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Well, he is correct. Look at WW2 when Germany optimised their tanks and tank strategy. Now loot at Ukraine and the war there. Drones are in an explosive growth spurt. I have seen Octo-copters by Ukraine carrying 8-10 finned bombs, each singly droppable. Their biggest problem is battery duration. Combination swivel prop flyers use the greater lift from lifting wings to achieve vertical operation and transition to level flight with 10-20 times the range and better lift. The F35 is already fly by wire, add a data/video link and the pilot sits in his living room or the air base. Not there yet - but soon - jam proof coms are needed, perhaps a bi-direction self centering retro reflector link? Is there a frequency that lases and penetrates clouds? Millimeter radio - sub-millimeter? At what point do droplet dimensions and other smoke-like vapor block these ultra-high frequencies? Already we have piloted jets with speedy drone 'wing-people' that can keep formation with jets. We do live in interesting times!!

Massive over reach by TM - As we slit your throats, please fall so your blood drains into our cups, in case we are thirsty...

Zed needs a new name = autobugmake

Yes, go back to primal forest as far as you can, then one dry hot year the country will burn flat? If we build houses in forested areas = that will happen. Home owners and insurers along with state/city must burden home owners with enforced brush/tree clearance laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1922

Gilbert Shelton is a comic genius.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXaHUMESoM4 His comic were creative and had very little NSFW and were the funniest thing I ever read, while much of the other UG comics were a lot more gross, some extremely so, his were like Scrooge McDuck humor - overlaid with generous marijuana use as well as a sprinkling of other drugs. Norbert the hapless Nark always came to grief in a funny way. Now we sell marijuana in many special state shops, while the feds think it = damnation. It had no social effect on me - I am a non smoker = smoke zero combustion carried drugs, like Nicotine or THC from that day to this - I just enjoyed the vicarious thrashing of the man. As a cat lover = Fat Freddy's cat was my fave...

Yes, thanks, you are right, it was Oat Willy I was thinking of, https://www.ebay.ca/itm/385506437409, I was within the edit window = corrected.

One of his co-temps, Gilbert Shelton made great comics - the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Broth...) were my favorite. He had many characters in the FFFB, Norbert the Nark, Fat Freddy's Cat, Let My Chickens Free, and many others.

Well, soon that will be only about $15 US$

Most modern command/control systems are what is called 'frequency agile' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_agility#:~:text=Freq.... and so a C&C system operates cross a wide band, and each system has a series of one time tables that says 'next hop' and the transmit and receive communications - or it random hops, with each one telling 'next'. Small drones can not carry the computational power to do this. Often the higher power base does all this and tells the drone/missile 'next' Frequency agility, coupled with directional agility(phased array) make it harder. Drone systems usually depend on higher power frequency hopping to saturate a range of frequencies and hope for the duration of the desensitising effect where the lower power and computational power of the drone to insert ambiguity into the bidirectional C&C signals and hope the drone settles down or goes home. It is complex, but as the drone get further away from the C&C it becomes easier to disrupt. A drone can fly in a cruise mode and when it detected interference - often with sync bars on the screen, instruct the drone to switch into a less jammable frequency (but uses more battery power- the scarce resource in a drone) as it gets closer to the target where more jamming power is expended. I expect low power ARM systems will help in this.

Tried it and it worked, I am type 2 diabetic at 210 pounds, all from lack of restraint. After 12 weeks I had lost 35 lbs, with no apparent side effects. MD check with an ECG showed all was good. A friend of mine also tried = severe side effects = he stopped it. Makes me wonder if people are dose sensitive? Reading online shows that click counting is a thing. Here is one at a children's hospital, who wanted ways to reduce dose for side effect reduction as well as for smaller children. google 'Ozempic click counting' to explore this rabbit hole. http://www.bcchildrens.ca/endocrinology-diabetes-site/docume...

The main way it worked was not finishing my plate = filling a smaller plate, as well as a longer interval before I thought of plates. Impulse snackery also ceased.

Yes, the US/Canada system has created an enormous unfunded pension and over staffing that Congress has been unable to fix. Europe was a lot worse,(varies by country) that they were forced to cut the Gordian knot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot France has a curious system of ministry companies that are set up for - say 20 years, and all employees know it is over in 20 years. Then a newco is formed that does not hire the deadwood.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/u.s.-postal-service-faces-more-fina....

