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He is plainly a vexatious litigant. Can you get him declared as one? It's a very high bar though and I've no idea what the process is.

Wachovia laundered more and received a much smaller fine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico...

According to an article in The Times years ago (early 2000s?) the money was used notes from the Bank of England that was going to be burned anyway. With insurance, security, and a …

A bus ticket is something "that confers value or benefit to its owners".

On your second point the History menu has a Restore Last Session option (or something like that) when you reopen the browser after inadvertently closing a bunch of tabs.

Scientifically speaking, the human death rate is a surprisingly low 93%. This is the obvious calculation: the number of people who died divided by the number who were born.

Sure, but you still don't know who or what actually wrote the text that got posted.

My understanding from the book was that CO2 is an essential part of the mechanism that transfers oxygen to your muscles. If you breathe too much you have too little CO2, your muscl…

Many years ago I wrote a C compiler in assembly language. It wasn't hard, and C hasn't changed that much. The complexity in modern compilers is in the optimisation, which you don't…

An example in the UK yesterday. Climate protesters glued themselves to a petrol tanker and were charged with tampering with a motor vehicle. The protesters argued that the bit with…

You can bootstrap the compiler. It's a chore but not impossible. More usefully, you can check that your builds are identical to other people's, so at least your compiler isn't uniq…

Also botox.

The whole point of pronouns is to reduce cognitive overhead. If pronouns become something you have to remember for each person then you might as well drop them from the language an…

Medical forms tend to ask for sex, not gender.

Yes. The identity verification seems like the point of this nonsense.

The design choices make a bit of a difference but most of the overhead is Defender. When you try to read thousands of files your computer spends most of its time running Defender. …

ddrescue works with blocks and bytes. Audio cds are different. They contain a single physical bit stream interpreted as several interleaved logical bit streams representing e.g. au…

An automatic driving ban for passing under (being generous) the second red cross on a lane would weed out the arseholes. Just enforcing the existing law would help. The cameras and…

I attended a prestigious university. You could pretty much do what you liked (including nothing) for the three years and the degree was awarded for 30 hours of exams in a single we…

Gas stoves might be constantly leaking, but they only produce particulates when they are alight. Assuming you don't have an ancient appliance with a pilot light.

What's the holy trinity?

She didn't return. She deigned to attend the trial via video link from the US.