Beavers ponds are entirely non-anthropogenic... They own this via natural evolution & adaptation. Who are we as Hominids to judge their right to impact climate in this way?

I recorded some media back in 2010 that was good enough to upload to Wikipedia for a notable page. Back then Wikipedia required both the video and an audio stream to be in .ogg format. PITA...

Obligatory WC Fields quote:

"I don't drink water; Fish shit in it!"

Who says its over now? Have you read the NVMe 1.4 spec?

ZFS came from Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix. These are developers that created a certified 5 Nine's Oracle cluster back in 1995 that could have the nodes & half the storage separated by 3km of fiber. When they closed what is now Meta's campus, they found an un-patched Solaris machine with a 5 year uptime. And SMF vs. Systemd? Definitely not Linux developers, not even close...

I believe the old IBM quote applies here... "If you want to eat Hippopotamus, you have to pay the freight."

I worked for a company acquired by CSC. Since it was a startup, it didn't change too much until it got broken up & consumed. But it looks like this lawsuit started in 2014. CSC merged with some portion of HPE back around 2017 I think, and formed DXC. It was kind of like to garbage trucks colliding.

Yes. 5th generation. I was in the 5th grade when Prop 13 passed, and my parents were frantically adding on to the starter home they were trapped in (70's stagflation...) to get the sq/ft completed before the assessment locked. I learned all kinds of stuff, the contractors built out the shell, and my Dad and I did the finish work because it was the only way he could afford it.

Did it work? Or did it get subverted? I ask rhetorically of course.

Back in the mid-90's I installed some scientific equipment at a major construction site. I usually did my own electrical, but wasn't allowed on this project because it was a union site. So I had to supervise the master electrician, because this was pretty specialized stuff. I was fresh out of college with a hard science degree making all of $15/hr. 12 year Master electrician was making $75/hr and putting $25/hr in his pension in 1994. He flat out asked me "College boy why do you even get out of bed in the morning?" I dusted off my early era Linux skills and did a stint in Sun Quinten before escaping.

But to answer your question... Regulatory capture, graft & corruption, and a complete lack of any kind of functioning political opposition. Not really my problem anymore. I'm just a spectator watching from a weird place far far away...

Because they lost control of their politicians and bureaucrats, and this fix was easier than regaining control. Allowing the real problem to fester for 45+ years.

But... The law of unintended consequences comes into play. Prop 13 may have saved Grandma from homeless poverty in 1978. But then the city couldn't get the money to expand the water treatment plant, etc... The unions got theirs anyway via the usual means, and left the cities & counties scrambling for cash. Hence the $350 jaywalking ticket, parking tickets, speeding tickets, etc... But it still wasn't enough. So they baked in to the system the ability to take the cash up front.

The permit & planning fee's to build a modest single family home in the SF Bay area is now well north of $140,000. Not kidding. $140k before you can turn over a single shovel full of dirt. This massively distorts the housing market. If you have a wet cardboard box with a valid occupancy permit, it's worth $140k + the cost of the land its sitting on. And someone ends up paying property tax on the value of those permits forever.

This shakedown has been going on for so long that most people can't don't even know the history, can't comprehend a fix, and don't even think about it because "the narrative" cannot be questioned. Every teacher, every fireman, every cop, every city & county employee. state judge, and state politician is invested in making sure you never fix this.

Hiring bonus with a payback clause, plus a fat RSU, and my wife was off work. I stayed and tried to work it via HR, but HR is mostly a waste of time for IC's. Once I determined HR was in on the play I quit and walked away, leaving the RSU on the table. When they asked for the hiring bonus back I pointed out they breached the agreement first. I was never provided the training I told them I required in the first interview, and they didn't provide the position I agreed to. That they had an involuntary transfer policy openly known to all managers, and not disclosed was also a problem. I would not have entered into the agreement had the policy been disclosed. I told them if they wanted it back to start arbitration. I satisfied 85% of the term, and they satisfied none of their promises.

It's been several years. I haven't heard anything more, but I keep a file on it just in case I need to lawyer up. And I keep a legal coverage plan.

If you accept a hiring bonus, my advice is require a pro-rate by month, and if you can wrangle it, an escape clause for an involuntary transfer. If they can't agree, you're setting yourself up to get played.

Ok... Huge vehicle data:
I still have a Ford Excursion I bought new 23 years ago in late 2000, 7.3l diesel 4x4. The engine is halfway thru it's 400k mile useful life. Three 44 gallon tanks of fuel carries me half way across the US in ~25 hours. Towing a small house drops the fuel economy to 11 mpg, so 6 tanks, and add a couple extra hours for safety.

Consider... That's 1.1 lbs fuel per mile for up to 8 people, and ~10k lbs. in cargo. A Boeing 737 burns 12.7 lb/mi carrying 160 people and 16,000 lbs in suitcases. So yes, flying is more efficient for suitcase sized trips. But in the end it's ~80 mpg/person vs ~96 mpg/person.

And it's been paid off since 2005... Sadly, I haven't been able to put together financing for a 737.

For the end game, go look at any of the surviving titans of their era. Offshoring, cyclical layoffs, innovation by acquisition only, profits above all else.

At one of these shell-of-a-titan's... I got to experience a forced transfer that made no sense at all. I was lured back to a company by some old teammates I had worked with for almost a decade. Hired for specific rather arcane technical skills, and promised some training in the "new shiney". Ten weeks later I was forcibly transferred to some mundane "we need this feature too" project that I had no understanding of or interest in, and required 4+ years of "the new shiney". I was placed under a manager that was used to having mostly H1B's as employees, and could bully and mistreat them. The stress did permanent damage to my health. When you cross paths with these managers, destroy them. Because they will destroy you.

You're right about the deficit spending, but I suspect you're allowing ideological bias to taint your view. The Reagan deficits are the result of previous events. Bonds are usually issued with a 20 year maturity. With that in mind, consider the following notable events:

1. The Marshal Plan, reconstructing Europe. Bond maturity ~1965.
2 The Vietnam War & Great Society. Bond maturity ~1985.
3. The Cold War. If you claim it ended in 1991, bond maturity was ~2011, with the Reagan era spending hitting in a years 2001 to 2008, which were notable years of economic turmoil. But this one kind of smears out across the whole post WWII era.
4. The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the early 70's. Mostly caused by 1 & 2, but #3 gave it legs, preventing an adjustment.

Consider, gold in 1971 was $38/oz. Right now it's $1983.50/oz. The charts speak for themselves, go look:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

This is why everyone fights over grandma's jewelry.

Anything nit you pick, any ideological pursuit you choose to claim "us" and "them" and point fingers and assign blame is simply void here. We have lost control of our politicians, and they have been debasing the US currency for 50+ years and tearing apart the middle class. You have to become a member of their club to become rich. They want serfs. A self-sufficient middle class is not in their interest. Medicare & SS are part of the scheme. Stop trying to blame the other victims. They're fighting the same battle, but have different views or are reacting to different pain points.

Hasn't HAMSAT been doing that since like the 1980's?? If I remember correctly they even use a crossed set of bar magnets and painted their antenna ground plane with light and dark coatings to make it spin for stabilization. One larger magnet kept it aligned with Earth's magnetic field, and the other limited the spin rate via eddy currents to something reasonable.

And we still can't use "preview" after 9pm or remember which ML we're using to post...