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The curious bit is that this law is from 2007, so apparently this is an angle that escaped all attorney and courts who applied this law in 16.5 years, or the defense could have shot down this line of reasoning by pointing out that this isn't what the law intended. (we don't have case law, but there are means of harmonizing outcomes once stuff ended up at higher level courts)
My guess is that this won't hold up for long given the circumstances (trivially got the password, accidentally gained more access than expected, immediately disconnected upon notice)
[0] the process was pretty much the same speed for non-participants in non-participant countries, but okay: his administration made it a priority. Gold star for you!
Seems like she stayed clear from raising suspicions (by simply not publishing more and going into administration instead) but now she made herself some serious enemies willing to do the work.
The consequences are a matter of trust: A simple office clerk with no scientific training going through the ranks at Harvard growing into "President of Harvard", on the understanding that they "merely" ensure that the business chugs along (and with a proven track record in doing that) while keeping a large part of such administration work off the backs of the scientists and teachers is a better fit than somebody who's demonstrated disregard for the tenets of scientific work.
It doesn't matter why President Gay's works were scrutinized right now, the loss of trust is still real.
“At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?” Stefanik asked.
“It can be, depending on the context,” Gay responded.
But Stefanik pressed Gay to give a yes or no answer to the question about whether calls for the genocide of Jews constitute a violation of Harvard’s policies.
“Antisemitic speech when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation — that is actionable conduct and we do take action,” Gay said.
Stefanik tried again.
“So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct, correct?” Stefanik asked.
“Again, it depends on the context,” Gay said.
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The middle part with its "that is actionable conduct and we do take action" could mean that she understood the question as "does the university take action?", and that truly depends on the context: There are situations that aren't the university's business but law enforcement's. (even though I'm not saying that she took it that way, I don't know what she thought at that moment, but it seems like it wasn't a lot.)
Even with such a 'most charitable' interpretation her communication sucks though, which makes her unsuitable for a role that's to a larger part that of a figure head. And with any other interpretation, she's even less suitable for basic decency reasons.
This has been brewing for a long time, and it seems GSMA folks are now certain enough that RCS is a replacement to SMS to make some larger waves.
[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/imessage-judge-orders-a...
[2] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-imessage-android-...
[3] https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/samsungs-response-to-apples-g...
Switzerland is relatively consistent in offering equal treatment, so maybe it'll eventually turn out that some outlet or another is controlled and manipulated in sinister ways by China, India, or maybe the Vatican or Bhutan.
That doesn't mean that they're (plural, because Threema is also milking its Switzerland-based operation for all it's worth) worse than non-Swiss providers but if that's your main selling point, it's not really a selling point at all.
In the large: That idea is from a time when burning fossils at home (including coal) was the way to heat, and burning fossils to drive a (relatively inefficient, at least compared to today, and filters were an unknown luxury) generator was the way to create electricity.
You likely got more heat at home out of a bucket of coal when burning it at home rather than burning it at the power plant (with some excess heat there), converting it to electricity (with some losses), transporting electricity home (with some losses) and then heat up the home with that, even with 100% efficiency at that last step.
(These days I wouldn't be so sure: those power plants, even the fossil burning type, are fine tuned high-tech at a level you can't just put in ordinary homes, so they might actually extract more energy to use after all the losses along the chain than the fireplace at home that evicts a considerable percentage of the heat through the chimney)
So everybody has been telling everybody in Germany that "electric heating" doesn't work, heat pumps are vaguely "electric heating" (different mode of operation, but for that you'd have to know how heat pumps work in the first place), and with all that you end up with some "wisdom of the crowd" that fuels false confidence.
Alright, my bad. Consider "designed" replaced by "suitable".
Houses of a certain era in large parts of Germany (those with only a few days of moderate sub-zero temperatures) tend to have been built with a bit of air leakage capacity to avoid mold. Yes, that's wasteful, but since fossils were (and are) subsidized like crazy, you just heat a bit more and be over with it.
That strategy doesn't work as well when you have less heat to work with.
There are still people who argue that it's unhealthy to live in a properly insulated house ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I doubt you have a lot of that nonsense in areas that deal with freezing temperatures for months at a time.
The inbound temperature into the radiator network took a dive from about 70°C to about 40°C here (I _could_ push the inbound temp to nearly 50°C but by then I'm no better off than with resistive heating), and that's rather obvious when heating the rooms.
The main advice everything came down to was "have a lot of surface that can heat" and from my experience that seems to be quite true.
The house has a bunch of radiators that never ran in the nat-gas days, basically it was overcommitted on heating surface. Now they're pretty well used. Another retrofit option that I had in the back of my head was radiators equipped with a fan to move the air along the radiator surface more quickly (essentially creating "virtual heating surface"), but I didn't need those.
Other than that, warm and cold parts of the house (e.g. basement) are more clearly separated. A FLIR camera module for my phone gave some hints on where heat escapes so that I could focus on the right spots.
When a larger rework of a room is due (and there's a huge mess in any case), that's a chance to look into floor or wall heating there, connected to the same system.
Once that's (mostly) done, I suppose the inbound temperature can be reduced some more, and I expect super-linear electricity savings from that (due to the way the heat pump works).
In terms of costs, it comes out at about the same, although there are more options in electricity availability, and I suspect that pricing there remains more stable than with fossil fuels, so longer-term I expect operating costs to develop beneficially (even if that only means "remains flat"). TCO of the project, I don't know, but I was optimizing for long-term OpEx for various reasons.
