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Signature and decades of signature databases and modelling to generate signatures via decay chains, etc.

Signatures being patterns in gamma ray spectrums with 256 or more channels.

You can boost signatures with long soak times and SVD stuff.

A more challenging question might be how much cosmic and cosmic decay byproduct do they have to filter away on what kind of orbit related time series fluctuation as a levelling correction.

US and UK phrenologists encouraged a lot of grave descration, often not even waiting for a corpse to be interned before shipping the remains out.

  Yagan’s murder by colonial settlers was, even by the day’s standards, an act of hideous violence. That his head was subsequently removed and dispatched to England as a biological curio, a specimen to aid the discredited voodoo science of phrenology – whereby racial intelligence and personality could purportedly be determined by cranial distinctions – added indignity to death.

Easy to write off as the bizzarro actions of those gosh darned old timey folks ...

  A naked life size bronze of Aboriginal warrior Yagan, resting a spear across the back of his shoulders. It is quite evident that the head of Yagan is not the original one (rather oversized, has a far too long a neck and is an altogether different shade). I must say that because the statue’s head has been stolen twice (and given the way Yagan died), the sculpture now takes on a strange and ironic overtone. 

but yeah, they just keep stealing that head.

What are things Ronald Erle Grainer demanded of Delia Derbyshire?

That comment could easily have been made by an orphan from the poorest part of the US who signed up for military service.

More accurately, reddit is the unasked for source of first resort.

Just as problematic, no getting around that.

For the computing connection, Knuth reportedly built his house around his organ.

If it's purchased as an idle showpiece toy, then sure talent is optional.

There will be a few old school Brian Eno adjacent types who'll want one to make noise with ... and some talent will be requisite to avoid sounding like a bag of cats being poked with a stick.

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You seemed determined to get messy rather than legitimately discuss where we are not seeing eye to eye.

Yes, definitions matter. Yes, I do see difficulties in two strangers discussing this.

Yes, the behaviour of LEOs changes depending on who they interact with and yes they can be oblivious to that change.

When I say that most of our state LEO's have strict adherence to the code of ethics, I mean that. When I say those in the grey area still consider themselves to have strict adherence, I also mean that.

Part of the mess lands with where they see themselves in the state and who they see as those they serve and those that they protect others against.

Maybe get a life and stop idly throwing about dictionary definitions? Particularly one that's a fork of English.

No, and Venn diagrams.

How can you assume the LEOs with variable ethics are in the 80% and not the 20%?

Also, Philippine Basketball Association membership carries no weight here.

Don't think that's exactly "targeted".

Legally, there's a debate to be had.

A telescope on a hill that can see everything within a 12sq mi circle Vs a "google maps" type 360 panorama lens on the same hill.

Live only versus 24/7 recording, filtered (only pointed at one house of interest / only logging specific devices / only logging a network of devices that interact with devices of interest)

The question re: "targeted" goes to whether it's opened ended recording of everything, or filtered and targeted sifting out of warranted subjects.

It's going to vary by country, state, and "culture".

Here, in my locale, honest LEOs that that have strict ethics run at about 80%.

Interestingly the things that LEOs are strictly ethical about varies by interaction and preconceptions - straight bat with fourth generation farmers, entirely willing to bend the law in bad ways when dealing with indigenous people etc. is not uncommon.

not the news for the last three months.

I've already alluded to the US withdrawal from the Iran / P5+1 JCPOA in 2018.

Should I go back as far as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, or further back to the 5th millennium BC ?

Tearing up working agreements for petty reasons and later attacking during negotiations for a replacement agreement is certainly stupid but hardly terrorism.

Canada's inability to do basic forest fire prevention.

Australian here. What makes you think the "forest fire prevention" methods you outlined upthread are "basic"?

Have they ever been performed at the scale required in the history of European occupation of North America?

Normally dry lightening doesn't cause so many strikes to spark, nor do sparked fires normally spread so far and fast. Regardless of cause there are vast areas of remote forest covered land with extremely low moisture indexes - ie. dry as a tinderbox.

Clearing that land area of dry under brush and criss crossing it with wide firebreaks is no casual undertaking.

It's also remarkably "old" in a digital sense:

  Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a set of interoperability standards for sharing home digital media among multimedia devices. Introduced 2004; 22 years ago.

  Google Cast is a proprietary protocol developed by Google for playing locally stored or Internet-streamed audiovisual content on a compatible consumer device. The protocol is used to initiate and control playback of content on digital media players, high-definition televisions, and home audio systems using a mobile device, personal computer, or smart speaker. The protocol was first launched on July 24, 2013; 12 years ago.

RSS feed title: China wants more babies, so it's breaking up AI relationships

  New regulations in China ban tech companies from offering AI or virtual partners for minors and ban all chatbots from encouraging emotional reliance.

It's certainly been doing better since the previous US administration put some cash in the infrastructure jar.

