The bigger deal is that this immunity protection does not extend to the President’s minions and officials.

Not directly, but any employee or agent has no liability if they are following legal orders of their employer. So no - they cannot be prosecuted either.

They said it was to be determined by a lower court. It was sent back to a lower court and Trump was convicted. But the judge ruled that no penalty should be applied because of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immmunity and it was up to the DOJ to prosecute. The DOJ is under direct presidential control and by then Trump was in power.

SCOTUS could have prosecuted Trump directly, but as always, they deliberately slow walked it so the case would disappear. Which is exactly what they are going to do with all the current cases.

Actually the Nazis identified autism and they were given jobs in intelligence.

Why would Trump bother ? They’ll still vote for him anyway. They’re a miniscule proportion of the population anyway and politically irrelevant.

NFTs were a form of tax avoidance.

Art purchases in the US are tax deductible. So you buy an artwork and then sell it your own family trust and that is not taxabele income.

The only downside is that artwork may be damaged, so you have to insure it. NFTs being entirely digital didn’t need to be insured.

The NFT thing falied when they were removed by the IRS from being defined as artwork.

Trump cannot change tariffs either but there you are.

Trump can issue an excecutive order and have them executed.

remember - SCOTUS has ruled he is immune from prosecution.

…and was ruled by SCOTUS to be immune to prosecution for some undetermined “official acts”. And when he was convicted the judge ruled no penalty should be applied because SCOTUS had ruled he was immune to prosecution.

Trump was convicted of that but the judge ruled there should be no penalty.

The administration will just apply for an appeal to the decision - 6 months - then if it is approved it goes to a one man Supreme Court ruling (18 months), then they appeal again (12 months) and it goes to the full bench (24 months) who will declare its now outside the scope of action.

More like the Cheka in the Soviet Union that just kidnapped anyone they found on the street to meet a quota.

“You need a pen licence because that’s what you use at work”.

Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.

Only schoolchildren used biros.

There are 10 Commandments.

No - there’s 14.

And most of them also have sub-commandments, just to confuse it further.

So presumably NASA is anti-science ?

Because they have redetermined that Pluto is a planet.

Yeah but its such a hassle to find, so…

Edison ivented the light bulb in the US. No, it was Tungsram in Hungary. Edison did employ him as a result though. Bell invented the telephone. No, it was Edison labs. Bell stiole the patent from an Italian guy when he was working in the patent office. Philco invented the TV set. Nothing to do with it, it was Edison-Marconi. The CRT controller was invented in the Soviet Union hence the Philco invention story.

Stomach ulcers are caused by stress. Nope.

Alcoholism runs in families. Nope.

Heart disease runs in families. Nope.

all apps built for one distro can be run on another.

Pfft no. They won’t even work on earlier versions of the same distro. Or later. Or any distro where you’ve installed a library or driver thats older or newer than the one needed for the app your installing.

So in essence there is no difference besides the installation process, gui, and package manager.

There are three different package systems (Red Hat, Debian and Arch) and they are all completely incompatible with each other, and earlier versions of themselves. You can use containers like Snap or Flatpack or half a dozen other standards, which again are all incompatible with each other, and all of them except Snap aren’t fully containerised either - they are dependent on specific libraries and drivers in the distro.

In the near future, probably within 12 months, all the standard features of Windows will be gone. The won’t be any Explorer, there won’t be any Start menu, there won’t be any opening screen.

There will just be a prompt and you say “computer, open yesterdays word file”, like in Star Trek. There won’t be any “apps” to install - you’ll just say “phone, open the order menu for Boise City Chick-Fil-A” and it will navigate automatically to the page.

Sure, if you’re a total weirdo you will be able to install a bash shell and navigate manually, but hardly anyone will do that.

BTW, AI is being introduced into Linux as well.

Yeah you can’t just jet off whenever you like if you have a work visa. You need to get permission from the Immigration department first.

People often find this out when they do a quick trip over the border to Canada or Mexico.