Note that the issue at hand here is almost entirely about corporations earning money overseas and then trying to "import" the money back into the U.S. whilst dodging taxes. It's quite germane to the same concept as tariffs, although not the exact same thing.
It's believed that Ukraine has drones with last leg Ai to circumvent some EW. It's pretty likely auto target selection will be used (if not already) in the no go zones of the front.
Last-leg in a target-rich environment is OK, "automated drones doing all that on command overseas and maybe even domestically" is a way for a government to shoot itself in the face. Do bits here and there, not end-to-end, because… well, there's decent grounds to suspect the people in those boats who were killed (AFAICT unlawfully) weren't even shipping drugs.
A 10-fold enhancement of lithium atoms was detected at 96 km altitude by a resonance lidar at Kühlungsborn, Germany, approximately 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 upper stage. The upper-atmospheric extension of the ICON general circulation model, nudged to ECMWF, was used to calculate winds. Backwards trajectories, including wind variability as measured by radar, traced air masses to the Falcon 9 re-entry path at 100 km altitude, west of Ireland. This study presents the first measurement of upper-atmospheric pollution resulting from space debris re-entry and the first observational evidence that the ablation of space debris can be detected by ground-based lidar. The analysis of geomagnetic conditions, atmospheric dynamics, and ionospheric measurements supports the claim that the enhancement was not of natural origin. Our findings demonstrate that identifying pollutants and tracing them to their sources is achievable, with significant implications for monitoring and mitigating space emissions in the atmosphere.
It is a valid alternative avenue towards a legal implementation of "child safeguarding" IMO. Someone pays for the internet, that person is responsible for what minors do on their connection. If they have trouble doing that we can use normal societal mechanisms like idk social services, education, and government messaging.
This is the way it works with e.g. alcohol and cigarettes, most places. Famously kids can just get a beer from a random fridge and chug it, but someone 16/18/21+ will be responsible and everyone seems mostly fine with this.
If protecting children were the actual intended outcome, this would have been the logical way to do it. Since it isn't what they're actually doing, instead using personally identifiable information to establish your age, we can only assume it's an attempt to deanonymize the internet.
I regularly talk to other parents at the school gates who have no idea that permissions on mobiles even exist, let alone that they can choose what they let each app have access to.
Yes, it's hard work to build a society where people behave responsibly and in their best interests. But I'd prefer we actually put in the effort rather than go for the easy authoritarian option out of basically laziness and contempt for your fellow man.
(fwiw I regularly talk to parents who are quite aware of various parental controls and use them effectively, combined with talking to their kids and just general good parenting practices)
This is the answer. If you provide internet access to someone, you're responsible for it. It's a generally established law from a Torrenting PoV, so isn't it equally applicable to downloading content unsuitable for children. Sure it'll destroy offering free wifi, but that always was tricky from a legal PoV around responsibilities.
Ideally the law would require websites (and apps) to provide some signed age requirement token to the client (plus possibly classification) instead of the reverse. Similarly OS and web clients should be required to provide locked down modes where the maxium age and/or classification could be selected. As a parent I would the be able to setup my child device however I wish without loss of privacy.
Is it bypassable by a sufficiently determined child? Yes, but so it is the current age verification nonsense.
ah, fair, but with an easy enough fix. make data-enabled SIM cards be 18+ (or whatever age). show ID to the store clerk at purchase time, just like if you were buying smokes/alcohol.
Free wifi generally is everywhere, however it is often heavily filtered and firewalled to stop being doing things the internet owner wouldnt approve of.
I had to live through a year of endless replays of "go at throttle up"
it's still traumatizing to this day, please don't screw this up
> hydrogen leaks have plagued the SLS since the beginning. That’s partly because liquid hydrogen is a notoriously tricky fuel to work with, as these tiny molecules can slip through miniscule gaps in seals and joints. It’s also extremely cold (-423 degrees Fahrenheit, or -253 degrees Celsius), which can cause hardware to become brittle and crack
This is weight distribution on a flat plain. Think of Roman Arches.
On a curved plain, weight distribution of THIS origami falls apart as pressure is added horizontally (not just vertically).
I've made similar tessellations before, they can be curved. You can trivially make a pre-folded tessellation into a cylinder of arbitrary diameter; to curve it like a submarine, you'd just adjust the angle of the creases. Optimize the curve so the pressure is always perpendicular and there's no problem here.
The real issue here is that there's not much point in it, as the very thing that makes this useful (the ability to fold it up) would also make it collapse easily in a pressurized environment. You'd also have to deal with preventing leaks if you wanted air inside, likely by adding an outer hull, which would then defeat the purpose.
Submarines work on the principle of the arch: a spherical or cylindrical hull section transfers all the force into compression of the material so there is no net "inwards" force.
The weak points then turn out to be joints, material defects (the famous Titan failure), windows and other piercing points, and any unexpected shear forces.
In my experience, just fine. I recently ran a large (~30k) marathon and my AirPods and watch never glitched once, streaming the whole time including in the packed start corrals. I had the same thought about RF contention, but Bluetooth didn't seem to care.
The amount of data needed to send audio to your ear-buds is quite small compared to the spectrum available, so only needs tiny slices of spectrum and for relatively tiny slices of time. And also relatively tiny amounts of power since it's only going max 100 feet, hence a pretty small chunk of space.
If all those 10K-30K devices are constantly jumping around the frequency band to transmit tiny payloads a tiny distance, then a whole metric fuck-ton of them can interoperate in what seems to us to be very tight quarters. But to those specialzied radios it probably seems like a fairly wide open field.
Billionaires silo-ing massive wealthy beyond multiple lifetimes must pay their taxes
and Trillionaire corporations
Each state now has several Billionaires, there are almost 1,000 in the USA
They need to pay their damn taxes, a flat tax without deductions for everything over a million dollars of income per year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_num...
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-billio...
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