Comment Re:Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead (Score 0) 128
When Thatcher died, it was also celebrated quite a bit.
Comment Re:About fucking time (Score 2) 44
Why the fuck wouldn't you? The systems nowadays boot up in 5 seconds or so thanks to the SSDs.
Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 206
And what use would they have without delivery vehicles? Suicide? Besides, nukes need maintenence and the poorest country in Europe certainly couldn't afford that.
Submission + - U.S. Will Restart Testing Nuclear Bombs (npr.org)
Mr_Blank writes: President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an "equal basis" with Russia and China.
The U.S. conducts some of its most sensitive nuclear weapons research in a laboratory deep beneath Nevada. NPR was recently given a tour. There was no indication the U.S. would start detonating warheads, but the president offered few details about what seemed to be a significant shift in U.S. policy.
The U.S. military already regularly tests its missiles that are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, but it has not detonated the weapons since 1992 because of a test ban.
But the president suggested that changes were necessary because other countries were testing weapons. It was unclear what he was referring to, but it evoked Cold War-era escalations.
"Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis," he said in a post on Truth Social. "That process will begin immediately."
Trump made the announcement only an hour before he was scheduled to sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The U.S. conducts some of its most sensitive nuclear weapons research in a laboratory deep beneath Nevada. NPR was recently given a tour. There was no indication the U.S. would start detonating warheads, but the president offered few details about what seemed to be a significant shift in U.S. policy.
The U.S. military already regularly tests its missiles that are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, but it has not detonated the weapons since 1992 because of a test ban.
But the president suggested that changes were necessary because other countries were testing weapons. It was unclear what he was referring to, but it evoked Cold War-era escalations.
"Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis," he said in a post on Truth Social. "That process will begin immediately."
Trump made the announcement only an hour before he was scheduled to sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Comment Re:TIL (Score 1) 262
It is perfectly possible, however, to be a miserable old fuck, yet to learn so much more than two decades ago.
Comment Re:How many is that? (Score 3, Insightful) 50
Two at best considering the usual cost overruns, but more likely just one. And it will take 10-15 years to build.
Comment Re:TIL (Score 1) 262
You must be new here.
SCNR.
Comment Re:Good News? (Score 1) 50
That number was "the first round of layoffs". My guess is, these 14000 are the second round.
Comment Re: You got it wrong. (Score 1) 57
The "experienced developers" have created those old security holes in the first place.
Comment Re:When normal, shouldn’t be. (Score 2) 96
Yes, USB support was added to the OSR 2 of windows 95.
Comment Re:Old, tired shit (Score 2) 136
"Doctorow is a communist" is exactly the kind of "easy answers" you describe. Ironic that you haven't realised it.
Comment Re:I listened to a comprehensive NPR report bout t (Score 1) 122
Not an accident, but a consequence of far right populism being made mainstream and pretty much inevitable.
Comment Re:Just speculating. (Score 1) 265
I have an EV and live in an apartment. I normally charge either at work or at a grocery store. I only need to charge once or twice per week anyway.
Comment Re: Just speculating. (Score 1) 265
Yep and it was not helped by a chancellor that wanted the nineties to continue forever.
Comment Re:Excellent (Score 2) 123
We had the market deciding for decades and a zoo of incompatible chargers. Then the EU stepped in and mandated micro USB and things improved a lot. After almost a decade the EU changed the mandate to USB C.
Long story short, the distant commitee of people who are answering to the general population is far better than dozen even more distant committees of people who answer to a bunch of enshittificating CEOs.
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