Look in Byte Magazine Issue 1 and you'll find an ad for the Sphere 1. 6800 based with 4K dynamic RAM and a monochrome 32x16 video interface that came as a kit. Almost worked after one replaced the memory chip that was pretty much guaranteed to fail in the first few hours. Monitor was a black and white TV that you injected the video signal into just past the video signal rectifier.

Second computer, that worked better and lasted longer, was the IMSAI 8080 S-100 computer. Pushed that to 16K static memory, 2K or EEPROM and a hand wire-wrapped video card based on a Motorola 6845 video chip and TWO 8 inch floppy disks.

How many of these wonderful labour producing good for the economy good for the country mega projects start with a request for tax relief from the local agencies? Just another example of how the billionaires and their pet projects are the real welfare addicts in these days.

Finland was using dogs to sniff out COVID back in 2020. They were dependable then. How did this take so long here?

I worked in the IT outsourcing business about 20 years ago and the employees from the various IT departments were shuttled and shuffled around more like goods than people. There was even one cartoon showing an IT manager shrink wrapped to a board being placed in a crate for shipment to the next company that was taking on the outsourcing contract. Another with an IT worker just discarded with the trash and the garbage collectors commenting on how someone threw out a perfectly goo IT programmer. When someone called me up to the boss' floor after I got in a 10 AM after working all night on pager duty I knew I was going to be let go in the latest personnel shuffle. Didn't even blink, just confirmed that I wasn't going to be called for pager duty again that night, handed over my pager and my ID and walked away. Never looked back. (Still have nightmares about that working situation.)

AND that was 20 years ago. I cannot imagine, especially with the news I've read over time, that things have gotten any better for just about any workers these days. Employees are not considered as valuable resources, they are treated as cost centers to be minimized and optimized to get the best productivity from them.

Now I'm properly retired, living on my little pension and just keeping my head down to see what happens next without worrying about where I'm going to be relocated to in the upcoming personnel shuffle..

Musk says that his SpaceX systems could replace the Russian module for guidance control and, while I really dislike Musk personally, it should be considered and put in place as a standby option. Given the truths that have come from Russia these days I wouldn't trust them when they say they will or will not abandon an astronaut or leave the ISS to its own devices. Always have a backup and always check it on a regular basis to make sure it will work.

more connected than you think, mate. The problem is how do you get by not being able to understand metaphors?

If they are using a well considered carefully weighted strategy they won't let a petition by a bunch of armchair generals change their minds.

Putin would never make that decision. He'd need to admit he'd make a mistake.It's more likely to end when one of his elite guards is convinced by some generals and oligarchs that the best thing for Russia would be to have Putin pacified. Not likely as long as Putin can pull the trigger and nuke either one of his enemies or a dissenting Russian city.

Actually, in chess you win by putting the enemy king in a position where he has no moves. You never actually take him from the board the way you would take any other piece from the board.

The problem is trying to put Putin in a position where he has no other moves and bringing the nukes into the battle isn't a possible move.

Now, it would be a war crime for someone outside of Russia to simply kill Putin but I doubt any charges would be brought from an international court if someone inside Russia were to take him out. (A thing many have hoped for from the beginning of this.)

Problem is how closely the White Supremacist and American Nationalist movements have attached themselves to the slogan these days. It is also closely attached to Trump who is a known racist and whose ideal great America is a vision from the 40's and 50's when racism was an accepted part of life. While other politicians have used very close phrases to give their parties or the country a focus, Trump has actually trademarked MAGA as his property attached to his beliefs and philosophies and those are capitalist, authoritarian and racist at their core. In my humble opinion, that is. You can hold your own view of the matter, of course. (in other words, you're not going to convince me otherwise, that MAGA is an apolitical slogan that the Democrats can also take up with no repercussions from the Right.)

Even if it is not about Trump directly it will have to echo or reinforce Trumps position on any subject.

The problem is that the liberals do want to make America great again but they want to make it great again for all Americans, not just the White supremacists.

So, Trump's Truth Social app, catering to his MAGA crying, America First believers is at the top of the charts on Apple's App store, getting loaded on more MADE IN CHINA Apple phones than they could ever admit.

Who'd'a thunk it?
The world will need fission nuclear power to stop gap the carbon sources that are supposed to be shutting down until a proper fusion reactor can be deployed.

NFTs are relatively recent and their nuclear program still under development so plain stealing crypto seems more likely.

more reason not to get involved in promoting or using it.