Just found out my unit was robbed. The thieves ignored the lock and just destroyed the unit's latch which the padlock secured.

There went Uncanny X-Men 94 through 300.

A car jack across the door frame at latch height works to.

I didn't know this had a name! Thank you!

As I understand it, Twitter has something called Community Notes. So people can write things, but it can potentially have an attached refutation.

Community notes is better than nothing, but they only relate to a single tweet. So if one tweet with misinformation gets 100k likes, then a community note might show up correcting it.

But if 100 tweets each get 1000 likes, they're never singularly important enough to community note.

Fair enough on that. The problem I've seen (and don't have a good idea for how to fix) is on Reddit where the most terminally online are the worst offenders and they simply drown out everything else until non-crazy people just leave. It doesn't help that the subreddit mods are disproportionately also the terminally online.

Does the "freedom" in free speech mean freedom from censorship, or freedom from being drowned out? People often assume the former, but the latter is worth consideration.

That's interesting. Off the cuff, I'll say it would depend on venue. Like on Reddit, you can easily have dozens of people saying exactly the same thing and other views can easily disappear in the muck. That's not even getting into the dominant view down voting all dissent. Still, everyone there can type out their thoughts in as complete a fashion as they so choose.

In person, things are different. The dominant side can and often enough does drown out dissent. In that case, the intent is to silence. So that would be "censorship" in a cultural, not legal sense which would be hostile to the freedom of speech in the cultural sense, not legal.

I've been banned for over a decade from leaving reviews on Amazon. I have no idea why.

I think you are the only good moderator on the internet.

My mind first jump to an old video of somebody shooting a Sun Microsystems machine and the bullets did not in fact penetrate the steel.

Are you thinking of HP or did they both do it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnjb1WVkhmU

I forgot about the HP one! I distinctly remember there was a Sun too; it was like a backyard shoot.

There was an awesome viral video of someone offloading their frustration and a full mag on an HP printer. Now I can't find the original because it started a trend of copiers.

Sun servers at least got yelled at.

I started seeing this more than a week ago on r/ASRock. There was a BIOS update and loads and loads of people reported that their CPUs fried.

Call me paranoid, but I never update the BIOS unless I have no other option. I have seen way too many examples of things going wrong. Although, that was many moons ago, and perhaps with the reset switches and stuff these days things are not as bad as they once were.

Regardless, if ain't broken, don't break it.

Dogs of War was good enough for it to be the basis for multiple attempted mercenary led coups. Hoare's in the Seychelles failed because his forces went in by plane instead of boat and met the problems which Forsyth foresaw. Denard's guys (if I remember correctly) were given copies of the book with bookmarks to indicate what to do next.

To be fair, Dogs of War was based on Forsyth’s experience covering real-life mercenaries in the Biafra war.

Fun fact, he started out as a war journalist and got fired for playing favorites and slanting his coverage towards one side. IIRC, he only started writing as a fallback after that.

"Because" is always the most fun reason.

I remember there being a collection of the first 3 called the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. In typical Adam's fashion, after the 4th book was released a new compendium was released called the More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. That titling should have continued, so we'd have gotten the Even More than Complete Hitchiker's Guide and, finally, the Completest Complete Hitchiker's Guide.

Hah, yes.

"Mostly Harmless" did have this on the front:

"The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy".

Yes! Frank Zappa is the rarest of individuals cut from the same cloth as Adams, and your comment reminded me of his amazing 3rd release of instrumental cuts, aptly titled "Return of the Son of Shut Up 'N Play Your Guitar".