Because important people who finance political campaigns might lose money, and of course that's no longer allowed.

We got better results by moving a lot of coal burning to natural gas, but the increased production and movement of that natural gas means we're spitting out a lot more waste Methane, now. And it's a way bigger effect greenhouse gas than CO2. Luckily it doesn't last as long.

You at least used to be able to pay that kind of money (well, $30k) for a professional setup with new stuff.

But even the new stuff is cheaper now, it's well documented, anticipates DIY, and is just a lot easier to do now, and used panels are available for insanely cheap prices.

A much cheaper DIY system can get you blackout protection and will pay for itself in less years than you might think. (If you're unlucky enough to be using PG&E, that's something like a 3-year payoff.)

This is the only tool left in the entire Democratic toolkit. If you're saying that the Democrats should simply do whatever the Republicans say for the first two years, then I hope you were saying the same thing to the Republicans during the Obama/Biden terms.

If I thought the Democrats were being unreasonable, I'd say so. But their demand is specific, narrow, and reasonable. The fact that Trump just doesn't want to concede one iota should not put the onus on the Democrats to cave.

"Let the tyrant do as he pleases because he'll burn it all down to get his way" isn't reasonable or right. Anybody suggesting it is is just straight up happy to have a strong arm dictator at the helm.

So Sweden is some sort of authoritarian hell hole in your book? That's odd, the socialist Scandinavian countries consistently are in the top of the rankings for having the happiest populations. Shouldn't they be miserable and poor? I'm so confused . . .

As the west gets more polarized, and our corporate executives get ever more focused on short-term profits which improve their bonuses over long-term gains. The prevailing mindset seems to be, "Why would I invest in something which won't show profits for ten years when by that time I'll be looting some other company?"

Great Boomer retirement part time gig that use your experiences that no non AI company values. Lots of free time, no job to lose, and extra cash to speed.

Actually AI is integral to making robotics pay. It used to take literally months to years to program in all the features to make a robot (for example) paint a vehicle quarter panel without noticeable blemishes, now it's a matter of a couple of hours at the most. UBI (Universal Basic Income) is going to be necessary before long as the lower skilled workers are replaced by robots, because there are a **LOT** more people who aren't smart enough or ambitious enough to do anything more complex than stock store shelves or walk a security patrol than there are people like you and I who can learn a new profession. Once upon a time the farm laborer could go work in the factory when the tractor made him unnecessary, then the factory worker could go work at Walmart when the robot started screwing on lug nuts. When those jobs go away there aren't any new low-skill/low-education job coming down the pike for people to take, because those are being automated out of the box. If you don't want to see people starving in the street then get ready to open your wallet to pay for UBI.

Agree completely, the use of AI in robotics has changed that industry from a bunch of hobby/academic projects into actual factory floor deployments that can pick up and pack 1000 cookies in an hour without making a crumb. (Only nit to pick is that horses were ridden for around a thousand years before saddles were invented, and then another couple thousand until stirrups were added.)

In a different post I pointed out that you need to control access to the end points.

In Cusco, Peru, there used to be a chicken place with the name 'McDonalds', and on the sign was a painting of Donald Duck. They have a different name now, and I always wonder which of the two trademark/copyright owners made them change it.

The US Congress refuses to adequately fund the debris cleanup research, **BUT** they gleefully shovel money at every damn thing the Space Farce (spelling deliberate) wants including anti-sat R&D.

Truthfully I'd be very surprised if we don't already have something on orbit based on the Army's "smart bullet" tech. Far less debris created if you can take out a satellite's comms or power bus, and it could be blamed on "space debris". Something like that would weigh very little and could be attached to pretty much any other satellite.

A group of us system admins were talking and somehow the topic of odd names came up. One woman once had to fix the customer record of a fellow named Long Dong. She said, "I always wondered if he lived up to his name."

Define "effective". Musk is great at self promotion but if you looked at the details, he just made everything worse.

No he did not. What he exposed is that he does not understand basics of things. For example, Musk claimed there were fraud in the Social Security Administration because he found "duplicate SSNs". What he exposed out is he does not understand basics of data and a fact table can have duplicate foreign keys . . . because it is a fact table. It would be like me claiming there is "MASSIVE FRAUD" in my companies sales data because there are duplicate Customer IDs.

What he proved is he is an idiot. What you proved is you believed him without looking at details.

Will it have excess capacity that Amazon will lease? If no, then this cable has zero effect on Europe and North America. That was my point. I simply did not understand why the OP would have objections to a private companies building something that affects no one else.