Supermarkets here usually require an employee to approve backpacks. You put your bag on the scales, hit a button saying it's a bag, then an employee comes round to confirm.
In practice, it usually takes longer to get an employee's attention and have them come press the button. So I don't bother. It's usually quicker to bag everything at the end, and I tend to get fewer "unexpected item in the bagging area" issues when balacing everything on the scales.
The average weight of a mid-sized sedan is about 1,500kg, and the average weight of all American cars is closer to 1,900kg. A 4-seater close to 1,000kg is exceptionally light by modern standards. The Mazda MX-5 is a 2-seater which is famous for being lightweight, and it also weighs a few kg above a ton.
Also going off maximum human capacity isn't great in context, as the average car journey has <1.5 occupants. Not to mention if this was codified, car manufacturers would simply put folding seats in the trunk.
Another non-vegetarian here. I made a veggie hotdog last week which was close enough to the real thing that I would struggle in a blind taste test. Hot dogs are super easy to immitate, they're mostly not meat anyway.
Also ancedotally, I recently took a meat-eating friend-of-a-friend to a vegan fried chicken place. They said it was close enough that they wouldn't be able to tell the difference after a couple of beers. And they had recently worked in KFC...
I'd hazard a guess that the reason veggie hotdogs haven't appeared at US ballparks has less to do with the food itself, and more to do with cultural attitudes towards vegetarianism, especially amongst sports fans. Call it toxic masculinity if you want, or just stubbornness.
>In the US people constantly quit to start small businesses, work for other businesses, or just not work at all. There is zero threat of violence if you choose not to work.
SOME people. Median savings are ~$4k, realistically the average person needs access to credit (which they may not have), a strong support network, or some other way of surviving longer than 2 months without work.
And whether or not you do have the wealth or support network needed to choose not to work is determined mostly by who your parents are. This isn't a fair system.
I believe all this as well. If they wanted to, Adobe could invest heavily in DRM that would take at least a few months to crack. But it's far cheaper to stick a login wall in front of download pages and support forums, monitor for corporate email addresses, and spend the money on going after companies that pirate their software. e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7948241/forever-21-pirati...
You can set up a phpBB instance on a shared hosting provider for <$10/month. Interact with anyone who wants to interact with you. Don't even really need any technical knowlege, just a credit card.
People do it all the time, but they keep themselves to themselves and you don't find out about it.
Social networks are immune to competition because of network effects. Once their network is established as the first mover, a subsequent newcomer will always have a worse product because of the smaller networks be therefore can’t challenge the incumbent.
Where we have seen successful upstarts in social media is when they have a different product. So Tik Tok can enter this space. But a Twitter clone or Facebook clone will have a hard time.
The technology isn’t the blocker. It’s that the nature of the social media product works differently, and the lack of competition is inherent to such a product.
"The cyberattack was not intended for the hospital, according to a report from the German news outlet RTL. The ransom note was addressed to a nearby university. The attackers stopped the attack after authorities told them it had actually shut down a hospital."
Why are people making such a huge deal about who they were targeting and who not? Ransomware is digital extortion. There’s zero honor to it in any case.
Because if only University computers had been affected nobody would have died.
If this was just some ransomware attack it would be barely newsworthy, and we sure wouldn't be discussing it. The death is what makes it interesting. And in this context it is important that the hospital wasn't even the intended target but was caught in the crossfire.
That doesn't justify anything, but I think we can all agree that extortion is a less severe crime than murder.
I get your point, but the tone in some of these is borderline defensive of ransomware. As if it would be legit otherwise, except they just misfired in this case
If that's the case then just to clarify: I think ransomware is like a digital protection racket. You either pay up or they try their best to burn your business down. But it's even worse, because even if you have every intention to pay (which you shouldn't), it still causes you downtime that's probably worse than the ransom itself. It's not something I would wish on anybody, and it's a drag on the entire economy. We should prosecute the perpetrators wherever we can.
But if I had to assign jail sentences, a ransomware author would get a decade or two (add another decade in this case for manslaughter), a murderer would get a life sentence. Life over property.
It is important to recognize that crimes have different levels. Society understands that, and it's encoded in our laws in the way we define scaling punishments, and have a difference between misdemeanors and felonies.
For thefts, there's a distinction between "burglary", "robbery", and "robbery with a deadly weapon".
And in this case-- comparing ransomware of a university to terrorism is disproportionate.
FYI I’m not the original poster who commented on the terrorism aspect, but I think ransomware is difficult to categorize because it is often a spray and pray-type attack. And occasionally a vulnerability and other infection vectors line up neatly enough to cause huge damage.
So in this case, the better analogy would be explosives - someone tried to blow a safe to get the money inside but the explosion also killed an innocent bystander.
Isn’t that like saying that if someone burns down an abandoned building and accidentally kills the squatters living inside that they shouldn’t be prosecuted for man slaughter as well as arson?
We're going down a rabbit hole away from the main topic, but "depraved indifference" can lead to murder charges in some states. And burning down a building without checking if anybody's inside would definitely be depraved indifference.
The incentives remain unchanged; if an untargeted attack hits a hospital, treat it (for resource allocation to bring perpetrators to justice) as equivalent to a targeted attack. This incentivizes crooks to do the work on their end necessary to avoid society-critical targets so they don't end up staring down an INTERPOL red notice.
The Morris worm's DOS nature was a programming error; it was still prosecuted as a felony for total amount of damage done.
Isn't that part of why we treat terrorism more harshly? It's often an indiscriminate attack that harms a lot of people. Like setting off a bomb in a government building and mostly harming private citizens who happened to be there.
>I get where you're coming from, but by phrasing it this way you draw up the image of a secret cabal of influential marxists waging a "campaign" via gullible students.
Probably because the "cultural marxism" conspiracy theory originated from the Nazi conspiracy theory of "cultural bolshevism". The idea that Marxists are subverting Western society is a delusional theory pushed by far-right lunatics.
People aren't just scared of the idea of armed police, they're afraid of police departments who have a history of getting away with murder. John Brown Gun Club and Redneck Revolt don't have that history.
There were also rumours of proud boys and other far-right groups attacking CHAZ. It's understandable that people would be more comfortable with vocally anti-fascist gun clubs defending them than the police, who often treat the far-right as friends.
It’s possible you were downvoted without being answered because it’s trivial to Google “Proud Boys”. Here, I’ve just done it for you and here’s the first link: the Wikipedia page on the group —- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys
Fair enough, but with a name as generic as “proud boys” and given this same phrase is being used negatively to describe people who are actual patriots you can see the confusion. TIL “proud boys” is an actual, far right, org.
In practice, it usually takes longer to get an employee's attention and have them come press the button. So I don't bother. It's usually quicker to bag everything at the end, and I tend to get fewer "unexpected item in the bagging area" issues when balacing everything on the scales.