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No, prisoners can still be slaves. We only limited it.

Albatross. Conversation went something like this: "If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be?" *long awkward pause* "I...I cant think of an animal. My mind is blank." "Take your time." *even longer, more awkward pause* "...uh...albatross." "Beacause they can fly for hours with no land to rest on?" *awkward pause* "Because I thought of Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and its literally the only animal I can think of but I didn't want to say it because the albatross doesn't have a positive connotation in the story." *more awkward silence* EDIT: and before it's asked, yes I couldn't remember the word dog or cat or parakeet or any common house pet.

I think I figured out a work around. In radio physics antennas are polarized in a certain way. The antenna's polarization is basically the direction of signal transduction. Our network is using cross polarization. That means we are transmitting four 100 MHz carriers vertically polarized and four 100 MHz carriers horizontally polarized. That way we maximize BW. We get two carrier blocks of the same frequency on the same antenna. Doing some experiments today and the problem is mitigated when one block of four carriers or the other is locked. I think the reason for that is we use a software algorithm called XPIC (cross polarization interference cancellation) that, coupled with the high order of radio carrier modulation, places some unforgiving signal to noise ratio demands on the system. Free space path loss is a measure of how much the air in the antenna far field attenuates the radio signal expressed as a ratio so that goes right to the heart of SNR. Locking a carrier comes with a price though. 256 QAM (Quadrature amplitude modulation) gives us 8 bits per symbol, 256 symbols per wave cycle gives is 2kb per cycle. 2kb per cycle means 800 MB throughput x 4 = 3.2 GB throughput. x2 with XP enabled = 6.4 GB shared over all users walking in and out of the auditorium. By shutting down XP I'm cutting that in half. BUT... 3.2 GB that isn't dropping at a 7% rate (anything more than 2.8% drop rate is unacceptable) is better that an unreliable 6.4. Will it work? Don't know. Seems to but I need at least a week of data to make a determination. My brain is exhausted and I have a headache from squinting at a spectrum analyzer all day. I'm going to get a big steak for dinner than drive home. No G on this trip so meat is back on the menu boys!

The best answer to these "rumours" is this video.

That'll fix any pressure issues. Well, any pressure at all, even!

In my profession there are no "wise old men/women". Nobody knows everything, no one is an expert and on any given day you might see something no one has ever seen before. Here is a great example. I do RF Performance work for a company that designs, sells, and maintains private 5G networks. Mostly to Universities and various government entities. My job is to optimize performance on completed projects. The weird problem happened on a pretty large customer facility. It was strange enough I had to go see it for myself. The radios our networks use operate in the EHF band. Just under 40 GHz. Our radio signals have a wavelength of just over 7mm. That means the radios have a very short "footprint" (how far they can transmit and have the customer handset reply) so we need a lot of them. We have four positioned new the entrance of an auditorium type building at the facility in question. These radios are dropping attachments like crazy and driving up reselection and foreword error correction on surrounding nodes (this is a bad thing). I had the vendors replace everything, I had them work with me over the phone trying to tweak alignment and placement. Nothing worked. I came out here yesterday to look for myself. I meticulously went through the engineering again. There is a thing you learn in EE called the Friis Transmission Equations. You can use it to calculate important stuff like free space path loss, etc. Here is the thing... what is actually happening does not conform to Friis. The ratio of transmitted power to received power is off based on radio F, expected path loss, and antenna aperture. Now ordinarily we'd just conquer the problem by increasing radio power. But these radios are not on a tower, they are close so people. So transmit power is kept very low for safety. Here is the thing, the entrance area to the building is enclosed on three sides and has four revolving doors that lead into the building. The building is soft top (Teflon) "dome" auditorium and is pressurized inside to 1.1 ATM. Every time the doors revolve the pressure inside the dome "normalizes" (meaning increases) the pressure in the partially enclosed entrance area because Robert Boyle said it does. Now, what affect does atmospheric pressure have on radio wave propagation you may ask? If you'd ask me yesterday I'd have said none. But RF tends to behave in somewhat unpredictable ways in EFH. About 10 years ago Oxford did a study that showed at 29 hg (1 ATM) and humidity < 30 changes in atmospheric pressure did affect path loss changes in UHF radio signals. It amounts to .01% for every 2 hg change. But UHF radio has a wavelength of 1 m at the low end and a .01 change in path loss of a 1 m radio signal is statistically negligible. And besides, where on earth at ground level does atmospheric pressure change so rapidly. Constant pressure is one of the things that makes the Earth so awesome. Well, I'll tell you where: in the partially enclosed entrance area of the building I came here to see! AND a .01 path loss in a 7mm wavelength radio signal is statistically significant. In fact it accounts very closely to the path loss deficit I'm observing. How freaking cool is that? Now, how the heck to I solve this?

