Clouds will depend on the frequency.
X-Ray lasers are extremely difficult but they exist. Stepping down from extremely difficult to merely difficult may have some merit.
Whether it's worth the cost will be interesting. Microsats is curious - geostationary would be an easier place to start without the steering complexity.
An interesting project for sure.
Remember when they ported VAX/VMS to PC architecture and put a Windows 3 GUI on top?
That evolved.
"Watch this space."
> pay the Chinese to host our fucking military servers
no, but that's literally what they were doing.
DC doesn't run a serious country.
JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.
JUDGE: No, a “light maiming” is also not acceptable, nor is “getting medieval on their asses.” Please constrain yourself to statutes approved by this court.
JUDGE: A further follow-up question from the jury, and no we cannot 'dunk them in a lake and let God decide, like they used to do with witches'. That has not been considered a valid means of determining guilt for several centuries at least.
JUDGE: The jury has sent another question and the answer, again, is no. "Excommunicado" is not real - that's only a thing in the John Wick universe. Civil penalties DO NOT encompass revoking all protections under the law for Mr Altman and Mr Musk.
JUDGE: Court reporter, please note that the jury's latest request, quote, can we let them hang by their thumbs for a few hours, end quote, is also denied.
The violence in the Middle East dates back to the early Bronze Age. The Shah was violent and assassinated political rivals. In the 1940s, half of the Middle East sided with the Nazis.
The violence did not start in the 1970s, it didn't even start with Islam. It predates all of that.
Blaming individual X or modern event Y is to ignore the violence and open warfare leading up to those.
Only an idiot fixates purely on Iran. One genocidal Syrian despot has been replaced with another genocidal Syrian despot. IS is back on the rise. Egypt is a military dictatorship. Libya went from military dictatorship to perpetual civil war. The Arab Spring was ultimately crushed not because of a hatred of freedom but because the entire region is riddled with corruption.
Iran is a minor side show.
In America, laws are made by paying the politicians under the table. That's common knowledge. It's how the DMCA got passed, for example. But it's also made by having financially valuable information information, particularly that which permits politicians to have insider information that they can sell for votes/influence or use to make a killing on the stock market.
(You notice anything odd about oil price fluctuations recently?)
Musk had access to money, some of the largest databases the USG had, and the ability to fire civil servants who might have been inconvenient to Congress.
He was in government for how many years? If he wanted the statute of limitations altered, then surely that would have been the time to do it.
It would seem to me that he didn't care about the statute of limitations until AFTER other people started getting rich and he didn't.
I was under the impression that an appeal against a not guilty verdict was not permitted in the US, and was only permissible in the UK in the event of murder when overwhelming evidence showed wilful interference of the trial or exceptional new evidence.
yeah, people have been calling out specific trades on Twitter for months.
This is just an excuse for the Establishment's AI Control Grid.
"We must completely destroy your Liberty for your Safety."
People better wake up fast.
I partially agree with you, but would like to bring something to your attention. I would say about five countries in the Middle East have been formenting a great deal of trouble for the others, along with a number of terrorist organisations. There is no particular reason to assume that the Middle East will deal with one problem and not the others. Yes, Iran has infuriated a great many countries, none of which (individually) can do much but could collectively act.
We could well see a genuine Middle East Union of nations that simple says enough is enough and clears the deck of all warring parties in the region -- and may well tell the US government that it needs to calm the F down or face a few reprisals of its own. Of course, if it does, then the subcontinent will likely join in - India and Pakistan are closely tied to Iran, and I shouldn't need to tell you both are armed with nuclear weapons. This is something the US also needs to consider, if it tries to invade Iran - you don't need missiles to attack a nation that's on the same landmass you're in, you just need trucks and an unsecured route.
Equally, this is a war that has been going on for the past 4,000-5,000 years now without showing much sign of anyone coming to their senses. This might not be enough to push everyone else over the edge. Precisely because several nations with a vested interest are indeed nuclear armed, there may well be a realpolitik view that kicking the collective arses of all of the power abusers in the region carries unacceptable escallation risks.
My hope is that the current wars being fought, all of which are mindboggingly expensive and stupid beyond all possible definitions of sanity, have a similar result as WW1 and WW2 - to push the world governments into saying that they will not tolerate this continued juvenile delinquency, but this time decide to do something effective about it.
The world has become vastly more destabilised with the wars since the 1990s, and I think there's just a glimmer of realisation amongst some of the politicians that they might well have pushed their luck too far.
Exams are a waste.
Rather, you want continuous practice that is also continuous assessment.
But US methods of teaching are also pretty 18th and 19th century. They are not sensible methods and result in students who are more advanced than the material being penalised. The US obsession with standardising is a recipe for subnormalising.
Correct.
The current war and upcoming $1000/mo typical residential utility bills is what's driving me. And the math on a Carrington Event.
I know of three other people who are off-grid capable in my network of high hundreds of households.
But also he doesn't really age, or at lesst he deages on occasion.
Maybe we'll get James Bond and the Philosopher's Stone.
> All that stuff has to react rapidly
Just to add color
Now imagine you need to start a few dozen air conditioners simultaneously. The startup energy can be 10x the operating energy.
I've been doing the math on some of this for home solar. In my case I can ramp up the voltage over a few seconds but AIUI rockets still need instant action in many cases.
It's possible future reusable spacecraft could be more proactive, lowering costs and necessary chassis strength. Most of our technology starts off brute force and gets refined with more elegance but also more complexity over time. We're still early days in spaceflight.
*glances at Enron
Actually, that sounds truly brilliant. Let's raise the legal requirements so that happens...
I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs. -- H.L. Mencken
