We’re not talking about Israeli educational institutions.

If you’re going to have a rule, you need to have a way to enforce the rule. Which is why MS wouldn’t put it in the ToS. That, and Israel wouldn’t sign that contract anyway. Every contract is unique.

saying “oh it’s against our ToS” is pure bullshit.

Is that good enough? Who’s responsibility is it to check? Are vendors always supposed to keep tabs on their customers or is it a good enough excuse to say “naughty customer we told you not to do that”?

if you create a rule, be it like a law, or a thing in a license agreement; or like, parents telling kids how to behave… It needs to be enforceable. Which means there needs to be some mechanism for identifying people who violate it.

The obligation is on the vendor for ensuring their ToS’s are complied with; and have mechanisms in place to validate that. just saying “well that’s against our ToS” and expecting everyone to follow it is kinda like making a law that says “you’re not allowed to think about the color blue.”

and by the way, if you think Win 11 isn’t telling MS everything you do; I got news for you. Now if win 11 or whatever tool they’re using is reporting on what the [defense contractor with classified secrets] is doing, that’s a different matter. But, it’s probably not actually a rule, and that’s probably some spin doc spining up the bullshit machine.

“We call them Love Bombs. Like Bombs. But like they love you for it.”

“that makes no sense.”

“no no, it’s a bomb that disposes propaganda!”

“Still makes no sense.”

“Well, you’d love the person that dropped TP if you needed TP, too.”

Why not? Bob the Dog is a good boi.

see #3. Janeway entertained Q’s bullshit and he kept trying to hook up with her. shoulda just kicked him in the balls.

edit: in a slightly more serious tone, Janeway wasn’t trying to make moral decisions, per se. the argument, for example, with Scorpion and the fight between 8472 and the Borg, wasn’t about being ethical or moral. It was about getting home. she said it herself… “We’re a federation starship, with a federation crew… but how do we do that so far from home, cut off from everything the Federation stands for?” (paraphrasing.) If a decision came down to getting home or being ‘morally justifiable’, she was choosing ‘getting home’.

That’s a line from Sisko.

"I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it… Because I can live with it… I can livewith it…
-DS9, In the Pale Moonlight.

Say what you want about Sisko, he’s the best captain in ST; for three reasons.

1. he was morally complicated. His ethics were both uncompromising and dubious.
2. he wasn’t the kind of captain you’d give a starship to. Before getting sent to DS9, he had gone ROAD, was just coasting, designing half-baked warships (the defiant,) that the Feddies were ever going to produce (because it didn’t have enough kids on board.)

and 3), he’s the only captain to ever KO Q. … and Q never bothers him again.

Anything to distract the base from their rampant criminality and blatant defiance of the rule of law, including the constitution.

Ol’Quiggy totally banged Shmi.

S’okay, Obi was banging Padme between eps 1 and 2. it’s why she remembered Obi and not Ani.

Still cute.

“Stop Putting WORDS IN MY MOUTH!”

And this, this is why no one else is allowed to have weed on the enterprise.

When Bev gets blazed…. Things get weird.

The best escape plans always involve getting multiple federal agencies into a pissing match!

No. Really!

(/s. They’re usually smart enough to cooperate long enough to get you someplace “cozy”)

that idea has already been had, so it might as well happen.

Well, I don’t mind making jokes because it’s basically “just” a giant taser hooked up to a massive pulsed power source. it shoots a wire at something, which then makes contact with ground and it dumps all the stored power through that wire, turning it to plasma and making lightning.

that tower isn’t just to raise the turret up- that is the cap bank. Getting that thing anywhere near Trump would be a shocking display of incompetence. or complicity.

also, I don’t have the resources or expertise to build it. lols.

You know… with how incompetent the secret service has been lately… they’d probably miss this thing:

And, getting hit by lightning is an act of god right, right?

How could you not be welcoming to that cute sweetums?

please give her the good scritches for me. you know the ones she likes.

For things that are thick, what i found works best is to put the salt (and whatever,) on and let it sit overnight in the fridge.

Bring it out an hour or so before it goes in the oven and add the short marinade if you’re using one. (That looks good enough to not need one though!)

What temperature did you use for the reverse sear?

In any case, it looks fine. How’s the taste? That’s what’s important.

They knew what they were doing.

So, like. The brainworm died….

From starvation and food poisoning.

This guy shouldn’t be trusted to flip burgers. I’ve no intention of taking medical advice.