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... that sounds like something that would balloon either RAM or hard drive requirements. Possibly do horrible things to loading times. Please don't give them ideas. Devs don't need yet another excuse to throw efficiency out the window ;_;

E: In question news, anyone happen to know of a way to auto-append stuff to the end of web addresses from specific sites? General would be nice, firefox specific would be good enough. The specific scenario is I'd like to be able to stop manually typing &nohtml5=1 at the end of youtube addresses, since something or another they did quite few months back left that the only consistent way to keep that bloody godawful html5 shit from trying to boot up, and the various extensions that intend to force flash for the site are... not very good.

As Neo said, the only resource on this planet that could really attract a spacefaring species is our biosphere. Anything of that sort would ruin it, so they couldn't do it.

Not necessarily! There's some parts of our biosphere (deep ocean, extreme temp stuff, so on) that could quite possibly survive a few (dozen) KKVs slamming into the planet -- and considering they're more or less the most exotic part of our biological portfolio, it could make sense that's what an extrasolar entity is looking for, with everything else on the planet being an obstacle. There's also some particularities to our biosphere that would basically require killing off most of the rest of it to create, ala methane utilizing bacteria en masse.

So it turns out, to the surprise of no one, that trump's promises to divest himself of his businesses while in the position of POTUS were bald faced lies. The conflict of interest pile grows yet more as trump is shown to have pissed yet again on the traditions and dignity of the presidency, ha. Also seems like some of the businesses that are funneling into the trust are receiving payments from federal sources for various services. Apparently trump's corruption wasn't unsubtle enough for his lot, so he's working to make it more bloody obvious :V

It... would have been incredibly easy to respond without, y'know, bringing up military action. Seriously, the question was if the guy was worried about gibraltar seeking independence in response to england's choices, and his response was a not at all oblique statement about having the resolve to go so far as to wage war on a spanish speaking nation. All of it in context of possible reactions from the UK towards the EU negotiations and the rest of the UK seeking independence because of them. There wasn't even the intimation there was any territory to defend, except possibly from england itself.

It would indeed have been ridiculous if the leave camp had actually done the sane thing and questioned what the hell he was going on about instead of setting their position firmly on top of the threat, but that ain't what happened. Which is why so much attention has come down on it.

It's most likely ISIS (or at least a lone wolf who pledged to ISIS), yeah, but it's too soon to have confirmed that, which is what I meant.

Though even if they claim it, that doesn't exactly mean they were actually behind it. More than one terrorist group that likes to do that, since being attributed with the act helps them regardless as to the veracity of the attribution. Without more information, the "who" could be just about anyone, for all something organized is more likely. It's not exactly unknown for someone random to blow something up, and organized terrorist/criminal groups and those they support don't have a monopoly on the ability to construct explosives.

Being able to build something at home with relatively normal access to civilian resources is definitely more difficult and less likely to produce results, but it's still a thing, and at least from what I've noticed from the bits of news that are in so far (which are admittedly slim on details) it wouldn't take much of a boom to do what's being reported. 9-10 dead and a couple dozen or so wounded in a close in/crowded area is within the territory of a well packed pipe bomb, which are dead easy to make so far as explosives go.

I can't sleep, again. And my whole face around my nose hurts for some fucking reason.

they warned you hatchetface wasn't literal, but you didn't listen

now you have fuel for winter and an aching face

I'unno, last one I remember was about icefrog, iirc. Didn't really fit the description that was just given, either, and turned out the one pinning the name was just kinda' wrong, to boot, if my memory's working right.

That said... at least if all it was was calling them a liar, it definitely wouldn't be inciting harassment. Possibly slander or libel depending on the form (and only possibly, because there's more involved than just something like that), but not more. Inciting takes actually, y'know... inciting. Pretty direct calls or very blatant insinuation. Otherwise folks like Limbaugh would probably have gone to jail a few decades ago and never came out. Also looks like just the name wouldn't necessarily qualify as doxxing either, now that I double check. Stuff covers things that are personally identifiable, and last I recall most names just don't qualify for that. Too many other people with the same name, et al. Tacking on some sort of location or job position or something probably would trip things over the line.

Pretty sure confirming rumors wouldn't even count at all, tbh. The folks spreading the rumors themselves might be properly tagged as doxxing, though, and if the actual information that qualifies is being spread instead of just a sort of "yeah, so-and-so has the right of it" that might stick, too.

Mind, even if it's not actually doxxing or inciting harassment or whathaveyou, that doesn't mean whoever's doing it isn't being a complete dick. Just probably not doing anything that's actually illegal, or publishing information that could get them into legal trouble.

... is it wrong to be vaguely amused by someone saying they care about the opinion of a group they're pissing on the opinion of? Why would gibraltar's opinion matter then when it didn't before and doesn't now?

Poor guys, though. First being dragged from the union they wanted to remain in, now being used as an excuse to threaten war and facing the likelihood of pretty severe economic repercussions regardless. Critters probably don't have a win condition for this one.