Mmm, wrong game ?

Palestine question gets lot of press, but it is far from only area / people who want independence. It is also far from worst treated area/people Serbia still has not recognized Kosovo, so there is closer to home target for your concern how people who want independence are seen as causing provocation towards other people who see it as their right to own the land. 80% of Russia seeks independence from Russia main, which sees such actions as provocation and punish and imprison any advocates fast and harshly 50% of China seeks independence of main China and which see such as provocation that justifies putting entire population groups to prison camps. And so on. But people's struggle for independence is almost always just used as tool to attack people with different world view by pointing how those people support some people who are seen oppressing some other people. Very rarely such comes from genuine interest of people's right for independence or not being oppressed.

admitted for a job we knew we had no chance o' getting hired, we answered as follows: tardigrade. we pointed out to the interviewer that we were likely the toughest sob she had ever met or would ever likely meet... evar. spent a couple minutes explaining why we were toughness personified. weren't complete serious; thought we were just kinda being an arse, but were fun as we had nothing to lose anyways. ... we got a job offer. go figure. however, we were later informed our tardigrade response were most certain not the correct response. offered in spite o' our answer. HA! Good Fun!

That's a wide brush to paint with but okay It's an important loophole because what do you think came next after they said no more chattel slavery but you can use prisoners as slaves

Tell them to open some windows

Are you serious in thinking that Ukraine's intention to join NATO is a provocation? Really? It is not up to Russia what Ukraine does with regards to NATO. That's entirely Ukraine's decision. And if you think that Russia regards NATO as a threat, please stop kidding yourself. Russia's entire western front has been wide open and empty for months now, very easy for NATO to walk in. Of course NATO doesn't do that. It has never had any intention to do that. Russia knows it, this is why the west of the country was emptied. Only some Russia apologists may seriously think that Russia fears a NATO attack.

"Texaco 1-1, this is Enfield 1-1. Switch is safe (Master Arm switch set to 'safe'), nose is cold (radar set to 'Silent'), looking for 8K (pounds of gas)" "Enfield 1-1, Texaco 1-1, proceed to pre-contact at angels 20 at two two zero." Line abreast with my wing-man. Wing sweep set to "Bomb" mode, which fixes both the flaps and the wing sweep to 65 degrees Refueling probe extended "Ready pre-contact." "Cleared contact." the KC-130 announces as it extends the refueling drogue. The Tomcat briefly shudders in the burble of the Hurc, but quickly recovers... The golden rules for aerial refueling - 1. Pick a fixed reference point on the refueling aircraft and keep the basket in your peripheral vision as you approach, but never "chase it". 2. Use minute movements on stick, rudder, and throttle as you approach and make corrections. 3. Approach slowly, but above all else keep it smooth, lest you fall into a feedback loop of oscillating corrections that will force you to back off and attempt another approach. 4. If you have to back off and take a breather, wiggle your toes! "Little left." The RIO (Radio Intercept Officer) advises as he leans right in his seat, walking me into the basket as I fixate on the refueling pod the hose is being unreeled from. "Keep her steady." "Contact." the KC-130 announces. "We're plugged. That'll put out our thirst." the RIO exhales triumphantly. "You're taking fuel." "Fuel thirteen thousand... Fuel fourteen five-hundred..." The RIO reads the fuel gage over the next several minutes for what seems like an eternity as I struggle to keep the aircraft steady. "Transfer complete." the Hurc declares. "Disconnect." I back out of the basket and while the Hurc retracts the drogue, ready to unspool the hose again once my wingman is in position. Taking position besides the Harriers we were escorting while my wingman tanks up.

