The simultaneous landing of both the side boosters was literally awe-inspiring. SpaceX had initially said they might stagger their landings by a little in case one went wrong, but it looks like they had the hubris to land them both literally at the same time. And lesson there is hubris is fucking awesome, and those obnoxious Greek gods can go suck it.
The zaibatsu system was very popular back in the day, apparently.
From my understanding, back in the Meiji period after the US forced Japan into opening borders and unequal trade agreements with gunboat diplomacy, Japan said 'screw this' and began on a rapid modernization campaign. They set out diplomats to plead their case and learn about the rest of the world including their governments and militaries, they sent out students to Europe and the US to learn everything they could to return to Japan and teach it there, and they went to successful business families and tasked them with the goal of turning Japan into a modern industrialized nation in return for full backing of the government. Those business families became the zaibatsu in a time well before Japan had publicly traded companies. 50 years later they were able to fight Russia to a standstill in a war and have renegotiated all their trade agreements while other Asian nations were suffering colonial control of Western nations.
I thought the iPhone only had about a 1/3 market share in the US. Hardly Microsoftâ(TM)s 95+% they had in the heyday of Windows and the browser wars. Come to think of it, how how does Apple Music become the biggest service when itâ(TM)s only available on a minority of devices?
I think the usually given reason is that they may have 1/3 of the market, but they have 2/3s of the users willing to pay money for things.
It's not profitable at all for America to occupy Europe. In fact, it is hugely expensive. Europeans refuse to pay for their own defense and reacted quite angrily when Trump presented them with a bill for failing to reach their (quite low) 2% spending minimum.
Hey, I'm all for lessing US involvement and making others pick up the slack. (That is pretty much Section 3 of the Libertairan party platform.) However, do not think for a second that things aren't the way they are because faction in the US want them that way. Our military isn't making us money and is way more than we need, but even Trump just wants to spend more for no return. While making Germany pay it's full 2% was an issue before the election, something that Merkel agreed to, he forgot all about it afterwards and just wants to spend, spend, spend.
LOL. And when Trump said let's withdraw from NATO, the screams were loud and numerous. Suddenly NATO became Europe's prized asset and America was Europe's best friend. Ungrateful freeloaders.
Which is why there is a large part of the European left that is happy for a Trump election. They feel he will so damage US relations and reputations that it cannot be repaired and will never regain control over the world again. There is a big difference between saying the US wants to reduce it's roll and for other nations to pick up the slack, something that Merkel had pretty much agreed to already, and picking up our toys and rage quitting at a party the US has organized and been telling people what to do. Yes, there is certain things the other NATO members can't do without the US, which is why we joined in on North Africa which was mostly a French and Italian thing. That is no doubt because we have previously let them know that we're behind them in an organization that we created. Now, they'll have second thought, know they can't depend on the US, and give less care to what we want as they move to duplicate what we do.
Firstly, there seems to be a lot of deep-state resistance to Trump's agenda.
It's called "Rule of Law', along with a large amount an administration not knowing what the fuck they are doing, and the inability to spell 'Illuminati", and it all adds up to 'Deep State".
Every time you step away from the computer, you can just turn that program on to pollute the data in the profile that Facebook, Google, et al have built up on you.
Sounds like a good screen saver, except for the part about random porn, viruses, malware, etc.
It is entirely possible there are 'habitable' planets within reach of our technology - if we're willing to invest in building a heavily redundant generation ship and live forever in domes when we arrive at the destination, totally dependent on advanced technology for survival.
You never heard of atmosphere processors? It's a one terawatt fusion reactor power plant, about 1500 metres in height, manufactured by Weyland Corp.
For Mars, there's not really enough atmosphere to process, so what they really need is a smelter. it would take the iron, silicon, and aluminium oxides that are common on the planet and process them into building materials while pumping oxygen into the atmosphere. Other gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen would probably have to be shipped in from the satellites of Jupiter.
I'm also not a physicist, but I'm pretty sure we could get lots of places farther than 15 light years "in the space of our lifetime" if we were able to accelerate to nearly the speed of light, since time would nearly stop for the ones making the journey. We would be "frozen" just by virtue of relative speed, without all that temperature freezing cell destruction hassle.
Can a knowledgable physicist confirm my other thought, that in the relative frame of a photon itself, no time passes at all between the time it is emitted and absorbed no matter how far it traveled? So if we had a way to convert our entire bodies into light and back, we would experience instantaeous transportation no matter how far we travelled?
To the first paragraph, yes, given say 1G constant acceleration and deceleration, time dilation comes into play. The longer you accelerate, the slower the spaceship time goes compared to the rest of the universe. It approaches an asymptote which effectively means the spaceship can reach anyplace within it's Hubble limit by a maximum time. IIRC, that time is around 24 years.
It's hard to say how a photon experiences time. It has a frequency and that can change due to various reasons, however, it doesn't really decay or change to something else without being absorbed and re-emitted. From what I can tell there is a theoretical half life which would give an idea that photons do experience time, but that theoretical half life is something like 100 million times the current lifetime of the universe.
Using words to convey one's thoughts and emotions has become too challenging.
Pretty much. Spoken language uses many different signs such as emphasis and tone to convey meaning which is not represented in written language. Some of that can be imparted by punctuation such as "?" or "!" but not all. Emoticons generally fill in the gaps where written language fail for conversational language where someone does not wish to write paragraphs of prose to represent otherwise simple meanings.
An old friend back in the Rustbelt works at an insurance company telephone call center that's choc full of PhDs. Because that's the best job they can find.
Well sure, they're in the Rust Belt which is experiencing rural decay. They should move to a coastal city if they want a job where industry is needing large pools of skilled workers.
