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This question is based on a popular misunderstanding about the definitions of words like “almighty” or “omnipotent.” These terms do not mean that God can do anything. Rather, they describe the amount of God’s power. Power is the ability to effect change - to make something happen. God (being unlimited) has unlimited power, and the Bible affirms this (Job 11:7-11, 37:23; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 4:8; etc.). Therefore, God can do whatever is possible to be done. God cannot, however, do that which is actually impossible. This is because true impossibility is not based on the amount of power one has, it is based on what is really possible. The truly impossible is not made possible by adding more power. Therefore, unless context indicates otherwise (e.g. Matthew 19:26 where man’s ability is being shown in contrast to God’s), impossibility means the same thing whether or not God is involved. //
So, the first part of the question is based on a false idea—that God being almighty means that He can do anything. In fact, the Bible itself lists things God cannot do - like lie or deny Himself (Hebrews 6:18; 2 Timothy 2:13; Titus 1:2). The reason He cannot do these things is because of His nature and the nature of reality itself. God cannot do what is not actually possible to be done, like creating a two-sided triangle, or a married bachelor. Just because words can be strung together this way does not make the impossible possible—these things are contradictions, they are truly impossible in reality.
The OED includes a specific sense of this usage of introductory and, and provides early examples from hymns and poems, citing works by Thomas Wyatt, Isaac Watts, John Wesley, and Charles Wesley. This usage is grammatical, though it follows an older stylistic convention, particularly common in verse, hymns, and elevated or rhetorical language.
Here is the definition along with the three earliest citations from the OED:
In expressing doubt at, or asking the truth of, what one has already heard.
Frequent in earlier use in verse, esp. in poems of lament or elegy.
When you run a command in bash it will remember the location of that executable so it doesn't have to search the PATH again each time. So if you run the executable, then change the location, bash will still try to use the old location. You should be able to confirm this with hash -t pip3 which will show the old location.
If you run hash -d pip3 it will tell bash to forget the old location and should find the new one next time you try. //
for most bash features it's easier to use help instead of man, so here help hash
Over the past 30 years you have probably seen multiple articles on constant pressure water pump control valves (CPV). Every article talks about the "magic" of these simple mechanical valves, but rarely do they talk about the benefits of constant pressure during variable water demand for your entire water system.
Adding life to your pump is what CPV's are all about. Additionally, you have the benefits of longer life on all other well components such as pressure switch points and pressure tank bladders/diaphragms. This is due to a CPV limiting excessive cycling on your system.
The goal of these valves has always been to control the pump and keep it from cycling itself to an early death. Your customers enjoying constant pressure is icing on the cake.
Let's look at the most common myths about constant pressure water pump control valves:
Before we get into what Tailscale is or how it compares to a traditional remote access VPN, let’s take a quick look at Tailscale in action. The main problem Tailscale solves is remote access to your internal workloads.
In my homelab, I have a server running Linux. When I’m on my home network, I can access it directly without any issues. But if I step outside and want to access the same server over the Internet, Tailscale makes that much easier and you can have it up and running in about 10 minutes for free.
We Need to Talk About Jeffrey Goldberg Accidently Being Added to a National Security Chat – RedState
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My take is that this signal app was used extensively during the “Biden” administration and they created the original list of regular participants. How much do you want to bet that Goldberg was a regular participant in those classified briefings during the Biden years and this was a result of an incomplete purge of the unauthorized participants?
Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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.@CIADirector: "One of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director was Signal was loaded onto my computer ... One of the things that I was briefed on very early was ... the use of Signal as a permissible work use — it is."
11:03 AM · Mar 25, 2025. //
RATCLIFFE: It is permissible to use to communicate and coordinate for work purposes, provided — provided, Senator — that any decisions that are made are also recorded through formal channels. So, those were procedures that were implemented — my staff implemented those processes, followed those processes, complied with those processes, and finally — just please — so, my communications, to be clear, in a Signal message group, were entirely permissible and lawful — and did not include classified information. //
As Bonchie rightly noted earlier, Goldberg's inclusion on the chat was an unforced error, and frankly, none of the administration should be in contact with him — ever — given his previous bad-faith reporting.
But as Ratcliffe's testimony clearly demonstrates, the use of the app itself by officials for non-classified communication and coordinating for work purposes is both allowed and legal — just as it was under the Biden administration. Hopefully, this will serve as a valuable lesson and help underscore the importance of mindfulness as to proper channels and participants when officials communicate with one another.
