* Posts by cryptopants

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Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash

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Re: Clickbaity title

This is a 737–800 and enjoys a good reputation in the industry. It’s not a 737 max that you’re thinking of which came later.

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The flaps were retracted when it landed, so it would’ve been coming in faster than usual.

This unfortunately this tends to create a ground effect where the airplane begins to ride on top of a cushion of air. So the aircraft floats down the runway only lightly scraping the pavement and not putting the full weight onto the ground, which is needed to stop it.

US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns

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Re: ... a bit late, innit?

Actually no, the Marines or any US fighting force for that matter wanted this thing. It was even recommended that the program be canceled in light of its ongoing problems.

The reason that didn’t happen is because Congress was lobbied by the company which intervened and ordered more of them.

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

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But you’re British you can’t presume to speak for the whole world as that would be ironic.

How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system

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Re: Chinese are born entrepreneurs, unfortunately

Relations between China and the US have been growing steadily since Nixon.

The USA sponsored China entry into GATT when no one else would.

China has long maintained that their nuclear arsenal is mainly for deterrence and they would never use it as a first strike. The US and other nations don’t of course, believe any official published numbers about nuclear size and strength. They do their own assessments.

And what the US found was that the Chinese arsenal was kept relatively small, around a few hundred which land a lot of credibility to their claim of being defensive.

Everything is changed to since Xi came to power. And what is the US see when they look into the desert in China? It sees massive amounts of concrete going to build hundreds of silo to house’s new missiles for their massively expanding nuclear arsenal.

There’s only one reason for keeping that many missiles around and it’s not for defense.

So China is the main reason why the US opted out of the ABM treaty with Russia because China refuses to sign up to any arms reduction.

You can say what you want about the people, but the government is in charge there, and they see this constant line of BS that we are somehow responsible for all of these decisions this. And it’s unfortunately, that in the west will buy into this line of bull.

California cops cuff suspect in deadly drone-assisted drug deal

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Re: Those are some odd laws...

For the obvious impaired:

Because in California certain people are not supposed to have firearms. That would be convicted felons and people who have been taken recently take into custody under the welfare and institutions code 5150 (threat to themselves and/or others) for 72 psychiatric hold.

Obviously, it’s an attempt to keep the weapons out of the hands of those who should not have it. It’s not 100% effective, but neither are condoms but you don’t not use one on that basis either.

The part where you compare firearms to phones and houses is just dumb. I’m not even going to respond to it.

Brazilian court sprays Musk's X with more fines for returning after ban

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So Elon acted out as usual and got spanked and now he’s behaving.

I wish they would try that here in the US.

Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran

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There’s an often repeated myth that the US banned the Concord thus harming the concord’s commercial success.

The truth is the USA did no such thing. All it did was to ban supersonic flights over its territory. Concord has never been restricted about what speed it can race across the oceans.

And in that regard US law perfectly matches European regulation, notably of France and the UK as neither permit overflights except with specific permission.

Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review

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Re: I dropped Kaspersky for one reason

The US Govt is sole buyer of the F-22 and has refused to license it to allow it to be sold abroad even to their closest allies. It’s also been out of production for some time.

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Re: the schizophrenic paranoid nation they are

Kasperski is not an American company. It does not have any automatic right to the US market and there is no trade agreement between the US and Russia. So absolutely no courtesies are owed.

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Re: Umm, why does he need US Government approval ?

Even the Chinese don’t trust it. It’s effectively banned by the CCP on any government computer etc

Fear of commodity chip flood sparks EU probe into China's silicon ambitions

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“The potential is for a global oversupply situation, which would see chip prices plummet. In response, Western companies would likely exit the commodity sector of the market to focus on more profitable areas, leaving Chinese chipmakers in control.”

That strategy worked for them with precious minerals. The US actually has more of these precious minerals in its territory than even China does, but it struggles to bring them to market at cost.

Kaspersky challenges US government to put up or shut up about Kremlin ties

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Of course it’s politics

The United States is a sovereign nation, it’s absolutely can ban a foreign entity for purely political reasons. Good luck with your lawsuit.

America's new Sentinel nukes mushroom 81% in cost. Pentagon says it's all good

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Part of this is due to the fact that we waited too long, and a lot of the institutional knowledge has been lost. The cost of getting that back has been huge.

Institutional knowledge is one of the reasons why we continue to make things we seemingly don’t need. It’s not like you can stop that and just start it back up and pick up where you left off.

Founder of Indian ride-share biz Ola calls for 70-hour work week

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Drugs?

