One of the frightening facts is that the U.S. Constitution has very little in qualifications for any positions of government, particularly the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court Justice just needs to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Trump could be a justice. and your Uncle Bob could be a justice, and they would be justices for life unless they were impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Consequently, decisions by the Supreme Court could be pure B.S. and based only on the fact that they don't like a prior decision, so long as a majority of justices agree. In theory, Congress would impeach justices who made B.S. decisions, but if 60 Senators held the same ideology as the justices who made the decision those justices can do great harm to the country.
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I don't know how anyone can legitimately say the Supreme Court is not a political entity, and as such it is extremely dangerous to have people in such positions have lifetime terms. The practice of rigid ideological lines and total disregard for what a majority of citizens want create a de facto dictatorship. The realities of how things currently are require an overhaul of SCOTUS, starting with adding more justices and passing amendments that set terms. I wouldn't feel this way if I could trust SCOTUS to make decisions consistent with the will of all people and for the good of all people, but I no longer have that trust.
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I've installed
Proxmox Virtual Environment on an old, HP Probook 6460b.
Proxmox is a type 1 hypervisor that gives me the ability to create virtual machines as well as run lxc containers. It took some work to get
Proxmox running on the 6460b because I think the install expected it to run UEFI rather than a legacy BIOS. I found that
UEFI was available as a BIOS setting even though HP classified it as "experimental."
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The problem I had was that the computer wouldn't boot into
Proxmox, presumably because it couldn't find a boot loader. It would attempt a PXE boot unless I had the install USB inserted so that I could use "Recovery mode" to boot. The problem lead me down a rabbit hole of different grub configurations but nothing worked until I decided to try the "experimental" UEFI configuration in the BIOS. Fortunately, that worked. Now to learn about what I can do with
Proxmox.
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