In typical applications, magnetic flow meters are sized so that the velocity at maximum flow is approximately 2-3 meters per second. Differential pressure constraints and/or process conditions may preclude application of this general guideline. //
For slurry service, be sure to size magnetic flow meters to operate above the velocity at which solids settle (typically 1 ft/sec), in order to avoid filling the pipe with solids that can affect the measurement and potentially stop flow. Magnetic flow meters for abrasive service are usually sized to operate at low velocity (typically below 3 ft/sec) to reduce wear. In abrasive slurry service, the flow meter should be operated above the velocity at which solids will settle, despite increased wear.
It’s hard to have a conversation with anyone in Washington these days without using Signal. I hate the app. It’s just one more messaging app that must be checked. Everyone in Washington, it seems, has Signal. Government officials use it. Reporters use it. Politicians on Capitol Hill use it. Hillary Clinton used an insecure email server. Everyone else just uses Signal, which, at least, is end-to-end encrypted.
With China thoroughly infiltrating our telecom system, no officials in DC are using built in phone messaging apps or voice to communicate important information now. Apple’s iMessage is robust and secure if the bubbles are blue. But someone may have their iCloud backup turned on, which would capture the chat. What’s App is fine and secure. But, again, someone might have a backup. Signal is secure and once a message is deleted, it is deleted. It is the preferred app.
For members of the Trump Administration, which last term saw rogue embedded progressives leaking classified information and even now has seen ICE raid information leak, bypassing government approved means of communications for Signal makes sense — the rogue bureaucrats provided the incentive.
But that is no excuse to add a reporter to a secure group chat trading information related to bombing the Houthis as the Trump national security team did. //
- This whole mess really does suggest that the Trump Administration, like the Biden Administration, has no clue how to get the Chinese out of our telecom networks.
It is unclear why the D.C. Circuit has allowed Dellinger’s Motion to Dismiss to linger, as opposed to denying it with a note reprimanding his attorneys to follow the controlling procedures for dismissing a case. But by failing to immediately nix Dellinger’s efforts to manipulate the court, we are now seeing other litigants, such as those in the Maryland case challenging the termination of DEI initiatives, trying similar tacks.
The appellate courts need to make clear to litigants that such jockeying will not work, and then they need to put an end to the outrageous preliminary injunctions. And if they refuse to do so, the Supreme Court needs to end its delusional view that it is maintaining the reputation of the judicial branch by allowing the normal process to play out in these politically charged cases—because there is nothing normal about the lower courts’ efforts to unconstitutionally control the Executive Branch.
China has said it will not honor the judgment. “The so-called lawsuit has no basis in fact, law or international precedence,” Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu told The New York Times. “China does not and will not accept it. If China’s interests are harmed, we will firmly take reciprocal countermeasures according to international law.”
China was not represented at the trial, resulting in a default judgment.
It's unclear why China is buying farmland in the United States. Granted real estate can be a valuable part of an investment portfolio, but China has ample land of their own. Interestingly, China is far from the largest foreign owner of American agricultural land; that largest foreign owner, as of 2021, would be Canada, followed by the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany. China's ownership, also as of 2021, is about 383,935 acres. It's likely, though, that the Canadian and other interests represent ownership by large agricultural business concerns, whereas China's purchases are disturbing due to some of the lands' proximity to important U.S. military installations. For example: Chinese interests have purchased 300 acres of land near Grand Forks Air Force Base, which is home to a B-1 Lancer wing, along with other assets.
Learn about sieve syntax and how recipes are set up. This article is not a comprehensive list of everything that sieve can do, but rather a guide to helping you get started with sieve. If you want more information about what sieve is, see our article What is Sieve Filtering?
sing the guide to build plugins for Roundcube, I set up a "no_forward_for_groupes" plugin, in the [roundcubeRoot]/plugin/no_forward_for_groupes folder. I activated it in the [roundcubeRoot]/config/config.inc.php file by wrtiting
$config['plugins'] = array('no_forward_for_groupes');as any other plugin.
After a bit of reading and research in the [roundcubeRoot]/program/js/app.js file (the core JS of Roundcube), I found the object I need to act with and the events to listen. The final code is just after. As you can see, I disabled a lot of other commands, as well as drag and drop. So basically I have a read-only folder, which you can't get any mails out of. I know it's kind of a specific use-case, but I hope it'll help some folks out there someday!
