These do not seem to be mutually coherent goals... (subsidizing the power industry, providing NASA with adequate resources, and potentially restarting the nuclear arms race)
Of course it makes sense. Giving it to the power industry means we need to make more, and he can award the contract on a bribery basis.
Espionage isn't against international law.
Absolutely not the point. That's not a small amount of money to have wandering around doing things.
and currency pressure from a stronger Israeli shekel against the dollar
Is the Shekel really stronger? Or is the dollar just going into the toilet? I'm seeing more and more international boycotts against Israel.
WTF are parents for these days?
Coddling their little cupcakes until they become worse than worthless. Same as it ever was in times of plenty. Unfortunately, it leads to suffering.
He has been remarkably consistent for his entire tenure on Slashdot. His entire brand is not giving a fuck about anyone but himself, and he's proud to tell you so.
Anything that scares him is bad, and everything scares him.
Apparently the "hot fire" test was a great success!
"Grundfos is a global leader in advanced pump and water solutions, renowned for its highly efficient, reliable, and sustainable pumping systems."
Yeah, what that means is that they are going to be the de facto choice for pumps for european DCs, and yet they are asking the EU to build fewer of them, which will mean less business for them. This doesn't mean what you think it means. Unlike in the USA, a lot of major European corporations are still run with sustainability in mind. They would like there to be a tomorrow for them to profit in.
It's likely not bought with tax money. The company has various means.
Sure, it's bought with money from drug trafficking.
I don't want the CIA doing that either.
The analogy is not quite right. Meta are not analogous to drug dealers. They are analogous to drug designers who tweak the formula to make it as addictive as possible, ignoring any harms.
They are both things, as they are both producing the product and delivering it to the end user, and they are collecting the revenues.
For example, what does "This is a book that you must on no account fail to miss" mean?
It means someone was being snarky, and if you can't parse it out, it also means you're not good at understanding English.
You trust what Zuck says? He has a name for people like that.
Citation needed
It's called personal experience. Bots like you don't, but real humans actually have such things.
NiMH also doesn't eat shit immediately if you deep discharge it once and leave it that way for a few days, which is my favorite thing about it. A lot of chargers are too dumb to recharge deeply discharged cells, though. Of my three NiMH chargers, only one will do it. I love eneloop batteries, but the eneloop bundled charger is trash...
Because China.
This isn't some anti-communist post.
We knew that already, because you were talking about China.
The only reason he'd need all that would be for some nefarious shit
Or they needed to bribe or hire a bunch of people.
That's not an "or".
everything the CIA does is nefarious. Doing dastardly deeds on our behalf is their job.
I am not paying taxes for the purpose of having feds violate the law, national or international.
The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. -- C.N. Parkinson
