Worked fine for me. Took me less than 5 mins to do everything.

You're an idiot. I don't recall big Oil or big Tobacco asking to be regulated and they had (proportionally) just as much money as the tech companies do today.

True.. But when your mass transit is slower than using your own feet.....

I'm looking at Minnesota and I'm thinking you're a fucking retard.

What problem. Trump's second term hasn't elapsed a full year. Of course they can't tell us how much he's raised the deficit by PER YEAR.

The last full data we have is for 2024. So far, Biden is winning the race to "who added the most to the deficit"

If the data covers 2024, then of course it only refers to his SINGLE TERM, you clown. You want them to go back and update news articles from 12 months ago with new data?

Except that's not the goal. The goal is General AI. Actual sentience. That is not going to be a good thing and yet they're rushing towards it as fast as they can.

Yeah.. We shouldn't use it to attend to some of the debt. We should sell it and SPEND THE MONEY IMMEDIATELY.

That was my whole point. Thank you.

Afterthought: "They" can't even make this software "bug free" and it's one of the most important pieces of software on the planet. It's the very bottom rung. Step #1 on the ENTIRE global internet system.

GCC 15.x August 2025 (latest release 15.2) Current development/bug-fix release series.

I do hope you understand why I suggest that particular piece of software might be one of the most important bundles of code to our modern economies...

Yeah, there would be less software. There'd be zero. You're delusional if you think ANYONE can produce bug-free software. They still find bugs in 50+ year-old GNU utilities that clock in at a couple of hundred kilobytes. Linus isn't "rushing" anything to market and Linux is full of bugs.. That's because you, and I, and an awful lot of people out there have computers that are notidentical. Bugs can lay dormant for years. Bugs can be extremely "specific" and only appear when you have exactly this combination of hardware or you do trigger it though some innocuous sequence of key presses. Bugs can be the result of simple mistakes (race conditions). Bugs can be triggered by conditions you have absolutely no control over and couldn't possibly have foreseen.

I've been watching people & companies ship software for 45 years. I've never seen a single program that was bug free. Hell, I remember when they still printed entire programs in computer magazines for nerds to copy. A single page of text and not a damn one of them was "bug free".

This is one of those cases where you're talking out of your ass. You don't know what you're talking about. You can't even know if what you built was "defect free" in the real world. You can hope. You can do your absolute best to cover all the potentialities, but you can't possibly plan or predict or account for every single different combination of hardware / software that is out there. Not unless you control 100% of the system... Just like you can't possibly know if every single I-beam, that is so critical to your structure, is 100% good-to-go unless you subject every single one to X-Ray scanning or whatever the hell they use... And that'll make buildings cost too much. So now we have no buildings. EVERYTHING that is made has some level of "this is as good as we can make it without pricing it out of most people's budget by subjecting it to insane levels of testing, verification, validation, and stress testing"

How are you going to make your software not have bugs that are ONLY TRIGGERED by a bug on a particular CPU and nowhere else? How the hell do you find that before you ship your software?

That's the only way you could implement your idea, you know.. Everyone gets exactly the same CPU. Everyone gets exactly the same motherboard. Everyone gets exactly the same memory sticks (qty and capacity). Everyone gets exactly the same OS. Everyone gets exactly the same software pre-loaded. In short, everyone has an identical computer... That'll get you a lot of the way to "bug free software".. Won't get you all the way.. But it's a good start. At least you'll know all the "run-time" variables..

You really want that world?

And? AND!?!

What's your fucking point? Because we're doing one we can do the other? Is that how you think money/debt works?

Get this through your skull, lefty: "We don't agree with EVERYTHING he does". We're not a cult, like you fucks were. As long as he MOSTLY does the things I want, he's got my backing.

Besides, you fucktard, I didn't say the debt was your (lefties) fault. What I was implying was that no matter how big the goddamn thing gets, you fucks NEVER seem to be able to find a program / project you'd be willing to NOT FUND.

Every single goddamn thing that comes down the pipe, you're fine with saddling Americans with even more debt... MORE MORE MORE MORE

Fuck the rest of the world if they can't pay their own goddamn bills. And fuck you assholes who even SUGGEST we send one more goddamn dime to Africa. Clean up the corruption and then we can at least TALK about helping them. Quit putting the cart before the horse, fucktard. If you think the money would even make it to the people who actually need it, your mother should have swallowed you.

Because, like most lefties, you're an ill-informed or LYING cunt.

By Total Dollar Amount (Most Recent)
In terms of raw dollar amounts, more recent presidents naturally top the list due to the massive size of the current U.S. economy and inflation. The national debt as of late 2025 stands at over $38 trillion. Joe Biden added the most to the national debt in total dollars during his term, at approximately $8.5 trillion as of late 2024. Donald Trump added a significant amount, nearly $8 trillion during his single term, much of it related to the COVID-19 pandemic relief spending, as well as tax cuts and increased defense spending.
Barack Obama added nearly $7.7 trillion over his two terms in office, driven by the Great Recession stimulus and tax cuts.

The moment you fucktards say "Nazi" I tune you out and classify you as liberal cunts. Everyone is a Nazi to you clowns. Choke on a bag of fat cocks

Oh we do, do we?

That $36T federal debt is imaginary? FUCK YOU

5% of the population, 37% of the funding, $36 trillion in debt.

FUCK EVERY ONE ONE OF YOU LEFTY CUNTS.

In what bizzaro version of reality could the US's postsecondary education / vocational training resources be described as "a handful"? The US has roughly 4,300 accredited degree-granting institutions of higher learning. Plus, somewhere in the ballpark of, 7,500 trade & technical schools. You can stack on roughly 27,000 federally registered apprenticeship programs. This isn't Luxembourg. This is the 3rd largest (by land area and population) country on Earth.

Strongly agree

Strongly disagree. "Critical" has a meaning. There is absolutely zero downside, that I can see, to treating critical components as being critical and producing them our own damn selves. Who the hell voluntarily places their supply of critical components in anyone else's hands if they don't have to?

And if protectionism is so damn bad, why didn't we hear anything from the left back when Europe had a 10% tariff on US made vehicles while we reciprocated with only a 2.5% tariff (as just one example that comes to mind). How the hell is it okay for Europe to use tariffs to protect their automobile industry and when we do it we're a bunch of cunts?