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Almost a literal "niche" hobby. Canoe - something that resembles a recess in a wall.

That went quickly from "America the supposed liberator is here" to "America is going to genocide your entire civilization."

Fraud (Wikipedia, United States):

  - Misrepresents a material (non-trivial) fact in order to obtain action or forbearance by another person
  - The other person relies upon the misrepresentation
  - The other person *suffers injury* as a result of the act or forbearance taken in reliance upon the misrepresentation.

Damages in fraud cases is normally computed using

  - Recovery of damages in the amount of the *difference between the value of the property* had it been as represented and its actual value
  - Out-of-pocket loss, which allows for the recovery of damages in the amount of the *difference between the value of what was given and the value of what was received*.

Usually also heavily implied it needs to involve money in some significant way:

18 U.S.C. § 1343

  (...)'any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises'(...)

Fraud cases also usually heavily apply burden of court practice on the prosecution, to prove fraud and substantial losses. If you type 'John Smith DOB 1/1/1900' the "victim" has to prove it caused them to suffer injury and that there was a significant difference between the value of the property (non-trivial).

It's the equivalent of spinning the view camera around in the scene. Up / Down spins the light coordinates, Left / Right spins the camera viewpoint.

Probably could have been written that way though, since it is spinning the camera view rather than the object.

Seems cool. Took a couple minutes how to set up a basic object and do a multiple part bouncing ball tween. Haven't really explored the scripting or export options yet.

Attempt at real life version (starts with idea they are actually not trustworthy)

  - You invite someone to sit in your living room
    - There must have been a reason to begin with (or why invite them at all)
    - Implied (at least limited) trust of whoever was invited
  - Access enabled and information gained heavily depends on house design
    - May have to walk past many rooms to finally reach the living room
    - Significant chances to look at everything in your house
    - Already allows skilled appraiser to evaluate your theft worthiness
  - Many techniques may allow further access to your house
    - Similar to digital version (leave something behind)
      - Small digital object accessing home network
      - "Sorry, I left something, mind if I search around?"
    - Longer con (advance to next stage of "friendship" / "relationship", implied trust)
      - "We should hang out again / have a cards night / go drinking together / ect..."
      - Flattery "Such a beautiful house, I like / am a fan of <madlibs>, could you show it to me?"
  - Already provides a survey of your home security
    - Do you lock your doors / windows?
    - What kind / brand / style do you have?
    - Do you tend to just leave stuff open?
    - Do you have onsite cameras or other features?
    - Do you easily just let anybody into your house who asks?
    - General cleanliness and attention to security issues

  - In the case of Notepad++, they would also be offering you a free product
    - Significant utility vs alternatives
    - Free
    - Highly recommended by many other "neighbors"
  - In the case of Notepad++, they themselves are not actively malicious (or at least not known to be)
    - Single developer
    - Apparently frazzled and overworked by the experience
    - Makes updates they can, yet also support a free product for millions.
    - It doesn't really work with the friend you invite in scenario (more like they sneezed in your living room or something)

Thanks for the very informative post on airline engine testing. One of the quickest upvotes ever. Never knew the details on the range of birds fired and actual damage allowables.

Couple follow on questions. What are the test conditions like? Is the test basically a static air test with a fixed engine and a 500 mph duck / goose carcass striking an operating engine? Or do they put it in a wind tunnel to simulate high speed wind forces also?

Also, what's the method of actually firing and accelerating a duck / goose carcass up to airline speeds for impact. Did this a bit for NASA impact testing, and we tended to use peel away sabot rounds to throw bricks at objects.

Also, borders a bit on a Monty Python joke, yet is there a regulation duck / goose? They can vary pretty wildly in size / weight. 5lb, 10lb, 20lb? Are they firing all the way up airline cruise speeds (500-600 mph? or just take off / landing runway issues?

Finally, being in the industry, any idea on what's been going on with the engines peeling off airplane wings, like that Louisville, Kentucky cargo plane? That seems like a rather drastic failure mode, since apparently there were cracks in the mounting and people just weren't checking?

So, they're suing Anna' Archive for $13T...

  - The combined market cap of NVidia ($4.35T), Apple ($3.88T), and Google (Goog, $1.9T+Googl, $3.62T) shares combined.
  - An amount larger than Every world stock market on Earth, except the NYSE and NASDAQ (the next closest is Shanghai at $9T)
  - ~5 months worth of all trades (market volume) on the NYSE ($2.685T/month)
  - ~1/10th of ALL world stock markets market capitalization.
  - ~1/2 the United States yearly Gross Domestic Product
  - 130x Spotify's own market capitalization (total stock value outstanding)
  - ~766x Spotify's own yearly revenue for 2024 ($16.96B)

Just sue them for a gazillion quadrillion dollars or something. "Yes, judge. We estimate our damages at 1/10th of the entire world stock market, or approximately half the United States total economic output" Be difficult not to laugh at these people.