Most EU countries dont allow military aircraft to break the sound barrier except in times of emergency. That's not the case in the USA, so ask yourself why they banned a supersonic passenger aircraft.

The EU didn't exist in the 1970s. Other than that, great comment.

Amusing you insulting the OP about lack of IQ when you dont even recognise that well known quote.

Back in the day Boeing and McDonnell Douglas were handed their arses by Concorde and didn't like it so yes, part of the reason was US protectionism. Would the ban have happened anyway? Possibly, but the US aircraft industry certainly helped swing it.

You think smart engineers and programmers only work at week old start-ups full of pink hairs and ping pong tables? Think again mate. IBM is almost as old as Ford and is at the cutting edge in a number of spheres of research.

Never underestimate just how deep some people can bury their heads in the sand.

Trump is dipshit in chief so no surprise. Politics aside, the guy is a thin skinned narciscist who cant handle people or organisations who disagree with him or refuse to toe the line so funding removal was in a sense inevitable.

No, it really wont. Anything that simple can be automated using standard scripts. Anything more complicated and its guesswork on the AIs part.

"That manifest"? What a crass phrase to describe people. You related to Bill Winters by any chance?

Thats a unimog - an actual truck for actual work, usually off-road. Looks like some halfwit with too much money has converted it to be his penis compensator.

Good thing hardly anyone bar a few paranoids has used PGP in email for a few decades. Even criminals use app based protected messaging services now.

Agreed. It was a badly design function from the get go - yeah let's have a function that copies a string and nul terminates except when it doesnt. Genius.

"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."

Very useful.

Except neural networks currently control the lane keep assist in modern cars, never mind self drive ones. So clearly they now do work for process control.

... they've put a language interface on top of a standard search engine or database? I'm pretty sure thats not a new idea.