My understanding is that it's printed on such flimsy paper as a sort of identity loss protection. If you lose it somewhere it'll degrade quickly to the point it's unusable, hopefully before someone else tries to use it. The downside is, of course, that if you don't protect it with supreme care, it will also degrade to the point it's unusable.
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The trick is not to arrest most if the really high profile individuals who are critical of the state, but encourage rumours about why they've been spared to discredit them.
Sure, compilers have come a long way since then and there is vanishingly little you'd write in assembler now-a-days, and you'd probably drive yourself mad trying to do so on anything more complex than a microprocessor.
Assembly language is not something you would ever really program a game in.
Back then you wrote whatever you needed to be performant and/or that involved close access to the hardware in assembler. A game would definitely count. It's kind of nice to do, in many ways it's simpler than high level programming, you've just got a lot more to keep track of.
This seems like the most straightforward scenario. Nothing prevents trump running, or being elected, as Vice President, on the understanding that the duely elected President will step down on day 1. When they wrote the constitution, they didn't bank on a populist fascist, so the language assumes everyone plays fair.
Whether trump is in any state to do anything by then is a different question. If they find someone more useful they may simply shuffle him out of the game by declaring him mentally incompetant.
The absolute best case scenario is that they're just saying this because they know it outrages non-magas, and they love doing that. I've not seen much to support that as the probable outcome though.
Why? Why did you put that in front of my eyes?
Tabs are the one true way! All those who blaspheme against the might tab will be regex'd into compliance.
Look out of your window, yes, just a little to the left, you see that pigeon? That's for posting memes giving away the secrets.
I hoped so. I was going to say something about "Won't somebody please think of the property prices!" but schools seemed more important.
I... I really don't think we want Yellowstone pulling itself up by it's caldera, we'd end up with even fewer schools.
From the article:
The 10-person team is trapped at the remote Sanae IV base, which is on a cliff edge about 105 miles inland from the ice shelf, by encroaching ice and weather as the southern hemisphere winter sets. Teams overwintering at the base are typically cut off for 10 months at a time. Sources told South Africa’s Sunday Times that the only way to leave the base now was via emergency medical evacuation to a neighbouring German base about 190 miles away.
As far as I can see it's currently the end of the Antarctic summer, winter is just starting, and will likely last until October. It sounds like something went badly wrong with both the psychological screening of the team members, and the decision for the ice breaker that delivered them to leave before the situation was resolved.
I think this has got to be one of my all time favourite C&H strips, it gets a chuckle every time I see it. The last two frames are perfect, and I know I've felt the same sentiment as Calvin enough times to know better.