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Has HP printers always been this bad?

Once upon a time there was a company called Hewllet-Packard that made the best programmable calculators, vendors made the best demonstration: hitting the calc against the floor, picked up the pieces, assembled it and it worked again! (almost beat Texas Instrument). The same for printers, pcs, laptops, good mainframes (i learned fortran in a hp3000), almost any Hewlet-Packard electronic product was among the best. In 90s became HP, since then everything they made is a shame.

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Yemen will publicly stone & crucify 10 gay men in “gruesome public spectacles”

The article in www.lgbtnation.com says:

A Houthi court in Dhamar, Yemen, has sentenced nine people to death on homosexuality charges, according to Amnesty International.

Checking Amnesty International:

Yemen: Huthis must stop executions and release dozens facing LGBTI charges On 23 January, the criminal court in Dhamar in northern Yemen sentenced nine individuals to death – with seven sentenced to be executed by stoning, and two by crucifixion – while 23 others were handed prison sentences between six months and 10 years on charges including “homosexuality”, “spreading immorality”, and “immoral acts”. On 1 February, the court of first instance in Ibb in southern Yemen handed death sentences to 13 students and flogging to three others on charges of ‘spreading homosexuality’.

But without any sources

The article in www.lgbtnation.com says:

"Additionally, a Houthi court in Ibb, Yemen, sentenced 13 students to death and three others to flogging for “spreading homosexuality,” according to Agence France-Presse (AFP)."

When you follow the link it leads to L´OrienteToday, and there are no sources in this web page

Looked in AFP site: NOTHING

The article in www.lgbtnation.com puts an image, if you read the caption it says:

Image released by ISIS showing citizens of Kirkuk stoning the lifeless body of a man executed for being gay.

This image is from 2016 (seearched with TinEye)

Kirkuk is in Irak, and ISIS is known for doing this things, but it is not related to the "new". Where are Yemen images?

Given that the Houtis are kicking the ass of USA and UK´s Navy these "news" are too convenient. Saudi Arab and UAE used to do this and no news about it, suddenly this "news" about Yemen.

I do not buy it.

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Video shows stripped Palestinian men detained in Gaza

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That is not true, Israel is an state bound by international law, it must respect human rights, can not do this to anyone.

Hamas is not an state, can be considered a criminal organization and Israel state can fight it inside law limits. No state can, should not (in theory) carpet bombing civilians, killing thounsands of them, including children, in order to kill some hundreds of criminals.

Israel is an occupying state, palestinians has the right to rise against the Israel state.

And finally, why are IDF soldiers killing palestinians in Cisjordania?, Hamas is not there, the attacks did not not come from that place.

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When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines?

Some companies made money from some clueless managers and CEOs.

I worked at a big power and light company, some big boss at the headquarters hired a company to certify our pcs where y2k compliant (we already knew they were ok!).

A guy around 50 with suit and two younger technicians, around their twentys. I was behind them when when they sat down at every pc in our office, inserted a floppy disk, and ran a freeware software! A freeware that anyone could download from internet.

Of course the software printed on the screen that those pc where y2k compliant.

That company charged a fee for every certified pc, and we had lots of pcs.

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Dual Boot vs Full Linux

I do not know about W11 (using only Linux since 2000) but usually when installing Windows this is going to wipe out your whole disk, including any other os. That is why to have two (three or four) os you should install windows first, then any other os, the opposite is more like...a problem.

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Nvidia's success is making some now-wealthy employees complacent | Why work hard when you're sitting on a fortune in stock?

Achieving motivated people will always work hard no matter how rich they are, but if they are rich enough will work in what they like...that is not so bad, at the end the life is meant to live for, is not meant just to work for. And for those not achieving motivated, why not relax a bit and smell some flowers... Be happy, those who are happy working hard for the sake of acomplishment will be there...