To emphasize your point, because of AI, Lead times are 2.5 years. https://www.industrialsage.com... We could be in the dark for a very long time. I'd hope they would redirect the AI transformers to people, but who am I kidding. AI is more important.

I had a roku that I would play stuff captured with some ATSC card. I don't even remember how long ago I used it. The Roku died, but could still play stuff on the laptop with VLC. The capture card just created a MPEG stream. Big files though. The only thing I did for automation was use cron tabs for anything I wanted to "tape". I too would just use skip and FF to jump over ads.

My concern is that half the US fleet is in "deep" maintenance and not rotatable into service. Based on the scant reporting I've seen on the Lincoln, it is falling apart. I could see it taking a year to get that clunker back in service. I don't recall where I saw the image, but my god it was a photo of a sailors dinner. It looked gross, like worse than dog food from a can. Frankly, I would not have fed it to my dog. And the Navy wants top performance from people eating that?

I expect the Chinese fleet is newer, and likely requires less maintenance at this point. They are cranking them out at like 3-5x the speed the US makes vessels.

Improves somewhat, wiki says the coast guard has 243 cutters which are 65' or more in length. Even adding the 243 to the 553 possible in service for the US, 1033 is larger, as is the sum of actual in service 243+233 vs 1033 for China. I'm assuming all the coast guard cutters are in service which probably is not true.

US is burying its head in the sand though. China is building new vessels at a much more rapid pace than the US. US may be trying to improve its rate, it just isn't close to achieving that goal. We (US) gave up on building ships that were not military vessels and lost a good bit of expertise as a result over the decades. Asia builds both types prolifically. And not just China. SK also builds at a fast clip. To the point the US Navy has started to use them. https://www.navalnews.com/nava...

It is a common theme for the US. Actual making of stuff is not encouraged. Just the money side of things to outsource to other countries for actual physical work. It has taken decades to get here, and it will take decades of reduced standard of living in the US to get back. Hard sell. And would require a plan for the decades, not the next quarter.

Not a good analogy. A dog doesn't come with a warranty of purpose. If I buy a self-driving lawn mower that is geofenced, and it goes on a tear down the street and mows down my neighbors flowers, I got a feeling the courts are going to partially blame the lawn mower co. I might get some culpability as well. As an example, tesla got stuck with a 243M dollar judgement because its self driving car didn't work as advertised. So I expect any litigation claim will closely examine the advertised and legal fine print associated with the purchase of the ai agent.

The official ring time for the SU7 bests all EV sedans I believe. https://www.topgear.com/car-ne... When they stripped one down, it beat the 911 GT3 RS. I don't know if the stripped down SU7 would have been street legal, but as I said, China is offering serious competition at roughly 1/2 the price point. So even a 50% tariff puts them way below the competitors.

Yes and gm got caught reporting data to LexisNexis without telling customers. One guy got a literal book when he asked for his lexisnexis report. It detailed everywhere he had driven in his onstar car. gm settled and supposedly stopped doing it.

I think you missed where China is growing their fleet much faster than the US. Here are the latest stats. https://www.globalmilitary.net... The highlight is "China operates a fleet of 1033 ships compared to 553 for United States. Of these, 1005 and 233 are in active service respectively." Now we have bigger ships and more aircraft carriers. And carriers are better at world strength. So world wide, I'd say US advantage still. BUT, and big but, note the active in service numbers. Roughly 1/2 the US fleet is in repair.

Good reminder, I'd almost forgotten that was today too. UK apparently isn't sucking up quite enough like Argentina, so now drumpf thinks the Falklands should go back to Argentina. I just can't keep up anymore there is so much wrong with the man.

Unfortunately true. One would think once again today would be reason to impeach/convict the guy. Telling the fed to drop rates or nananer I'm stopping imports from countries with a surplus trade balance. Nananer, take that disloyal fed. But nope, crickets.

You mean how tesla is anything but. It took a hacker to get the data from the florida crash that ended in trial and tesla losing. The hacker has said tesla has fixed the software so he can't access the data anymore.

So I agree with you 100% and it must include all cars sold in the US. Part of that is the crash data info must be accessible to anyone and must not be able to be deleted with telematics by the manufacturer. Deleting data results in the assumption the fault was solely with the manufacturer.

I've friends from Taiwan and China. Both expect the most likely thing is Taiwan will be taken back to China without a shot fired. It will be economic reasons they return. When I mention the sabre rattling always brought up, they just don't see it likely. And if I were Taiwan and saw how the US just abandoned SK with just military drills, I'm not positive I'd be counting on the US for help. I could see a sea blockade. Not a shot need be fired.

I'll add it is nonsensical to believe that China subsidizes everything. They seem to be a net exporter, a buyer of our T-Bills amongst other things, and yet are not starving themselves like NK. In fact they seem to be propping up several other countries with investment via their belt and road. What they are is a no nonsense manufacturing powerhouse. They are what the US was in the 1950's.

I'm not positive, I think on /., a German guy in China who had the Taycan and drove the SU7. His take, the SU7 was a better car and significantly less. He sold the Taycan. Not all Chinese cars appear to be inferior to the western ones. I expect some are, especially those selling for around 10k USD. But to be fair, in the US, a golf cart or those ranch vehicles are more than 10k.

I'll also add Jim Farley, president of Ford has driven a SU7 for 6 months and loved it. I think the west should be afraid of the Chinese makers. They have first market advantage on EV's as they scaled them quickly. The US in particular can't seem to make up its mind about whether or not to go EV. Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. Whiplash.

Utilities are regulated entities. State lege's can direct a utility to do something like allow for backfeed. The lege could fine the utility if they fail to obey the law. Laughable that you as a individual residential customer is going to be able to tell the utility how it will operate. I've got panels, they have never asked me when they unilaterally make a change to the tariff structure for solar tariff structure. They just do it. Moreover, because it is a city owned utility, the city requires houses to be hooked up to maintain the certificate of occupancy. Although I did hear the state lege is considering forcing the city owned utilities to sell them. There are several in the state. If the state does that, the city might have no reason to hold that rule and I could go off grid if I wanted.