The following sections describe how to identify and resolve problems with your ZFS file systems or storage pools:
- Determining If Problems Exist in a ZFS Storage Pool
- Reviewing zpool status Output
- System Reporting of ZFS Error Messages
ZFS automatically logs successful zfs and zpool commands that modify pool state information. This information can be displayed by using the zpool history command.
How about using FreeBSD as an Enterprise Storage solution on real hardware? This where FreeBSD shines with all its storage features ZFS included.
Today I will show you how I have built so called Enterprise Storage based on FreeBSD system along with more then 1 PB (Petabyte) of raw capacity. //
There are 4U servers with 90-100 3.5″ drive slots which will allow you to pack 1260-1400 Terabytes of data (with 14 TB drives). Examples of such systems are:
I would use the first one – the TYAN FA100 for short name.
The build has following specifications.
2 x 10-Core Intel Xeon Silver 4114 CPU @ 2.20GHz
4 x 32 GB RAM DDR4 (128 GB Total)
2 x Intel SSD DC S3500 240 GB (System)
90 x Toshiba HDD MN07ACA12TE 12 TB (Data)
2 x Broadcom SAS3008 Controller
2 x Intel X710 DA-2 10GE Card
2 x Power Supply
Price of the whole system is about $65 000 – drives included.
The Road to RAID-Z Expansion
Expanding storage capacity has long been a challenge for RAID-Z users. Traditionally, increasing the size of a RAID-Z pool required adding an entirely new RAID-Z vdev, often doubling the number of disks—an impractical solution for smaller storage pools with limited expansion options.
To address this, the FreeBSD Foundation funded the development of RAID-Z expansion, making it both practical and easy to implement. Led by Matt Ahrens, a ZFS co-creator, the feature underwent years of rigorous testing and refinement. Although the pandemic caused some delays, the project was feature complete in 2022. Additional integration steps followed, and the feature is now generally available in the OpenZFS.
Thank You for Your Support
After years of development, industry collaboration, infrastructure testing, and nearly $100,000 investment, we are so excited to see RAID-Z expansion in the recent release of OpenZFS 2.3. We’re also grateful to iXsystems for their efforts in finalizing and integrating this feature into OpenZFS.
This marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the ZFS filesystem and reinforces its position as a cutting-edge open source filesystem for modern storage use cases.
This development work happened because of your donations to the FreeBSD Foundation. We couldn’t have made this financial commitment without your help. Thank you to all our supporters, large and small.
Geerling’s experiment underscores a humorous yet insightful reality: while pigeons can outperform fiber optics in specific, limited scenarios, the internet remains the superior choice for large-scale and long-distance data transmission. As data volumes continue to grow exponentially—reaching into the petabit range—the efficiency and scalability of fiber and other digital technologies are indispensable.
Unlike the months and years handed down in sentences to people who merely entered the Capitol, I'd be shocked if any of this results in more than a stern talking to by some Obama or Biden appointee on the DC bench. Nevertheless, the proceedings will probably provide sufficient cause to terminate the whole lot, and that counts for something.
The Republicans may have complete control of Congress, but President Trump still has a major roadblock to carrying out his agenda — the courts.
The lower courts blocked more of Trump’s executive orders in his first two months of office than they did for other recent commanders in chief during their entire terms.
The lower courts have slapped at least 15 national injunctions against Trump so far this year.
That drastically outpaces the six against former President George W. Bush during his entire presidency and the 12 against former President Barack Obama and the 14 against former President Joe Biden for their whole time in office, too, according to a tally from Harvard Law Review.
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It takes 5 Supreme Court justices to issue a ruling that affects the whole nation. Yet lone District Court judges assume the authority to unilaterally dictate the policies of the entire executive branch of government.
Benjamin Weingarten @bhweingarten
Replying to @EricTeetsel
There’s a credible case to be made that any one of around 700 district court judges possesses more power than any one Supreme Court justice, given the unilateral power to issue a universal injunction
8:34 AM · Mar 20, 2025. //
How it works: Lawsuits against the federal government start in a district court — there are more than 600 district-court judges — then can move to an appeals court, then the Supreme Court.
In the old days, district courts' rulings only applied to the parties before them. But since the beginning of the Obama administration, those judges have become increasingly willing to say their rulings apply nationwide — the same scope a Supreme Court decision has. //
I’m open-minded enough to consider that some of these rulings are in fact fair, but the sheer number of them—especially compared with historical precedent—is simply impossible to ignore.
And deeply troubling.