noshellswill - Slashdot User

Comment nothi (Score 1) 51

by noshellswill on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:36PM (#65794830) Attached to: World Still On Track For Catastrophic 2.6C Temperature Rise, Report Finds

Four degrees Fahrenheit is nothing . Florida is hot in the summer anyway, and oil-tankers love ice-free northern oceans. But, as solutions go that's just the tip of the iceberg. We have all those newly minted nuclear power plants to cool our buildings and even construct reverse green-houses for sugar maple & birch. Thank gawd we built 30 6-GWatt units starting in Y2K, because ... oh wait ...

Comment private (Score 1) 148

by noshellswill on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:36PM (#65791082) Attached to: UC San Diego Reports 'Steep Decline' in Student Academic Preparation

Does that decline in college preparation also hold for students coming from private or Catholic schools ? Does it hold for traditional HOME-SCHOOLED kids. And does it also hold for people entering the "skilled" trades ? Are new writers from The Paris Review and The NewYorker less literate than previous generations. Question really is: has America stopped preparing it's able citizenry for intellectual challenge. Of-course in previous eras --- if you didn't work smart, then you didn't get laid and didn't eat.

Comment Re:There is no unmet demand in the US (Score -1, Troll) 206

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:45PM (#65789462) Attached to: China's EV Market Is Imploding

Why should America finance our most aggressive and deadly existential enemy ? Of every dollar whisked to a Chinese owned company 90-cents ends up in CCP weapons pointed at us. Very imprudent behavior. You are US ... aren't you ... or are you one of the rats-nest of Chi.com agents posting on slash-dot & pimping-the-ride for CCP expansionist agendas ?

Comment YAAF (Score -1) 206

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:34PM (#65789454) Attached to: China's EV Market Is Imploding

Yet another American folly. China does what ? "...Bloated by excessive investment, distorted by government intervention, and plagued by heavy losses ..." Can you believe China fell for it ? First we tried to teach Chinese religion, but they were too smart even for the Jesuits --- who conquered Japan. Then we tried to teach THEM politics, but we nothing better to offer than another warlord . Then we tried to teach them modern science & medicine , but China loves rogue bats. Then we tried to teach them industrial finance ... and they said WOW --- 'let's get it on!' So they build roads & bridges ... & cars like 1960s GM, but it's 2025 and ... GM and China automakers go broke. You would think an 8,000 year old culture -- rich & corrupt when Euro-whites were running around in bear-skins --- would believe St Paul, not Rousseau or dear-Lord-almighty ... Greenspan !

Comment Re:Every Bubble Pops (Score 2) 69

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @01:29PM (#65788312) Attached to: AI's $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says

You're spot-on..."...infect every capital market ...". No safe haven for the reasonable producer or investor. Your SIG OTOH is dead wrong. Any prudent person would prefer Franco or Mussolini or Czar Peter to Stalin or Mao.

Comment trillions (Score 2) 69

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @01:20PM (#65788278) Attached to: AI's $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says

Trillions and trillions ... sounds like purposeful over-capitalization to me. Industry leaders want every aspect of American (world?) finance to have a dog in the hunt (for the money-bunny). Actions too big to fail and too widespread to ignore. And if that rabbit turns into a wolf ... and eats the dogs ... well there's always government bail-out.

Comment Re:It'll never stop (Score 1) 19

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:59AM (#65787916) Attached to: A Jailed Hacking Kingpin Reveals All About Cybercrime Gang

Well stated limitations on laws. One reason for having a king + senate, rather than a republic. The king can/will act beyond the laws, when the laws assuming good-will fail the common good. The king would "simply" have this digital sociopath tracked-down and shot dead. ARCH-TYPE Germanicus preferably, but otherwise Aurelius/Augustus not Nero/Caligula.

Comment Re:Claustrophobia (Score 1) 89

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:25AM (#65787870) Attached to: Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning

An orchard or garden might be 200 yds wide, but a "forest" ? Perhaps you grew up/live in a big city and have never trekked a high plains forest , grouse-hunted a swale forest of low pine, followed a stream thru a forest valley or skied a mountain forest run. Arguably if you can see to the end of it, it's a park, not a forest.

Comment yet again (Score 0) 10

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:07AM (#65787834) Attached to: UK Signs Scaled-Back Scientific Collaboration With China

Brits gave Russia the jet engine after WW2; claiming ...' one fellow socialists gift to another ...' Now the Brits give ( another jet engine / *.ai / cypher ? ) to kommi-con China; I guess one mongrelized faded empire bows to new blood . Does the sun ever set on a Chi.com empire that manufactures American bacon and is permitted to buy American property ?

Comment Re:MongoDB ad (Score 1) 56

by noshellswill on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:23PM (#65786636) Attached to: Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales

Yep. Me too. Ad really sucks. I run UBLK on Librewolf . Must kill the AD manually.

Comment Re:It won't last. (Score -1, Troll) 40

by noshellswill on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:15PM (#65786610) Attached to: World's First Green Fuel Levy To Add Almost $32 To Air Fares

Tha'r she blows ! You make an amusing point. Whales are one of the last large pack-forming mammals yet to be domesticated. You would think with the millennia-long demand for lubricating/fuel oil some enclosed volume of ocean ( the Baltic ? ) would have been cooperatively set-aside by surrounding nations and whale-farming practiced. Never happened AFAIK. Wonder why ? Mebby "krill" is impossible to grow systematically.

Comment Re: Who cares? (Score 1) 51

by noshellswill on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:04AM (#65784050) Attached to: Did ChatGPT Conversations Leak... Into Google Search Console Results?

Not so fast, mercantilist ! I can go out to the forest or beach anytime I desire and gather a free lunch. Guess you are not much of an out-door person. Also, bread , beans and milk are SURPLUS products almost everywhere on earth --- production is higher than consumption --- so why does their cost inflate with available dollars ? Items in scarcity ... like caviar , 15 Y/O scotch, GPUs or silk shirts ... of-course price differently.

Comment Re:who needs this (Score 1) 69

by noshellswill on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:33AM (#65783996) Attached to: New Firefox Mascot 'Kit' Unveiled On New Web Page

FIREFOX is no longer the best option. Librewolf installs & works smooth as butter; a slash-dot poster gave me the clue, and I switched a couple weeks ago. Been with MOZ since Netscape, but they have changed; I never looked back.

Comment Re:icebergs sink ships (Score 1) 55

by noshellswill on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:10PM (#65782838) Attached to: Japanese Volunteer Translators Quit After Mozilla Begins Using Translation Bot

Funny coincidence --- I just came across the sci-history fact the original Aharanov/Bohm ( 1961 ) paper ( vector potential Quantum effect ) was written in German for a German sci-mag. Wonder what *.ai translator would/will make of Einsteins "photon" ?

Comment low frontier (Score 2) 36

by noshellswill on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:58PM (#65782826) Attached to: The First New Subsea Habitat In 40 Years Is About To Launch

I have never understood the "high frontier" concept. Why spend trillions going to Mar ( which hates us and makes astroboiz eat toothpaste ) ... instead of spending millions at off-shore Hawaii where every lunch is lobster or maimai . And snorkling 1st class. We don't even talk of sufacing into sunny afternoons spent surfing, instead of hiding in a gawdforsaken ( -80 F ) cave while dust-storms rage just feet away. And does kevlar/teflon astro-sheik compare to palm-frond hula-babe dancing ? What's the perv against our low frontier with all the untapped minerals 1000 generations of humans would crave ? I just don't understand current priorities.

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