Once again, copyright maximalists fail to understand the medium they profit from, and propose to destroy it.

The display of hypertext always involves the active participation of both clients and servers. It has never been dictated solely by document authors. A given hypertext document (e.g. a web page) may involve resources drawn from many servers, including ones not under the control of the document’s author. In addition, client behavior may vary from that expected by the document’s author; in matters as minor as the selection of font size, or as major as whether to display images or execute script code. This separation of control is a fundamental feature of the medium, and gives rise to many of the medium’s strengths: for instance, the development of servers, clients, and documents may advance semi-independently, serving different interests.

Users may choose clients that they believe will better serve their needs. In many cases, users have chosen clients that take steps to mitigate the power of advertisers to control the medium: see e.g. the adoption of pop-up blocking (pioneered in Netscape plug-ins and minority browsers like iCab and Opera) and the later adoption of anti-malware technology such as Google Safe Browsing by Firefox and Opera as well as Google’s own Chrome. These choices have strengthened the medium, making it more usable and thus more popular: imagine how unpleasant the web would be today without the pop-up blocking developed 20+ years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costochondritis

By the way, his sister does cool math art. https://bathsheba.com

C++ programmers always let their friends access their private members, so …

It’s a saint’s name; the original is Ghislain which is the masculine form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislain

Le Guin’s Earthsea almost doesn’t have white people.

I’m too sleepy to slut.

Depends on if you need to know what “qualia” means, or if you need to know what a “Parisian doobjob” is.

There is a word for country X trying to operate a government function inside country Y’s territory, without country Y’s permission. That word is “invasion”.

This is set to music at the end and beginning of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.

Orbitz went to heaven so you could have boba.

One of the writers has said it was about nuclear armageddon, so there’s that.

To be clear, it was the '80s. Everything was about nuclear Armageddon.

While you’re fact-checking Was (Not Was), be aware that some of the historical events alleged in “I Feel Better Than James Brown” may not have occurred literally as described.

I was attending Mardi Gras with Fidel Castro
Buxom cross-dressers threw fake gold coins at our feet
As we discussed the fate of the Revolution.
Suddenly, CIA men dressed in bikinis
Tried to stab us with fountain pens
But Fidel blew mustard gas through his cigar
And immobilized the lot of them.
Nineteen tequilas later, we had a deal:
Havana goes back to the Mob,
And Fidel and I open up a chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken shops.

It is, alas, unknowable whether Mr. Was actually felt better than James Brown. How do you feel?

How come they can’t afford to pay pensions to the families of dead soldiers then?

I quit software but I still grow beans!

For that matter, immunity from criminal charges for attempting to pardon oneself is not the same as the pardon being valid.

Better do it in DC. Murder can be charged under state law, and the presidential pardon power only applies to federal charges.

Necromnomicon
Mr. & the Glōbabiez
Service Top
LARGE HAM
Dr. Lucifer’s Patented All-American Greaseless Five-Cent Instant Baptism Remover
Phactory Pharm
Sweet Virgin Studmuffins
B.L.Z.Bubbles
Desmond & Molly Jones
The MDMAliens
The DMTeenagers
A Sea, A Bee

Supreme Court judges must be confirmed by a majority of the Senate before being seated.

The immunity from criminal prosecution has to do with official acts, not personal acts. It wouldn’t apply to Biden personally shooting Trump.

It would apply to a military proclamation as commander-in-chief that the Trump movement is a domestic insurrectionist movement that carried out an armed attack on the US Congress; that the Trump movement thus exists in a state of war against the United States; and directing the US Army to decapitate the movement by capturing or killing its leaders, taking all enemy combatants as prisoners of war, etc. (Now consider that the Army is only obliged to follow constitutional orders, and would have Significant Questions about the constitutionality of such an order.)

Further, the immunity is only from criminal prosecution and would not protect Biden from impeachment and removal from office by Congress while the Army is still figuring out whether the order is constitutional.