If the problem was misconfigured encryption, wouldn't it have affected communication both ways? The Integrity crew could hear the rescue team, but not the other way around. Look, I have no experience with these radios, so someone who does, please clarify. I have no doubt that everyone trained on these radios (satphones?) and tested them. Be interesting to find out what happened.

In general, I found this mission to be somewhat more -- well, "chill" -- than others. Mostly plain language on technical matters was exchanged between Integrity and the Capcoms instead of lots of jargon. The lunar-terrain observations were amusing because the astronauts obviously trained thoroughly for the task, but it seemed that there was a significant focus on everyone "taking turns" at the windows. It's as though the mission was trying to project a relatable image for the public.

Or maybe too early?

Yeah, sorry for reminding you of that.

No, stop again and think about the new thing you just wrote.

Anthropic insisted the DoD follow its terms of service. In response, the DoD blacklisted them and labeled them a "supply chain risk." That is what Anthropic is suing about.

Slippery slope much? Consumers have dealt for decades with terms of service for licensed products that prohibit certain kinds of use. They haven't obliterated private property.

This. Not to mention that Beyond_GoodandEvil is comparing apples to oranges. Citizens United addressed a concern about corporations using their substantial financial resources to influence elections. Whereas Anthropic wants to defend their right to set the parameters of how their product is used -- specifically, no autonomous weapons and no domestic civilian surveillance.

The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit. -- Steve Bannon

Just saturate the news cycle, and any bad news will disappear in 24 hours. That has been Trump's strategy, going back at least to 2017.

Just cave to the DoD when you think you've been wronged by them? Don't go to the courts?

Stop and think about what you just wrote. And consider how un-American it is to just let the government have its way with you.

Oops, s/he did. Sorry.

nealric didn't claim it was every year. It is in fact $400 to register an EV in Texas for the first two years. Thereafter, it's $200 per year. pdf alert:

https://www.txdmv.gov/sites/de...

Texas does not charge a sales tax for gasoline. However, it does collect a federal tax of 18.4 cents. Another pdf:

https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tt...

Per the second pdf, the math shows that the average driver pays $9.52 per month to the state, or $18.28 per month including federal tax. That comes out to $114.24 per year to the state, or $219.36 including federal tax. So, EV drivers pay more to the state, but ICE drivers pay slightly more overall on average.

I think you're confused. I'm not saying EVs shouldn't be taxed in general. I'm saying they shouldn't be taxed due to the oil crisis. Governments should encourage, not discourage, the use of alternate energy-sources when one of them has supply-chains that are threatened.

And I made no claim that treating EVs (tax-wise) like ICE vehicles is "punitive"(*). But taxing EVs more than ICE vehicles because of the oil crisis certainly seems to be so. But see below...

You make a good point about road taxes, but not much else. The virtue of taxing gas consumption is that at least it correlates somewhat with road use and environmental impact. Perhaps we need something else for EVs, but I can't think of what it could be right now.

(*) please note how it's spelled.

Good points. Execpt for one that confuses me:

We may be living in upside-down-world right now, but I can't imagine that even the current government would punish the use of non-oil sources of energy during an oil crisis. Maybe for some other reason, but not "due to" the oil crisis.

The topic was intelligence. Not your false anti-female invective. Take it somewhere else, it's not welcome here.

Yes, that is in fact what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.

You'll rightly be modded Troll soon enough, but for the record: research has shown no significant difference in the average intelligence of male and female human beings.

However, there is some evidence that genders are better on average at certain kinds of tasks: females on average are better at verbal and memory-intensive tasks, whereas makes on average are stronger with spatial and mathematical reasoning. But of course, the two populations overlap significantly: we have plenty of outstanding female scientists and male lawyers, for example.

And ChatGPT is not necessarily correct here. Neither was George Carlin when he said:

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

ChatGPT and Carlin are confusing mean with median. The latter divides a population 50-50, the former not necessarily so.