I'm amused by those who imagine that the laws of physics can be defied merely by looking the other way. It makes me ponder how unbelievably moronic humanity is, how pathetic, and how deserving of what it is come.

Exactly. Whatever the rules are going to be; they need to be objective, entirely impartial, deterministic in their metrics and outcomes, and published and known to ALL parties in advance. No pinhead bureaucrat or crooked politico should have any say whatsoever beyond "Is this number higher or lower than this other number?". NO moving targets, NONE of that "definition of obscenity" BS that you already mentioned.

Indeed. Replacing half a century of collective experience with a new language in an entirely different and far less tested environment to write low level code, where all the memory safety features have to be disabled at all the same failure points where C and assembly have been used... for reasons.

So, in other words, it really isn't any better at bare metal development than C/C++. If you have to direct memory and hardware manipulation in unsafe blocks, then really, it's just the same thing as doing it in C.

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With his age, weight, and diet*; by all rights he should already be dead. Never mind the fact that he has denied wearing makeup** in the past, which adds cirrhosis or hepatitis to the mix as well. I'm think he must have injected some stem cells from Jackie Chan, Keith Richards, or a Florida cockroach. So I'm not betting on an early exit.

* Not to mention the stress of the job. Look at before & after every pictures of every other president. That job ages people something like two years for every one spent in office.

** Yes, I know. He's such a pathological lying stack of crap that he lies about silly and trivial things like that too. But I also don't get why anyone would WANT to look like they're always about to drop dead from liver failure.

Lol... no, it's definitely about oil. Since the end of the Cold War; aside from the oil, literally the only reason for us to go on foreign misadventures in that entire region at all is the Suez Canal. And protecting just the canal would cost a fraction of the money we burn over there. Of course, with Putin's determination to rekindle the Cold War... or even go hot... once his cockholster in the White House is gone, we and Russia will probably make the same mistakes and prop up our traditional pawns on the regional chess board again. But that does not change the fact that for over thirty years now, subsidizing cheap access to oil has been the only reason.

Don't worry. By 2035, Dear Leader will have abolished all of those "WOKE" hybrids and the smaller "LEFTIST" economical petrol cars. We'll be cruising around on land yachts... the BEST land yachts... better than SAD little cars the shithole countries of the world use. And they'll be powered by beautiful CLEAN COAL; with our very own black gangs shoveling it into the REAL GOOD fireboxes that CROOKED HILLARY banned for NO REASON except that she's a NASTY woman who full of HATE and she wants to spite the REAL Americans.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Seriously, the idea that we know all the practically important physics there is is the kind of thing only somebody who's never done science or engineering would believe.

Industrial R&D is important, but it is in a distrant third place with respect to importance to US scientific leadership after (1) Universities operating with federal grants and (2) Federal research institutions.

It's hard to convince politicians with a zero sum mentality that the kind of public research that benefits humanity also benefits US competitiveness. The mindset shows in launching a new citizenship program for anyone who pays a million bucks while at the same time discouraging foreign graduate students from attending universtiy in the US or even continuing their university careers here. On average each talented graduate student admitted to the US to attend and elite university does way more than someone who could just buy their way in.

Republicans equate being pro-market with being pro-big-business-agenda. The assumption is that anything that is good for big business is good for the market and therefore good for consumers.

So in the Republican framing, anti-trust, since is interferes with what big business wants to do, is *necessarily* anti-market and bad for consumers, which if you accept their axioms would have to be true, even though what big business wants to do is use its economic scale and political clout to consolidate, evade competition, and lock in consumers.

That isn't economics. It's religion. And when religious dogmas are challenge, you call the people challenging them the devil -- or in current political lingo, "terrorists". A "terrorist" in that sense doesn't have to commit any actual act of terrorism. He just has to be a heathen.

> Sarifs are, in fact, for ease of reading, but point
> well taken. The justifications are wrong and the
> people making them are petty assholes.

Yeah... the letters I and l, as well as the number 1, would beg to differ. Another insufferability I've notices is that sans-serif fonts also omit the slash in the 0, which makes it easy to mistake fo the capital letter O. I would grant that Helvetica is eaiser on the eyes for mere consumption only. But to actually get real work done, serifs are fairly helpful.

At the end of the day, *THIS* administration should be using Comic Sans or Wingdings. I doubt anything it produces is worth reading no matter the font.

Sure, plus faster reflexes, bigger muscles, maybe cat ears and tail. The wealthy will always get a disproportionate share of the pie. But as long as those who need this tech can get it (which includes both "availability" and "affordability"), that's okay.

There is a danger of a Gattaca world, but there is always a danger of a dystopia. I could wish that fewer Americans would be cheerfully voting for dystopia to "own the libs" or "stop woke" or something moronic like that, but whatever.

I mean, sure, we could go right to THE INFERIOR HUMAN MUST NOT REPRODUCE (funny how the speaker always puts themselves in the superior category, even though such statements demonstrate a inferior mental capacity). Or, plan B, we could fix those major genetic problems so that inherited diseases are not longer inherited (and, even if they are inherited, they are no longer a problem).