Nothing new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Trust me, most of us came back without any long-term mental issues. The stereotype of the unhinged 'Nam vet was created by leftist journalists and writers to give them something to point at when they wanted an excuse to make anybody who didn't march in lock-step with their leftist beliefs look evil. Do yourself a favor and take a good look at their propaganda and you'll see for yourself how phony it is.

As far as that goes, if you find water ice on Mars and have a spare nuclear reactor around, you've got your methane factory:

1. mine water ice
2. split H2O -> H2 + O (electrolysis - this is where the reactor comes in handy)
3. Sabatier Reaction: combine the H2 with atmospheric CO2 (CO2 + 4H2 CH4 + 2H2O), requires industrial heat source (reactor also handy here) and a catalyst bed (nickel)
4. Recycle the H2O byproduct back into the intake

You gotta have energy though for it to scale. Roughly 17kWh = 1kg of rocket propellant. To fill a Starship back up (1200 metric tons) it would only take ~20.4GWh of energy. So there's that.

They'll use the pretend sincerity to train the incoming Large Voice Models, which are necessary for the post-literacy generation.

Yeah well, we can't all be a person who doesn't understand how things work. Kudos to you for being simple minded!

" The Kathmandu Post"

Ah we don't to pay for journalism, says a planet of suckers

The proportion of Americans fit for service is tiny. While the USAF (which never drafted) and Space Force easily meet recruiting goals they also don't require the number of mundane jobs other services do. The enormous support tail enabling modern warfighting can often be manned by lower quality troops.

The late draft era was a military disaster. One day some leadership imbeciles will bring it back but it's so easy to disqualify yourself from service without provable malingering mostly greater imbeciles would be drafted.

100 H1B's is peanuts in the scheme of things, besides which you get rid of skills you no longer need, that doesn't mean you don't have a shortage in different skills elsewhere.

Come to the USA where health insurance fraud has been institutionalized to the tune of hundreds of billons of dollars annually. United Health Corp anyone?

An ambulance trip to an ER in the US can easily cost you the same amount as a heli from Everest base campâ¦thats the fraud.

btw i got my finger stitched up in Lukla at the Swiss clinic couple years back for $50â¦donated much more than that but still stands as the best, least expensive experience in healthcare I've ever hadâ¦in Luklaâ¦Nepal

It's travel insurance. Our national health systems only apply when you're in the country

that this has been up for more than 5 minutes and there hasn't been a "just install linux" comment yet.

This not the highest fuel prices have been. They're doing this now because they know you'll blame Trump instead of them. And they get to do it because the FTC has been totally defanged. It has nothing to do with Trump or oil. Sheeple indeed.

I'd hate to see IBM i die off, it's an operating system like nothing else at that level, i.e. competing with Windows/Linux/Unix.

But you can't run it on x86 or Arm because the OS is designed for the architecture. Mind you, they re-wrote the abstraction layer when they moved from the original CISC CPU systems to RISC. Nobody had to recompile any application software. On the gripping hand, the OS was designed first and then the hardware, to satisfy the requirements of OS400. So I'm not sure if they *could* port it to x86 or Arm.

"Alien compared to PC" is a good phrase for AS/400.

Uptime, granular control of user processes, the ability to compile CL (Control Language, somewhat akin to bash scripting) into native code, dual-abstraction making portability from the smallest to the largest a simple operation of copying the binary to the new machine, I could go on.

The "home lab" hobby proves their point. There is a large selection of used, reiliable tthin clients for very light appliance use and a wide range of "tiny" PCs (and other architectures) for users wanting as or more capable options complete with power supplies, cases etc and with good community support for mods and upgrades including 3D printed parts. Rugged industrial computers and network appliances are also abundant and increasingly well known thanks to enthusiast channels.

If I bought a bare Pi board I'd need much more than that to make it usable. I'd need to buy, scrounge or make those components. OTOH I can choose from any of many complete and partial prebuilt enterprise quality commercial systems made in vast quantiities and enabled by many options, accessory configurations, 3D-printed community parts.
and parts.

Pi moved to compete in a very competitive space. It's original niche was more specialized rather than being intended as a general purpose PC in a world full of used performant thin clients and tiny office PCs often powerful enough to game or easily modded. Enthusiasts wanting small size but higher performance often assemble small rack systems with each same-form factor tiny PCs.

For example they can quickly, easily and cheaply assemble a main PC for desktop use, a file server and a network appliance of choice. Even a rack or larger case is optional. (I stick my Lenovo tiny PCs together with flat magnets held to their parent component with double-sided industrial tapes like 3M VHB (also used in building Class 8 dry van and other trailer bodies instead of mechanical fasteners).

It boggles my mind that anyone would trust their communications to MS when they are going into space and have no alternative available. Do we really want to export the Blue Screen of Death and irritating mandatory updates to the cosmos?

