No, Governments are not expected to move humanity ahead.
That's a bizarre disconnected form of Statism on your part. Do you have a shrine to the Government in your home for all its noble deeds?

Governs are expected to do what they're elected to do, no more, no less.

You can't make routers, but you can choose whether or not to buy one.
Do you also believe that you should be able to use the Government to force routers to be what you consider secure?

I think you are a cancer. Itching for a boot to lick, as long as it's a gentle one. No holocausts this time, please.

Don't know, chief.
Honestly- no fucking clue.
Obviously communism, for a litany of reasons, isn't a workable solution with human culture being what it is at this point in our history and/or development.

"Socialism" is vague enough of a term that I feel like you threw it out there as a trap.
There are many socialist aspects of every single democracy on this planet. Are more of them better? Sometimes. Are less of them better? Sometimes. Are none of them better? Universally not.

All I know is that when you're driving off of a cliff, "well where else are we going to go?" isn't a fucking productive addition to the conversation.

The US does not own Saudi area oil fields.
So yes, that's precisely what I'm saying.

Kicks and kicks? Absolutely not. The oil economy is critically important to US hegemony.
The accusation is plunder, and that's what's stupid.
Saying "we're over there because of oil" is perfectly accurate. But it's not because we need it.

It's not.
You also left out how much we export.
The net inflow is about 2mbbl.
Basically, fucking nothing.
And none of it comes from the middle east.

Your own links demonstrate that you were wrong about this thing.
For how many years have you been saying the US went into the middle east to "steal its oil" without bothering to do the 15 minutes of research it would have taken to demonstrate that you were wrong?

That makes you a fucking moron.

Provide actual requirements. Object detection doesn't require a data center or a rack of GPUs. Other things might.

Not only because the volume of data is smaller, but because the compute is local. Geosync RTT is 240–280 milliseconds. Earth-Moon RTT is 1250 ms. Earth-Mars is 6-40 *minutes*.

This insane take that compute shouldn't happen in space is only viable for LEO or latency insensitive use cases. We are going to put enormous amounts of compute in space, because we're going to need real-time compute far beyond LEO. johnjones is just an idiot spouting off in the interwebs and may be safely ignored.

Well out of line with their regular sales??
Apple sells between 20 and 25 million computers a year.

What in the fuck are you talking about?

Let's summarize your dumbfuck ramblings.
You claim Iraq was a "war of plunder". You use other dumbfuck ramblings to back it up.
When called out on that, you then quote fucking Greenspan, whose position is, and I'll quote:

So really, it's clear here that you have realized that you were, indeed, a fucking moron, and that you cannot contrive an argument that passes even 4th grade intellectual muster for "plunder", and have pivoted to it "being about oil", because you can actually find legitimate arguments made by people smarter than you to that end.

And frankly, I don't see any reason to argue with them. Was it about oil? Sure. Part of it. Probably. Moreso, it was about US hegemony.
What is was not about, was plunder. To think otherwise, makes you a fucking moron. It's that simple.

You fucking moron.

The US is the largest oil producer on this planet.

The overwhelming amount of oil shipped from Iraq post-invasion was to Asia and Europe, since the US simply doesn't need to import all that much oil.

All my life, I thought the "no lives for oil" was people being intelligent enough to understand that keeping the spice flowing was of critical importance... I had no idea you intellectually degenerate fucking morons thought we were actually over there secreting it off to fucking Louisiana for processing into gasoline or some shit.

You are so fucking stupid, lol.

80 is almost 100, now isn't it?
I must have made you look so fucking stupid for you to stalk me this hard. I fucking love it.

You profoundly stupid fucking moron.

Greenspan indeed said it was about oil- specifically, about making sure the Straits of Hormuz stayed open, so that the spice could continue to flow.
He did not say it was about seizing oil.

Christ, you really are fucking stupid.

The problem with the WMD bullshit, is just that there were contradictory voices, and they were effectively silenced.
The administration created a vibe pump through the NYT to stoke nuclear paranoia, while to really get some traction with the shit intelligence.

I don't even particularly blame Bush for this. I'm not sure he was all that checked in. I think Cheney was probably the evil party in that mix.
The neocons wanted a war, and they bent what they needed to bend to get it.

Hah! rsilvergun saying stuff that isn't commie pabulum.

If you weren't so simple you'd know that my view is pro-business. But that would involve not mindlessly obeying your training.

No. And that was their point I'm pretty sure.

Many ridiculously inefficient by "green" activities become perfectly reasonable in a solar powered world.
In a fossil powered world- they amount to merely greenwashing.

You know, I was really starting to miss the acid rain up here in the Pacific Northwest.

You can't realistically use intercalation on planes though. While it's highly volumetrically efficient, it's atrociously mass-inefficient.

Is LH2 really any safer in the case of a non-soft landing?