We lost nothing. In old London you could write a letter and send it in the AM, to be delivered locally the same day an receive an answer later in the day - not as fast as e-mail. All this built on a class society where the working class got very little and the small gentry class = $$$. This can not be done now with people, our e-mail enslaved class enables out current e-mail/text/internet/media system

Why do they not change the postal system? We know the USPO as well as most other national postal services are on life support. Tied to an inefficient daily postal walk for letters - that never come. They need to end this and buy off the remaining postal workers. The remaining system parts, warehouses/trucks/machinery can be sold off if no modus operandi to make a continuing use of the remaining bits of the services? A few registered/certified mail/packages is all that will remain economically viable - if any? Let it go private and pay off the employees or assess each employee to see if a remaining service can be mounted with the bits remaining?

I wonder if Huawei bought up a 3-5 year's supply of that part as a one time buy as they well knew they might soon get cut off when their product hit the market?. I wonder if TSMC will reveal these details.

If they accumulate the plate data as a searchable data base, you have 10 billion grains of sand, but you know nothing about each grain, just their number. Then a warrant is issued for XYZ123 and you sift the sand for XYZ123 and know all about it from plate filings and you can see where it was with time slices. Thus only a judge approved plate is tracked and you would have no saleable data - but each state might?? sell plate databases?

It seems to me that 'counter pumping' seals could work here, as is used on many automotive shaft work and with no contamination mechanism = no fail mode?

There are 2 big leaps in laptop speed (SSD adoption and ARM CPU)as well as incremental battery improvements and then the ARM lower power/cycle = where we are now. For most tasks the time used is minimal compared to human reaction time. Only with computationally intense tasks, video edit, matrixes etc will humans see the difference in minutes/hours where task time can be charted. I find adding an SSD to an older thinkpad makes it good enough for Word etc. I tolerate the shorter battery life, and mitigate this with new third party battery packs with good reputations at a good price. Very low cost ali-express packs are avoided due to fire risk. So that 5 year old will serve quite well for you.

licensed in 1958, advanced in 1962, past my most active years by now, but play around with DM R with a few old turkeys... Internet and the dogged insistence of Morse Code did a lot to make AR decline over the years. The days of 25,000 people at the Dayton Hamfest - trademarked 'Hamvention', by some goofs, are over, but there are still a fair number - almost all graybeards BTW.

Examining and quantifying the genes that give heat tolerance in the same species will allow polyp replacement - driven evolutionarily. That way they will occupy the same 'burrows' and can reform the reef more rapidly without the need for the slow growing coral skeleton?

You are legion, it used to be pulp SF novels for me, now all the fascinating content from youtube/audio books and the many educational streams of this and that also consume too many of my daily hours. How to solve? - that is the problem...

In the UK in WW2, we had true shortages of food and many materials that came by ship due to the Nazi U-boats. The government implemented a pervasive ration system, books, stickers, coupons etc. Stores would get, say 100 pounds of butter. Only people with a ration book pulled out stickers(good for one pound of butter) could get them. The system was granular and butter might need 10, sugar 6, potatoes 2 etc. There were also meat coupons. Rich people bought black market goods made from real goods. You could take 100 pounds of butter and create 105-110 packages of butter with printed copies of waxed paper butter wrappers. If they looked OK = it works. The grocer could make more $$ on those 5-10 created pounds of butter than they made on the remaining 90-95 pounds. After the war, shortages endured for 1-2 years, very granular. After he was demobbed, my father was a glazier = repaired windows. If a bomb was dropped, it might flatten 1 house, but it would break the glass in 200-300 homes. After the war = huge glass shortage = rationed. Glaziers were allowed 5% breakage and cutting allowance. My Dad would order only 1 size, for one common type. If a customer wanted a smaller size = he refused, said no glass. He was able to make more on that 5% than on all the rest of the crate of glass. Money was tracked. In the UK then the largest currency was the 5 pound note.(with 1 pound and ten shillings the others = all else = coins) He had 15 suitcases of 5 pound notes. This was called 'fiddling' So price controls = 2 parallel markets. A true market and a black market for richer people. This was policed, but not closely and with care black marketers escaped. I hear there is a black market in rubles, about the same as the Rasbucknik", of which one was worth nothing, and a large quantity was worth even less, due to the trouble of lugging them around, as was found in lower slobbovia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Slobbovia?

