"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

I wish the movie was a comedy and not a prophecy...

It makes me wonder what happened to us...

This goes to show a correlation that children prefer to be bombarded with interpretive ads over the seamless Netflix viewing experience.

YouTube ads are not a sacrifice you must sit through, they are a feature!

Netflix needs me more than I need them.

There are plenty of options to choose from.

Eventually Nextflix will discover that because of their greed, they killed the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

U.S.A. - We have the best politicians money can buy!!!

The Fed should have started last October...

Instead, they told us that the inflation was transient...

And now, here we are...

Of course it will shut down...

This is part of Google's mode of operation...

Introduce a service, and then shut it down...

Google products have a very short life...

Your ignorance is showing....

  Federal firearms license (FFL) holders are the only persons who can legally handle gun sales across state lines. This means that the merchant you’re buying from must have an FFL, and that seller must, we repeat, must, ship the weapon directly to an FFL holder in your state. It’s then up to you to go to the FFL holder in your state and take possession of the weapon.

If a person from another state buys a gun with the intent on crossing state lines to sell to an individual there, it is a straw purchase and illegal.
Buying a gun for someone who is prohibited by law from possessing one or for someone who does not want his or her name associated with the transaction is a "straw purchase."

        An illegal firearm purchase (straw purchase) is a federal crime.
        An illegal firearm purchase can bring a felony conviction sentence of ten years in jail and a fine of up to $250,000.
        Buying a gun for someone who can't can cost you your good name and land you in big trouble.

“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Ronald Reagan

It appears that you made a wrong observation.

Remember to ask: Who, What, Why, and Where; but do not even think about going there...

There are some observations that cannot be made, nor the investigating of certain questions even though there may be truth in them.

Perhaps we are all missing the true end use for these lasers.
Maybe their intended use is to blind night vision devices and infrared cameras.

I read that the Chinese were using lasers to prevent pilots from getting near their bases and the island that they built in the South China Sea.

Perhaps this is an extension of that use.

Here are some non-slashdot articles for you as well...

As you can see my question was not unreasonable...

https://www.ecowatch.com/megad...

https://www.livescience.com/21...

What I did learn is... Be careful about asking about what appears to be inconsistency with prior articles, some people may not like it...

Your not in this category... Most that replied were pretty neutral... But one that did needs to switch to decaf and take more x-lax...

It seems I read a couple of years back that climate scientist saying due to climate change we were going to have a drought that lasted 100 years. Furthermore, if I recall right they were predicting the end of farming as we know it...

Did I miss something, or are things being turned on their head?