We don't even need that. Just have another major volcanic eruption at least on the scale of Mount Tambora (there are several volcanoes in Indonesia capable of this right now) and watch Earth's climate drop by over one degree Celsius and Europe wondering why it froze over in winter.

I think it's because greed trumps their desire to attack their nemesis. Without the US economy end point for their production, their own economic house of cards will quickly collapse.

the younger kids (college age) feel the need to rebel. that's universal.

however, they are extremely uninformed and are siding with the WRONG side.

islam has no ceasefires. they only have 'temporary reloading' periods. this is in their holy books, look it up. if you dare to find the truth about islam.

islam is not compatible with the west. the longer we keep putting off the big fight, the worse its going to be.

I have zero patience for so-called 'smart googlers' who cant even see that the islamic way of life is 100% counter to everything they VALUE in the west.

in short, they are idiots. how they got into google - that just means google has no clue about actual people's views and only cares about 'how fast can you code nested procedures?'.

again, I have very little respect for googlers. they are the most spoiled brats I've ever seen in my life.

let them lose their jobs. that would be some justice.

when they get 20 or 40 years older, they'll change their views. we all do. but for supposedly smart geniuses, they sure act like little clueless children.

Sure, that's the way it works if you hold the "correct" political views. Some of those folks that were in the US capitol during the Jan 6, 2021 protest were guilty of nothing more than trespassing and have effectively been detained for YEARS (some without even a trail yet) and others give remarkably stiff jail sentences.

That is the stuff that your average American thinks happens only in third world countries and now we have it here.

At worst, these entitled Google SJW's will lose their job.

On a recent vintage Macbook Air, you don't. It's not a user serviceable part. When the SSD fails, you throw it away and get a new Mac if it's out of warranty.

I have a recent vintage Mac and a thin notebook PC (running Linux). I use the PC a bit more, but I'm comfortable using both. If the Mac failed tomorrow, I wouldn't buy another one due to the inability to upgrade/service them after the fact. When most PC's are also not user serviceable, maybe I'll re-evaluate that stance. My kids are perfectly fine with Chromebooks. They are also not upgrade-able, but they are dirt cheap and I don't mind the disposable nature of them given the price point and the fact that Google manages to keep them patched for a few years. If they survive long enough to outlive Google's willingness to patch them, I throw them away and get another one (since they cost less than a high end phone these days).

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is at least trying to bring this to a legal head.

https://www.stopkillinggames.c...

1. Bare minimum, we should definitely hold Chinese vehicles (electric or otherwise) to the same safety-testing standards as domestic vehicles, and enforce it absolutely relentlessly (like we haven't been doing with Boeing until very recently, but we should have been). There will be huge pressure to relax this, but we dare not, because any loopholes will be abused in the worst possible way and people will die. This one shouldn't be negotiable at all.

2. Tariffs and sanctions remain an option, to be used correctively whenever a foreign company receives inherently unfair advantages resulting from things like government subsidies, currency manipulation, and so on. The details here are potentially negotiable, but...

3. There's no point negotiating *anything* with the CCP until the keep a few of the promises they've already made. Send them an open letter that says "Do some of the stuff you already said you were going to do. We'll wait." When they call to try to negotiate a better (for them) deal, have an intern put them on hold and go to lunch.

Decent-quality aluminum ore is still abundant. In the first place, it was more common than e.g. high-quality iron ore; but the real reason is, we didn't really start mining it in earnest until we figured out an affordable way to refine it, in the late nineteenth century. So compared to just about any other metal you care to name, there's significantly more of the good ore left still accessible, for aluminum.

> Even with that, you're still not going to the stars, i think.

Nobody's going to the stars, regardless of technology level. They're much too far away, and the incentives are much too weak. Staying on a planet in a nice comfy habitable-zone orbit around a star, is just *overwhelmingly* more convenient, than setting out on a multi-generational voyage to a distant location that probably offers you nothing you don't already have closer to home.

We're going to continue to explore the system we're in, and we're probably going to put telescopes in a few more places (perhaps at a couple of the earth-sun lagrange points, for instance) in an attempt to *see* a bit further out. Maybe we'll even send probes. But actually going ourselves, is a total non-starter. It's fun to write stories about, for entertainment purposes, when you don't have to be realistic. But it's not even remotely practicable.

