Sorry but no. The electric catapult is nothing more than a linear electric motor. Think maglev trains. Or even EV motors. Besides that, we've been using induction motors for a hundred years. They operate in inducing eddy currents in a rotor using a changing magnetic field created by electric coils. Never mind being close to and underneath of electric transmission lines!

Funny. Of course you do realize that recently-commissioned US aircraft carriers now use electromagnetic launchers too now right? They can be more finely tuned compared to steam catapults.

Certain kinds of manufacturing, yes. Absolutely. And important ones too, such as heavy equipment and autos.

But it's the small, everyday, household, things that the west is completely dependent on imports for with near zero domestic capacity. And there's honestly little appetite (only talk and wringing of hands) to bring those kinds of manufacturing back either. When and if the tariffs fully kick in, maybe we'll see a change in attitude. But few Americans are interested in working on farms, let alone factory floors making small widgets.

Wouldn't mind a real time x planet display of the earth with cloud map and Terminator. But that doesn't need to be a video and I can already to that with a cron job every hour or so which I do. Though love iss position might be cool. That said I haven't seen my background in months.

Yeah mean like windows 1.0 did it? ;)

And what of Disney sponging off of hundreds of years of public domain fairy tales? Can't they make up their own original tales?

The TPM does enable some security, such as an encrypted disk, and to enable password-free logins. In other words, it increases local, physical security. Of course Linux can do the same thing if the TPM is present. For most home computers, neither is that critical, and honestly the TPM does little to actually secure Windows from malware or remote exploits. In short the TPM is a valuable and useful feature, but is completely optional and of most value to certain users such as travelers or corporate users. The last thing most of the users who call me up with home computer problems need is an encrypted disk. In fact most don't even really need a login password for their computer if I'm honest. But they do need a secure browser (the TPM can optionally help secure the browser's password store) with ad blocking to keep them free from malware. I can make Windows 11 work for most of these, but not without effort.

It's much cheaper this way. If they lose there would be no damages awarded to Disney. And they come into this with the upper hand---the law is technically on their side.

What damages?

I have to admit I'm a bit confused as to why they are even asking anything from Disney since the likeness they wish to use is in the public domain. But I suppose doing this preemptively is slightly cheaper than Disney launching a frivolous lawsuit against them.

You're okay with him disregarding the constitution? You're okay with him being the laws and acting like a king, eliminating power of Congress? Finally are you okay with a Democrat coming to power and doing the things Trump is doing?

Chromium is frozen on my desktop at the last version to fully support uBlock Origin. After they removed Manifestv2, chrome and its derivatives are no longer viable for me.

Surely this story, which is essentially true even if the style is propaganda-ish, is evidence that central planning by a communist government does not work. Of course it doesn't work here either, something the trump administration and gop seem to have forgot as they begin to exert control directly in American companies to get them to do things for the king.

I strongly suspect this cheap laptop will be locked down. No root, no exception to only allowing signed apps. This will be wildly successful. If you need "developer" access you'll need to buy a MacBook pro.

Hope I'm very wrong but every version of macos on the last few years has been stepping towards this sort of thing.

With two to four years between "seasons" of six to ten 42-55 minute episodes, it's hard to keep an audience interested in.

At least it used to be that most American shows had 20 or more episodes per year, year on year for the run of the show. TNG had something like 36 episodes per year. Crazy schedule for the cast and crew. Simpsons has put out 20+ episodes per year for 30 years.

In the UK things have always been different. One full series is usually a lot fewer episodes (many of the most popular shows had only about 6 shows per year) and sometimes more than a year between series. Maybe the scale of viewship is just different, but even old shows are still very popular today in syndication.

If everything moved an hour later, what's the point of DST in the first place then? The original point was that permanent DST means parents were dropping kids off in the dark since sunrise was an hour later. Moving everything one hour later is then the same thing as standard time. So just keep standard time.