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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • That is WILDLY narrow-focused when considering what is actually required to get this to work as a system of systems. Yes, parts of the system already exist. Getting them all working together with all of the kill-chains closed in an automated “dome” system is a completely different story. And that is ignoring that new satellites and ground systems are needed, which will all need to be defined, acquired, designed, built, tested, and deployed. Building a single GPS III satellite from an already existing design that has already been acquired, built, and tested 10 times would take longer than 3 years. Hell, just the requirements definition and acquisition will take 3 years for a program this big in scope.




  • It seems to be mostly a euro thing. BMW stopped using oil dipsticks nearly 2 decades ago.

    I was about to make this joke: “That’s just not true. My 2008 BMW had a… holy shit, that car is nearly 2 decades old now.” Then I went to confirm, and that car did NOT have a dipstick. The car came with 5 years of “free” service and never gave me a day of trouble, so I never realized it didn’t have a dipstick. That’s probably a major reason it was removed, since even a DIYer like me who likes to work on things myself never even tried to use the dipstick in 4 years.











  • Only in very specific cases:

    For parents of a child, it is only a crime for these cases:

    Noncustodial parents; 
    Fathers whose paternity the government hasn't recognized; 
    Parents in active custody cases; 
    Parents with a court order requiring them to do so; 
    

    In general, though, you don’t need explicit permission to take your child out of state.

    For non-parents, it is only illegal if done for the following purposes:

    Transportation With Intent To Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity;
    Travel With Intent To Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct; 
    Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places; 
    Illicit Sexual Conduct in Connection With Certain Organizations; 
    Ancillary Offenses (to sexual misconduct);
    

    Attempt and Conspiracy (to those acts above);

    It’s weird that noncustodial parents are more restricted on taking kids out of state than random non-parental people.