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Comment Re:so dumb (Score 1) 30

It looks like ITAR, apart from high publicity and political grandstanding now. In the late years of the Cold War era, I worked for a company with an export division, and got called upon to interpret details of e.g. RF transistor data sheets versus performance boundaries established in whichever ITAR categories. Even then, it was necessary to subscribe to the Federal Register to see recent regulatory category and denied entity changes that had not yet made it into CFR.

Comment Re: And also EVs don't even help climate change (Score 1) 66

My family lived (1960s) inland from Los Angeles. On car trips to the beach, our eyes would start burning as we entered Los Angeles proper. We took a vacation trip to Hawaii. Amidst the excitement of my first jet flight (707), I noted a distinct brown band in the coastal clouds that we were climbing through.

Years later, in Vietnam turmoil and the rise of an ecology consciousness movement, and calls for "significant, meaningful, and relevant" education, my UCLA freshman chemistry professor (the late Dr. Mario Baur) announced that the day's lecture would be not from the syllabus, but instead on recent findings in smog science. He described photochemical mechanisms in smog formation.

Some years later, I worked in a Los Angeles highrise building that was not very careful about roof access. The air even at 24 stories, smelled nitric like Young Hall (UCLA Chemistry), plus a slug of ozone. Automotive rubber parts turned into glassy garbage after a couple of years: weatherstripping, wipers, radiator and vacuum hoses. Uh, what about my lungs?

Comment Re:And then ... (Score 3, Insightful) 56

This happened to a Sun 3/280 years ago. I was going on vacation. Upon arrival at my motel room, the room phone message light ominously was on. It was work, down because the engineering server was down. The cleaning crew had a little kid with them, and the server room had trash cans to be emptied. The kid did what comes naturally: flip and push all of the brightly lit switches. Notably the one to the disk drive. I talked someone through fsck for about an hour.

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