how much regulation is too much

Nice try pajeet.

Indications are this is a supply chain attack.

So while there are collateral victims, the device bearers are probably all connected to the organization.

time travelling samurai that has to protect a miko

I know you got your answer, but...

That's a pretty accurate description of Sakunoshin's story from Hyper Police.

Yes, well... there's "insane" and then there's "the Minnesota state legislature".

But all you have to do about that is move to Wisconsin or Iowa. I mean, who's the real crazy person? The person who chooses to stay in a state run by crazy people.

I wouldn't say always.

I just have a pretty good handle on how much horribleness there is in the mundane world to begin with and it keeps me grounded. You do not want to set foot in a mental institute.

(Shrug)

Under Schopenhauer's interpretation of justice, you're not wrong.

Looking into this particular case, since it happened very quickly...

The STATE'S psychiatrist (ie, the one working FOR the prosecution) must have been like "oh yeah, she's nuts". When the defense says the client is crazy, AND the state agrees they're crazy, from the judge's perspective it's pretty much automatic.

I don't have to trust what they say, I know how the process works and have seen it.

I'll be blocking you after this because your paranoia is exhausting.

I assure you she won't.

When a person is declared a ward of the state, some bureaucratic things happen to your identity. You can't get a drivers license. You can't open a bank account. You can't get a credit card. You can't open an insurance policy. Can't buy a car. Can't hold real property.

Your rights evaporate. You are a child. The property of the state until either the state finds you competent to be a legal adult again, or you die.

That is what "ward of the state" means.

A prisoner has more rights than a ward. A prisoner can demand to speak to their lawyer, and subject to visiting hours, has the right to do so. A ward can scream about a lawyer 24-7-365 and the state can ignore them.

Nope. There's been no sentence so there's no release date to shorten.

Trust me on this, I know from family experience. Declared mentally unfit to stand trial is quite frankly the worst hell in the first world. It doesn't end. Ever.

"Better to shoot 'em now and get it over with." -Scotty, Star Trek VI

Found incompetent to stand trial.

That doesn't mean what you think it means.

It means she's been declared a ward of the state. That's life. Slightly better than prison, but not by much. There's no statute of limitations on crimes that end in "not competent". You go a mental facility until you either die or recover enough to stand trial.

What state are you in?

Because almost everything in Star Wars is an epic opera scaled caricature. It's not a setting that people sat down and really thought about very much.

"Kid, it's not that kind of movie. If they notice your hair we're all in big trouble."

-Mark Hamill mimicking Harrison Ford

Tanaka's setting is a generalization, but only in the sense that it's the Napoleonic Wars in space. Once you understand that, you start to see parallels everywhere and you realize all he's really done is taken history, rearranged a few things, replaced some names and added spaceships.

What was that thing about hats?

"Oh, uh, people aren't wearing enough."

"Can I just ask with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted... has anyone noticed that building there before?"

Okay, but... did the developer commit a crime?

Land developer, y'know, being such a honorable, trustworthy profession.

Anti-authoritarianism is a stance held by deontologists.

Progressives are, to a one, consequentialists. They don't see authoritarianism as bad inof itself.

24-34 current players.

In a game with 16 playable characters.

MINIONS!!!!!!

FOR YOUR TWO WEEKS OF UPTIME, THE TWENTY ONE FART GUN SALUTE!

Burning crusade fan

Probably still grinding honor hold rep for that tabard, aren't you.

WoW only had three good expansions.

• Lich King
• Pandaria
• Legion

And of them, Pandaria is the most suspect.

Cataclysm... was a special case. It was a not-good expansion that had to happen to fix problems with vanilla. Problems that have been left unresolved in Burning Crusade.

I have the novels.

The translation is fine. Having seen all the versions of the material I can confirm the translator didn't take any perceptible liberties.

I will say that it IS translated Japanese. If you're expecting Rand or Heinlein, don't. It's 8th grade reading level, not college reading level.

The takeaway I get from that is that they listened too much to the people screeching that Civ 6 was "Big'n'Tall or Lose" edition.

I hate the idea that we should ostracize family members due to their opinions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuCmfsrzQUE&t=94s

"KIA5 was our last, best hope for peace. It failed."