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And likewise the Romanian “dumneavoastră” evolved into… nothing, that’s still the polite form of “you” in Romanian. Interestingly though, it can be used in both the singular and plural, and takes verbs conjugated exactly the same way for both forms (i.e. the second person plural).

Note that Romanian also has a second person singular formal pronoun, "dumneata", though it's use today is very rare and isn't actually considered polite. This is probably since Romanian, like most Romance languages, often omits the subject in phrases, so the real politeness marker ends up being just the use of second person plural verb forms to refer to a singular speaker ("mă puteți ajuta" is far more common instead of "dumneavoastră mă puteți ajuta" without the omitted subject, while the informal version is the singular "mă poți ajuta", which "dumneata mă poți ajuta" would also require - all of these phrases meaning "can [you] help me").

The origin for both is more "your lordship" ("domnia ta/voastră") than "your mercy", as well.

The 2019 Intel Mac Pro had PCIe slots. The Apple Silicon Mac Pro still has them as well, but they’re pretty much useless.

Except that requiring you to testify in order to absolve yourself of guilt violates your Fifth Amendment right not to testify in a trial against you. It is up to the government to prove you did something, not up to you to prove you didn’t.

You can not testify all you want, but you should still be on the hook for your vehicle getting tickets, just like you are on the hook for your vehicle accruing toll fees.

If your car was magically stolen and returned, and you have no idea that it happened, or who could have done this... Well, that's certainly an interesting legal argument that you could make to a judge. I doubt he'll believe you.

In the old days it certainly happened. Joyriding. Take someone's vehicle for a spin, put it back. Illegal but nowhere near as serious a penalty. Car security systems have gotten a lot better since then.

Man, fuck Facebook Marketplace. I cannot figure out for the life of me why everyone decided to abandon the perfectly useable Craigslist for that unreliable, buggy, scam-laden pile of hot garbage. Never once have I had a single good experience with Facebook Marketplace.

Well, okay, but that’s like 95% of flying.

It’s the other 5% that takes 90% of effort :)

Telnet supports SSL, even if it's rare to see, just like there's an SSL enabled version of FTP.

Both are used by IBM Mainframes (z/OS) and medium scale systems (AS/400)

Such a weird way to do it when it would be a vastly easier to just blow the document out to paper and re-scan it.

Vastly easier when you do it to one or a handful of documents.

But if you want to do it to 2000 documents...

But at that point why bother with the fakery? Why does it matter if it's obviously of digital origin? As long as it's rendered down to an image problem solved.

Was the motivation for this benign (an employee skirting regulations) or malicious?

4 reems (4×500) is hardly a lot for commercial equipment to handle - paper trays will take a reem at a time. Document analysis would still show some shenanigans were in play, but you'd get a bit of variation at least.

I mean, technically it’s short for alter on the way to being short for alternate

I see them all the time. Usually it’s in the form of “choose your 2FA method” and it gives you a choice between SMS/email/phone call or whatever.