Mars' atmosphere is too thin for realistic passenger flight, it's just thick enough to be a PITA for both landing and taking off, any colony on Mars would have to be pretty self-sufficient right away since resupply is once every couple years, it's too far away and too big to supply anything useful to Earth, and is there actually a practical difference between 1/6 and 1/3 G?

Meanwhile the moon is close, made out of resources that would be useful for a space-based industry, and much easier to come and go from. Also, there's no thought it might have once had life, which means there's no real argument for mining the crap out of it. On the other hand, there's no thought it might have once had life.

Bribes, usually.

1930s.

Of course it is. I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm saying "compelling" is a trap. Humans love stories, and scientists these days are highly encouraged to tell stories. When I was in grad school they paid people to come and teach us how to tell compelling stories.

Not reading the article is a Slashdot meme. You didn't even bother to read the first word of the article title before dashing off something silly.

The old "toss it down a staircase and the stair it falls on is the grade" trick doesn't care much about last name.

I have to agree with you though. The first few assignments I graded I tended to have high expectations. By the end those were gone.

Good flick if you want to get a feel for how Pharma sales work.

I'm surprised it hasn't be Pfbanned yet based on who it highlights.

Now do the American ag industry. And banks. And MIC.

Nope. The Chinese Communist Party specifically targeted the US rare earth mining.

China hasn't targeted anyone with anything but cheap consumer goods and cheap well made infrastructure. West has been targeting itself with capitalist deindustrialization and American hegemony.

Its the USG that's obsessed with spying on every person, system and conversation on the planet. Not Russia, not China, not Iran, not NK.

And given that the USG is owned by corporate interests, you really think those ill gotten gains aren't shared with American companies? Really? Reaally?

China will benefit from not have to comply with US labor and environmental standards.

Is the average salary in Detroit and associated factories $129k per year as it is at Huawei? Yeah that company makes phones not cars, but no reason the car workers couldn't make the same as their industry takes off. Market companies (which exist in socialist countries) vs capitalist companies. Like GM continuing to put faulty ignitions in their vehicles even as they knew they were killing people, because it save five bucks ever ten cars.

https://www.comparably.com/com...

within the last decade, now he wants US sanctions to protect Tesla because China is too competitive:

https://www.reuters.com/busine...

They always rant about Wayland, systemd, Pulse/Pipewire, devops, dkms, quic, zfs, etc.

I used to wonder why they don't just not upgrade their os, but then I realized they are lazy and want somebody else to maintain their old system for them.

I mean, even compiling gentoo with the right use set is too hard for these bellyachers.

Yet the humility never occurs to them that the non-lazy people who actually build distros are embracing the newer technology.

Instead the Old Farts case aspersions and ad-hominems at these hard workers. It's pathetic.

I'm done with their BS and won't help them understand anymore - the arguments are almost universally in bad faith.

Because otherwise they would just not upgrade. I have some Infomagic Slackware CD's from 1993 they might be interested in. Yeah, my first Linux box was over 30 years ago and I competently run all those technologies now. I don't fear change even though understanding new tech takes work and I can't just rest on my laurels.

Did you respond to the wrong comment? I am indeed unsure how "long wave transparency windows" are related to the definition of "order of magnitude."

Ah, you're one of those posters who likes to write comments for the mindless adoration of their fans. Indeed, my mistake. Carry on.