produces higher quality sperm

That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...

This is a lot of cope. Sorry - there's nothing historically or linguistically accurate about that paper. It uses liberal misinterpretation of the word 'regulated' to infer government control, and grossly over-extends how militias have been regulated and mustered for the 300 odd years prior to the Constitution, and for 150 odd years after. It's doublespeak, a reinterpretation and recast of original intent and meaning.

My guy... have you been on youtube lately?

Ignoring for a moment that militias were actively prosecuted and pushed underground during the 80s/90s/00s, "guntube" quite clearly shows that there are organized and well equipped (how we say 'regulated' in today's parlance) militias out there still. They're just not registered 501c3 organizations. When the founders wrote the US Constitution, "militia" was every able bodied male who could muster arms. This is well established historically from the English tradition.

It isn't that we think gun-lovers are going to go ape-shit and shoot everyone around them, it is that a proportion of gun-lovers will do this. Which ones? Why you just have to ask them.

Why don't you do that, then? And look at the shooting death and mass shooting statistics and demographics, while you're at it. It isn't the people you're concerned that it will be, at all.

I hate all of this sales pressure BS - that the instant anyone hears your name you have to try to "convert" them to sales - and I literally run a webstore.

It's all so deeply anti-consumer, and I want no part in it.

Firstly, I see you have this notion that martian rocks must all be igneous.

You're not talking about rock, you're talking about regolith.

Depending on where the regolith is sourced

Regolith is not "sourced", it's blown across the whole planet. It's not simply "whatever the underlying strata is made out of".

But, since we are playing 'name the ignorance' in this exchange, your attestation stat perchlorate is 0.5% liberatable oxygen says 'Say i'm ignorant of basic chemistry without saying i'm ignorant of basic chemistry, and am bad at reading too.' The 0.5% statistic comes from the publication at bottom, and is the proportion of the regolith that is perchlorates.

I am the one who mentioned that regolith is 0.5% perchlorates, not that "perchlorates are 0.5% oxygen". *facepalm*

"Saying we'll get oxygen from the 0,5-1% of a poison in martian regolith, rather than bulk ice or CO2, is..."

For God's sake, learn to fucking read.

Washing the regolith to remove the perchlorate is a requirement for *any* other use of that regolith

Which is why you shouldn't be celebrating its existence. It is a problematic contaminant, not a resource.

As you have rightly pointed out, the water ice on mars is more 'frozen mud'. Cleaning the melt is going to be a necessary first step to using it *regardless*. That means either vacuum distillation, thermal distillation, or reverse osmosis filtration. Again, NOT OPTIONAL. This is necessary equipment that you need to bring, regardless.

And this just to get water, the most basic of offworld resources. And all of that equipment (especially the mining hardware itself) requires maintenance and spare parts, which impose more dependencies. And the TRL for use on Mars is low regardless.

You've gone from talking up the ease of operating on Mars to talking it down, yet your self-righteousness hasn't shifted at all in the process.

RO filtration is the least energy intensive of these.

Except, it isn't. 0,5-1% perchlorates. RO typically removes 90-95% of perchlorates. So you're down to ~500ppm. Human safety levels** are in the low parts per billion. You're five orders of magnitude off. Yes, you can purify water that far - and the more perchlorates, the easier - but you're talking an over millionfold reduction. It is not at all trivial. You're talking first RO to get it down to levels where it won't hinder bacterial growth, then bioreactor bacterial remediation, then filtration, then RO, then ion exchange. This is not some little, simple system.

** Plants can tolerate much more perchlorates than humans, but they also bioaccumulate perchlorates of exposed to them, so you have to reduce the water to low ppb levels.

The end products are clean water and perchlorate contaminated mud, and clean mud, with contaminated water.

