Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price

FEM can't predict precisely how your car will behave in a crash. So mechanical engineering is pointless and you can make your own decisions about crashing into a motorway bridge.

Re: we pay the price

That's the nice part. Just like pensions and house prices - we don't pay the price, other people's kids and grandkids do.

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Re: Shaking

>The good old British empire took control of India by subterfuge

I think it would be fairer to say that Britain took control of India by accident.

"The Maharajah of X has fallen and it's threatening our market", we better send a "police" force to organise things until we can decide which prince to support.

Repeat 500 times over a century

Oh fsck we've got an Empire - now what do we do ?

Re: Shaking

There weren't any farming subsidies. Subsidies are socialist and unnecessary in a vibrant dynamic American economy.

it was just that China failed to pay the tariffs, as they should, and so the American government volunteered to make up for the shortfall out of the goodness of their hearts.

Re: Shaking

You forgot the 1st rule: Always fight a land war in Asia

But at least all the real men will now be released from the basements they were being held in by radical feminista

Re: US achilles heel is intellectual property

NAFTA was renamed by Trump years ago

Re: Shaking

>You actually saying Biden should have started a war with India

Obviously, you invade India to force them to use dollars. What could be easier?

IBM banks on friendlier US regulatory climate for dealmaking

The problem is

That everyone knows that any and all M&A deals are going to be approved - and so all the prices just went up

Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots

Re: My local hospital rebooted me!

So turning it off and on again didn't work? So you had to replace the hardware

ASML makes hay while Sun shines, but Trump could rain on its parade

Re: When exactly has Russia or China tried to invade the Netherlands?

Depends which side the USA is on

Re: When exactly has Russia or China tried to invade the Netherlands?

China can't really roll tanks into Estonia or take Ottawa

Not sure which is more surprising - that the US would elect somebody who is actually a Russian asset (or unknowingly the result of years of Russian media manipulation) or just a chaos monkey.

Either way he is bringing "balance to the force" and an end to the American century.

Re: ASML's equipment is fantasically complex

Cymer (their EUV lightsource maker) is still US based - but now owned by ASML. Don't know if the USA could/would stop them moving manufacturing to NL

Their other critical suppliers are Eu.

Although TSMC still relies on USA for some wafers and Japan for a lot of chemicals

Re: ASML can sell to China or sell to no one in a few years.

But you're forgetting that the whily oriental is incapable of inventing anything but merely copies the inventions of the superior Americans at ASML and TSMC

Re: When exactly has Russia or China tried to invade the Netherlands?

>Anybody invading one EU country is courtesy of the mutual defence pact at war with the lot,

Yes the problem with that is if the biggest army in NATO starts threatening to invade other members.

If the US is on one side of you and Russia is on the other side, perhaps their common enemy is your new friend ?

> Apart from the tariff threat, what can Trump do?

Invade Belgium. I know ASML is in the Netherlands - but does he ?

Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons

Re: 19B in the red?

Fortunately his voter base don't have object permanence

Re: 19B in the red?

Have you tried blaming:

Mexicans

Chinese

Trans

Women

Jews Muslims

Gingers

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral

Re: Is 'learnings' a word?

So no raping and pillaging ? Just pillaging

Re: So Putin's presidential candidate

Yes sorry, the sarcasm wasn't quite as obvious as usual, she is obviously qualified

I think a lot of real people slipped through under Trump 1.0. They won't be making that mistake again, not now there are so many Fox newsreaders and pillow salesmen available for cabinet positions

Re: inconceivable!

>Really? Why does he smear cocoa on his face every day?

He doesn't. He smears white on the rest of his body.

Have we seen the Oompa-Loompas birth certificate ?

Re: Is 'learnings' a word?

You mean the Connecticut born, Harvard + Yale graduate who won a Tony award for his role as a Texan cowboy in Washington ?

Re: Is 'learnings' a word?

To be fair on the shrub, he wasn't that dumb - he just realised that playing dumb gets you elected by Republicans (if only we knew)

I suspect he saw the phrase "shame on me" heading toward him and realised the chance of it becoming a meme-clip and tried a hurried verbal swerve

Re: Is 'learnings' a word?

Actually James Nicoll

Re: So Putin's presidential candidate

She was put in by Trump 1.0 so you have to assume she is criminally incompetent. On the other hand she has questioned the necessity of deaths from Tesla self-driving cars so she might be an enemy of Elon all right-thinking people

Re: So Putin's presidential candidate

Well networks do use transceivers

'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk

Re: Biden's fault?

Accompanied by fellow astronaut "Butch" Wilmore

That's why we can't have female astronauts, they don't have proper astronaut names.

Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

Re: Missed opportunity

An orange idiot obviously on massive amounts of uppers who bounces around destroying things with no understanding?

Or just a Tiger?

Re: All Live Operational Virtual Environment Systems are Go.

Can't it be both?

White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em

Re: Because

Well it was a Black Hawk helicopter

Or military testing how much rapid media blitz could be generated to distract and cover up for no drone testing.

Or that's just what the want you to think.

It doesn't explain the invisible stealth Iranian drones over Gatwick

So MTG isn't a random chaos monkey - she is brilliant politician part of a deep government conspiracy to cover up all the real shit?

Does that mean there really are Jewish Space Lasers and Democrat weather control?

I know - but they did elect him so we have deal with them

Re: Vaccination testing

But were they wearing a tan suit? That's the secret signal to the Illuminati

Re: "Authorized" ?

So there are flying cars but the automakers are keeping them secret so we buy Tesla's instead

Re: Eh?

Showing standard navigation lights seems like the sort of trick a secret government drone / UFO would do

Re: Eh?

Fox news did report on a man who saw three bright white drones in a line.

The picture they showed is more commonly known as Orion's belt - but we don't know if Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka aren't actually star sized drones 1000 lyr away

AI revoir, Lucie: France's answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive

Re: Educating AI

A chatbot trained on aManfromMars, Mornington Cresent and obscure Monty Python references?

I almost feel sorry for it

This is a French chatbot. It was trained on Larousse Gastronomique and it's recipe for meth is mostly garlic and butter

Re: Proper French chatbot

Perfect human (well French) AI has been developed - it just gives you a supercilious look and shrugs

Re: Now go away

Votre mère était hamster et votre père sentait le sureau

Boom's XB-1 jet nails supersonic flight for first time

Re: Petty

It has a range of <1000nm so to reach our shores they would need to install their own airbases in Canada, Greenland and Iceland

Re: 80 passengers?

>That's assuming it's even environmentally accepted as a means of transport:

That's it's big advantage - by using more fuel you demonstrate that you aren't one of these woke liberal hippies. It's the airborne equivalent of rolling coal.

Re: USA USA USA

And only 20% of the range - assuming that it achieves the range in the brochure AND assuming a brand new supersonic aircraft gets the same ETOPS rating from the FAA as a 787 - it might just about be allowed to fly across the Gulf of Mexico Cuba America

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

Re: For those of us overseas...

>most of us Yanks will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico, too.

You mean the "Sea of Cuba"?

Re: So when will Google be asked ...

>Greenland would be Overseas Trumpistan

Or to be classical, Trans-Trumpistan, while Canada would be cis-Trumpistan

Re: Not only the Americans who are at it

In a state of civil war?

Re: Freedom Fries 2.0

But it is still freedom cabbage, not that Hun stuff, that you put on hotdogs?

Re: Not for the developed world, shirley

Seems offensive to the good people of Scunthorpe

DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack

Re: The result has been a selloff in AI stocks.

And wasn't most of Microsoft's investment in the form of Microsoft cloud compute?