Are you being serious?

I think they are: the sociological definition of a minority is a member of a class which is socially disadvantaged (sociologists talk about women as minorities for this reason) and a sociological "-ism" (racism, sexism) is policy or decisions which disadvantage the socially disadvantaged.

Presuming that position, it's understandable that they further believe that not favoring the disadvantaged is continuing the status quo, which is a disadvantage to the already-disadvantaged, hence the sociological "-ism".

Measure VOCs, PM2.5 particles, and CO2

GoDaddy is the root registry for all .us ccTLD, MarkMonitor is the actual registar Zoom is working with. The issue seems to be more how GoDaddy assigned to the domain to MarkMonitor not something Zoom itself likely controls (such as NS records)

.us (and other many TLDs) uses EPP to communicate between registars (MarkMonitor here) and Registry (GoDaddy). It is probably an admin error rather than code[1], some manual approval or other human review workflow for high value domain and someone clicked/filled in the wrong value at GoDaddy or MarkMonitor would be my first guess.

[1] would have been observed and fixed long before today, transfers happen all the time after all

It didn't expire

Psychology is filled with bad science and bad scientists. It's not that good psychology research doesn't exist, it is just rare.

>a bank account outside America’s control

There really isn't such a thing if you want to do business in America. If you're in the US and doing business with a bank, the courts can order that bank to do things or face isolation from the entire financial system.

> There really isn't such a thing if you want to do business in America

There are to varying extents. You want a country that isn't aligned with or dependent on America, but also isn't its adversary. (And which has a good banking system.) That list was classically Turkey, the UAE and Switzerland. Today I'd add India, Qatar, Canada and Brazil and remove Switzerland.

Yeah I'm no expert in financial systems but since the money ultimately needs to be spent in the U.S. it doesn't seem that important whether the funds are frozen in the U.S. or locked away overseas and can't be transferred in for the next ~4 years.

It's much more than that, foreign banks will comply with US court orders, it's not just a blockade.

US courts shut down a series of Swiss banks that were trying to hide American's assets behind the swiss banking secrecy laws while also doing business on American soil (just having bank employees in the country did it).

> since the money ultimately needs to be spent in the U.S. it doesn't seem that important whether the funds are frozen in the U.S.

Of course it does. The hypothetical we're considering is the administration illegally freezing bank accounts. You don't need something legally impenetrable. Just complicated enough that it slows down the goons while you fight them in court.

I would have preferred a much more concise refusal.

I’m not sure if you wanted it shorter for tonal reasons rather than simply for length of time to read, but I think it was pretty concise.

It's bad rhetoric. Using stronger, more direct language would have been much more effective at making their point and having their point reach a broader audience. We need leaders who refuse to comply with an authoritarian government and do so with proud defiance. This message was meandering and weak.

Harvard has "fuck you money". They should go ahead and make it clear that they know they have this power and are expressing it (not necessarily with the vulgarity, yet)

>How expensive are the parts?

They make the parts.

Yes, that's what civilization -> industrialization -> automation does: eliminate jobs, which opens up opportunities for new jobs.

you are no longer an animal spending most of your waking life searching for food, nor do you build your own shelter, make your own clothes, construct tools, etc

yes, automation seeks to eliminate factory jobs, most of them are pretty awful anyway. this opens up new options as every step along the way always has

and yes, the change isn't always easy for the folks that have to find something new

A good Sunday afternoon pairs The Hunt for Red October and Down Periscope

Down Periscope is a definite guilty pleasure.

I've done a submarine day with Red October, Crimson Tide, and U-571

U-571 was OK, but a disappointment overall.

The market doesn't know anything, the people who are trading are trading on FOMO and sentiment, because valuation is completely unpredictable when the global economy is being dictated by one man.