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Oh dear, the Guardian's dictionary fails it again in Julian Assange walks free after pleading guilty to US espionage charge in Saipan court

He [Assange] was greeted by a hoard of foreign and local media but took no questions.

Maybe our lonely rocky satellite will drift out a way and join Phobos and Deimos orbiting around Mars.

That would be a happy little moonage à trois.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 8:45 am Does that count as double-usurperatin'?

No, the Contusion specifies a strict limit of two terms on usurpertraitoring so Obama can't be usurpertraitoring now … unless … he hasn't read the Contusion!

IMG_1789.jpeg Actually, that looks more like a rocket engine than a jet. I've never seen a jet engine with the large bell-shaped tail. It's Musk! – of course it's one of his trucks (designed in his mighty brain*) towing one of his rocket engines (designed in his mighty brain*) that powers one of hi...

I'm waiting for cars to catch up with other equipment. For the last two decades increasingly telecom and networking equipment mfgs built a single form factor with all the hardware, jacks, ports, buttons, etc. You bought the base model, and enabled the features / functions you wanted through purchas...

OH NOES!!!!

Where will we go to get reliable news about the absolutely not racist, no ma'am, campaigns to remove Barack Obama from the presidency?!?!?!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/nevada-monolith-removed The mysterious monolith that appeared in the Nevada desert :snippity: :torches: Is there no education for journalists these days? :shrug: They describe it as a reflective 10ft-tall (3 meters) metal prism so they know it...

We have our wonderful chancery-bob tag team debates in a nutshell here!

chancery wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:23 pm Of course there are some narrow exceptions …

bob wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:44 pm As you know, the answer is "it depends."

Always illuminating!

:thumbsup: bob, I thought that would be the reality but with the accumulated talent on tap here it seemed prudent to confirm. Thanks for delivering! :bighug: As you say, sealing bits of the paperwork to preserve confidentiality is acceptable, but how a secret ruling could work (outside secret crimin...

That's silk is it? I thought it was toilet paper glued onto hessian.

Enquiring non-law-ya mind has question: is a secret SCOTUS ruling A Real Thing? I mean, does it happen, has it happened, could it happen?

Obviously it's not A Real Thing in any birther dreamworld nonsense. Just curious about what happens sane reality world.

Thanks RTH! Aviation rules are always cautious, as bad things happening half a mile or more above the ground (or sea) are inherently orders of magnitude more dangerous than when solid ground is underfoot. But what you describe sounds less like "it's not a very good idea" caution and more l...

On Trump his felonious nature: I doubt (without a shred of knowledge) that the UK would prevent a US president from visiting, regardless of his criminal record. They've admitted plenty of shitbag leaders over the years. Actually I doubt that they'd bar a former president either. Certainly the outgoi...

It's fun when chancery is in professorial mode! I like your point about costs/fees. As you say England is loser-pays-both which might be considered "repugnant" to New York's each-pays-own principle. But :thumbsup: I giggled at the argument that Trump chose to launch the action in England k...

Re the last video about the skydiver in the balloon: there was some mention of "so you know what happens when you jump from a balloon" and I think a mention of weight. Implying jumping would be bad. Of course the reduction in weight lightens the balloon, and I imagine the sudden loss of we...

I suspect some people also respond more usefully to vaccinations in creating IgA antibodies etc. which are more active in the mucosal membranes where the virus infects while others respond to the intramuscular injection by creating only heavier antibodies etc. more suited to that sort of infection r...

bill_g wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 6:27 pm Trump campaign chief predicts that by election day, membership in Blacks for Trump will be over 50% African-American.

Good news! It already is 50% African-American … if one averages the 100% American and 0% African.

If as bob posited the judge believes the reporter is the subject of a leak, he has every right to replace the reporter, and deal with it after the trial. To be sure, no court reporter has the "right" to be anywhere. Court reporters have been banished from a particular judge's courtroom fo...

northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:39 am I notice that Patriot is the lowest level, below MAGA and Trump Force. I'm soooooo shocked.

The new top level will be Convicted Felon.

72 years old is a lot! And it means steels and welds made to 1950s quality, probably without ultrasound and similar inspection methods. Loading and unloading heavy ores puts lots of bending stresses into the hull, especially if ballasting and loading sequence is not carefully managed. The problem in...

:snippity: Why would an all powerful deity require an election to get his purported impotus into the WH :?: Why would he need the opposition of an opposing party to give the felon legitimacy :?: And if the deity fails, what about those magick power of her/him/its :?: Or does the deity have to give ...

Wow, that was awful! Even if a patient sends delusional in claiming to be a celebrity, that is no reason to restrain them, to deny them appropriate medical treatment, to lock them up, not even to demand a psych evaluation. When it one allows for that story being one-sided, it is clear there was mass...

I've said it so many times: "Why would someone with so many skeletons in their closet put themself in the spotlight by running for any public office? Much less the highest office." The irony of this particular criming by Trump is that it was unnecessary: if the story about his bad behavio...

Being a state (established) church is not always a positive as it restricts the rights of that church to act freely. I think the religious head of the Church of England (the Archbishop of Canterbury) is appointed by the current Prime Minister (the head of government), if I recall correctly the top ...

History is full of cases where "state religions" and such ended up destroying a country. State-sponsored religion will not work in a democracy. Perhaps Ms Boebert should become a citizen of one of several Middle Eastern countries. They feature no religious freedom and very little personal...