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Comment Re: Sensible ruling (Score 1) 91

The few of my family that were drafted into the war, did not fight for the Nazis. They fought for survival.

That's what you all say. Especially during the Nuremberg trials. Generally you guys fall into one of three camps:

1. Rationalize it <-- you are here
2. Lie about it
3. Confess to what they did (this is rare)

My grandmother became a "super Christian" as she ran for shelter during the bombings into the Dom.

Yes, nazi land got bombed, I already know this. My forbearers were the ones bombing it. And after the conquest, my country had to occupy yours for the long haul until denazification was complete. We also spent billions over the next 40 years to keep you from being completely overrun by Stalin and his successors, which was basically another form of nazism, something you guys have either completely forgotten about or outright denounce us over. And unlike them, we never had any intention or desire of keeping your doucheland afterward.

everyone else died in the war

Or they just never said anything and lost contact, like those on the other side of the rat lines who lived out the rest of their lives under a false identity. Isn't it convenient how all of you guys are either dead or victims, but never perpetrators? But believe it or not, this is by design. It began as soon as it became undeniable that the war wasn't going in your favor. It's called "the myth of the clean wehrmacht". Initially you guys were all lumped in with Hitler by everyone who wasn't you, until the west had a strategic interest in playing into the myth, because it was in our interest to use you in in the cold war against the nazis of the east. In other words, we needed to use defeated nazis to fight newly empowered nazis, and ideally cancel each other out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

To wit:

The Supreme Commander of NATO, U.S. General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, having previously stated his belief that the "Wehrmacht and the "Hitler gang" (Nazi Party) were all the same",[4] explicity reversed this position during a 1951 visit to Germany when he claimed that there was "a real difference between the German soldier and Hitler and his criminal group". From there on, the United States began to facilitate German rearmament in light of their deep concern over Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe. The British became reluctant to pursue further trials and released already-convicted criminals early.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Comment Re:Inner monologue (Score 1) 11

I don't know about this one in particular, but for neuralink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The guy with ALS thinks about moving his mouth in order to speak, so his inner monologue doesn't just blurt out. I don't know if that one uses AI though (whatever the precise meaning of that is.)

Comment Re:Bumper cars common back then? (Score 2) 25

Not only common, but necessary.

Planets don't just spring into being. They form through gradual accretion, and that is not constrained to just one big thing eating all the other little things. Its a bunch of little things all eating littler things, getting bigger in the process, and then colliding with each other as their orbital mechanics change from the changes in mass and angular velocity/momentum.

Most models have things forming in the outer solar system and falling in, as they get heavier and slower-- or things in the inner system getting ejected out after such a shift, plunging toward the sun, picking up a lot of speed, then getting slingshotted out.

This is why there are so many rogue planets floating around in deep space. (On the average of 20 per star, in the milky way galaxy.)

Until things settle down, early solar systems are very chaotic places with lots of collisions, things falling into and out of orbits, getting shot out of the system, all the while getting bombarded by highly unstable and variable/unpredictable solar radiation effects from the host star being turbulent.

Comment Re: redundancy (Score 2) 87

That's what a lot of the "Starlink causes Kessler!" scaremongers don't realize -- as of last year, Starlink's orbital shell sits where there basically isn't any debris at all, and what is there is very short lived. Atmospheric drag quickly clears low mass debris at that altitude. Higher mass objects have to actively maintain their orbit (including e.g. attitude control, thrust) or their lifetime is best measured in months rather than years.

Comment Re:Getting what you wish for (Score 1) 76

Countries that welcome immigrants are able to increase the tax base, and supply critical labor that locals don't want to do, including taking care of the elderly.

But you take in too many, too fast, AND if you allow those that are diametrically opposed to your values and way of life.....YOU LOSE YOUR COUNTRY.

and that's what we're seeing now across EU and trying to combat in the US.

Comment Re:Misleading (Score 1) 75

And yet the unnamed source tries to make it sound like it is about making private companies "pay their fair share" and can't believe that the administration hasn't spent three years trying to figure out how to make the temporary power it was granted permanent. Power, apparently, for him

The administration that took charge 18 months ago didn't start working on this regulation 36 months ago? I wonder why that is?

Comment Re:Misleading (Score 1) 75

1) The Law is only 3 years old. This isn't some massive change, as it has barely been on the books at all.
2) It only applies to Federal facilities, not general data centers, so has absolutely NOTHING to do with all the other bullshit hype around AI datacenters.

I'm struggling to make sense of your statements and this quote from the summary:

A replacement for the requirements laid out in FDCEA would, in other administrations, have been in the works for months ahead of its expiration. An employee with the GSA, the agency that oversees the government's IT services and helps to implement the FDCEA, says that the lack of any sort of plan is highly uncommon. The employee spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. "Never in the history of data center policies has a policy expired without another one having been painstakingly worked on for three years behind the scenes," says the GSA employee.

It implies this is along-standing regulation and it takes tears to update...

Comment Re:Sgt Schultz: "I see nothing! I hear nothing!" (Score 1) 75

Something else the states will have to do by themselves. You would think a warning sign like the sharp rise in electronics due to data centers consuming memory at an alarming rate would be a reason to at least consider regulation. But we are in the act of stopping the steal to make america great again lest we forget someone named benghazi is actually what the epstein files are about......

What?

This regulation is about tracking energy/environmental impact, not controlling it/reducing it - this is about data collection, not environmental regulation.

States already heavily regulate construction, be it data centers or anything else.

This regulation only concerns federal data centers, either those operated by the federal government or those operated by contractors for the federal government - private AI data centers, Microsoft, google, meta, etc data centers aren't part of this regulation.

Comment Re: If I ruled .. (Score 1) 223

"To the first point: entire sectors have grown to depend on the employment of undocumented immigrants."

Yes, and those sectors pay no employee tax and probably very little if any business tax at all. They pay the "employees" very little some of whom are forced to by stuff from their employers because they're effective slaves. But yeah, other than than its all great.

"restaurant owners protested"

Only the dodgy ones who didn't want to pay a proper wage and tax.

"If you remove that workforce from the country, you automatically raise the cost of a number of things and you slow down the economy"

Oh dear, you really don't understand economics do you. Companies employing illegals and undercutting companies that try to do the right thing soon leads to the latter going out of business with criminals in charge of the former.

"The fact that it has worked in the past is irrelevant to the fact that it is unreliable in the present, and that nobody sane should bet on it being reliable in the future. It's not rocket science."

Well apparently it is rocket science to you since you believed the EU had kept the peace since WW2 which was 50 years before the EU was even created. But given your lack of basic knowledge elsewhere I'm not surprised.

Feel free to have the last word to make even more of a fool of yourself.

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