I don't know why everyone's surprised. What were you expecting from Elon? Ethics and morality?

Honestly, I would like the world to keep Vivian out of this. (I wanted to say 'his daughter'. But Vivian is right. He's just too obnoxious to be related to.) Elon has done enough damage to her by throwing her to his band of online trolls, because she chose her own life instead of following his wishes.

A couple of million? You're talking about pocket change for them. You should look at the grants and subsidies he avails from the government to keep them afloat. That should also give you an idea about a major source of his funds - your taxes.

It says 'one of the most shameful'. There are plenty of others - especially the ones perpetrated by the devil Henry Kissinger. This shameful episode is right on character for the USA.

All I asked here is a question, and suggested the most probable answer in most simple form. You could have given a different answer, but…

But what? Answer your misdirections? There is only one type of civilization - one based on justice and empathy. But you project it as a white man's creation. This is just deceitful. A malicious justification.

You don’t explain your notion of civilization, but want me to deal with your notion of common sense, justice and civilized behavior. Why?

Because reasonable people with common sense all come to the same conclusion about justice and civilized behavior. Only people with delusions of past glory, racial supremacy and autocracy reach different conclusions. I don't need to pander those tendencies of yours.

There used to be entire chapter worth of material to mug up for exams on which feature of Indian constitution is borrowed from which white country in textbooks.

Ambedkar only borrowed ideas. That doesn't mean that it's foreign. Your own quotation says so - "It involves no plagiarism". I called it unique to India because it's uniquely adapted to the conditions in India. It also has a depth that none others have. But you keep insisting that it's a foreign invention. I would rather live in Ambedkar's India than Manu's India. What you're aspiring for is a barbaric order that the citizens are not particularly found of.

Did you skip all of that in school?

Evidently, being in school is meaningless for people like you. We have learned enough to see the warning signs and consequences of an oppressive regime instead of clinging to technicalities to make up frivolous justifications for it.

There. You just lost entire argument by Godwin’s Law.

"Godwin's law can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, a diversion, or even censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate." Nazi comparison is entirely justified here since we are talking about the importance of the constitution and the slide into authoritarianism. So perhaps you should learn that it's hypocritical to use Godwin's law indiscriminately like you do.

Prepare better for next time.

No amount of preparation is enough to talk to authoritarian apologizers like you. You can't be reasoned with logic or reality. You live in your own delusions. You can live in the hell of your fantasies. Please spare the rest of us. We have no intention to go back to the dark ages with the likes of you.

What's the second problem after topo naming that's getting fixed?

FreeCAD has already merged the solution for the infamous 'topological naming problem'. The 1.0 release may happen soon!

Early signs of Project 2025?

I'm an adult and am not responsible for anything you described. They were all there even before I was born. In fact, the same may apply to my parents or even grandparents. I'd rather blame a sociopolitical class than any single generation for all those ills.

But to answer your question, yes, I'd blame that entire class for the harm caused by young people using murder tools they introduced. They did it with the full knowledge of its consequences. They valued momentary material gains above the wellbeing of entire generations. They absolutely should be punished for all the mass shootings in schools, because they knew it could happen. Yet they chose the blood money. Similarly, if an entire city is under a drugs epidemic (like the current opioid crisis), wouldn't you want to hunt down the producers and suppliers, instead of the users?

It's extremely nuanced. 'Light years ahead' is correct since you are thinking about a race where one competitor is a long distance ahead of others. On the other hand, 'light years away' doesn't make sense, since we think of achievements in terms of time needed, rather than distance.

You are right, except for one detail. Package managers almost always validate the packages using digital signatures, to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. You don't need to trust the network anymore. Shell scripts piped to a shell don't have that protection. You still have to trust the developers and maintainers, though.

Wasn't that the point behind hanging, drawing and quartering?

No. Just leave their corpses in the jail for multiple lifetimes.

The sort of mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance that these subhuman c-suite employ to justify stealing everyone else's data while demonizing sharing of their data, is just infuriating. If these scumbags were incarcerated for a day each for every time they showed this hypocrisy, they would all rot in the jails for their entire lifetime, perhaps more.

There was a time when ministers used to resign after taking responsibility for accidents, scams or overall failures. People have forgotten that time. They seem to think that India was like a sub Saharan nation before 2014 and now it's like Europe. This government has made people comfortable with the stance that ministers are not answerable or even responsible for their piss poor performance.

Vande Bharat isn't a luxury. It's a much required evolution of the railways. EMU passenger trainsets are common all over the world. There's no point in sticking with locomotive driven separateable coaches other than for freight.

The main mistake here is how the railways is neglecting passenger requirements and safety. IR already has an indigenous solution for train accidents - Kavach, a cost effective implementation of the Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) requirement. Yet we find that in every single accident in recent history, the trains were not fitted with Kavach.

Another issue is about cheap general coaches and sleepers. The government cut their numbers, despite high demand. That's just pure dick move. This one could in fact be due to the government trying to make it more profitable before selling it off to their crony friends.

The thing here is that VB and general coaches are not mutually exclusive. You could have VB trainsets with general coaches. Even Sudhanshu Mani said that the reduction of general coaches is a bad idea.

I don't think that you can exercise such fine motor skills while you are shooting up a school or other mass gatherings - which was the whole point of the ban in the first place.

I don't understand the kind of sociopathy required (by the judges in question) to seek an excuse to pedantically redefine a device whose whole original purpose is killing people en-masse.

MP is the new UP, I guess. Can't let this country be devoid of at least one state where the clock runs backwards.

Barely noticed among the mountains of improprieties of the BJP government - the Gujarat model of development is all about the PM misusing his official position to cajole and bribe foreign investors to abandon other states and choose his home state for setting up industries. These charlatans are no better than the British raj by treating the rest of India as a colony to plunder.

Choosing a country that depends primarily on oil for income, to head a climate change conference indicates everything that's wrong with the current world order.

Fight against climate change headed by oil companies, anti-war groups headed by weapons manufacturers, human rights council headed by regressive kingdoms that still uphold slavery, women's rights groups headed by countries where women are not allowed to vote or even go outside on their own - the entire setup is designed to pull a massive wedgie over honest hardworking regular people.

Take the lesson people - you are like amusing, but expendable guinea pigs to these rich and evil beasts.