“I’m an American and have a right to free speech, no matter what country the service is hosted in!”

One can hope. But the defense would need a very solid lineup of reputable experts who aren’t easy to slander as “radical” by the prosecution.

Yeah sadly I do. If there are doctors who believe vaccines cause autism, sell snake oil solutions as alternatives to medication, or believe liberals uses fetuses in satanic rituals, then surely some will be willing to testify on the stand to contradict the diagnoses and opinions of a peer.

The physician claims to have not provided any gender-affirming care since May 2023 prior to the bill going into effect. Paxton’s lawsuit alleges that the physician has prescribed gender-affirming/transition medication as recently as October 2024.

If the physician is being honest, sounds like the lawsuit is misguided by jumping to conclusions about the use case of some prescriptions. It will be interesting to see how it plays out if Paxton’s team continues to prosecute as it could be incredibly embarrassing for him and his office.

EDIT:

In reading the lawsuit, they enumerate several patients who they allege were “falsely diagnosed” as having precocious puberty and were then prescribed blockers. They also note the age ranges (8-13 for girls, 9-14 for boys) that is considered normal for puberty and state that puberty occurring before these ages is considered precocious puberty. All patients enumerated are 11 or older when seen, diagnosed, and prescribed medication.

Independent of the morality of the law and the method of enforcement, it would seem they have a considerable amount of evidence already. Either the physician was indeed misdiagnosing, or there are medical caveats involved here that would require medical expertise (which I do not have) that would support the physician’s actions and will show that SB 14 is overly broad and may prevent proper care to be given to children. I’m hoping for the latter.

Yeah, I keep forgetting how much time has passed.

Bought my first GPU, an R9 Fury X, for MSRP when it launched. The R9 300 series and GTX 900 series seemed fairly priced then (aside from the Titan X). Bought another for Crossfire and mining, holding on until I upgraded to a 7800 XT.

Comparing prices, all but the 5090 are within $150 of each other when accounting for inflation. The 5090 is stupid expensive. A $150 increase in price over a 10-year period probably isn’t that bad.

I’m still gonna complain about it and embrace my inner “old man yells at prices” though.

Maybe I’m stuck in the last decade, but these prices seem insane. I know we’ve yet to see what a 5050 (lol) or 5060 would be capable of or its price point. However launching at $549 as your lowest card feels like a significant amount of the consumer base won’t be able to buy any of these.

Having worked in classified areas, both as an admin and an unprivileged user, CDs were normally the method of transferring data up the network. (Transferring down rarely occurred, and even then you’d be limited to plaintext files or printouts.)

I’ve seen more places use data diodes to perform one- or two-way transfers so that requests can be streamlined and there’s no loose media to worry about tracking. It’s not super fast and higher speeds mean more expensive equipment, but it covers 98% of software update needs, and most non-admin file transfers were under 20MB anyways.

Anything that did require a USB drive, like special test equipment (STE) or BIOS updates, had to use a FIPS-140-1 approved drive that offered a ready-only mode via PIN. This drive could only be written to from a specific workstation that was isolated from the rest of the machines (where data was transferred via CDs of course) and required two persons to perform the job to ensure accountability.

Not the most time-efficient way of doing things, and not completely bulletproof, but it works well enough to keep things moving forward.