One can have monitoring systems connected to the Internet without connecting OT or production lines to the Internet -- although that may mean that your adversaries hack your CCTV and watch your people going to work.

And then some moron on the networking team decides it will save a few bucks to run everything as VLANs on a single switch, so that when (not if) that switch gets compromised, everything becomes accessible to attackers. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

This has nothing to do with interest, you economic ignoramus.

Most companies are not like Apple. Companies who make components for cars deal primarily in physical goods being sold to businesses, and do not make huge profits by appropriating 30% (or whatever it is now) of every transaction in a digital market, or sell their own physical goods at high markup because they have public cachet. Apple has billions in the bank because they don't know what to spend all their profit on, and don't want to distribute it to shareholders or employees; manufacturing companies can almost always improve their processes and tooling, and are more likely to distribute extra profits to people rather than keep them in the bank.

Companies just don't run finances like people do, and they probably shouldn't unless making banks rich is a core part of their business.

Now your complaint is that capitalists are too efficient?

Low profit margins indicate the ability to run a business efficiently and without monopoly power to gouge customers.

TFS didn't claim it was 8500 hours of direct sunlight.

As someone else pointed out, this was an accelerated life test where 1000 hours of light is thought to model a year of real exposure, bit going from 1.5 to 8.5 years of life still means it's a pretty short lifetime.

And that's 5.6 times as long, not 5.6 times longer.

For those keeping score at home, 8500 hours is just over 354 days.

When you look at all of Europe, it's more like a weekly thing, and sometimes a daily thing. The ones that make the news are the bigger bombs like the thousand-pound bomb mentioned in TFS or the rare ones that cannot be made safe and have to be detonated in place, which can mean a lot of new business for window installers even with dampening.

You can't be the "baddest kick ass person on the block" without having an effective ability to fight. That means weapons, and it means training on how to use them most effectively. When going up against the Soviet Union, that means a nuclear arsenal. We made plenty of mistakes along the way, but we also helped ensure through deterrence that the Soviets never moved on Western Europe, and we helped ensure through diplomacy that World War III never broke out.

I still have my very first credit card. It's 20+ years old, sits in a lockbox, and has a thousand dollar limit, by far the lowest of my cards. It costs me $10 a year to maintain. It's there entirely because it anchors the oldest account ranking for me.

Well, this is direction not to buy certain hardware components in order to favor domestic manufacturers. The Tiktok case was direction to divest a social media supplier to avoid secret, illegal foreign influence campaigns or transfers of personal data.

I'm just an engineer, but the two seem pretty different to me.

Oregon isn't a red state overall. Almost all states, whether red, blue, or purple, allow felons to vote at some point.

I think she was a character in Airplane! (the movie).

If it happens that often, Shirley you can provide some evidence to support your claim.

The Google Street View pictures of Equatorial Guinea's embassy in Washington DC do not show any protesters outside, so it's obviously not literally all the time, but I'm willing to accept some other form of evidence that the "freedom and democracy" crowd (who often turn that into "freedumbs and dumbocracy" when they don't like the results of elections) protest it regularly.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. It's what's for breakfast, kids.

Once upon a time, journalists learned not to fall for that kind of fallacy, and took pride in not perpetrating it. Now, it's an indispensable part of writing clickbait.

If you are worried about adverse effects of dihydrogen monoxide (it is strongly associated with drowning deaths), you could replace some of it with hydrogen hydroxide. You could even use hydric acid, although that's nicknamed "the universal solvent", so who knows what would happen if you drink beer containing it....