isn’t flawed and in no way does Mastercard limit their rule to what is illegal.

The rule is so open ended and vague that it’s entirely on Mastercard (and Visa) that this shit happened.

In fact, in many places ordinary citizens can’t file criminal charges even if they wanted to; it’s often reserved for state (polity or part of) prosecutors. But pressing charges is different, it’s just an agreement to cooperate with the investigation.

Small pedantic correction, but you can’t preface every command with sudo; only executables can be invoked with sudo as it can’t elevate your current shell. Naturally, the way to execute non-executables such as builtin routines as root is to just spawn into a root shell with sudo su.