2005: Epstein investigation begins over prostitution of 14 year old girl

2006: Epstein indicted

2008: Epstein let off on a plea deal

2019: Epstein arrested again, this time related to trafficking in minors, as part of a larger investigation

2019: Epstein dies in jail, Democrats call it suicide, Republicans blame Democrats for his death

2021: Ghislaine Maxwell convicted

2025: DoJ announces investigation into potential coverup, vows to unearth “client list” and vows to make the entire investigation transparent and release all details

2025: Trump announces there’s no client list and the investigation should be forgotten

I’ll let the reader fill in the dates for who was in power when, and who was calling for further investigation vs. Who was saying we should move on, when.

IE wasn’t about the monopoly; it was about how they got it and what they used it for.

That said, the same questions should be asked of Apple.

Trump also says to forget about Epstein.

And all sorts of other stupid things.

I just assumed this meant Ukraine should target Moscow.

They might just be friends with someone on the list, or directly related to them.

I notice a number of women are on that list. If they were involved in grooming and raping underage girls, there’s a bigger story here.

Most likely it’s just someone they know who’s on the list, or they haven’t even seen the list but someone told them to vote that way so they did.

He’s a narcissist. He’s afraid of anything that could make him look bad to himself.

Consequences don’t factor into it at all.

Single word answer, but it really is the best option: invest in people who need a kick start but are for the most part too poor to be grossly unethical.

Just make sure you’re investing in an ethical microloan company; some of them aren’t above a bit of grift themselves.

I don’t miss spending hours trying to get a slot on the modem pool.

But I’m still happy to while away a few hours on mume.org or some random Diku server.

Facebook was never fine; it just wasn’t a silo effect at first—but it was still a privacy and security nightmare.

Sounds like a pizza place name even.

I remember cliques and a lack of online monoculture on Usenet and IRC before the World Wide Web even existed; the web exploded things even further, as did the privatization of DNS and takeover of funding by VCs and ad conglomerates. All that had happened by 1998.

I’ve been using Apple products since 1979. I’d definitely say that the statement is true; Apple rarely leads the charge. That doesn’t mean they never do, but they tend to, in most cases, wait for a trustworthy tech to come along, and then push forward with it, dragging the rest of the market along behind them. There’s always innovations and synergies, many of which wouldn’t happen naturally in the market, but the stuff they integrate is generally already well tested and proved.

Counter examples include the original Macintosh, the Newton MessagePad and kinda-sorta the iPhone. More common behavior is related to things like PowerPC/ARM, USB, Firewire/Thunderbolt, nVME, trackpads, wireless peripherals, and the like.

When was this?

Asking as someone who’s been on the Internet since 1989.

It’s satire based on the types of things the rich and powerful say to get away with stuff on a regular basis. The guy he allegedly killed had allegedly killed thousands through the policies he intentionally put in place, that were defended with similar language.

I’ve spent time in sntsk’il’ntən, and one of the things I’ve observed is the amount of orchard and cattle fencing in the area that blocks larger animals from using the obvious corridors. In some places, animals moving through the area would have to climb a significant way up Black Mountain just to get around the fences.

It’s better than nothing, but the corridor definitely doesn’t track the actual traditional routes the animals would choose to take.

That said, the bears still use their old routes and routinely knock over any fences that get in their way, so there is that.

Northeast BC… so we’re talking in Peace River country / Alberta Lite? Or west of Fort Nelson?

Thing is, almost everyone implicated here is well over the age of 70 today. If the deep state ever really existed, they did a horrible job of passing on the baton, and now they’re all dying, one by one.

Two Bills… I had to figure out which of Clinton, Cosby and Gates you were talking about.

So the pedophile ring in the fictional basement of the pizza place turns out to be yet more projection….

I remember watching the specially selected news as the events unfolded, and as a teenager who could think critically, not be able to reconcile the statements of what was going on with the facts of what had led up to the confrontation. The question that kept coming to mind over and over again was “wait… why doesn’t the Mohawk Nation own the golf course? Why is an outside government getting involved at all?”

And then the shot was fired.

I still think the town having a carve-out of the established treaty lands is all sorts of underhanded, and trying to then eminent domain further lands for a parking lot… it’s sad that the situation hasn’t really improved much since then.

For decades, many computer scientists have presumed that for practical purposes, the outputs of good hash functions are generally indistinguishable from genuine randomness — an assumption they call the random oracle model.

Er, no. The falsity of this is taught in virtually all first year CS courses.

Computer programmers and other IT workers? Sure… but hash functions have never been considered a substitute fore pure randomness.

That’s why we have a random generator in each computer based on thermal variance, I/O input, and other actually random features. And even then, we have to be careful not to hash the randomness out of the source data.