Maiq

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

I'm lichen what your doing here!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

You swear on it when you take the Oath Of Office.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

However,

The Constitution provides no standards for determining whether a President has violated their oath. The fact that other branches interpret the Constitution, and may do do inconsistently with the President, creates difficulties in determining whether the oath has been violated. Just as some Presidents have suggested that the oath may require them to disregard laws when doing so is necessary to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, some lawmakers have argued that the President’s oath requires them to execute all laws, regardless of whether the President believes them to be constitutional.

The Supreme Court has not addressed these competing views, and the oath and its surrounding text do not suggest that questions about violations of the oath were intended for judicial resolution. The Court has held that the President is generally immune from civil or criminal liability for official actions taken while in office, which may impede judicial resolution of questions relating to a President’s violation of their oath arising during the President’s tenure. The Constitution’s justiciability requirements are another potential obstacle to resolution in federal court.

Impeachment provides a vehicle by which Congress may adjudicate a President’s alleged violation of their oath. Articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson charged the President with being unmindful of the high duties of his office and of his oath of office. Draft articles of impeachment to be used against President Richard Nixon alleged that President Nixon violated his oath, though he resigned before these articles were adopted.  Articles of impeachment adopted in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton charged the President with violating his constitutional oath, as did articles of impeachment adopted in both impeachments of President Donald Trump.

The political process provides another check on the President’s violation of their oath. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton suggested in various contexts that political accountability might help ensure the President’s fidelity to their office. In his second inaugural speech, George Washington observed that violating his oath would invite the upbraidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C8-1-5/ALDE_00013936/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Scruffy Nurfherder strikes again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like the Steal Your Face and Frank from Donnie Darko had a kid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This series of video is so awesome. Didn't know there was a book. Now I have to buy it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Might be able to recover the logs with testdisk. The email and other info might be enough. If you do get your logs back might impress the CS Prof. Shows willingness to figure shit out when things go wrong.

To me, what they did shows intent to commit a crime if not the crime itself. Possibly legal offences likely wont be taken lightly.

If your gonna hack shit it better be your own in a lab or have consent from the party involved

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Bring your evidence to the CS Professor. See what they think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Justice. Whats the right thing to do?. A free Harvard class by Profesior Michael Sandel.

Fucking ADHD, I meant to post this somewhere else. Leaving it here though out of lazyness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Begun the mech was has.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)
  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Barrons good with the cyber.

 

So I just started using calibre on my tablet pc. I have an issue where any italicized text is put in a block with a background the same color of the body. I'm assuming this has a greater z-index so it blocks the text above and below any italicized text.

I have installed the opens-dyslexic font and am using it and it really does help. Even if it looks a little comic sans like. Pretty sure its not the font causing this and its a bg color being applied to the italicized text with a greater z-index than the body at least that what it looks like. I have used CSS since its adoption but I really hate it! I don't do any real work with it anymore.

So I was wondering if there was a general easy way to download styles and hopefully apply them to all books? It would really suck to have to find issues in css and fix them per book just to be able to read.

First book was styled nicely. Maybe there wasn't any italic in the text though.

Using the latest Calibre
OS: arch
DE: kde
On a MS Surface Pro 9

Side issue, the calibre main interface is kind of touch unfriendly in that I cant open books without the stylus or a mouse. Is that an issue for any one else? Every other part of the UI works pretty flawlessly with a finger.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

So I'm entirely sick of dealing with windows on my surface. It is my only device not running linux. I decided on fedora to avoid ppa hell and It is not my daily driver so arch is out as I don't want to do the maintenance.

Anyway, it usually fails with:

Fedora install screenshot.

Any suggestions? I dont know windows well at all. To me it looks like it might be a firmware update of intel IPU on windows might be needed bit have no clue how to go about that.

 

An intriguing look into the bronze age collapse and the mystery of the sea peoples.

 

So I have been kind of bummed about the lack of a screensaver option for wayland and pining for the old days, of a land that came before. I completely understand the wayland devs perspective on this. But I'm old and nostalgic so I set out to try to find a workaround.

env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY xscreensaver --no-splash

So xscreensaver's settings won't work which makes it hard to configure. The only solution I have is to configure it in an X session and switch back to wayland. It doesn't really have a screen lock function and really I don't need/want it to. I just wanted to have some bouncing cows on my screen while I'm listening to music doing the dishes!

Thought I'd ask if anyone knows any hacks to get xscreensavers settings working under wayland so I don't have to switch sessions? Also maybe a hack to get one of the awesome xscreensavers working as a desktop background in KDE?

A side note, a lot of work went into these screensavers and I don't think they should be lost to time or relegated to the annals of history because it's lock screen functionality is kind of obsolete. I say we deserve bouncing cows!

 

Searched for a few weeks and could not find any solid solution. Found a KDE thread that said it was a issue with flatpak but I don't even have flatpak installed. Others say it's Wayland, Do non KDE users on wayland get this too?

I know it's for security but it's too damned annoying to be worth it! Should I setup a tiling WM and be done with it? It really is that bad.

All I want to do is play Skyrim without seeing this every 15 minutes!

 

Clickbatey video title but the story is heart warming.

 

The ability to add users to list's separated by group. With all the crazy stuff going on it would be helpful to be able to remember who is who. Maybe with a user defined flair next to their username on their posts and comments.

I don't like blocking views I don't agree with but would like an easy way to see at a glance what kind of person I'm dealing with and make it easier to see patterns in their discussions. If they were to be overly annoying, arguing in bad faith consistently or just a propaganda mouthpiece this would make it easier to recognize.

 

So with some cold weather coming to some of you I thought I'd remind you that it's a great time to season your pans.

Heat your house up a bit and enjoy some food afterword.

 

This was a placeholder image for a .gif I uploaded.

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