Viola! *eyeroll*

And your "plan" for dealing with waste perchlorate doesn't just magically produce pure O2 and NaCl in the real world. First off, molten sodium perchlorate, which is what it becomes before it decomposes, is an extremely corrosive oxidizer. Exactly what are you planning to make the furnace out of, platinum? Secondly, you never get perfect decomposition. Apart from residual perchlorates, you have residual sodium chlorate, which is also corrosive, and is a literal herbicide. And your gas stream will contain contaminant chloride and chlorine dioxide, which, news flash, you don't want to breathe.

There is no way on Earth anyone would ever prefer this to just conducting electrolysis on the water that you've already purified.

This is true, except in places like San Francisco, where self defense is effectively illegal if you're of a specific ethnic or cultural persuasion.

Well that's not quite a substantial claim. They've not really implemented any added compatibility in years, very negligible support (eg. no AHCI support at all).

Considering its a 16/32 bit system, and most of the Windows apps from that era run under Wine without problems from what I've seen, I struggle to see the point.

Perhaps if the political climate had been different for the past 30 odd years (until recently), yes...

At this point the hardware support is so negligible that it's a fanciful idea - it hasn't really progressed at all from the last time I tried using it a decade ago, from what I can tell.

You realize that this is literally the textbook definition of market fascism, right - when government and commerce collude, with the industries typically following the lead of the government's mandates for what they're supposed/allowed to build?

I've been wondering this. WTF is going on? 2 nights ago, when it was clear, I was out back with a fire. I live in town and rarely can see shooting stars from here.

That night, we saw no fewer than 5, not even really watching. They weren't particularly fast, had 1-2 hands of trail in the sky, and all went from east->west across the horizon.

It's not supposed to be a meteor shower, at least based on conventional meteor showers (persids, etc.) but I have never seen this many before in such a short period of time.

500 miles is not a "multi-day" range. That's a day (300-600 miles) for local driving, or less than a day for OTR long haul. 12+ hour days are not common, most of it spent driving. Even a local fuel delivery route is going to exceed that in most cases.

I'm guessing these will be for close-to-terminal local delivery only, because they're not going to have much use beyond that, particularly with lengthy charge requirements and no sleeper.

Yeah, I don't really get it's trajectory. I'd have thought that by 2005/2010 or so they'd have pivoted to W7 workalike compatibility, due to it being vastly superior in literally every way.

At that point, you could conceivably implement W10+ compatibility at a much lower effort, making it a realistic bridge for people to stand on for modern hardware.

A focus on supporting newer hardware, with a newer architecture, would go a long way to bridging the "I can do windows things not on Windows".

At this point we're talking about a code base that's designed for 30 year old hardware. That doesn't seem to have much utility, especially with the inability to work with modern hardware.

Years ago, when Windows 9x was in the field and ReactOS was starting out, the concept made sense: a compatible, open source Windows work-alike.

Today, Windows can't even run Windows apps, and ReactOS doesn't have a meaningful footprint beyond what WINE can provide. Hardware has far eclipsed Windows 2003/XP/7 compatibility (which is again, each of which are further beyond what ReactOS can provide); most of this same hardware works on Linux.

What value does ReactOS have, beyond providing a(n insecure by default) WIndows workalike which can also run Windows applications? The only argument I can see is providing a development platform which could be used for proprietary industrial hardware which only works with Windows. However, the biggest selling point which makes ReactOS capable is "can use Windows drivers" which, even while greatly improved, is still very spotty at best: most drivers don't simply work, you've got to do substantial work to the underlying platform to get them to work. Meanwhile, you're increasingly bound by the legacy hardware requirements - hardware which is increasingly becoming hard to find.

Perhaps it makes more sense in a world where you can write a kernel extension/driver in a day with AI (I've done it, very cool experience), but otherwise I struggle to see how ReactOS has anything which would attract developer time. Help me understand?

Makes me want to start using 4chan. That's amazingly based and I wish that the Linux kernel and distro maintainers would take a similar approach to these absolutely asinine, insecure, and socially dangerous "age verification" requirements being hoisted by the likes of Meta on the world.

It's worth noting that Nikola wasn't his first scam, either.