I think it’s been shown in a number of studies that people who work these long hours tend to abuse drugs, take stimulants or consume high amounts of caffeine to stay productive.

Elon Musk says he doesn’t want 100% tariff on China-made electric vehicles

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Having a domestic production capacity in the auto industry, enables the US to shift a war production in an emergency. Like it did in World War II. It will not sacrifice that on the altar for anything.

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Re: No Chinese cars presently for sale in the United States.

Mexico has already been told by the US that the North American trade agreement, or whatever they call it now, is exclusively for the benefit of the three nations. And if they offering themselves up as a back door to get around the spirit of that agreement, It could result in the US or one of the other nations, withdrawing, and the whole thing will come unraveled.

Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban

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Re: Mr Pin, tear down that (fire)wall!

The EU usually only bans as a last resort. EU prefers to start with a very large fine, followed by an even larger one for repeat defenders, and it just gets bigger and bigger. By the time a company gets shown the exit door to the EU market will likely be departing quite a bit poorer.

US legislators propose American Privacy Rights Act - and it looks quite good

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Re: Flawed

Most of the cringe data brokers, with a bit of creative accounting could fit within the $40m exemption.

I think I could still support this as bad as it is. Since it would be an upgrade for most Americans since there is nothing else as it is. On one condition, it must not pre-exempt state rules which go further. I live in California, so this could be a downgrade for me.

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Flawed

“Small businesses with less than $40 million in revenue are exempt from the APRA.“

If they’re going to do this, they need to do it right and make the rule apply to everyone no exemptions.

Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US

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Re: American public is way ahead of them

Biden can’t negotiate peace when Putin has said he will not attend any negotiations. He has made his demands and basically that is for Ukraine to surrender. Anything short of that the war will continue. That is coming from Putin out of his own words. Biden doesn’t have the ability to control Putin any more than Trump, or anyone else. he is the head honcho of Russia what he does is the law there.

That leaves you with one option to stop this war. Destroy his ability to conduct it. Exhaust his manpower. Unless Putin is going to go down there and fight himself, he only can work with what he has. Any other suggestion is just being naïve. You don’t seek war, but when someone else brings it to you, you better be prepared to fight. Or it will be a much longer and much bloodier war as a consequence.

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I doubt that

Trump doesn’t have a coherent policy. The only reason why he was ever tough on Russia is because some members of his cabinet were reasonably competent and pushed for that. They had some results. But inevitably everyone in that administration, even the good ones, are driven out from a toxic work environment. They realize that all the good that they are doing doesn’t really matter to Trump. He’s more interested in other things like the internal backstabbing and politicking between the various factions within his administration he gets a perverse thrill from it.

And as those seasoned WH staff leave the White House, they are replaced with less capable people, and so the effectiveness of the Trump administration diminishes with time. And by the end of his presidency, he’s almost completely ineffectual on all policy, foreign and domestic.

The only thing Trump can do is break things he’s very destructive. And a lot of people are still not up to speed. They support this man’s destructiveness, because they are under the very false impression that he’s capable of building something from the ashes.

As far as my own opinion is concerned, every Russian trespasser in Ukraine is subject to being annihilated. And if Putin doesn’t want to potentially lose his entire army, then he should keep them on his side of the fence.

On the matter of Putin challenging NATO? I don’t think that’s the concern. Although no one should’ve dismiss the possibility. Instead what most likely Putin’s aim is or his intentions are with NATO Insta challenge article 5. He wants to undermine and fracture the alliance by destroying its credibility, which is backed on article 5 by the United States.

It’s just the sort of hybrid warfare type thing he might like to start a conflict in an obscure part of Europe that the rest of the NATO members don’t feel strongly for especially in the US.

And he has every incentive to work for this Republicans, reinforce the belief in his mind that he can find just the right situation that the US won’t want to become involved in that undermines the foundation which NATO was built on.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

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What I find strange about the UK is the lack of ice.

Last time I was in the UK, I ordered a soda and they brought me just a few cubes of ice and the soda was room temperature. It was gross.

Didn’t you know that soda is not meant to be consumed at room temperature? There’s a reason why we put so much ice in it so we don’t taste all that sugar sweetness.. that’s gross.

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Re: Pointless if potless

120 V is the requirement here in the US. It’s been that way for a few decades.

Are the British still using the antiquated ring system? You know, the one that necessitates their overbuilt sockets because they don’t have the protection built into the walls as the US does?

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Re: Pointless if potless

110 V?? 120 V has been the requirement since 1994. I live in California where the weather is perfect so I don’t drink a lot of tea. That said, I do occasionally boil water. Yes, it takes longer, but I don’t sit there and watch it boil. I find other things to do for those couple of minutes it takes.

