It’s not just this Congress rolling over to expose their bellies. The Legislative has been ceding power to the Executive for several decades, Republican and Democrat alike. They seem to think this is OK as their guy will get the power.

Having said that, I’ve never seen such cowardice. The Judicial is hanging in there, and yes, even this SCOTUS has voted against Trump. But our entire system is predicated on a 3-way balance of powers. Now that two of those powers are in absolute collusion, we’re collapsing.

Gun nuts simply don’t talk that way, let alone believe it. You do not have a cute talking point, you have a fabricated talking point. You have a picture of gun owners that only exists in liberal echo chambers. I invite you to hop on YouTube and see what we actually discuss and believe. Warning: It’ll probably be as boring as paste to most.

If we’re going by what the utterly fringe, utterly unserious nuts talk about? I can find fruitcakes spouting any nonsense you like, any topic. Give me a few minutes with a search engine.

What we can do is defend our families, neighbors and ourselves when ICE comes knocking. The fact that so many of us have guns is a massive deterrent. Notice ICE isn’t raiding places where people are well armed?

Think the cops and fascists (I repeat myself) are bad now? How do you think they would act if they knew they could kick down any door with no danger to themselves? You might notice how well fucking behaved they are when citizens are openly armed at a protest. Suddenly they just want everything peaceable. Aww, aren’t they sweet?

I learned how to title in elementary school, because, ya know, it’s pretty damned elementary.

Not trusting the idea on it’s face. Love to hear tech details on why I should.

I feel like the OP you’re responding to. Explain how I should be comfortable? The idea creeps me out, but I admit I haven’t delved into security for a few years.

Look at this move from a purely business perspective:

Give the toddler a shiny toy, toddler plays nicely.

And oh my fuck it’s such a cheap gift from the war chest of Apple’s bajillions. The real story is the Trump is too stupid to be insulted!

Been screaming for years, “PLAY this narcissistic fool!” Just wish world media and politicians and celebrities would get in the game. He’s a CHILD! PLAY HIM! Instead we got world leaders rolling over. Heysus.

Nah, not hating on Cook for making an hilariously logical move.

I know. Was looking for a term to separate the two areas. Not like the San Andreas fault is stable!

How could I have dialed that in better?

I’m more worried about humans draining our aquifers that took thousands, even millions, of years to fill. That water is no more replaceable than oil.

That’s the best explanation I’ve seen yet!

Said in another comment, our deserts are tectonically stable and free of natural disasters. If you want redundant DCs, picking one on the desert is a good bet.

In addition to the other answers;

America’s deserts are tectonically stable and don’t experience natural disasters. If you want your data and/or compute running in two regions for redundancy, somewhere in the desert is a good choice for one of your DCs.

Why would he pardon her? Prison is sheer hell and she got a huge upgrade. Fuck around and they can take that back. They got all the leverage they need without the screams of outrage a pardon would bring.

Won’t matter. Every home user could cancel every service, they got business users by the short and curlies.

Didn’t even hit the end of your first sentence when I started thinking, “IBM helped the Nazis in this exact same manner!”

I agree with every single thing you stated. But the article is about these sites breaking Florida law, and they are. Never said anything about this was sane, but again, if I operated a porn site, I’d fence Florida off as a CYA measure.

Liking that! Pros and cons? I’m pretty damned rough on my gear, why I almost exclusively wear Casio. Water is a serious concern for me.

This isn’t social media as most understand it. My wife sometimes gets bent as to what she sees me writing, doesn’t understand that you and I neither know one another nor care to.

I get where you’re coming from, upvote for contributing an opinion. But I think you’re overestimating the impact of this legislation. This is not ever going to stop internet porn consumption, that boat sailed 30-years ago.

Also, social media is fucking us (heh) worse than porn ever did, not even comparable.

Well, they are in fact breaking the law. Doesn’t matter what we think about that law, they’re in clear violation. Cannot imagine why they didn’t geofence like PornHub did. Hell, I did blocked entire countries at my last job with a simple pfSense router. This ain’t rocket science. Guess their greed got 'em?

Also, can anyone explain why a foreign operator would give two fucks? Remember The Pirate Bay’s great responses?

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Free Photoshop, same controls and all.