<insert clip of Monty Pythons Albatross skit here>

Spawn's devil wants to remind you that he exist too.

Holy hell, I thought that was a very well done parody, but it's an actual Blizzard trailer.

This is important to remember also in cases of Kosovo, Chechnya, Kurdistan, Kashmir, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Eritrea, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, East Turkestan, Macau, Manchukuo, South Mongolia, Tibet, Assam, Kamtapur, Manipur, Nagaland, Punjab, South Ossetian, Republic of Abkhazia, Aceh, Minahasa, Riau, South Moluccas, Khūzestān, Iranian Azerbaijan, Balochistan, Republic of Central Kurdistan, Nineveh Plains, Hokkaido, Okinawa, Johor, Penang, Sarawak, Sabah, Arakan, Zo Asia, Kachin, Kawthoolei, Karenni, Kokang, Mon State, Northern Rakhine State, Shan States, Wa State, Zale'n-gam, Kirat Autonomous State, Madhesh, Terai, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Sindhudesh, Bansa Sūg, Cordillera, Siberian Republic, Buryatia, Koryakia, Taymyria, Khanty-Mansiysk, Tamil Eelam, Patani, Northern Kurdistan, Assyria, Karakalpakstan, Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, South Yemen, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic, Republika Srpska, Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, Istria, Faroe Islands, Alsace, French Basque Country, Brittany, Åland, Occitania, Pale of Calais, Northern Catalonia, Bavaria, North Frisia, Lusatia, Valdosta, Friuli, Free Territory of Trieste, Republic of Lombardy, Transnistria, Republic of Gagauzia, Groningen, Silesia, Kashubia, Transylvania, Székely Land, Partium, Komi-Permyak Okrug, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Idel-Ural, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Komi Republic, Ingria, Karelia, Kaliningrad, Kalmykia, Kuban, Don Republic, Republic of Crimea, Abazinia, Circassia, Karachay-Balkaria, Lezgistan, Tabasaranstan, Vojvodina, Sandžak, Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Basque Country, Castile, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Galicia, León, Navarre, Valencia, Scania, Cornwall, England, Scotland, Northern England, Wales, London, Midlands, Shetland,Yorkshire, Isle of Man, Alderney and all the areas in Africa and Americas

yeah, we were aware o' the plagiarism accusations. had a university roommate who raged 'bout such frequent... keep in mid our university were late 80s. am thinking such criticisms is justified. the thing is, we were introduced to zeppelin via their blues stuff and for a number o' years we viewed zeppelin in the context o' being perhaps the whitest blues cover band evar (although the stones are serious challengers to the title,) so learning their other stuff were no more original perhaps bothered us a bit less than it shoulda'. HA! Good Fun!

Samurai Champloo 11 Without money they take up some jobs, but only Fuu ends up doing any work. Mugen gambles on beetle sumo and Jin takes simpathy for a woman who lost her freedom. Samurai Champloo 12 Ten episodes later Mugen and Jin start to question their journey. Well, they did ask Fuu once, but then she got angry and they run away. Anyway, ten episodes. Well done, guys!

