My point is that if the US, which at the time was one of the world's leaders in technological innovation, had put time and resources into developing renewable energy, the whole Free World would have weaned itself off burning fossil fuels for power. There would still be other uses for petrochemicals, plastics especially, but the Middle East's stranglehold on the world economy would have been well and truly broken. Looking back at the history of the last half century, including the environmental impact of continued fossil fuel use, it's pretty obvious Carter was right.

Excellent point!

Imagine where the US would be today if politicians had been just a little less greedy and corrupt in the 1970s, and embraced Jimmy Carter's commitment to renewable energy. Probably not a wholesale conversion, but during times like these, all of us across the Free World could just sit back with zero f^cks given and a bag of popcorn, and watch a bunch of religious fanatics burn the whole Middle East to the ground.

Everybody wins.

Why not contract out program development to some of those Iranian hackers who seem to have drones flying at will over US military bases? It might not be a perfect solution, but it would probably be cheaper and better than the clusterf^ck they've had going on for the best part of a decade.

There's no mystery here. The officer alleged to have verified the decision wasn't doing their job. You can frame this any way you like...the officer is overworked and couldn't keep up with the number of applications they're supposed to verify, or the officer is lazy, or the officer is incompetent, or perhaps the scientist's name identified their ancestry and the officer is a racist.

In my opinion (backed by some experience) the most likely explanation is the department relies on the fact that many applicants who are rejected won't have the means to appeal a decision, and the spokesperson is simply lying when they claim AI isn't used to recommend or make a decision.

There's obviously a few paid pro-Israel trolls still out and about. Just based on what I've read here, US and Israeli propaganda is swamping Slashdot. There's openly pro-Israel and Anonymous Coward pro-Israel. If you want to be anti-Israel, though, you'd better post as an AC, or you're going to be labeled "anti-Semitic" faster than you can blink.

Go fuck yourself, troll.

Since they say it's safe, and have acted, I believe the word is "vigorously", to conceal evidence that glyphosphate causes cancer, it would be nice if board members of Monsanto and Bayer, and their families, had it sprinkled on their food for a few years.

You have to look around, but you may still have some options. My girlfriend wanted a mechanical parking brake because she had trouble with one of the electronic ones. That led her to a Suzuki S-Cross she absolutely loves.

I hope you find what you're looking for. I'm still hanging on with an older Nissan that has all kinds of bells and whistles, but absolutely no desire to "phone home".

We had a workaround for the ban within minutes of Zuck's attempt to stop us from putting links in our comments. It looks like this: httpsCOLONwwwDOTzuckerbergblowsDOTcom.

Just a guess, but I'm thinking you're not much of a fan of music by Jerry Lee Lewis or Ted Nugent, either.

Now if only they'd deactivate Russian bot accounts, I might feel some small degree of hope. Social media isn't inherently evil, but the people running it certainly are.

The US has a penchant for directly targeting the heads of state of countries they're quarreling with. I wonder whether its foreign affairs people have figured out how much easier it would be to take out a US President (with appropriate misdirection) than to actually go to war with the largest military on the planet.

Musk's answer would be, "Not nearly enough".

Republicans might have more guns, but they sure don't have the brainpower to fight a war with them.