People underestimate how far away the stars are, and think things like "Oh, if we could go maybe a tenth of light speed, then a trip to the nearest star could be 40 years." But it couldn't, because you're assuming instant acceleration, and nothing can survive that. Spreading the aceleration out means you can't do most of it with the slingshot effect, so it becomes very expensive to achieve. Using thrusters, for example, the amount of reaction mass needed to handle a voyage that long in a comfortable way (acelerate for the first half, then decelerate for the second half) is prohibitive, even if the energy is free. The only *practical* way to do it is with laws-of-physics-optional sci-fi propulsion technology. Hyperspace or warp drive or wormhole generators or space folding tech or some jazz like that. None of which is consistent with what we think we know about physics. So unless we find out that the standard model is very very wrong in some fundamental way, going to the stars is not happening.

The impacted cpu's list above only included Intel parts. The article doesn't mention AMD at all.

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> I challenge you to find an example of any federal court ruling
> wherein it has been decided that foreign governments, have
> the rights granted in the US constitution. They don't.

And furthermore, if they did, some of the treaties we've made at
the ends of wars, would be violations of our constitution. The
agreement we made with Japan at the end of WWII, and the
constitution we forced them to adopt (certain points of which we
later regretted due to the Cold War), are a prominent example.
But no, the German inter-war and Japanese post-war governments
don't have second-amendment rights. If foreign governments had
fourth-amendment rights, most of what the CIA does would be
unconstitutional.

If you don't understand the constitutional basis for who has rights,
maybe look at the wording in the ninth and tenth amendments.
Maybe you will find a clue there.

I will say it again: the Chinese Communist Party does not have
rights under the US constitution. They have certain rights under
international law, but running propaganda companies in other
countries isn't one of those rights.

> I don't see any "except for foreign corporations" clause in there,

The word "corporation" here is disengenuous. We're talking about a genocidal government that has materially subsidized the platform's growth specifically so they can use it for propaganda purposes, not some kind of normal for-profit company. (In fact, converting TikTok _into_ a normal for-profit company is the entire point of the bill. That's why the Chinese government hates it so much. They don't want to give up control.)

And I challenge you to find an example of any federal court ruling wherein it has been decided that foreign governments, have the rights granted in the US constitution. They don't.

> not to mention all the users who are going to have their speech unconstitutionally
> abridged by this bill if it becomes law.

How does requiring a foreign government to divest their controlling share in a company, abridge the free speech rights of individuals? Have you even read a short *summary* of what the bill does? The bill does not in any way shape or form attempt to limit what opinions can be published. (It's the other side in the debate that wants to do that, by having the executive branch tell tech companies what "misinformation" they need to curtail.) It just requires ByteDance to sell the platform to a genuinely private company that's *not* run by the CCP. That's all.

But they really, really, really don't want to do that, because as far as they're concerned that would defeat the whole entire purpose of developing the thing in the first place.

Forcing ByteDance out doesn't violate the first amendment because ByteDance isn't the American public; it's part of the narrative-shaping aparatus of a hostile foreign power, which has no legal rights at all under US law. We should've had them on an entity list ten years ago.

> And yet, how many people who have served in the military or one of the
> three letter intelligence services, or administrations, or anything similar,
> have been prevented from telling what they know when writing a book?

That's different. Keeping secrets internally is not the same thing as preventing
political rivals from expressing their opinions.

The problem with the "free speech" argument is that it's completely totally
irrelevant. Foreign governments don't have a right to free speech in America,
and they never have had. The people who are in America, have the right to
free speech. Stopping the narrative-shaping branch of a hostile foreign
government from doing business in your county doesn't have anything to
do with whether your own people have free speech or not. It's just basic
counter-espionage procedure.

Let them publish their propaganda on their own websites, hosted in their
own country. (Which they also do, of course. Lots of them. The Global
Times is the most entertaining of the lot.) They don't have the right to
operate their narrative-shaping business over here.

Yeah, that argument is nonsense.

But forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok isn't a violation of free speech. If you think speech on TikTok is anything resembling free, I have a bridge to sell you. What we should be doing (about ten years ago by preference) is putting ByteDance on an entity list and making it illegal to do business with them because of their ties to the PLA.