13.5 hours, 10 of them in the air. That would be a significant saving over the current travel time. It would never have worked though, the sonic booms over land would have made it impossible to get clearance for the route.
Yeah, but that wasn't a passenger flight. They were moving the aircraft, and they removed all the stuff that would be needed to support passengers, as well as not having any passengers either. This is a commercial passenger flight, fully loaded with 24 hours worth of provisions, and enough passengers to make it profitable.
It's a bit like how France holds the world record for the fastest conventional wheeled train at 574.8 km/h, but that was a special run with no passenger cars and outside of normal operations. The record for carrying passengers is held by China's CR400 Fuxing Hao, which regularly runs at 350 km/h. Japanese trains can match that, but don't due to noise concerns.
Even on 12 hour flights they encourage passengers to get up and move around, although most don't from my observations. I always make the effort. There isn't anywhere special to do it either, so I usually just go to the back of the plane by the toilets.
If Linux and Windows use the same graphics API, it will make getting games running on Steam hardware easier. They might even be able to get developers to actually support Linux.
I wonder if they can get any traction on consoles as well.
When Musk announced his Optimus robot (trademark lawsuit presumably pending), he had a guy in spandex walk mechanically on stage, and then start dancing.
Little did we know, that was apparently his entire plan. The current version is remotely operated by a guy with a VR headset.
Elon Musk invented employment, only you don't even have to look at the poor pleb, only a sleek, faceless robot. He literally dehumanized work.
As usual the Chinese robots seem to be capable of things that American ones can't do, so claiming that it's all stolen IP doesn't really work, unless you think they have a time machine and are stealing stuff you guys haven't invented yet.
Anyway, banning them won't help you. You will just fall further behind, as usual, and then complain that they are "cheating" and that's why they can out-perform US manufacturing. In reality, they put in the work to develop robotics, clean energy, long and deep supply chains. They are able to do long term strategic economic planning, because their government doesn't do a 180 on key policies every 4 years.
Europe isn't doing all that much better. We need to step up, not whine about it.
In the UK that would be judged based on psychological evaluation of the victim, and on evidence such as having received mental health support, been medically unfit to work, and witness statements. It certainly would not be one hour of earnings.
I thought all this had been common knowledge for decades. You never take your phone through customs without at least wiping it well in advance, and then restore it when you have arrived and are secure. Or even better, you take a burner with nothing of interest on it, because if you take your main phone it might get stolen or "damaged" at the border.
Same with laptops. Mine gets factory reset and restored from an image at the hotel.
If it had been a physical safe, and you gave him the code, but the safe contained something that would self-destruct in exposure to air, and must be opened inside an enclosure with inert gas to get at the contents... who would be responsible for destroying the evidence inside the safe?
As a second scenario, what if you had printed a PIN password on a piece of paper and included that in your wallet. If the agent had confiscated your wallet and discovered the paper; and then used that password on your phone? If that was your duress password, who is responsible for destroying evidence in that case?
You aren't allowed to set up booby traps in your home. But what constitutes a booby trap? If you simply arrange things so that a nasty accident is quite likely to happen to someone who doesn't know certain information before hand, you will probably have a hard time arguing that you didn't intentionally harm them.
The same will apply here. If you arrange things so that border staff are quite likely to unwittingly erase your phone, your defence lawyer will probably have a hard time arguing that it wasn't your fault. You knew what the agent was likely to do, you clearly planned to pin the blame on them.
I did some experiments with IR LEDs to try to screw up facial recognition cameras, but the issue is that you need a lot of power for them to be effective. At least people are making frames you can retrofit without them looking obviously home-made now.
If it's a Thinkpad you can just buy a replacement screen, or the entire assembly with the housing, and replace it using the service manual that Lenovo provides. It's 15 minutes of work if you are unfamiliar with laptop screen replacement.
The conclusion isn't supported by the premise. If wars are an example of a subsidy that they did not include, you will note that the US has been involved in a lot of wars, and China hasn't.
You want a specific example of something not happening?
That report doesn't seem to account for subsidies like wars and policies such as keeping healthcare expensive.
The Chinese government does do more to direct the economy than most, which is the real key to its success. Policy doesn't do a 180 every 4 years, and when the government says it wants to see investment in X, you can be sure there will be a huge growth market for it and investors will be lining up to pump money into the sector.
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. -- Kim Hubbard