I think it should be a barf vacuum cleaner, not a bag. Basically, when you feel the urge to retch, you stick a tube in your mouth and suck up all the goodness into a tiny collection device, then eject it into a parabolic trajectory towards the sun.

"It looks like you're trying to pull an Apollo 13, would you like some help with that?"

"My God, it's full of bugs!"

There has previously been no way to run Grindr on a mainframe. This fills an obvious gap in IBM's coverage.

1a. Stop offering insurance for those who decide to climb the mountain.
1b. Force anyone that wants to climb the mountain to make a deposit that covers the cost of removing their body, just in case they don't make it.
2. Ban climbing the mountain.

Also, for 99% of what you would like to do with GPIO, you can hang a $3 Arduino Nano off of a USB port.

Apollo 8 orbited the Moon in 1968. Ten orbits. 69 miles from the surface. Artemis II — launching in 2026 — will not orbit the Moon. It will fly past it at 4,700 miles and come home. That's 30x further from the lunar surface than Apollo 13 managed in 1970 as an emergency abort. #### The delta-v to reach the Moon hasn't changed. The physics is identical. The same amount of energy is required today as in 1968. What changed is everything around the physics. Nine years of mission planning. Six launch date delays. A heat shield that eroded on the uncrewed test flight — and instead of fixing it, they modified the reentry trajectory and redacted the review. Hydrogen leaks. Helium leaks. Engine swaps. A rollback to the assembly building. The Lunar Gateway was cancelled entirely one month before launch. The engines are RS-25s designed in the 1970s. #### The SLS program has cost north of $50 billion and has now produced one uncrewed test flight and one crewed flyby that achieves less than what three astronauts did in a capsule built with slide rules 58 years ago. Apollo landed humans on the Moon six times across four years. Artemis has pushed its first landing to 2028, and nobody in the industry believes that date. #### Every problem generates a new layer of review, a new board, a new workaround, a new delay. Nothing gets removed. Nothing gets simplified. The complexity grows. The capability shrinks. The heat shield cracks? Don't fix the shield — change the trajectory and redact the report. The hydrogen leaks? Add another wet dress rehearsal. The helium flows wrong? Roll it back to the hangar. The Gateway doesn't work? Cancel it, but change nothing else. #### At some point you have to ask: is the goal to go to the Moon, or is the goal to sustain the program that talks about going to the Moon?

La Nina turned out to be extremely weak. It basically ended last month. We're already seeing indications that we're swinging back towards La Nino again.

Apollo 8 orbited the Moon in 1968. Ten orbits. 69 miles from the surface. Artemis II — launching in 2026 — will not orbit the Moon. It will fly past it at 4,700 miles and come home. That's 30x further from the lunar surface than Apollo 13 managed in 1970 as an emergency abort. #### The delta-v to reach the Moon hasn't changed. The physics is identical. The same amount of energy is required today as in 1968. What changed is everything around the physics. Nine years of mission planning. Six launch date delays. A heat shield that eroded on the uncrewed test flight — and instead of fixing it, they modified the reentry trajectory and redacted the review. Hydrogen leaks. Helium leaks. Engine swaps. A rollback to the assembly building. The Lunar Gateway was cancelled entirely one month before launch. The engines are RS-25s designed in the 1970s. #### The SLS program has cost north of $50 billion and has now produced one uncrewed test flight and one crewed flyby that achieves less than what three astronauts did in a capsule built with slide rules 58 years ago. Apollo landed humans on the Moon six times across four years. Artemis has pushed its first landing to 2028, and nobody in the industry believes that date. #### Every problem generates a new layer of review, a new board, a new workaround, a new delay. Nothing gets removed. Nothing gets simplified. The complexity grows. The capability shrinks. The heat shield cracks? Don't fix the shield — change the trajectory and redact the report. The hydrogen leaks? Add another wet dress rehearsal. The helium flows wrong? Roll it back to the hangar. The Gateway doesn't work? Cancel it, but change nothing else. #### At some point you have to ask: is the goal to go to the Moon, or is the goal to sustain the program that talks about going to the Moon?

So why pay for the policy? If you did not receive more than you paid for it, you could have just self insured. Pay your own dental cleaning or whatever instead of what you did.

Huh, pete6677 post history is interesting.
Strong anti-censorship streak, sharp anti-left language, distrust of institutions, and a fondness for law-and-order muscle.
So pete6677 could really be a right leaning American who has yet to be fucked by the government.
Or he is a Russian created character carefully crafted to create a straw man that discredits himself in a hope of bringing down all his western ideals.

...for a non-profit.

Just like how WaPo eventually went from an assurance that nothing would change to blocking an endorsement of Kamala Harris to no longer publishing any opinions that were insufficiently pro-"free market" for Bezos' taste:

https://www.ms.now/opinion/msn...