Is it trademark, or IP. If someone made a list of Mickey Mouse jokes, Disney's law department will send them a letter too. Chuck Norris is a person/name but also a persona.
Unfortunately it's we who will pay the price, with "we" being the entire world, considering the destruction of a lot of oil production infrastructure will cause a price hike for everything.
Well China is still getting Iranian oil no problem.
We in the West, well we are aiding the US in this war by allowing it to operate from military bases in our countries. We deserve it for looking the other way while Israel has been mass murdering Palestinians for more than two years now.
At least Spain showed some guts.
Of course it will also potentially cause suffering in the global south but that is on those that started the war.
The attacks against Kharg Island were relatively limited as even the US wanted to avoid that level of escalation. The war has been painful but Iran could rebuild, if you destroyed Kharg island it would take decades to rebuild the Iranian economy, that would be a complete scorched earth point of no return.
Maybe there have been further attacks today that I missed but if true that would be an huge escalation.
My last information was that China has no problem getting oil but that was like two days ago.
Trump's always admired Putin, and now just like Putin, he's also entered his own quagmire... Retreating isn't even a viable option, as far as I understand, an angry Iranian regime will keep disrupting the region, so now Trump's only option is to escalate.
Too bad the whole world has to sit and watch itself get fucked...
Retreating is a viable option for the US. The world will return to the status quo in a week or three, and he will look every bit the fool that he is.
Nobody wants to get involved when Iran is fighting back against US aggression. The world would get a lot more interested in doing so if it were just conducting unprovoked, unilateral piracy in the straight.
Withdrawal is a viable option for everyone but the man who started it.
Congress can end this any time by not paying for this shit.
Foreign Affairs suggests Iran would rather fight a protacted war with the US than repeated wars with Israel. And in either case, they would continue to attack US regional interests.
I don't know, in my scenario, Iran will keep attacking the Middle Eastern countries, angering them enough to yell at Trump to fix the shit he's started. But maybe China could get them to stop...
But this is amateur geopolitics commentary (A great quote about Internet commentariat when the Russian invasion started was "Last week I was an epidemiologist, this week I'm a geopolitical expert!")
They're implying "An establishment calling itself a 'newspaper of record' can be expected to have high standards, such as correctly reporting dates, and I'll hold them to that"
If you can spot a typo in the first few seconds of reading a piece, so can the editor and sub-editor before it's published.
Myself and most other programmers I know have at least once (more like 100 times) had the experience where you can't figure something out in some code you've been staring at for an hour, then another person comes along and immediately sees an obvious glaring error that you missed.
I can only imagine the same thing happens in newsrooms with text, especially when it is visibly very similar, like "2002" and "2022."
The process these days is more like publish then do editorial review. See it on major outlets all the time - break the story as early as possible, get the eyeballs and ad revenue, then get it cleaned up for posterity.
Sometimes this results in radical changes to a piece within hours of publication - yesterday for instance the BBC ran a piece headlined something like “I watched my father murder my mother”, and six hours later in slides an editorial correction saying “she did not, in fact, see her father murder her mother. She was asleep in another room at the time.”
Maybe someone with some brain on The Guardian realized if you're browsing through Tor, no way you're going to create a login and link your browsing to a name/email address...
That makes it sound like no one of The Guardian has a brain, it's not the intention, it's my most trusted news source, but maybe someone on the IT department thought a little bit further.
More likely Tor was set up years ago and receives no attention unless it horribly breaks; and so nobody notices nor cares that ads aren't working there (and if they were they'd probably not get paid for them anyway).
If you wish to divert from the discussion of whether free and fair elections is still possible in the USA, and would rather enter the meta-discussion, I'll bite, and cite Wikipedia:
> Godwin's law can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, a diversion, or even censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate.
I wonder if Godwins law and such did more harm than good in the end? I mean: yes, Hitler was a terrible person and Holocaust was horrible, but, by putting so much effort into convincing everyone that Hitler and Holocaust were so unique things in the history of mankind you’re basically creating a blind spot, where the resurgence of fascism goes unnoticed because everyone thinks “it can’t as bad as Hitler and the Nazis, right?”
Ahh, so this is how you stifle the warnings and discontent with the fascist capture of the government? The evidence doesn't matter as long as it's possible to derail the discussion?
Let me guess, similarly you apply "conspiracy theory" to anything you want to kneecap, is that right?
The blurred version feels honest -- it's not showing you anything more than what has been encoded.
The sharp image feels confusing -- it's showing you a ton of detail that is totally wrong. "Detail" that wasn't in the original, but is just artifacts.
Why would you prefer distracting artifacts over a blurred version?
The details are quite real, and they make the image far more comprehensible.
Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it through jpeg2png... The output looks like a green smear. You might not even be able to tell that it's supposed to be grass. jpeg2png just blurs the hell out of images.
Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it through jpeg2png... The output looks like a green smear. You might not even be able to tell that it's supposed to be grass. jpeg2png just blurs the hell out of images.
Also if your software for whatever reasons is using the original libjpeg in its modern (post classic version 6b) incarnation [1], right from version 7 onwards the new (and still current) maintainer switched the algorithm for chroma up-/downsampling from classic pixel interpolation to DCT-based scaling, claiming it's mathematically more beautiful and (apart from the unavoidable information loss on the first downscaling) perfectly reversible [2].
The problem with that approach however is that DCT-scaling is block-based, so for classic 4:2:0 subsampling, each 16x16 chroma block in the original image is now individually being downscaled to 8x8, and perhaps more importantly, later-on individually being upscaled back to 16x16 on decompression.
Compared to classic image resizing algorithms (bilinear scaling or whatever), this block-based upscaling can and does introduce additional visual artefacts at the block boundaries, which, while somewhat subtle, are still large enough to be actually borderline visible even when not quite pixel-peeping. ([3] notes that the visual differences between libjpeg 6b/turbo and libjpeg 7-9 on image decompression are indeed of a borderline visible magnitude.)
I stumbled across this detail after having finally upgraded my image editing software [4] from the old freebie version I'd been using for years (it was included with a computer magazine at some point) to its current incarnation, which came with a libjpeg version upgrade under the hood. Not long afterwards I noticed that for quite a few images, the new version introduced some additional blockiness when decoding JPEG images (also subsequently exacerbated by some particular post-processing steps I was doing on those images), and then I somehow stumbled across this article [3] which noted the change in chroma subsampling and provided the crucial clue to this riddle.
Thankfully, the developers of that image editor were (still are) very friendly and responsive and actually agreed to switch out the jpeg library to libjpeg-turbo, thereby resolving that issue. Likewise, luckily few other programs and operating systems seem to actually use modern libjpeg, usually preferring libjpeg-turbo or something else that continues using regular image scaling algorithms for chroma subsampling.
[1] Instead of libjpeg-turbo or whatever else is around these days.
[2] Which might be true in theory, but I tried de- and recompressing images in a loop with both libjpeg 6b and 9e, and didn't find a significant difference in the number of iterations required until the image converged to a stable compression result.
Oh no, those poor people who are happy to get paid making products and services to exploit our basest emotions, amp them for "engagement", subverting civility and democracy in the meanwhile, are going to be laid off?!
Hah, you made me think of the future with regards to this fool. Why do I see a future where amongst all the chaos and destruction of a big climate-induced disaster, the headline "Mark Zuckerberg and his family have reportedly retreated into his doomsday bunker" will appear...
I thought the bunker is only a rumor, but DDGing it, it's "rumor" that's been covered in many news outlets, so, I'm guessing it's real although the news outlets might have some details wrong.
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