Microsoft loosened the kernel driver requirements to allow anyone to register as a boot driver as long as a CA digitally signs them. Microsoft asserts that this was done at the EU's behest. They could tighten the driver requirement for the RoW, but that would lock Crowdstrike out and likely trigger antitrust concerns again.
I don't think that anyone before, in or after Roman times would run gold wire like that through the holes. Why scratch up the work? Why abrade away gold flakes? Is there gold residue on the artifacts? It would've been noted.
Most Fortune 500 companies have (I am extrapolating wildly here since I haven't worked at all of them) email retention policies that specify that emails will not be kept past a certain time after reception. So when an opposing lawyer requires the emails that were sent a year ago ... well, those were deleted as per policy. It's weird that if the companies had a policy to immediately delete them it would be "bad" but if they delete them after 30 days due to "storage" reasons and a clear, global, openly stated policy, it's OK. It doesn't stop someone from stuffing old emails in a folder.
> Most Fortune 500 companies have (I am extrapolating wildly here since I haven’t worked at all of them) email retention policies that specify that emails will not be kept past a certain time after reception.
Those policies are suspended for materials subject to a litigation hold, whether triggered by actual or reasonably foreseen litigation or an active investigation for which they have been notified to preserve evidence (which is mostly a formalized case of reasonably foreseen litigation) and if they aren’t, the company can be sanctioned for destroying evidence (and adverse inferences can be drawn from the destruction of evidence in the litigation, separate from the penalties for destroying evidence.)
> It’s weird that if the companies had a policy to immediately delete them it would be “bad” but if they delete them after 30 days due to “storage” reasons and a clear, global, openly stated policy, it’s OK.
Actually, deleting either way would be sanctionable where a retention requirement of the type at issue applies.
In my experience, the email retention policy is guided by whatever regulations with which the company has to comply. I’ve worked at places with insanely long retention policies because of that.
We sell VoIP B2B and our retention time is measured in multiples of years. Businesses like to sue each other and proof of phone calls or work on their phone lines can be subpoenaed.
Wow. The companies I've worked at only kept old emails if there was a litigation hold. Otherwise, the email retention policy was enforced. It seems to me a double edged sword that slightly favors the deleter.
I think that you will find that your industry is an outlier.
What if this is the basis of "magic"? The secret power of curses that were burnt or cast into a lake or cave that "worked" by diminishing the anger in the caster rather than cursing the target.
OK. Assume that the evidence is strong and true. That still doesn't mean that there's been continuous habitation. It could be evidence of a failed colonization followed by crickets.
Seems like someone may have the pleasure of becoming interested in the matter and going further. Perhaps they may resurrect Maledicta, the journal of verbal aggression. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maledicta. I remember going through the collection of issues of the journal at the Perry Castañeda library at the University of Texas-Austin many years ago. I highly recommend it. Read about things like Spanish potentiation of insults (like raising to a power), and other things I forget. The only reason I can recall Spanish potentiation is that I speak Spanish and I never realized such a thing existed.
There was, of course, an article (or issue?) dedicated to "your momma" jokes. The most memorable one was an Italian one that goes:
If the streets were paved with cocks, your momma would walk on her ass.
Reminds me of the excellent, but unfortunately short-lived, "Better Off Ted".
The episode these bits (link below) are from was, (also) unfortunately, far less amusing / acerbic, as aired. But, while the "official episode" may have been rather weak for that show in general, these far higher-quality outtakes live on:
I remember my times at the Perry Castañeda Library. (ex UT) here. Insults in México are an art and science on itself. There are dozens and dozens of pendejos types and categories:
Pendejo exclusivo: El tipo que viene y te dice: "Yo no soy tu pendejo"
Pendejo esférico: No importa por donde lo veas, sigue siendo un pendejo.
Pendejo referencial: Al dar direcciones dices: ¿Ves a ese pendejo? Allí dobla a la derecha.
The list goes on. I don't have a fair english translation for the word pendejo.
That's interesting. I grew up in Utah and many students at public schools were the children of first-generation Mexican immigrants (or first-generation themselves) and often the answer to, "What does pendejo mean?" (because of course that question came up in Spanish class) would be something along the lines of, "I can't describe it". This helps to explain why if the question itself seems to have a parsing error. In this case, "What are this word's meanings?" might have been a more yielding question (not than an 8th grader is likely to think of that).
No, he won't.