Notices by WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital), page 2

WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 03:21:52 JST WilhelmIII
My "purse" has a gun in it.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 01:52:16 JST WilhelmIII
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Time was, they'd just hang them.

That empties the prisons nicely.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 01:52:14 JST WilhelmIII
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Great Aunt Vicky would not be amused and would not stand for the current state of Jolly Old.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:06:55 JST WilhelmIII
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Just today there was a poast here on fedi that showed a Catholic relief agency's masthead.

All jews.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:11:47 JST WilhelmIII
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Is an anti-semetic rape different than a regular rape?

Do you have to wear Hugo Boss or insult her nose?

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 01:03:25 JST WilhelmIII
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Oklahoma has a very large number of feather niggers.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 12:53:51 JST WilhelmIII
Why do I need to fuck around with all that mess when I can just install something that works and doesn't spy on me and sell my data?

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 12:53:49 JST WilhelmIII
Wrong.

My 80-year-old mother-on-law just installed Linux Mint MATE on a laptop last week and is happily posting boomer memes to Facebook.

While there is some hardware that is problematic, it's not like telling everyone that any CPU without TPM 2.0 is verboten. Because grandma is not going to be able to do the things you suggest to fix that.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 12:53:48 JST WilhelmIII
Oh, *now* it's "no OS is perfect."

:calvin_hobbs_laugh:

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 12:53:09 JST WilhelmIII
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I've been using Linux on the desktop since 1999.

It really, really sucked back then. Compiling kernels so they would actually run on my hardware, living with terrible gaming because all of the video drivers had to be reverse engineered, really crappy substitute programs that got abandoned.

Yep, went through it all.

But as a professional IT person, I saw that Windows was the number one source of spam from bots. A newly installed Windows 7 box that was exposed to the Internet would become a bot server in minutes.

Where as Ubuntu listened on zero ports with the default install.

And now, when I can run Office 365 software in a browser, when Steam has Proton and runs games reliable enough that they are making bank selling a Linux device to run Windows games, when Windows 11 is basically an app for Microsoft to spy on you and sell your data and push their spam at you...

A Linux Mint desktop, on hardware that was thoughtfully chosen, simply works.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 12:53:08 JST WilhelmIII
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Yeah, that's the other thing. With Windows 11, comply or die with their hardware requirements.

Whereas the latest lubuntu will run on hardware that Microsoft says you have to junk.

My mother-in-law just installed Linux Mint MATE on a very old laptop.

It just works.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 12:53:07 JST WilhelmIII
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False.

Much modern hardware is excluded from Windows 11.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-11/how-to-fix-this-pc-doesn-t-meet-the-minimum-requirements-for/m-p/4047590

TPM 2.0 and UEFI are *required*

No waivers.

Linux runs just fine on the same hardware.

Go ahead and tell me why that's aaaaaaxxxxxxxualllly good for me.
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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:01:16 JST WilhelmIII
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Black tip will make a mess of 1/4" and spall on the inside.

AR500 steel and a Kevlar liner would work, but the cost would be pretty high.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:01:15 JST WilhelmIII
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The thickness of the steel matters but so does the hardness. And it's a tradeoff.

Modern Level IV body armor are either ceramic, which is good for one shot per location, or AR500 steel, which can handle multiple shots in the same place.

The ceramic defeats the incoming energy by cracking. The steel defeats it by rebounding.

The problem with the steel, especially very hard steel is that when it bows inward bits of it will flake off and continue in the direction of the bullet vector. That sucks if that's in your flesh, likewise into a large electrical device. Those little flecks are called spall and are very bad news.

In body armor we defeat that by using a thick polymer liner to coat the outside of the steel. The plastic traps the bits of metal.

You could do the same to an electrical substation, but there are other engineering problems to consider, like heat and conductivity.

So, to sorta answer your question, 1/2" of hardened steel covered inside and out with Line-X would probably do the trick.

But that assumes I won't just go down to my local gun store and come back with a Serbu in .50cal.

If they are serious they'll start burying them or at least surrounding them with a tall earthen berm.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 02:05:12 JST WilhelmIII
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There really was a purpose to the finishing education of The Grand Tour.

Most of the rich little brats didn't get it, but actually living in other cultures (instead of just shopping there) changes your perspective. Other people are not like us. They want different things than we do. They have different priorities.

For aristocrat sons that would be expected to take part in government later in life, this was considered essential knowledge.

Somehow, we forgot.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 05:41:39 JST WilhelmIII
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Sony has a long history of being stupid.

Ever since they gave away the floppy disk to IBM because they saw no future in it, they've been trying to corner the market with Sony proprietary standards and the market always kicks them in the teeth.

The 2.88 floppy, the CDU-33 CD-ROM interface, the MemoryStick Micro... It's a long list.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 05:30:41 JST WilhelmIII
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> I mean what's the alternative theory to judicial review?

In the actual Constitution? There's no judicial review mentioned. At all.

> other than voting harder?

That's pretty much it, until Marbury v. Madison and the Supremes decided they were it.

There are all kinds of gaping holes in the Constitution, and while some of them have been filled by amendment, some of them are just ignored and others, like judicial review, are taken care of by judicial fiat.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 05:30:39 JST WilhelmIII
But the Constitution does NOT say that the courts have the power to declare laws void.

The Constitution is a list of things that government may do. Everything else, per the 10th amendment, belongs to the states.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 05:25:41 JST WilhelmIII
Congress decides how many Supreme Court justices there are. SCOTUS has no say in it.

If the Senate decides to add four more women of color and they have the votes then it's done.

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WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 05:25:39 JST WilhelmIII
There is nothing in Article III that has anything about having the power to decide how the court is composed.

All of the power to create courts and put members on them is in Article I and II.

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