2025 Infrastructure Report Card | ASCE

  The 2025 grades range from a B in ports to a D in stormwater and transit. For the first time since 1998, no Report Card categories were rated D−. Among the 18 categories assessed, eight saw grade increases. 

I dare say the next report card might not be so rosy.

Rail: B-

~ https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/rail-infrastru...

A lot of things could happen, sure.

One thing that I, personally, am not overly concerned about would be a long lasting critical shortage of ferromanganese production ability in Australia.

If the demand / desire is there then we have the resources and in-country skills to step up and make it happen.

We are, as a country, aiming too low on what we can do with mineral resources and charging other countries / non-Australian companies far too little for the privilege of extracting our "wealth" / assets and flogging them on overseas.

How do you get the very bespoke equipment

For manganese ore concentration and binding with carbon?? Ball mills, acid washing, screening, anodes, et al. are 'bespoke' now?

Look, there are big speciality bits which you can order in from overseas, fabricate locally, or retrieve from "stashed one over there" yards.

When existing processing plants are "scrapped" that usually means that beams, catwalks, and all manner of things are crushed and melted down - but it also means that motors, crucibles, linings, etc. are sold on (usually within Australia), or stored and eventually refurbished and sold or reused.

to keep it operational and known good state?

Is it? It's been going for a while and no one was interested in stepping in due to economics and clean-up issues: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-17/future-liberty-bell-b...

Some might take the approach of suggesting a partial teardown / refit to be more Norwegian in its carbon consumption: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019592552...

I can reel off a list of plants being torn down for scrap also.

The question is, does that actually mean there is no way to get a smelter up and running in the event of a critical need within a useful timeframe.

Bear in mind, right now today, Australia has multiple shuttered lithium production sites that went up in anticipation of a much greater battery demand than actually occurred, and have since been shuttered. In a similar manner the same is true for other mineral supply chains.

The link to mining.com was a nod to the historic ebb and flow of Australian exploration / production and the kinds of things that get hashed out at the Diggers and Dealers mining forums.

In terms of "critical resources" - we have them in the ground, and we have a lot of smelting technology that we can draw on / repurpose.

What Australia does lack, for now, is next level up processing - eg: hard rock lithium spodumene concentrate processing, currently outsourced to China and Malaysia, only recently barely begun here.

   Do NOT use where speeds exceed 5 m.p.h.

I think based on years of service in government roles or something like that

More or less, with qualifications and levels of degree.

Eg: Was the Second Malayan Emergency active or "peacetime": https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-12/rifle-company-butterw...

Active service in a recognised danger zone ups the pension rate and expands the health benefits (as does exposure to fallout - they like to medically track anyone touched by atomic testing).

So, who in the US is actually using identity politics as a distraction?

I ask because as an outsider I overwhelmingly see US identity politics issues being raised by the new "Republicans" and to a lesser degree by the old Republicans.

if you materially make peoples lives better they will vote for you.

This doesn't explain the last election in the slightest unless relaxed to "if you pinky promise to materially make peoples lives better..."

It still has shuttered plants to do all manner of things - in the event of an actual need to boot these up again, it can be done.

Non-US PoV - US identity politics as an actual threat to panic and pearl clutch about seems to be largely a creation of the US right.

Actual US identity expression "issues" (visible drag queens, actually trans people, sports questions) seem to be small number small beer problems that should fall under US principles of "We let Nazi's march, so why not Furries" ?

It's not inconsistent to

* support noxious Nazi's speaking out loud and proud in the light of public day so that they may be judged and weighed on their "speech"

* despise cockroaches crawling in the dark influencing publicly elected representatives with non public "hidden speech" .. a euphemism for bags of life changing amounts of case.

One is speech, out and proud, the other .. just a bribe, hidden from light.

As no one has commented on the problem;

98% of "frontline workers" having direct experience of "Technology-facilitated abuse" (ie. have encountered at least one case of it out of all their cases)

is very different to

98% of "all domestic violence cases" involving "Technology-facilitated abuse".

That is indeed the testimony of Steven C. Quay, one of "the lab leak people" that are asserted by GP to be probably wrong.

Very few people would claim that there is no testimony for the lab leak claim, it's simply that relatively few domain scientists support that claim.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_C._Quay

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory

you can't solve this problem

by doing something I did not suggest. Agreed.

What I did suggest is not putting up with corruption, waste, and toxic externalities "just because".

Sorry but vinyls don't offer anything but nostalgia

That's simply incorrect on the face of it, as others have pointed out vinyls offers a curated physical object per clump of music tracks.

Maybe that's not for you, which is fine; but for a number of people, young people today and older people that grew up with records that's a different way of engaging with the media and the artists presentation of media than a faceless, artless, beige device on shuffle.

A large physical album cover with artwork, lyrics, details, etc. is something that some people just like - and was liked even in the days when there was no nostalgia attached to the packaging.

Yoto has a market for children because it has a device driven by physical cards.

~ https://yotoplay.com/

Yeah, I've got an original metal tin from a 1968 purchase as a child: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdens%27_Nut_Gone_Flake#Desig...