This deal is getting worse all the time...

Generally, those who need to ask how to install a drill bit into a drill are not typically the people who should turn around and immediately proceed to drilling holes into important things.

Why are they encrypting their communications? Do they have something to hide?

If they've got nothing to hide, then they've got nothing to fear.

Or so I've heard, anyway, right?

Running a GameCube (23 watts) literally nonstop for a year would use a little over 200 kWh.

Assuming average USA electricity prices, in 2002 electricity cost ~$0.09 per kWh, so one year of that would cost an additional $18.00. That number only tends worse going forward.

A GameCube memory card would cost about $11.

As usual, it's more expensive to be poor.

Na

Heartbleed

The 8th amendment has a clause that disallows "excessive bail". In Stack v. Boyle, the Supreme Court found this to mean "that a defendant's bail cannot be set higher than an amount that is reasonably likely to ensure the defendant's presence at the trial." So it follows that IN THEORY, bail is SUPPOSED to be set at an amount that is consistent with the defendant's financial resources (including, it would also follow, increasing the amount for more wealthy people to ensure that it has the same proportionate effect on the defendant's decision-making process).

Of course, that rule is just a bunch of meaningless words if nobody enforces it... and guess what, the main way to enforce this is by bringing a suit against the government alleging that they violated the rule. So IN PRACTICE (speculation warning here, I'm just some guy), I would imagine that they just set bail schedules at a level where anyone who can afford to pay won't be able to win an "excessive bail" lawsuit, and anyone who can't afford to pay it will also probably not be able to afford the cost of that lawsuit.

And something tells me that we aren't likely to see a wealthy person suing the government for not setting bail high enough for them.

Is this the kind of "warning" like those "warnings" they put on grape concentrate products during Prohibition to help you avoid "accidentally" using it to make wine?

365. Next year is a leap year.

New Zealand was not Kung Fu fighting

I can't even imagine how my friend would take it.

OK, OK, time out. You haven't tried talking with them about it? If you have as strong a mutual (platonic(ish?)) relationship with them as you say you do, then it should be able to survive a serious conversation about your shared future, especially if you emphasize that you want to try to keep them in your life in a major way like this.

That conversation will probably be hard, and I really can't think of a solution that would feel perfect if I were in your shoes, but I would sure as hell rather have that conversation than the "I made a decision, and here is how you will be impacted" one, or the "I kept my life on hold because I was worried how you might react to talking about it" one.

I don't know your personality or your friend's personality, so I can't promise that you will sort it all out without emotions running high, or what the ultimate outcome of such a conversation will be.

But jeez, bud, you've GOT to be able to have serious talks with people whom you trust and care about.

no that's "Invisible". "Invincible" means it can't be divided

Once the lifetime appointees have been dealt with in whatever way, the Court will have nine members, each appointed one after the other with two years in between, with the next-most-senior member's term expiring every two years to keep the number stable at nine.

James, while John had had "had", had had "had had;" "had had" had had a greater effect on the teacher.

I'm good until I run out, I guess.

https://xkcd.com/1589

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

I can't remember the exact number but it's between 1000 and 900.

Is it 911?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%2C_Virginia

In August 1619, the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived at present-day Old Point Comfort, near the Jamestown colony, on a British privateer ship flying a Dutch flag.

$42 million, not $42