u/Darkassassin07

for when they do get a license

We asked Valve whether there was any way to keep the project alive: properly licensed, with their blessing, on their terms. They said no.

Valve's refused to sell them a licence.

There is no 'when they do get a license'.

Beg forgiveness instead of ask for permission is a gamble. dBrand lost the dice roll.

Ouch... Getting injection moulds made is really REALLY pricey. That's an expensive lesson.

They'd be executed, not jailed.

I was so excited for Oculus right up until it was bought by Facebook. I didn't have the funds right away and had been waiting, but I immediately wrote it off the day that news broke.

It may just be my first foray into VR. Stoked. :D

With Trump as the only source of that information, I'm not going to take that at face value.

You can't exactly expect a plane to keep flying when you've commanded the engines to stop running/taken away their fuel at such a critical time...

There is no procedure that involves cutting off fuel to *both* engines while in-flight; one at a time, but not both. Then, there is no procedure that ever involves touching those controls during takeoff. Finally; there would be communication between the pilots discussing any such troubleshooting, they wouldn't just take it upon themselves to start flipping switches without at the very least letting the other pilot know what they're doing. Particularly when it comes to troubleshooting; there is a strict set of checklists they go through as a team, with one reading out questions, the other responding with data/answers from the instruments and the first confirming that response.

These were both experienced pilots with ample flight hours; they knew what they were doing at those controls. I'm not going to throw human error out the window entirely, but it's not looking very likely unfortunately.

Either that plane was brought down intentionally, or there was a stunning error in judgment wildly disregarding procedure in that cockpit that was not communicated at all. (note: the mics record to the blackbox continuously, they're not ptt, if one of the pilots had said something, it'd be on the tape.)

Both the left and right switchs were moved to 'cutoff', one pilot recognized this and asked the other pilot why, the other pilot denied doing it, then the switches were returned to 'run' and the engines began to re-light (this is all straight from the black box recorder). It was too late to recover though, so the plane went down.

There is a mechanical detent requiring you to pull each switch out, then down. They had to be moved deliberately.

Given the mechanical saftey built into those switches, Unfortunately I guess that leaves us with two reasonable possibilities:

A) One of the pilots was somehow mistaken on the function of those switches and toggled them when they should not have. Then they genuinely thought they hadn't when asked why they had cutoff fuel.

Or

B) One of the pilots chose to cut off fuel supply to both engines, intentionally bringing down the plane. They then lied to the other pilot when asked why they'd cutoff fuel.

They have metal detents; you have to pull the lever out, then push it down against a reasonably heavy spring.

These had to be very deliberately moved to the cutoff position.

Not for control, but for tracking/monitoring.

I'd imagine the people that sent it would like to know where it is and if it arrives or gets intercepted.

-having no personal insight/knowledge of japan's drug scene, just my impressions-

Saying you've found *none* in six years, doesn't make me think there's none comming through; I immediately think you haven't been looking very hard.

Finding very little I could understand, but NONE? Na, you need to try harder.

The majority of protests involve taking over space temporarily; that alone doesn't make them not peaceful.

They weren't invading/forcing their way into spaces that they weren't already openly invited to be in, nor were they violent towards officials that were demanding they leave (self-defense aside).

If peaceful protest is going to be consistently met with violent police response; maybe they should stop being peaceful from the outset.

Pope is recovering;

• meets JD Vance

• dies a couple days later....

Hmm

I too oppose deals being made at my expense...

This seems like a goes-without-saying level of obvious position to take, no?

We don't have an ICE equivalent hunting down and kidnapping people on the streets if that's what you're worried about.

Mainly it'll be very difficult to get work, you'll probably be homeless (which really really sucks in the snow...), and whenever the cops do catch up with you, you will be deported when they realize your status.

TBH, I don't know. It would depend on your specific situation; I doubt we're just broadly accepting Americans.

Some resources:

Seeking Asylum in Canada

Paths to Immigration

Working Visas (>6mo, extended up to 4years)

Sure, and that's something you can decide to do.

The point is there's a very big difference between deciding to leave the country permanently to a chosen destination, bringing what you can with you; vs leaving for a short holiday and suddenly being told what you thought was home won't let you return.

Worse; just because you're in Canada on a visitor's visa and the US decides it's doesn't want to let you back in, doesn't mean you'll just be turned around and accepted back into Canada (or wherever you're visiting) instead. You may just be detained by US authorities and deported to wherever they decide.

Welcome to your new home in an El Salvador prison camp...