So what did the US do? Cut off China's access to advanced lithography equipment, prompting China to create its own litho industry. While they're not yet to the level of cutting edge chips from TSMC the new Huawai phones boast chips with their own design as good as the ones in iToys of just a few years ago.
The GOP has been this way for four decades, the difference is that now it's saying what it's doing instead of blaming Democrats for its actions.
You've never lived with hyperinflation. Know how I can tell? The thought of printing unlimited money based on nothing doesn't send chills down your spine.
The experiment has been done many times, it always ends in failure. Always, and without exception.
You think that Africans and Arabs are going to be effective fighters at -40 in waist deep snow dealing with drone warfare they've never seen before? You're funny.
People around here do know dick about the situation, that's why znrt had to explain the above.
Ukraine gave up nukes that 1) had no triggers (the USSR had removed them before withdrawing), and 2) they had no launch codes for. Essentially they gave up nuclear waste.
The 1990s called, they want their meme back.
Mad cow disease, seriously? That hasn't been a thing for 30 years.
There is inevitably someone with absolutely no sense of humour.
Also clearly not British, we tend to enjoy that kind of self deprivation.
Assuming equal regulatory burden, fission power is cheapest, not most expensive. For example, for an equivalent safety level, coal plants would need to capture every bit of reaction products (which currently are vented into the air), store them safely, and place somewhere where they'd no longer cause harm if released. Which for combustion products means forever. The plan itself would need decade-long studies wrt its localisation, many rounds of votes among the regional population -- etc. And throw in another 10x cost factor of bureaucratic costs.
The reason? Completely banning nuclear power was unfeasible politically, but adding layers after layers of "safety" was easy to be voted in.
Result? Hardly any new plants have been built. A good part of existing installed power dates back to the first generation -- which was indeed unsafe (as expected of any new technology). All three plants that failed have been built in the '60s.
Umm . . . what?
One generally overlooked thing that it did was launch thousands of children on careers that didn't entail plowing with the chakitaqu'lla to plant potatoes or spending interminable days herding sheep. My brother-in-law knows an accountant who was the first in his town to use a computer, lured off the farm by the realization that they were just a tool and even people like him could learn to use them.
This was the situation at least as far back as the '70s, when I was generally the only under-30s person in the adults section of the library except for college students.
IIRC Farcebook didn't run on the OLPC, the Sugar OS wasn't designed with interactive image-heavy web apps in mind.
This was much of the problem, lack of connectivity. In Paruro where my brother-in-law lives when they distributed the OLPCs the only option for Internet connectivity was an expensive ISDN line, and later an extremely congested 3G tower. In Paucartambo, where our niece taught, there was no connection for the first couple of years.
Another was that teachers were not provided with OLTPs, only students. I got a couple on Buy One/Get One and gave one to our niece, and my sister-in-law used the ancient creaking Win95 laptop we gave her until 2010.
So a good first effort, and lessons were learned. Today I can't help but think it would be much more successful.
Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after reaching puberty.
