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Offset financial years mean your finance people aren’t working furiously between Christmas and New Years getting the EoY stuff done. I feel bad for the ones in my company every year.


Though it means that some years have 53 weeks in.


Well, 52 weeks is 364 days, and a calendar year is 365.5±0.5 days, so if you are doing “years” by whole numbers of weeks and don't want to get more than a week out of sync with the regular civil calendar, you are going to need a 53 week year every few years, regardless of your start date.


Don't they any way?


Yes, essentially this happens. PWRs and BWRs have operating limits on their power shape derived from doing those kinds of analyses.

They’re tend do be more physical than “arbitrarily xenon-poisoned” but represent a variety of extreme and nominal states to form an operating envelope, and then healthy margins are applied on top of that.


I'm not sure if that expression is known outside of physics, so: "physical" here means "conforming to, possible under the laws of physics"


What Fox News argued was a bit more nuanced than that all of Fox News isn't news. Rather, "Fox successfully argued that one particular segment on Tucker Carlson’s show could only be reasonably interpreted as making political arguments, not making factual assertions, and therefore couldn’t be defamation."[1]

That feels like a fairly reasonable assertion for anybody watching Tucker Carlson.

[1] https://popehat.substack.com/p/fox-news-v-fox-entertainment-...


I know nothing about the case but isn't that a little like saying "look, we weren't lying, cause we never said we were saying the truth"?


Well, context matters in looking at defamation claims.

Let's say you were involved in a freak hunting accident and shot somebody, but you were never charged with any crimes.

If the Fox News "hard news" program (if such a thing exists) said "skrebbel is a murderer" that is more likely to be understood to be a statement of fact, asserting something in a legalistic sense. [IANAL, but I think even this is unlikely to be defamation, although there is a somewhat similar case where ABC settled with Donald Trump over saying he was "liable for rape"]

If somebody on Tucker Carlson Tonight said "You can't trust anything that skrebbel guy says, he's a murderer!" that is more likely to be understood as an opinion based on disclosed facts, not a fact. That person isn't asserting that you committed or were convicted of a specific crime of murder, but rather that you killed somebody and it might be your fault. On a show were people are arguing and exchanging opinionated views, viewers should understand that these things are opinions. And therefore that's not defamation, because it's an opinion.


> You can't trust anything that skrebbel guy says, he's a murderer!

I am deeply offended and contemplating to sue you for defamation.


Political argument, as such, is worthwhile insofar as it can cause me to reexamine my own preconceptions. Facts I can pick up almost anytime.


It’s Nebraska.


Search as I may, I can’t for the life of me find the reason why. Does the robocalling industry have particular pull in Nebraska for some reason, or as far as we can tell are they just wanting to go their own way?


The explanation someone gave me years ago was that midwesterners can speak to northerners and southerners without needing a translator, and the cost of labor in rural Nebraska and Kansas (which also had a ton of call centers at the time) is low.


Hmm. Can I configure my smartphone to block all calls from Nebraska?


I would bet a few dollars that no Facility Security Officer (the name for people who manage security programs for defense contractor, despite sounding like a Sunday name for ‘guards’) in the entire NNSA complex has ever read Arms and Influence. That’s not quite their demographic profile.


I'd take the other side of that bet. I've met some with pretty surprising backgrounds.


Vultr has OpenBSD images too.


And his recording of the Cuban numbers station, if you want to hear what these sound like: https://www.mattblaze.org/private/17435khz-200810041700.mp3

Here's a sample of the referenced "Linconshire Poacher": https://priyom.org/media/247818/e3.mp3


In the UK, it’s a civil matter in almost all cases.


If you use non-cloudflare DNS, it should work.


Ping seems to resolve fine. And I'm using the DNS from my ISP, which is definitely not related to cloudflare.

I found out it work in firefox, so it must be something to do with Safari or the adblocker I'm using.


Microsoft bought th handsets division of Nokia. The part that makes carrier equipment is still very much an independant Finnish company…


oh, thanks for the correction; i didn't realize that


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