The whole idea of building one's reputation through the fear among neighbors and the world in general should have died out after WWII. Territorial gains and colonization don't mean squat any more. The losers of that war went on to build great cars, cameras and other machinery within their own borders. Russia needs to figure this out. If they can't excel at home, why do they think that more land will help?

Your whataboutism is a weak, stupid person's argument and isn't even tangentially related to anything being discussed here.

Go fuck your own face.

Who the hell just trusts AI code to not do bad things without at least looking it over once, or running it in a sandbox VM?

Anyone who does that deserves the output they get.

Because the people with the cameras (or now social media services) set it up to be that way. Our politicians have to spend an entire year campaigning to obtain or hang on to their seat. And do do that, they have to pay the publicity gate-keepers. Dearly.

Hence the need to accumulate massive war chests of $$. Just to remain in the public view. And the processes to do so invites massive corruption and ass-kissing of wealthy special interests.

Our election system was designed when candidates had to ride on horseback and then steam trains from town to town to rally the public behind them. Today, that news travels at the speed of Starlink. But the news outlets need to keep it stretched out to maximize their income.

F* the news outlets.

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Now it reads: How about getting rid of the first past the POS

This. As long as the legislators are allowed to "re-form" coalitions on a dynamic, issue by issue basis.

But things tend to devolve when the coalition needs to delegate privileges. Like selecting a Prime Minister. Once power is in the hands of a group, it's very difficult to claw it back, short of a vote of no confidence.

On a positive note, BAIFH did back up your results to the Purity Test to a public folder on Google Drive.

I'll let the entire avionics industry know that rando internet dipshit #2817221 disapproves. Meanwhile, we'll keep delivering solutions to airlines that they overwhelmingly approve of and continue spending billions of dollars to opt-in on, which comply with THEIR requirements.

For one thing, the precedent actions were taken with the consent and approval of the Congress.

But don't worry about THAT little difference...

So is wealth redistribution, but that doesn't stop this orange asshat from both railing against "socialism" while continuing to talk about his "tariff rebates"

This guy has managed to convince the GOP that core tenets of socialism are just fine, somehow.

The inflation definitely showed up. It may have not been immediate, but we definitely got it.

Have no idea what big heavy rock you live under to have written such a thing.

Don't forget all the "free market capitalists" that rail against government picking winners being perfectly fine with this government picking winners.

Yes, LOL @ me for stating how the vast majority of in-flight entertainment is loaded onto aircraft fitted with in-flight entertainment headends.

You do know that each airline chooses what media to load (i.e. pay for), yeah? And the more you license, the less you can get into the IFE headend over a T-Mobile Magenta connection. This is very basic and yet you have completely failed to grasp it.

Once again, I will re-iterate that you know absolutely nothing about how this works. For example: how good do you think that terabytes of data flow across cellular modems that get shut down as soon as the aircraft sends a signal to the IFE headend that "weight on wheels" == 0?

Guess what? The cellular modem shuts off the instant the landing gear lift off the runway, per FCC and FAA regulations. I know that, as well as every engineer working on the headend platform, because that's how it must work under current regulations.

You don't know that, because you're an idiot who thinks they know more than they do.

In order to deliver a connected aircraft that complies with current regulatory rules, we need to deliver multi-orbit satellite connectivity (i.e. GEO and LEO) which requires a new antenna be installed on the aircraft, as well as software that can handle the multipath routing properly. But you don't know that either. And you also don't know that nobody makes those antennas in a factory yet - they are custom built and installed and there's only a handful of them right now actually mounted on airside hardware that United just did a press availability event on last month. But go on telling me what I know and what I don't.

You also don't seem to understand that getting customized IFEC software built and deployed for your airline takes months of development and certification time from the IFEC provider. But sure, let's just change that up to allow anyone to yell "YEEEEE HAWW" and deliver questionable software from who-the-fuck-knows-where to be installed on systems running in the electronics bay of a wide-body 787 carrying hundreds of people over an ocean without the pilot having any idea it's happening. What could go wrong, amirite?

Idiot. Quit while you're behind.

What user would trust a crypto where they couldn't read the blockchain?

The "Trust me, bro" coin?

At work I could've bought a fiber Ethernet tester, a copper Ethernet tester, and a Wifi tester. I would've spent around $8000 for all three for the degree of testing I was buying.

Instead I bought a $12,000 tool that can test fiber, copper, and wifi. Because carrying around three tools and using three tools if up troubleshooting a streetlight-mounted terragraph backhaul device or AP is really cumbersome.

It's cumbersome to have to carry multiple devices if one device can do the job. I can think of lots of applications where this would be useful if it's durable enough, and they all boil-down to neither having to carry multiple devices nor having to carry a large, rigid tablet.