Comment Re:who's the stooge? (Score 1, Troll) 184

by chaosandmadness on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:56AM (#66192556) Attached to: US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production

Not seeing how BiBi is a stooge of Trump. Trump didn't order BiBi to overkill Gaza or attack Iran/Lebanon as far as I can tell, those things seem like the agenda of BiBi. Hasn't Trump recently been pretty vocal about telling BiBi to quit attacking Lebanon, since that makes it hard on his negotiation attempts, and BiBi has basically ignored it and kept going? If anything, it seems like BiBi not obeying Trump has caused some friction.

Comment Re: Israel (Score 1) 184

by chaosandmadness on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:28AM (#66192532) Attached to: US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production

Yeah, for sake of brevity I didn't want to get into the many ways Israel exerts control and influence over US politics, would be a long post.

Comment Re:Israel (Score 5, Insightful) 184

by chaosandmadness on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:23AM (#66192522) Attached to: US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production

I believe the common perception is that Trump is a stooge of Netanyahu.
I don't recall ever hearing it the other way around. Trump and many American politicians dance to Israel/AIPACs tune, due to money and religious beliefs about Israels supposed role in the end of times.

Comment Re:Professor Dingleberry (Score 1) 224

by chaosandmadness on Thursday August 21, 2025 @05:34PM (#65606176) Attached to: US Will Not Approve Solar or Wind Power Projects, President Says

Sounds like some individual finance oriented companies are screwing things up for your examples. Agree there is plenty of idle non-farm property that should be candidates for solar energy generation, but the farming vs solar is not necessarily an exclusive-or situation. Agrivoltaics where crops and solar panels can be intermixed is a thing that appears to show significant promise. https://www.energy.gov/eere/so...

Comment Re:IBM keyboards (Score 1) 35

by chaosandmadness on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:25PM (#63025519) Attached to: Cherry's New Mechanical Switch Hails From '80s Terminal Keyboards

https://www.pckeyboard.com/pag...
Unicomp is basically the descendant of the ibm keyboard, with USB. The model M is very nice.

Submission + - Qualcomm Ended NXP Acquistion After Failing to Secure Chinese Approval (investopedia.com)

Submitted by hackingbear on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:32PM

hackingbear writes: Qualcomm officially terminated the deal to buy Dutch semiconductor giant NXP after failing to get a decision from regulators in China by its deadline and paid NXP previously agreed $2 billion termination fee. Chinese market accounts for 30% of Qualcomm's revenue. China's refusal of the approval can also be a retaliation against an $1.4 billion penalty against ZTE imposed by the U.S. Department of Commerce over technicalities of ZTE's violating Iran sanction, a move viewed by China as an U.S. excuse to launch trade war. "It's a reminder that trade wars are maybe not that easy to win," says Steven Roach of Morgan Stanley "And China has a lot of ammunition up its sleeve." Roach urged the Trump administration to understand that the U.S. and China "need each other," saying low-price Chinese imports are needed to "make ends meet" for cash-strapped Americans. Separately, in a hearing at the Office of United States Trade Representative for imposing additional tariff on Chinese imports due to the alleged intellectual properties theft by China, an accusation that the U.S. itself had committed, out of some 61 figures from the country’s chemical, electronics, solar energy sectors, only six expressed their support for the move.