Excellent reflexes Snorkmaiden

Vantablack is quite fragile and would quickly disintegrate at high speeds

Can’t fault the effort though

The impartiality of juries only extends to what happens within the courtroom, they must not be swayed by anything that happens outside it. Everything else is fair game, including testimony.

Juries have the absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, which has been a principal of law for over 300 years. Your experience and consideration doesn’t get to decide for the jury what their decision must be.

Nothing you just said was an argument against user friendly software. The Windows and Mac hostage situation was created by familiarity and walled gardens, and is solved by Linux becoming easier to use.

Friendlier defaults, graphical package manager included out of the box, some tasks will benefit from packages that can use the instructions on your cpu. I can’t see a single advantage of Endeavour over Cachy.

That said they are both very similar.

That’s a little bit misleading, they’re supposed to determine the facts based on the evidence, then provide a verdict.

When giving a verdict they can take into account the severity of the penalty and the circumstances of the crime.

I think a jury should hear the motivation for the defendant’s actions: as a counterexample consider a defendant on trial for breaking their parole (under freedom of movement), but who did so to rescue people from a burning building. A jury would have to hear the motivation to take this into account.

Isn’t Tom just another copy? He came out of the pattern buffer the same as Will iirc.

But wasn’t nearly as contentious as naming their software ‘Gimp’.

Even with (B) changing cultural attitudes can lead to rights being revoked without being viewed as suppression. The line between something being recognised by the people and granted by the government is a fuzzy one.

That’s not true, network carriers can also run RCS backends independently of Google. Graphene OS is currently working on a new messaging app that supports RCS without Google services. Both the app and the carrier have to support RCS which is why Google made their own backend.

It was never ‘Google locked’, its an open standard developed by the GSM Association that IOS has supported since 2024.

Archuntu

Bless you.

She often has an unusual perspective on things

The UK for the past 12 weeks…

Enjoying watching the rain

This feels like the opposite to a cheap logitech controller driving a submarine

I think it’s worth exploring; the culture is more important than the tech. What are the societal systems that are driving resistance, how is access to STEAM distributed, how does this affect the lives of ‘normal’ people.

The main reason the the ‘punk’ subgenres coexist is that their technologies form a feedback loop with their cultures which makes them different and allows for different stories. What are the impacts of STEAM on society and how is this different to Cyberpunk with modern tech?

Aesthetic is also important because it captures the imagination and gives the genre staying power. There’s a reason that Cyberpunk and Steampunk are the most popular, while Biopunk hasn’t had the same impact.

Unfortunately for Bethesda these are narrative subgenres as well as aesthetic ones, and modern Bethesda can’t write.

What would be punk about it?

Steampunk is Steam (victorian inspired tech) + Punk (victorian inspired inequality)

Cyberpunk is Cyber (80s inspired tech) + Punk (80s inspired inequality)