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Reminds me of that slightly meta Eddie Izzard bit where he talks about doing a joke in French to a French-speaking audience where he impersonated Sean Connery. Imagine Connery speaking French in his own acshent and idioshyncratic shtyle; kind of funny even without whatever it was he was saying. Unfortunately, none of the French audience had appreciated it much, and so after the gig he asked someone about it.

It was then he learned that Francophone audiences were more familiar with Connery’s designated French-speaking dub actor, who sounded nothing like Connery.

The audience might have understood what was going on, but it kind of killed the joke.

“We can’t possibly be Nazis because we disagree with them about who the Untermensch are.”

At this point, I reckon they’re about where the pre-Thatcher Conservatives were. The actual Conservatives are now further right than they used to be too but don’t seem to realise it, and every time they try to design policies they end up confused that what they’ve come up with looks like fascism (to everyone else if not also to them).

If I had the wherewithal, I’d start up a Socialist party, because it’s clear now that parties only ever shift right and there’s a gap at the left end of the spectrum.

Depends if you go with the original idea, or the battery idea designed by Hollywood execs who didn’t think the audiences would understand.

… thus proving that Hollywood execs and the people they make their changes for are only good for batteries*, but I digress.

* For legal reasons, this is a joke. I have to say this because some Hollywood execs have more lawyers than braincells**.

** For all the same reasons, this is also a joke.

Oh, I guarantee that pi is 100% normal. Just not necessarily in the base you want it to be normal in.

TL;DR: I suspect they’re not dying or leaving. They just don’t attend synagogue any more.

I don’t have any evidence one way or the other, but it’s definitely the case that Christians are increasingly secular and not attending churches up and down the UK, causing the closure and deconsecration of many, and so I have to believe that it’s the same thing that is happening with those of the Jewish faith.

Likewise, many people of religious upbringings are moving away from religion altogether, adopting agnosticism or atheism.

That said, it’s worth noting that this decline in religion is less true of the Muslim communities than it is of the other Abrahamic faiths (which is not to say that it doesn’t happen), so it kind of makes sense that it ended up being a Muslim documenting all of this.

Owning a domain name is still a reasonably good idea, but it was never a path to fame, even back then. A stepping stone, maybe, but even then, not strictly necessary.

Yahoo mail still exists - you can even set up a new one - but they got rid of the forwarding feature for free accounts a few years ago, so you actually have to make an effort to log in to the site and check. There’s no way to access free mail accounts other than doing that. Of course, if you’re willing to pay something, you can get forwarding back and maybe something like POP or even IMAP.

Of course, if you do pay, you’ll be supporting some of the more questionable decisions made by Yahoo management.

Yeah, but it’s those politicians who’ll send their compatriots to war.

If instead they’d started walking the propaganda back rather than lighting fires under everyone and getting everyone mad, it might have averted this. (Past tense because it might already be too late by the look of it). And one way to convince blood-thirsty ivory tower dwellers that war is a bad idea is that room I mentioned.

I mean, I saw a video the other day of children at a kindergarten or primary school where a little boy declared that he wanted to see the destruction of the other country. I forget now which country the boy was from, but it doesn’t matter. The politicians on each side have been fomenting hate for decades when they could have been doing the opposite, and that, unlike money, actually does trickle down.

Gina, you’re a woman (apparently), and in Trump’s world order, women are second-class citizens who should keep their mouths shut. As a fan of his policies, therefore, you should do just that.

Here’s a song from the '80s about that sort of Afrikaner

Here’s an idea: Let’s take the five or six middle-aged male politicians (because it’s almost always middle-aged male politicians) from each side who want to send their own people to war and put them in a big room with baseball bats.

My bet is it will be like those viral videos where dogs bark at each other when there’s a gate in the way, but if someone opens the gate, they just stare at each other and look nervous.

Whatever happens in there, it’s to have absolutely no bearing on their countries or the rest of the world, but they’re not allowed to come out until they all need a hospital.

And if they still want war after that, they go back in the room.

Unfortunately, from the outside it looks very much like the anti-Zionists are taking the position of “once the Zionists have done all the Zionism, we’ll give them a very stern telling off.”

This may not be how it actually is, but as long as Yahoo and people of his mindset are in charge, it won’t look any better than that.

Too cheap. It needs to be “the immediate resignation from office of anyone in the US who would want to purchase or otherwise take control of Canadian territory”.

Turkish has (and maybe related languages have) genderless pronouns, but I don’t know whether that context shifts elsewhere in the sentence structure or not, and how necessary it might be in legal contracts.

Find a way to call the authorities. I don’t trust my brain at the best of times, and for all I know, I’m the murderer despite no recollection. Because of no recollection. That’d be a sign of some kind of mental problem, right? And if I’m otherwise fine and not responsible, there’s still a whacking great gap in my memory (for how I came to be there) and there’s a murderer on the loose.

I’d also try not to contaminate the scene any more than I had to.

Knowing my luck, the police would pin it on me anyway, but since, as I said, I don’t trust my brain, as far as I know, they might well be right and it might be the best thing for everyone if I am put away somewhere.

There’s another, more DNS-related, reason why it was usually preferred to have something before the domain part. It’s possible to alias a subdomain to another subdomain, but not so with the root of a domain, which must point directly at a single IP address.

If your IP addresses are more subject to change than your hostnames, or your site was hosted on a third party service, then it made sense to point www at a particular hostname rather than its address. e.g. you might point www.your-domain-here.biz at a-hostname.the-hosting-provider.tld. That’s not possible with a root domain. IP address or nothing.

Similarly, it’s possible to point a subdomain at multiple IP addresses (or multiple hostnames) at the same time, which was a cheap way to do load balancing. i.e. For a site a user hadn’t visited before, they’d be basically told one of the listed IP addresses at random, and then their local DNS cache would return that one IP address until it expired, generally giving enough time for the visitor to do what they wanted. Slap 8 different IPs in the www subdomain and you’d split your visitors across 8 different servers.

Root domain has no such capability.

Technically it would be possible to do all of that one level higher in DNS where your domain itself is the subdomain, but good luck getting a domain registry to do that for you.

I haven’t done DNS in over a decade at this point, so things may have changed in the intervening years, but this was all definitely a thing once upon a time.

Preposterous!! Whoever heard of a president’s son being elected president?

You do realise that even though it’s not one of the official Mint variants, it’s still possible to install Gnome on Mint with minimal fuss?

There are people that still install and run KDE and that hasn’t been a Mint variant for some time now.

Or are you saying that Gnome should be the default variant because it’s “modern”?

The monkey’s paw curled a finger when they took off in that direction. Most old Linux/X applications will run fine under any window manager / desktop environment and, by and large, inherit the look and feel of that environment. Modern Gnome apps say “no” to that and look like Gnome apps wherever they are.

Since the Mint team are forking Gnome apps precisely to avoid that behaviour, I’d say Mint isn’t going to adopt Gnome proper any time soon, but as I said, you can install it if you really want.

They write in Finnish in other comments, but I don’t seem to be able to confirm or deny the law there, at least not with a quick search.

I did find an article that suggested that it’s been ruled legal in Italy, but only if you’re homeless and hungry. I can imagine that if you tried it and had any assets whatsoever, they’d find a way to put a lien on those assets rather than let you get away with it.

Because that would require the two nations to stop acting like children. They’re both more than capable of it, but as soon as they get together, they act like siblings reverting to childhood rivalry.

And when slap-fights and arguments over who gets the teddy bear escape the metaphor to nation size, people literally die.