I wonder about the Japanese since they are only on 100 V and drink more tea than the British.

Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building

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Re: In the near future, yet another soft coup

Sure Russia is still selling oil. Except they’re actually selling it at a huge loss. They are not reaping the margins like they did when Europe was buying it.

What’s really hurting Russia is despite their shrinking demographics, they’re marshaling their youngest and fittest into a meat grinder.

If these people come out of that alive, they are not going to be ever the same. We’re talking scores of young men that have developed serious psychological injury from their experiences. Along with any physical disablement.

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Re: Smart move by Brazil

How do you reconcile your stories on the one instance you paint Americans as a cultural backwater who don’t travel anywhere. And then you make them out to be like this nation that travels everywhere and is in everybody’s business. I mean it can’t be one or the other, so which is it?

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Re: But realistically what have we (the US) to offer them?

You need to realize that just because you believe something is true doesn’t make it true in real life. The truth in that instance is only in your head.

You would also be wise to refrain from speaking, for Canadians, who are quite capable of telling you telling us where they are with their neighbor.

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Re: But realistically what have we (the US) to offer them?

My issue with your comment, is that you go way too far with it. You stretch yourself thin on credibility much as the Brazilian president does every time he accuses America of starting the conflict in the Ukraine.

China files complaint with WTO against US chip export controls

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Re: Do as we say not as we do

How do you think China even got into the WTO in the first place? That’s right the USA sponsored their membership!

Along with giving China most favored nation trade status.

It caused some friction between the US and its traditional trading partners. None of them viewed China’s entry with enthusiasm.

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Slightly ironic

It was the US that sponsored China’s membership into the WTO.

Italy, Japan, UK to jointly launch sixth-gen fighter jet by 2035

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Re: 'Meddling ministers'

It doesn’t matter who makes the airplane. European governments aren’t going to buy more than a few dozen examples at most of any aircraft.

They aren’t the US government which procures systems in the triple digits. US defense firms aren’t that desperate. They are already far larger and richer than any of the European defense firms just from the business they sell domestically.

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

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Re: Unit Cost

Perun has the breakdown on costs. You can get a fifth generation for roughly what it cost to buy a Swedish Grippin.

https://youtu.be/7Z_gTGJc7nQ

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Re: Eye-watering

You must think the stealth bomber must fly directly overhead to be able to drop it’s bombs on its target.

That’s not how this works. It’s not that kind of a bomber. It has a delivery system that can launch safely outside the detection range of the most sophisticated radars. And no, it’s not invisible but it very difficult to detect at med-long ranges. That is precisely it’s operating envelope. It’s working as it’s designed it’s not a failure.

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Re: Deterrence only

The stealth bomber does not need to fly over your head to drop its bomb on you. It can do that safely outside your radar detection range.

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Re: Eye-watering

Except none of that actually happened. And if you bother to do some research like Google, you’d realize that $600 hammers and Gold plated toilet is just a myth.

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Re: Eye-watering

It’s not at all wasteful. Think of all of the engineers that are being employed at good salaries that is going right back into the US economy, and those people are paying taxes.

If you think that’s a waste, then you might not actually understand the issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Perun/comments/wcy3m5/defence_economics_and_the_us_production_advantage/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave

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Re: Not unusual

Is Twitter a start up? The only people left working at Twitter are the people who are on the H1-B visa. They have very little choice.

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You absolutely know nothing about what you’re talking about. Texas requires all of those companies from California through the Texas Enterprise fund.

You should Google it you might learn there’s a new dimension to the store you didn’t realize.

It doesn’t make any logical sense why anyone would leave the tyranny of California to relocate to Austin Texas? Do you even know enough about the subject at hand to know what I’m talking about here? Let me explain it if you don’t. Austin is the most California like and expensive city in Texas. That’s like complaining about the frying pan and then jumping into the oven for relief.

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Re: Regeneration?

Texas pays California corporations to relocate to the state. I would know I was one of the people who would take their calls when they would solicit the company I used to work for.

Every week they would call with a new offer. They also make that business sign a nondisclosure agreement when they receive state aid.

That is something that Tesla is most certainly under contract and is why Elon never talks about the why he really left California. He can’t.

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Re: No, way, they beat us?

Which state are you in? Texas? Texas ranked in the top 10 states for highest tax burden.

Elon moved his company to Texas because they paid him a whole bunch of money like they do all of California businesses that move there. You can look it up. It’s a Texas enterprise then it’s paid through Texas oil tax revenues on drilling.