Not a replicant

You, too?

What does potassium iodide decay into? It’s not an organic compound.

And when did Meta start caring about anything but harvesting and selling data? I mean, minors can’t consent to T&C (it’s a contract) so minors should be using it at all.

Infosys is a mistake. It’s a poor choice for anyone.

She’s conveniently forgotten her oath of office.

The G-G dissolves parliament every time the Prime Minister (PM) advises them to do so. I think you don’t grok the situation here, constitutionally speaking.

1. The King (or Queen) of Australia has powers defined in our constitution. They can’t issue commands at will.
2. The King appoints the Governor-General (GG) on the advice of the PM
3. The King delegates their powers to the GG
4. The GG acts on the advice of the PM, to approve legislation (royal assent), and to dissolve parliament when the time comes. Also, awarding honors and some other non-political stuff. Head of state duties like greeting and hosting other heads of state.
5. The GG does not seek permission or even advice from the King. Delegation of powers doesn’t mean the GG may exercise those powers, it means they must exercise those powers. That’s an important difference.
6. There are reserve powers, “break glass only in emergency” powers. One of those is to sack the government. It’s happened once in living memory, in 1975, when the elected government couldn’t pass funding bills and the government was about to run out of money (sound familiar?). That’s one of the few triggers where the reserve powers can be used. They can’t be used for just anything. Sacking the government also means a full election, upper and lower house.
7. The GG doesn’t report to the crown (King or Queen) in the sense you mean. There’s no “list of things I did today” and the King then sends back an “approved” stamp.

“Wouldn’t make your initial targets an example of your poor judgement?”

Systemctl status > somefile.txt and examine that file, or systemctl status | more

Also, on Windows: services.msc and sort by ‘startup type’ also check the registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and the various other versions of that, HKCU, and WOW6432Node, etc

Don’t forget discussing existentialism with the bomb.

We’ll see. I’ve set the Group policy to limit feature updates to Win 10 22H2. I will be unhappy if they over-ride or reset a GPO.

Larry Niven’s “Known Space” has quite a few machines, but they’re generally not the point of the story. There’s a lot more about how human and non-human species relate and interact, and how the machines affect their behaviour and choices.

The whole approach of Puppeteers (technically brilliant cowards) and Kzinti (foolishly rash but honourable risk-takers), taken against human approaches is well-written.

Of course, once you comprehend its size, the Ringworld itself overwhelms a lot of the rest of the stories 😲.

Niven’s attitude to women and sex haven’t aged well…

But the stories are pretty good. He knows how to set multiple threads on their way and bind them up together at the end, or at least leave a decent cliff-hanger for a sequel.

Flowers for Algernon is an extraordinary piece of storytelling, without relying too much on “the machines”

I find interesting that there’s a lot of “might”, “maybe” and “possible” when talking about rehabilitation, but not as much attention is paid to the “absolute” of another person’s death. Possibilities and potentials won’t bring that victim back to life.

Takes care of recidivism, though. But I wouldn’t advocate it for that reason.

Someone who will commit murder at the age of 15 is very badly damaged, and will need a great deal of help to not be a danger to others in the future. That’s the compassionate route.

Almost zero governments will want to spend the money. Sadly, it’s cheaper to keep them locked up.

Nor is it helpful to cast Godwin so early…

There’s a lot of music out there. Not all of it is available on Spotify.

And not all of us want Spotify applying algorithms to our listening choices. I like to be surprised at unexpected gems from artists I’ve never previously encountered.

I search www.live65.com for music in the genres I like. Blues, folk, world, deep breath adult contemporary (no, not the “decades” top 40s lists, more modern stuff)

I SHAVED MY BEARD FOR YOU, DEVIL WOMAN!

Or for a quick fix, use an equaliser to boost the 200-4000Hz frequencies. Put a slight suppression on anything higher and a lot of the music will be quieter.

Can you imagine the sheer frustration of trying to hear and appreciate the glorious dialogue of Deadwood were it subject to the poor standards of current productions?

Pi-hole can block microsoft telemetry domains, just need to keep the blocklists up to date, and flush the Recall cache every day.