Firefox admins have been accused of sabotaging the update process in uBlock origin light, as detailed here. https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/995?autostart=fa...

to the extent that the developer Gorhill is pushing back and might walk? whcih would be bad IMHO

details in show notes, page 10 and later. https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-995-Notes.pdf

There are many useable batteries that die an early death by being part of a pack where one cell dies. I have scavenged many of these packs and tested each cell, keeping those at 80-90% and have bought battery plastic carcasses for my power tools that have enable me to save a fair amount of $$ over the years. These were all spot welded cells. This indiegogo has cell mounts like flashlight, and cells are pushed into cell sockets and seem to make spring connections. As long as these spring connections are low resistance for the anticipated 5-10 Amp current = excellent idea. I would like similar cell carcasses for all common power tools to be made this way? I suspect battery sales are make lots of $$ for tool makers. The carcasses from Ali-Express use spot welded connections, but ali also sold me a spot welder and nickel straps for this use,

So we should abandon Einstein's works? His 'Gedanken experiments'? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz11b5mkNGQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_thought_experimen...

Yes, here in Canada, we had the 'Residential Schools scandal', the impetus was to educate aboriginal children up to 14 or 16 with de-facto prisons run by cadres of religious zealots, (in the male buildings) who often became predatory homosexuals with a captive student body. In the female buildings there was a huge amount of whipping. These kids were murdered and the bodies buried in significant numbers and when the truth was exposed litigation bankrupted almost all on Canadian soil. They went to a policy of small band schools for each reservation with indigenous educators for the most part with a core of Teacher's School graduates to administer. Seems to have worked. The populace left organised religion in droves, and most churches went broke and the land sold. In Quebec the entire structure almost collapsed and if were not for $$ from Rome - it would have. Seminaries attracted no students = no priests, they even air dropped priests from Haiti - this did not go well in rural Quebec. I long for the holy grail = all religion gone and forgotten

Yes, when I was in school each hall and each stair landing was attended by a teacher/monitor so gross physical bullying was limited. These days we have an unruly mob very under supervised. I am sure the frequent gun confrontations we see in the news are caused by bullying and the bullied resort to guns as the only way to get relief from the bullies!

Yes, maturation brings more sentience. Young kids are often primal and greedy. Sentience starts in a few at about 5 and come to all by ~~10, but I recall a young thug who was pushed into high school at 18 by some rule that over 18 he could not remain. He was a greedy powerful semi-bully and was eventually institutionalised, his IQ was very low and he could not read and had only a few words, he must have been a severe problem among the kids he was placed with. This was in 1952-3, I think he would be better dealt with these days?

Ever read, 'Lord of the flies', written ages ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies Now with social media we have all manner of bullying, both from the local peer group as well as any good/bad/perverted person who can type, ' yes, I am a 13 year old girl, just like you' Those who weather this are scarred by it, but those who do not are often crushed by it, badly scarred, even prompted to death. It would be good if a 'class face book', so 25 class mates are the only ones on that loop, and some peer moderation was created for safety and they all had their own true names. Age? after 16/17/18 you can reach a level of hardness that you can 'cross the street'

Yes, this is the way. On a screen with mixed frequencies = a variable resultant. add a third dimension = voila. I knew this decades go - makes me wonder why it was missed?

Your analysis is correct. I recall in the mid 80's a number of Japanese PC's emerged. They all seemed to want to make a walled garden so they could sell add-ons into it for extra $$, while, as you say 'the hills are alive' with mass made items for the emergent PC standard enabled by Microsoft's provision by sale/licence of MS-DOS while preserving their ability to sell fully compatible same-ware. There was only a small hurdle, the IBM BIOS, which IBM lawyered to death any and all copiers. Soon clean-room original BIOSes were created by a few companies and the gold rush was on. IBM had lost all hope, but sold enough to business and governments to make a good business. They tried a walled garden with OS2 and their MCA(Micro-channel architecture) bus. All US PC makers jumped on this, millions of plug in cards were made - buyers - crickets, crickets, crickets, I suspect many billions went down that rabbit hole. I recall one scrap salvager processing tens of thousands of Zenith MCA boards for gold a few years later. The Japanese finally saw the light and focussed on laptops and those had a good run, but finally they faded, IBM also made their think-pads, but eventually sold to Lenovo. Us makers - Dell, Apple and HP persist - I am not sure which are US made? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manu....