How many Kurdish heads will be sent to Sultan Erdogan on a silver platter?

unfortunately you would remain mistaken. courts and legislatures were still referencing prisoners as "slaves of the state" in multiple jurisdictions decades following the 13th amendment. the slavery/involuntary servitude distinction is a bit more fuzzy than you might believe, but regardless, weren't 'til the 20th century when SCOTUS closed the slavery loophole specific (kinda tangential related to 1930s tariff act as a matter o' fact) and the involuntary servitude bit remains. so guns didn't actual end the practice but were the Court which final eliminated the remaining vestiges o' a national sin... or perhaps senators wyden and brown as well as the obama administration by a surprising not unanimous vote to codify in 2015(?). not absolute positive o' the year. and yeah, involuntary servitudes for prisoners remain in most/many (not certain of numbers actually) states as o' 2022, and the courts has made clear there is little to distinguish the two practices in any meaningful sense. at least a few state courts still use the terms interchangeable in spite o' the 1930s SCOTUS case we reference 'bove. HA! Good Fun!

The 13th Amendment explicitly states it as an exception (EDIT: As @ShadySandsalso quotes) "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" IMO it's one thing to consider it acceptable (to be clear, I don't. They should be opt in and they should be paid if you wish to use prison labour), but I feel it should definitely be considered slavery.

didn't guns also ended slavery?

Seems like Terraria to me.

Triggering a mutiny takes quite a bit of time even with 0 morale/food/water. I think I had to sail around a month of in-game time before I was able to get a mutiny to trigger.

Trump WH sounds like a great workplace. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/28/us/jan-6-hearing-today/3f4b0783-257a-5fd7-9fc7-315dc657f23c?smid=url-share

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/28/politics/white-house-ukraine-projection/index.html CNN being pessimistic of late. Then again, guess this will scare up the will for the next wunderwaffen. I think it's NASAMS now.

I saw the reveal and videos as they were shown at the showcase. The thing is that everything I've seen is that this is going to be, at best, a theme park where you go and build a ship, build an outpost, have a small combat bit, but it's more about wandering aimlessly through the wilderness in hopes of finding something. They are selling this on 1000 planets, and 4 cities. It's gonna be a mediocre shooter. I mean, it says something that standard Bethesda Face hasn't been fixed since Oblivion (that I can recall anyway).

I cant agree more with the amount of aid the US has provided, and still does, to various African countries in different ways like HIV anti-retroviral drugs and there many US NGO, like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, that provide billions of dollars of humanitarian help to several African countries The Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2015 was only finally contained because of a medical and military US deployment to help the people in the countries grappling with Ebola https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/10/us/ebola-u-s-troops-africa/index.html https://www.usaid.gov/ebola

Ye I won't really have to prebuff a lot since I'm going the SC wizard route, so both vela and me will be permanently untargetable due to SoF + Temp Cocoon, and I'm also doing the grimoire switch cheese you discovered to steal permanently spamable SoT + Bdd just for good measure.

This is just plain silly. Clearly you don't have a good idea of the kinds of things that have happened and are even now happening in the world. All the US has done is some drone strikes which wouldn't even register on any scale of crimes or atrocities. And on the other hand, by the reckoning of many African country governments and African humanitarian orgs themselves, what the US did to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa during the GWB Administration literally saved the continent. And every time there's a famine or pandemic in Africa, it is the US that has led the way in helping out. Never ever any sign of the likes of USSR/Russia, China, etc. doing a damn thing to help.

several years of deadfire and i only just now learned that a game-month has 20 days. of note - what's your build/apporach? i needed a lot of cushion because the skaen + salvation of time build that so many people did, the way i would very conservatively pre-buff, each fight would be like a half day on its own (that would get me buffed up to like 400-600s on my buffs). if you're using strand of favor clickiness you probably get a lot of time efficiency that i didn't know about/have in my run.

iirc i ended my run with ~10 days remaining. i definitely wasn't completely efficient with travel (iirc i had to salvage my route when my test character ran into difficulties that required some equipment), but i think you're really cutting it too close if you're down a few weeks.

