And what happens when the enemy kills your satellites?

Now, I completely agree that stealth is overemphasized, but stealth is just part of a larger problem. The US military, particularly the Air Force, has a seriously bad tendency to rely on "magic bullet" solutions... a hyper-expensive technology that they think will win wars in a single blow.... instead of taking a layered approach that mixes new solutions with old. Which is important, because, war after war, we have to relearn the painful lesson that magic bullets tend to fail.

The F-4 Phantom not only met expectations, but far exceeded them, to the point that the USAF adopted it (even though it hurt their pride being a Navy program). McDonnell started the design in 1955, the prototype rolled out in 1958, and it entered USN and USMC service in 1960. After it was bloody obvious that the F-4 was far better than anything the USAF had in it's so-called Century Series of fighters, USAF adopted it in 1962 and their initial version... the F-4C... entered frontline service in 1963. It would dominate USAF's tactical fighter wings, with F-4's making up 16 of their 24 wings at one time. All on time, and on budget, with multiple versions being developed along the way (notably the RF-4 photo reconnaissance aircraft, and USAF's ant-surface to air missile "Wild Weasel" F-4G versions).

Take away the satellites, and you effectively take away the drones. Don't kid yourself. The destruction of comms satellites will cripple nations, as we've largely gotten rid of backup terrestrial navigation aids like LORAN in the West, while both Russian and China kept legacy nav and com systems as backups, and are even expanding them. The first day of the war, satellites will be the very first thing to go, because you go after your enemies communications first.

Once again drinkypoo goes to great lengths to expose his stupidity for the world to see with another uninformed, idiotic Slashdot post.

The 90s and early 2000s was the peak of automotive engineering in the USA, and Cash for Clunkers destroyed a shit ton of good, reliable automobiles from that era, which have now been replaced by more expensive late model shitboxes. It was nothing but a gigantic waste of resources and sabotage of this nation, which is exactly what it was intended to be. Any fevered imaginings of 'benefit' from this travesty is only an example of the Broken Window Fallacy.

Please tell us more about your individual brand of brain damage in your sure-to-be-entertaining followup post.

In future slashdot posts I suggest sticking to The History of Teletubbies or whatever else it is that you are actually qualified to comment on, i.e. not 99% of the subjects you run your mouth on.

> 'Governments should be intervening on behalf of their people at this point'

Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, OpenAI, Anthropic, Netflix, so on and so forth, all share one thing in common: they are the creation of US intelligence.

Everything in the western world today is owned by these people. None of this is just organically happening, it's all planned and carefully choreographed, and no, the government definitely isn't your buddy here.

Make no mistake, this is a war, and it's for all the chips. Start hoarding old computer hardware, and build your own OS to run it.

Which is unreliable in many situations. I worked on several projects that had issues involving intermittent data loss on a DB9 port, and every time the culprit turned out to be a USB/DB9 adapter. When we'd install dedicated RS232 cards, the problem went away.

For laptops, the answer to this kind of thing should be a standard space where a customer can specify what ports he wants... you get X number of standard ports, and then you can choose what goes into one or two available spaces. But you're just not going to see that happen with manufacturers, even if the customer is willing to pay a greater cost.

Except that I spent some years growing up in dense, street-centric areas, and kids simply played in the streets. Every day. Our substitute for baseball (so as not to damage cars or windows) was "whiffle ball", with hollow plastic balls and bats. In the summers especially, we spent literally all day outside. In the streets. For kids who did this too much, the criticism was literally that "you let your kids run the streets".

Being car-centric has nothing to do with kids activity. The spread of video games and Internet connected culture had everything to do with the modern dearth of outdoor activity by kids. All of my youngest's friends are online in distant places. There are other kids in the neighborhood, but very few of them play outside that I can see. Online is where all the action is. Maybe the answer is for parents to literally kick kids out of the house, they way they used to do ("out, and I don't want to see you back inside until lunch" was a common summer refrain from parents). Maybe if all the kids are turned out, they'll start doing the natural thing, and make their own fun, which is all "outside" is.

Indeed it isn't. They doing it all day long, every day here in the USA and around the world. It's called "geoengineering", "weather modification" or "chemtrails" depending on who you're talking to. It goes far beyond just making a rainstorm or two here or there.

Now there's a sensible idea.

Lucifer is great at solving problems. He has to be, as he's always causing them.

Hopefully the massive widescale weather experiment we are all unwittingly or helplessly a part of won't have any devastating consequences years or generations down the line. "What could possibly go wrong?"

All this is theater exactly the same way that Microsoft anti-trust thing years ago was theater. Just bread and circuses.

All of these companies have one thing in common: they were founded by US intelligence. They are proprietary fronts. None of these "companies" organically arose due to "capitalism" or "free market" or whatnot. All of their founding myths are bullshit. It's intel dollars at work.

Look up who Jeff Bezos' grandfather was. (Preston Gize was his name.) Big shot at DARPA. You think it was a coincidence this guy ended up as head of Amazon? Just a really smart guy who happened to be in the right place at the right time?

Tipping is great in good service jobs. You tend to make good money in mid-to-nicer restaurants as a waiter or waitress. Where tipping sucks is when you work in cheap joints with cheap customers. Or delivering pizza, like you did in college, where your customers tend to be either poor or cheapskates. Poor people can't afford to tip, and cheapskates simply won't. And then there are the groups that simply refuse to tip because they don't see labor or service as a value at all. "If I can't hold it in my hand, I ain't payin' for it".

Calling your superiors in the workplace a vulgar name is a fire-able offense pretty much any place else. It's not just the word, but also the fact that using it is a type of insubordination. If your boss is a jerk, then you need to find work elsewhere. But every workplace has discipline and conduct standards. You simply can't let subordinates openly insult their chain of command or you won't have much command.

You've just charged a comedian with a criminal offense because his Tweet might hurt feelings. Any freedom of expression Brits had is meaningless empty symbolism at this point.

Seriously. This is the South. Put a bounty on these things, with no bag limit, and local hunters will pursue them to extinction. Get the major cowboy boot companies to chip in with all skins going to them for their "Florida Man" production line. Compensation can be a little cash and free boots for yourself and the wife. And all that snake meat will surely be good for something. In 5 seasons, they'll declare a snake genocide.

Because that's now how property works.

AI-enhanced robotics will replace humans on a number of manual labor positions, but adoption will be a matter of scale. Because mobile robotics will always be expensive, they'll only be adopted where each can do the job of 10+ humans on a near 24 hour basis. Farming is a good example of where mobile robots will eventually be widely adapted. They'll pretty much pay for themselves on very large farms. But your plumbing contractor will never reasonably be able to afford them considering how much work each employee gets. You can only work on one toilet at a time, one house at a time. The scaling simply isn't there for small businesses with skilled workers. Same thing for small to medium scale construction contractors. You might see robots supplementing men on big city skyscraper projects, but not doing home renovations or pouring a new driveway at someone's house.