By the way: Heating engineers tended to dismiss the project, but the project started before there were any issues with gas supply, so "just use gas" was their go-to solution anyway (for the eco-conscious, they dangled the carrot of "it's H2 ready!", even though it's unlikely that the pipe work will ever support that). Not sure if the attitude of heating engineers changed in the meantime.
In the end it was done by air conditioning technicians, and it can be switched between heating mode using radiators and AC with split system frontends, so this house covers cold winters and hot summers with just one external device (which pleases the historical landmark office)
I'm in a house in Germany and got it converted from gas to heat pump a couple of years ago. It took some adaptations to make that work, but on the flip side we obviously blasted lots of heat into the atmosphere before, which we're reigning in now (still work in progress).
So yeah, conversions of houses not built to "heat pump spec" has follow-on efforts and costs that the heat pump hype didn't advertise. I had a rough idea what to expect and that it'll take a while to sort out everything, but if you went into the conversion with the idea that you're just replacing one part with another, you're in for disappointment.
Extrapolating like that is a great way to achieve amazing numbers with little relation to reality: wars don't keep up the pressure throughout their duration.
For example: The latest number I've seen was 857 civilians murdered by Hamas on Oct 7. That would be 26500 dead civilians per month, but of course that number exaggerates an already horrible situation into ridiculous heights.
Hardware development cycles are closer to 5 years. So while he might have gotten some adjustments done on the designs so far, if he turned the ship around it'll take a while longer to materialize.
The software side is more agile, so any tea leave reading to discern what Gelsinger's strategy looks like is best done over there.
Wikipedia describes Lee as such: "Lee oversaw Singapore's transformation into a developed country with a high-income economy within his premiership. In the process, he forged a highly effective, anti-corrupt government and civil service. Lee eschewed populist policies in favour of long-term social and economic planning, championing civic nationalism through meritocracy[3] and multiracialism[4][5] as governing principles, making English the lingua franca[6] to integrate its immigrant society and to facilitate trade with the world, whilst mandating bilingualism in schools to preserve the students' mother tongue and ethnic identity."
That's a forward looking vision, not a backwards looking vision like the "Palestinian cause" that seems to end with restitution.
Would any politician with such a vision like Lee's even have a chance with Palestine's electorate? No idea, elections were last held in 2006...
But at least it guarantees that there are Palestinians who can seek redress, e.g. at the ICJ. But I suppose when there's the "Palestinian cause", Palestinian lives cease to matter.
(let's ignore West Bank for a moment since Al-Sisi and you both did)
Israel could have been done with that 6 weeks ago, if they didn't care about making the distinction. It's a pretty small region, after all.
Are they doing a good job in distinguishing military targets and civilians? No. Could anybody do better and still make progress towards the stated goal? Uncertain.
But I don't think that "Israel is not even trying to protect civilians" is supported by Israel's actions.
There are still rockets flying out of Gaza into Israel.
> 2. Its only purpose is to defend against the agression
The people sending those rockets are in Gaza, so to stop them, Israel has to go there.
> 3. The defense has to be proportionate
That one is regularly the most difficult point of contention in individual self-defense. Hamas essentially goes by this playbook: https://imgur.com/XX6HVrn
So, moving it back to individual self-defense (or coming to somebody's aid, which is covered by approximately the same rules): what should be done about the guy holding a loaded gun at his hostage's head while covering himself in babys?
Al-Sisi, as reported in https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/10/12/Ga...:
> But the case of Gazans “is different”, he said, because their displacement would mean “the elimination of the (Palestinian) cause.”
As for strikes in particular: France doesn't require a union vote to engage in a strike to do so with far-reaching protections (2 employees fighting for an employment-related change seem to suffice from my cursory reading), so the French can strike without needing to be unionized. And boy, do they strike...
DeepL translation:
The 12 V electrical system can barely cover the power consumption that modern vehicles need for their comfort systems. The "static" consumers completely overload the alternator, which provides up to 3 kW of power, especially at low temperatures.[12] The battery power is not sufficient for additional dynamic consumers, such as powerful electrically driven compressors.[13]
For this reason, a proposal was made at the end of the 1990s to install a 14 V/42 V electrical system in motor vehicles.[14] From 2001, Japanese manufacturers and General Motors launched hybrid vehicles with this electrical system on the market.[15] Although Daimler-Chrysler was one of the co-initiators of this concept, it was not used in Germany. One reason for this was that it did not appear possible to demonstrate a corresponding utility value to customers for the necessary additional price[14].
Instead, since 2010, German car manufacturers have favoured the solution of providing a second 48 V electrical system to supplement the 12 V system.[9] Since 2016, the first series applications of 48 V electrical system components have been the operation of the electric compressor and the electromechanical roll stabilization in the Audi SQ7 4.0 TDI and Bentley Bentayga. Both are based on the same platform.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/10/12/Ga... cites al-Sisi:
> On Thursday, he said that Egypt was already hosting “nine million guests, as I call them, from many countries who came to Egypt for security and safety.”
> But the case of Gazans “is different”, he said, because their displacement would mean “the elimination of the (Palestinian) cause.”
That's "stay there, no matter what", al-Sisi could unilaterally open the Gazan border, after all. In plain English: Meat shield.
> Most people were just regular farmers. That you think a whole region were bloodthirsty barbarians really says more about the racism of american media than anything else.
First, I don't consume american media.
Second, most people in Mandatory Palestine were regular farmers, alright. The armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq were anything but.