If China wants these removed then that means there's no backdoor they have access to. I was always a bit suspicious of Telegram because Russia gave up on its attempts to ban it.

I'm surprised Threads and WhatsApp were still allowed given that Facebook was banned in about 2009 in China.

I still run a late 2007 15" MBP with 6GB of memory and OS X 10.11. Itâ(TM)s ok for web browsing, email and Office 2011 (yep, Office 365 donâ(TM)t really offer anything new). I used Lightroom 3 - 5 on it back in the day and VMWare Fusion running Windows 7.

Chrome is definitely a pig though. I havenâ(TM)t touched it with a barge pole for years, but my wife uses it on this Mac.

You seem to be talking about a different incident - the Challenger explosion shortly after launch due to failed O-ring. This story is about the Columbia which failed on re-entry due to heat shield damage.

And modern music is no exception. Some songwriters have more of a way with words. "Around The World" is one extreme to great effect - it's a neat song. Then there's song verses like:

Dive bar on the East Side, where you at?
Phone lights up my nightstand in the black
Come here, you can meet me in the back
Dark jeans and your Nikes, look at you
Oh damn, never seen that color blue
Just think of the fun things we could do...

You Know Who at her (IMHO) best. The notion that the only good music was performed in the 1970s by men with guitars is, at best, circular reasoning. De-valuing Taytay's music because her music and persona appeal primarily to women is nothing more than misogyny.

...laura

Can a Chinese company come to the US and qualify for those credits? On the flip side, can an America business go to China and benefit from the state support there?

Sure, but shouldn't the US government be in the business of protecting the quality of life of all Americans, not just auto workers?

What about outsourcing of software jobs to India, for example, something that people on Slashdot ought to care about if they are hoping to work in the software field.

How can a US citizen, with a US cost of living, compete with someone with an Indian cost of living?

Personally, I think our government should be concerned about people not corporate profits, and should make it illegal for US-based companies to not use US-based labor, but at minimum if they are going to allow outsourcing they please afford us IT workers the same protection as being suggested for US workers, and don't allow foreign countries to take US jobs by effectively using their lower cost of living as a subsidy.

That goes two ways: that means I have every right to tell you how to live when later on my taxes that have been forcefully taken from me are paying for your health care and state pension. I donâ(TM)t think youâ(TM)d appreciate that though, would you?

To be replaced by other sources energy. Time to move that mindset on.

TFA is about England, not the UK. 8.7% of England is developed: https://www.gov.uk/government/...

Surely banding in the resultant image means there was banding in the source image?

Not supporting HEIC/HEIF is a silly political decision at this point. All decent phones, not just iPhones, have been able to use HEIF for some time. Google even added HEVC support to Chrome some time ago too. The world hasnâ(TM)t ended.

Sounds like Microsoft during the Internet Explore 4-6 years. This is monopolistic behaviour, yet people keep up a fuss about Apple and want to give Google more free rein!

I don't give a fuck about other people

There, fixed it for you.

Thanks for sharing. This is strange list: it has some countries in there, but not some of the obvious ones like the US. Then I wonder if they are double counting, such as with Gazprom and the Russian Ferderation?

I got a pair of real eclipse glasses with my copy of Sky & Telescope's eclipse guide. They don't work very well with my glasses so I'll do the pinhole camera thing for the partial phases.

Loved Dr. Becky's collander.

...laura