Fake Straw Man. No one said anything against EVs.

What was said is that fossil fuels are what delivers food to your local supermarket, and pretty much any other store and even deliveries to your home. So owning an EV does not mean one is immune from higher fossil fuel costs. Which leads to higher costs for nearly all consider goods. So that EV rebate gets wiped out by bad energy policy.

LOL. Both diesel and gasoline are fossil fuels

Not really. US special envoy Steve Witkoff reported that during negotiations the Iranians claimed to have 1000 pounds of enriched uranium that could be further enriched to produce 11 nuclear bombs. A bluff or not, it is product to assume it true.

Not really. The Vice President recently pointed out there are numerous 10-point lists from numerous factions. And the one the NYT refers to is one rejected and originating from the Revolutionary Guard. Its not what the current cease fire and talks are based on.

Well, speaking for myself - I may "rent" them but I also immediately decrypt them and store a local copy elsewhere.

I don't buy media I can't decrypt, one way or another.

I likely would still be using my Kindle 3 Keyboard, except my dog got hold of it at one point.

I still think that was the best form factor they've ever offered.

And totally offset by the 6% inflation on your grocery bill, and everything else dependent upon fossil fuels to show up. You realize that includes the stuff at your local Whole Foods?

In Trump style negotiations, you always enter negotiations with things you are willing to concede on. Throw aways to trade for something you really want. Bitcoin is likely just one such throwaway. Like switching from Bitcoin to TumpCoin to "legitimize" the concept of being able to collect a fee in the first place, which seems to be a defacto violation of the laws regarding international waters.

That said, you know the f'n reason the USA created a standing Navy 250 years ago was so it would not have to pay tribute to the Barbary pirates in the Med.

Good. Because by the end of negotiations there will be a switch to TumpCoins.

It's not the payment that takes minutes, it's the verification that takes minutes. The slow moving tanker will still be in range when verification occurs.

Not necessarily. Perhaps the data is not needed during the decision making cycle. Getting the result, the answer, from processing that data be all that is needed.

The data can still be sent later when time is not critical. If nothing else its a good test case for the testing of the next release of the software.

Other than the electronics surviving G's and vibration. Which is probably what the satellite tech demo is largely testing. Does it survive launch?

No. At least on the desktop PCs I referred to. Now in an embedded system onboard a missile or something, that could have been a too much in the 1990s.

Airplanes at airports is a much easier problem. Airplanes are also more distinctive than tanks.

Real-time is a very different thing. Its not what was demo'ed.

This was a tech demo. What makes you think a tech demo needed a rad hardened CPU? I believe they added lot of shielding around an off-the-shelf CPU, as could be done with other recent hardware.

They are getting the same 3D games everything with computer display or TV is getting. About equivalent to an 80in TV.

That said, I've played some VR games on Meta headsets. Immersion can be awesome.

I know one of the others. He says it's like an 80in TV in his living room. Totally happy.

To be fair he's a developer so he has other motives too. Like making sure his iOS apps run correctly, maybe augment them for something vision specific.