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Oh wait, was OP being ironic?

I mean, I don't even see a contradiction with OP there. The big boy stick comes out, Western politicians are seen doing something and don't get blamed for the higher prices on "TIEMAM banana-shaped egg holder for children yellow plastic food container", a few of the non-Western brown guys die, but not most of them, and history continues. I don't think that there's a good reason was implied.

Can’t but wonder if the Houthis aren’t used to US and UK bombs being dropped on them by now and if thus this will make that much of a difference (weren’t the Houthis mountain people, same as the Afghans?).

Pretty much what the news analysts are saying, even. I'm unsure why Biden and Sunak felt like this was a good idea. I really can't see any possible upside. Now they look even more crooked in the region than before, because the only thing they acted on are the cargo ships loaded with dumb crap for the West, and the Houthis look cool and relevant directly fighting them. The threat to shipping is even higher than before if anything, and the whole place is even closer to going WWI.

They could have just parked their warships there and kept eating drones. It would have costed a lot in interceptors, but you'd think even a few more weeks of situation normal would have been worth it.

So how many of those days did he prepare food sick? This orphan crushing machine isn't even hygenic.

The trick, you see, is to not think about it, and avoid anything that makes you think about it. For most people that achieves all personal objectives.

Full disclosure, I'm not convinced personally; I need more evidence it can work.

Okay. I guess I just don't see a political group getting more donations than their opposition as all that nefarious. If you have organised lobbying at all, this has got to be the most defensible kind. I guess I'd support a cap on the amount that can be donated to such a group by any one person.

A lot of this article just rehashes the old anti-MAID arguments, which I suspect is the real motive behind it, and I'll rehash my response: If you don't want people to prefer death to the way they're treated, what exactly is your plan to treat them better? Doing anything else, including limiting their ability to make decisions you're uncomfortable with, is just an added cruelty on top.

Ahem.

When they say every fingerprint is different, are they right? There couldn't be an infinite number of finger print patterns, could there be? If, so how?

It depends how close to each other they have to be to count as the same. They consist of a series of mostly parallel lines, but for the sake of simplicity only focus on just one. It's a curve. A curve has an infinite collection of other curves that are different to any, arbitrarily small degree, and that's even true for smooth curves like we're talking about here, and even if you ignore a finite set of transformations, like moving it or stretching it.

However, the systems that police use to catalogue them have no such infinite precision. If you have a collection of k fingerprints, and there's n possible fingerprints a system could distinguish, the probability of two overlapping is a lot higher than k/n, actually, even if you charitably assume every fingerprint is equally likely. In criminal cases, a little bit of doubt is enough to prevent conviction in a typical Western country. The issue of whether a fingerprint - especially a partial one - is reliable enough evidence a given person was involved has indeed come up before. Off the top of my head, I don't know if it's made the difference in any cases, but I bet it has.

IIRC, it's a big issue because a lot of the systems are proprietary, and the companies don't want to provide defence lawyers with any sort of data on how they work. For all they know, it could be programmed to return a match with a random frequent offender if it can't find anything else. Unfortunately, most judges are tech laymen who see no issue with blindly trusting a magic box, and are very aware that some nasty people could be released if they call said boxes into question, so getting the problem recognised is or was an uphill battle.

If you still want it to render pages, you should go with a Firefox derivative. I'm not sure how minimal you can get while still doing that correctly most of the time. Maybe you could clarify a bit?

In terms of engineering, it does. Micro meteorite protection and heat management can both be provided by normal garments. UV protection is obviously easy enough too. Breathing gas is a bit less convenient, but still not as tricky as making a suit that's both rigid enough to reliably hold several PSI in and flexible enough to comfortably work in. That's why the elastic suits are being researched like they are.

... That's actually a good point. I'm guessing since the digestive tract is flexible and isn't held open to the outside all the time, it wouldn't cause problems with things deep inside. I also think it's inevitable that if you did shit yourself in it, suction would kick in at some point and make it all a bit more dramatic. And then it would boil-freeze off into space, and be icy cold. That might still be better than pooping a sealed space suit, though.

I think it's like a third of an atmosphere or something. Enough to comfortably achieve the same partial pressure of oxygen as normal Earth air, by providing it pure.