Maduro has had a part in moving thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States (killing how many?) and has been in league with drug cartels, narco-terrorists, and terrorists. He is a gangster that had been running a corrupt gangster government with a history of human rights abuses. Venezuela 2024 Human Rights Report

With the aid of US Special Operations forces, United States law enforcement officers arrested Maduro today and brought him to the United States to face charges in a court of law. Below is an extract of the indictment.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT - SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. NICOLAS MADURO MOROS . . . . (click on the Not A Robot button)

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Venezuelans across the globe celebrate US capture of Nicolás Maduro
Venezuelans worldwide celebrate as exiles react to Maduro’s capture
Joyful crowds gathered in Miami, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Madrid after Maduro capture

The question now is, "What comes next?"

Captured -> Arrested.

Maduro was arrested by United States law enforcement officers. He is now on his way to the Southern District of New York to face trial.

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -- John Gardner:

There was a change in management and the former management wanted to build fabs and the current management wants to cut back.

Federal government paid Intel to build fabs. As they're not doing that, taking the money back is reasonable.

Intel is complaining about the money being taken in stock. Alternatively it could have been taken in cash which intel would have had to put as debt on its books. I think the stock is easier for them. US is also trying to build a sovereign wealth fund. 11 billion of intel stock is a reasonable addition to that.

Waiting for the *BSD port . . . . .

You have not truly experienced the BSD is dying meme until you have read it in the original Klingon.

1. Cool, so you concede the land issue is not a relevant justification.

2. The area around the canals is really just as hot as it goes right through the same desert. So you get no advantage there either.

3. Yep, concrete caps on the canals is easy... when we built these things in the 1920s and 1930s we did that sometime. Apparently you think we've lost this technology some how.

4. It is for no reason as 1~3 have demonstrated. Further, you're only making maintenance harder by doing it suspended over the canal. You also have to worry about contaminating the water. I forgot that one. The panels by themselves are not otherwise over something we really care about. So you can spray paint them etc as you like. But you... being the clever guy you are... decided to put the structures we want to chemically treat sometimes over a drinking water.

Truly inspiring. You are a towering intellect. I am in awe.

5. No, it is the same because you have to maintain them. And now you have this miles and miles and miles and miles long snake of stuff instead of a grid pattern of densely packed infrastructure. Consider two damaged parts of the system at opposing ends of the canal. Then imagine that same damage but the panels are grided together. It is easier for one maintenance man to get from one to the other when they're grided than when it is a long snake. This is obvious.

6. Well then why stop here? Why not be even dumber? Let us put all the panels in the middle of a hurricane patch of the sea where they'll all get trashed by the weather. Then whenever anyone presumes to try and save everyone the trouble of doing stupid things you can chime in about how "we have to do this to save the planet"... making no sense as usual.

We don't lack for land. We have vast desert or just put it on people's roofs. So the space is there.

As to covering the canals, sure... do that. Make some simple concrete caps and we have low maintenance.

Don't combine them.

If you combine them then we have maintenance issues with flooding, corrosion, and its just harder to work on the panels when they're over water for no reason.

Further you have a strip of panels... literally easier to manage this in the typical grid pattern.

The state has an infinity of growing financial liabilities and problems and... you think this is a good use of our dwindling resources? This is going back to mud huts if you people don't stop.

Yeah, its goofy. BRICS has no future.

India, Brazil, and South Africa wanted in because they want loans the IMF won't give them for really pretty reasonable reasons.

Russia and China have imperial ambitions... neither of whom are willing to give out the money on the scale and on the terms these other countries want it at.

Its a laughably incompetent and hopeless gathering of conflicted interests.

India is per capita richer... any search for growth on that shows that feature.

As to india being poor, they have a huge population which is the same thing that gets companies interested in selling to china.

Further, if we ignore the third world growth sectors and just focus on the rich first world... china is having problems with that. Its going to be the third world that will be most persuaded by low prices.

As to China selling to the rest of the world, same logic applies to the rest of the world that applies to india. You have huge populations but low concentrations of wealth. IF that logic holds, then my point about india also holds.

Vietnam is growing rapidly right now and gdp per capita is similar to india.

As to what is news to me... We'll see, pal. You're simping for fascistic regime that literally uses slave labor and mostly steals IP.

If that's your vision of the future, I'm very happy to disappoint you.

India has already blacklisted China... US and EU are going to limit imports to a minimum. Agreement in this is broad.

US and EU production is flooding out of China to anywhere else. Factories are idling throughout the chinese economy as their struggle with DEFLATION.

The people that think this is going back to business as usual have not been paying attention.

Its worse than most people appreciate as the years of narcotics abuse has in most cases caused brain damage. This means these people are in most cases incurably insane or retarded due to the neurological damage.

We basically need to reopen the asylums again or create reservations for them or something. Volunteer workers in Los Angeles have been reporting that when they get them off the drugs they are frequently too damaged to actually do anything productive ever again. They will not be able to show up on time for a job for example or remember instructions.

Its a horror show.

The asylums likely need to be reopened... obviously with more ethics and oversight than in the past. And then some serious thought has to be given to the drug problem as it will continue to destroy lives and generate these damaged people that will have to live at public expense to some extent... if we don't go with the "chinese" option... which is to just kill them all.

That sounds horrific... and it is... but the numbers are increasing and that is making the unthinkable inevitable if it does not stop. We had 50,000 of these poor people in my city a year ago. Now it is 75,000 with no end in sight.

Whether they're officially free or not, many people that can't afford to ride the bus in the United States are given free bus passes.

Whilst this sounds nice, unfortunately incidents of drug abuse correlating with homelessness is often in excess of 90 percent. In practice, this means that mass transit is full of puking, psychotic, drug addicts... that frequently are violent towards anyone near them.

This is a politically incorrect fact. There will be some upset with my daring to voice the point. Regardless, the consequence is that ridership on mass transit in the US has collapsed with former users citing safety and cleanliness issues aboard the trains or buses.

Absent some mechanism to address the issue, the mode of transport will be increasingly avoided to it seems the total financial ruin of many of these networks.

BART in San Francisco is in serious trouble and so is is the New York Metro. These systems are expensive to maintain and often operate on subsidy even when ridership is high. Given that ridership has collapsed... these systems will either have to scale back operations radically which could easily lead to a cascading economic doom loop for the systems... or increasingly tax starved cities due to capital flight are going to have to take diminishing resources and increase subsidy to the transit systems.

In "this" context, you want to talk about making the subsidy 100% permanently? Why not. The system is already melting down... might as well remove what lifelines it has left.