maybe it's path of exile? sometimes i get path of exile results when i google "poe"

my thought is that you'll have insane action economy issues as an ascendant (i rolled an ascendant/wael mystic and this was my experience) up until you start doing salvation of time shenanigans. even with wael's fast bonus spells, you'll still want to cast priest spells, which eat up time from attacking, which takes away from your focus generation, etc. retaliation and focus from retaliation might diminish that a bit, but the fundamental issue will be there. in that vein i think soul blade is better - you don't have to invest too much into cipher powers to be effective, and soul annihilation is a pretty good dump for focus that you can fit in-between spell casts w/out having to worry about specific focus thresholds to hit.

Yup. It was because I thought it was funny. And then I learned more information and posted a correction about it while sharing that I learned that the process is likely more manual, and prone to the mistakes associated with that, than I realized. A sort of "ah, okay I see how that happened" sort of thing. The second post was literally an elaboration on the first post to help provide correct context to the original mistake and that maybe I was being too harsh on The Times in this particular circumstance. (I also feel I shouldn't need to clarify that it's entirely possible to use a swear without shouting, but here we are) EDIT: And in some news that absolutely does not surprise me, people that are very sure they can tell when people are trans are doing a wonderful job of assuming that the best women's swimmer in the world, Katie Ledecky, is also a trans woman

Soul Annihilation gets applied to most enemies in the cone (the number of raw dmg varies though, the initial target gets all the normal raw dmg, the 2nd one nothing iirc, the 3rd one gets some, the 4th even more and so on). If you can expand the cone size a lot (items such as INT+, Ring of Overseeing and stuff like Smart via Minor Avatar or a Litany etc.) then it might be worthwhile to use a Soulblade. Also spamming the focus gained from Offensive Parry into Soul Annihilation is good. Soulblade gets +max focus for some time after killing an enemy. This can be prolonged with Salvation of Time, too. Don't know if it's worth it though.

Hands off the substances!

I wish. The only thing in my control here are those four radios. And I can't move them without 1) getting approval from the facility, 2) completely re-engineering everything and 3) rework the construction from my budget which is pretty small. I'm going to have to come up with something out of the box or increase antenna downtilt and live with a the coverage gap. Probably the latter.

I responded to your question about the Cuban Missile Crisis, their are no parallels because their was no installation of nukes in Ukraine so its not the same as the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC ) I dont mind you not responding to you own question but can you at least stop bringing up the same false narrative and comparison to the CMC Or you can provide the links that support your point that there are US nukes in Ukraine or being installed in Ukraine, its not that complicated or unreasonable ?

Some quests have a non-violent way and a violent way, but that's pretty much it. The non-linearity comes from which faction you do quests for. You can get pretty far by sucking up to them all though, so it's kinda moot.

Forgot the worst trial of all. Sprint retrospectives.

The Waylanders. I've reached the end-game and the main quest has softlocked. I will try it again later from an earlier point. Not counting that "small" issue, it has been quite fun, several (2, to be exact, but one of them twice) previous decisions have been referenced, however insignificant they were. Also another companion quest turned out to be impossible to complete. This time the game kept crashing at one specific point in an unremarkable tunnel. I tried teleporting through the "crash zone", sending the character and switching to another, and turning the camera away while running with the same "Fatal Error!" message at the end. Considering that the exit was on the other part of the corridor, the only way to get out was to reload one of the previous saves. If anyone has any suggestions for the softlock, it would be most welcome. Judging by the Steam achievements, I am 2 quests away from the ending. Stopping now would be most disappointing (unless the ending shown in the video is the best and truest one).

have mentioned previous how the presence album is a bit o' a departure for led zeppelin and is vast underrated in our estimation. robert plant were not well for presence as he were recovering from a car accident, so the band had to make adjustments and compensate. were not what zeppelin fans had come to expect, but it were technical more sophisticated and arguable represents the best work o' bonham and page. HA! Good Fun!