it wasn't applied to other scandals until the Clinton administration when he was involved in the Whitewater scandal.

Well, give or take a couple dozen -gates.

And by "Clinton administration when he was involved in the Whitewater scandal" I guess you mean Bill Clinton's state governorship in the early 80s, when Whitewater corp was active? Because the actual scandal broke when he was a presidential candidate in 1992, not president.

Being ignorant of history in general is one thing. Being ignorant of your own history, especially relatively recent history, especially when you're from as supposedly patriotic a country as the US is another.

Remind me who was President between 2021-2024 again?

Can they actually be fabricated with known manufacturing processes?

Probably. The feature sizes for visible light tend to be in the range of the same lithography we use to make chips. See their references 3-5 for examples, including actual manufacturing.

I would like it better if they had actually fabricated some of these lenses and provided test data.

This is not how science works best. There are scientists who like to collect work over years or decades, turn it into a complete "story" and publish an uber paper at the end. That approach hurts all the people who work on the project except for the lucky ones who put on the finishing touches, and it's bad for the field in general, wasting time and money. Frequent publication is good for science.

What's that got to do with anything? Also at least based on what happened with Kimmel, Trump seems to enjoy using the FCC when it suits him so...

Lucas was just echoing history. Julius Caesar accumulated ridiculous amounts of power because he got stuff done then, when he got killed for it, his heir got to be emperor, in a society that famously hated kings, because he ended the chaos.

Hitler got himself appointed dictator because he cracked down on street violence... created by his followers.

Mussolini (said he) made the trains run on time.

Legally, no. The US constitution itself limits the president's term, and an 1845 law sets the actual election date.

However, you might have trouble voting if, say, there were some guys with guns in your city that were skeptical of your need to be walking around. Lots of states have quite a bit of experience with that method.

Or if you're in prison (except in Maine and Vermont), or on parole or probation in about half the states. Or if you've EVER been convicted of a felony if you're in Florida, Iowa, Kentucky or Virginia.

Or, since only about half the states actually require their electors to vote according to the popular vote, you could just, you know, encourage them to vote a particular way.

There's the ever popular armed-marine-at-the-ballot-box method too. The US has some experience with that.

Lots of options!

That is in fact the way it used to work. US presidents were sort of nobodies. The chief civil servant, if you will. The powerful, famous president started to be more of a thing after WWII.

If it makes you feel better, studies of the US courts, and the supreme court in particular, generally find that it's much less partisan than you might expect. Joe Blow, the media and politicians really need to stop talking about it in partisan terms though, including the nomination and confirmation processes.

Looking forward to seeing the Federal Reserve fired every four years. That should provide the stability needed to arrest the "world's reserve currency" from it's fall from 100% to ~50% of actual world reserves.

Doesn't look like that worked.

The article/summary pertain to data collections between 2020-2024. It has nothing to do with whatever screed you're posting today.

These devices, if they had the cited capabilities, were (at the very least) not FCC-compliant.

Even if AI saves a lot of labor the people developing the AI have to find a way to monetize it.

For example a mechanical engineer making $150 K / year it's not uncommon to pay maybe $7500 for CATIA.

For a stock trader it's about $30K / year for a Bloomberg terminal.

Or maybe it will be like operating an MRI scanner which is $5 million to buy, and the MRI technologist who operates it makes $88K / year.

Or a mining dumptruck that costs $7M and the driver is paid $80K.

Nobody knows where this ratio will end up for any number of jobs to be impacted by AI.

But he won't have a third term as President. Too bad for him.

We've had some truly reprehensible justices on the Supreme Court. Including ones that supported eugenics. The modern court is mild-mannered in comparison.