Look at rural and small town census tracts after the Great Recession -- there was no "after the recession" for them, it's still on. Sure they get lip service, but if you think anyone is going to prioritize the interests of an out-of-work coal miner over a fracking billionaire, consider that these are also the places which are ravaged by the opioid crisis. There's lots of posturing on that issue too, but no action. Drug wholesalers, over the course of two years, shipped nine million pills to a single pharmacy in West Virginia serving a community of less than four hundred people, and no politicians have proposed anything to prevent things like that happening again.
59,000 people are killed in the US by the opioid crisis annually, the equivalent of a 9/11 attack every two weeks, but we must tread carefully lest we harm drug company profits. I submit to you that demonstrates the lower value we put on the lives of those people relative to the lives of bankers.
If we can't be bothered lift a finger to save their lives, why would we save their jobs?
My own theory on this, is that rural America is the new 'inner city'. As industry gets more complicated, desires more efficient supply chains, requires a nearby large pool of skilled employees, there is very little economic reason to be located in small towns that used to be supported by manufacturing companies effectively running company towns. The only real reason will be farming and natural resource mining, which are being greatly automated. Instead of urban decay, we are experiencing rural decay. Those that can are moving out, those left possibly can't, and will probably cry that they don't want handouts, just jobs, just like those suffering from urban decay did after WW2.
If FB were in China, they definitely would not allow the US to write obviously fake news articles.
If they were in China, the Chinese Government would not allow ANYONE to write articles critical of the Government - fake OR true. If your article is pro-Government - fake or true - it would be published. Being fake or true would have nothing to do with it, it would come down to "is it critical of the Government".
It's been a while since I've had a good Chinese friend to explain things as they are in China, but it has less to do with "critical to the Government" as "critical to the social order". Certainly, the government is part of that social order, but they are also interested in so much more. Sex, violence, deviant acts, all would also be moderated. The Government has an idea of how China should be and act and anything/body who noticeably doesn't fit in that idea is a nail to get hammered down (or at best be allowed to go to Hong Kong).
No faster-than-light communication or travel seems to be a very fundamental part of the way the universe works. The laws of physics conspire against our sci-fi dreams.
Really depends on how you define 'faster than light' and which sets of physics you are using. It seems impossible in Minkowski (flat) space because things like mass, energy and time get imaginary. However, in Reinmannian (curved) space, where the general theory of relativity gets used, it depends on the topology. It's already trivial, such as in the case of gravitational lensing, to show that there are two separate lightlike paths between two points, and one gets there in less time, technically 'faster than light' as if goes faster than the other light-like path. Most "sci-fi dreams" that bother to explain things do so in ways that are not forbidden by current physics which is why we get hyperspace, worm-holes, warp drives, etc. even causality would seem to be just the way we prefer (observe) things rather than some actual natural law, except for thermodynamics (entropy) and its relation to the arrow of time.
But after that, with some exceptions (I do like Blondie and the Police) it begans a downhill slide. I think the money men finally replaced all the good old fashioned A&R guys. There wasn't going to be any more Elvises or Ray Charles or Beatles or anything like that.
And thank God. Elvis, Ray Charles, and the Beatles were all old, boring, and needed to die. It wasn't that money men took over the A&R positions, its that they were taken over by younger people, usually hip artists, to find the next new thing, not another old thing. I came in with punk rock and the 80's and interviewed quite a few musicians for my music 'zines, and the same thing was repeated to me over and over, "by the mid 70's, the music scene was dead with just a few big bands playing arena shows and no creativity to be seen." So, people had to do their own music again. Blondie and the Ramones were both first wave punk rock but once the Brit punk thing happened, it got split up into American Hardcore and New Wave, with the later being the more cleaned up, marketable bits.
It isn't that they're more efficient, but that they are wielding more control.
More, or perhaps less? I'm not a good one to ask as I've been off in fringe music genre land since the early 80's, and everybody I know is getting their music from places like Bandcamp. We seem to know that CDs are dying (and albums and cassettes are coming back, but from what I can tell, only as collectables), so have we seen where people are getting their music from these days. I suspect that a combination of being able not only get what you want (rather than what is being given to you) along with a large, easy to acquire back catalog of past music. Meanwhile, there are plenty of mainstream venues that "pop" music can be funneled through that won't be able to fraction like individual tastes can. I really wonder if the pop music just isn't being eaten away by countless fringe genres and artists.
And for those who can't drive anymore (eldery people).
Ya, good luck with that. In my experience it's not finding them a way to get driven around but getting them to admit they can't drive and taking away their keys that is the real hurdle. As it is, when I ride with my dad, I just politely tell him when he is on the wrong side of the road despite his claims he is not.
Democrats quake with the knowledge that people will be able to live away from the big cities, draining their tax revenue, while still fully participating in the information workforce.
I suspect most people come to populated areas for career reasons, not necessarily because they prefer crowds and density.
It seems outsourcing and technology have shifted the jobs to more populated areas for some reason, good or bad. Rural areas recovered slower from the slump, and this is partly why T was elected: they felt slighted.
I believe the shift is partly due to farming automation, and partly due to the fact if your job is easy to do remotely, it's also easy to outsource to a cheap-labor country. Those jobs left here tend to require heavier teamwork and personal interaction. In the late 90's I thought telecommuting would take off and relieve population density. I was wrong.
The things I have seen and read seem to indicate that people decide where they want to live, and then look for a job. How well the economy dose is part of that, but many friends have had the choice of living an average lifestyle in a large city or "live like a king" in a smaller one for less. They have always chosen the large city. The large the city, the more options there are to full fill your interests. The more people there are, the more people you will meet that hold your interests and you find likable. The town I grew up in doesn't have a game store or comic book store. Being a nerd, I had to drive an hour to the big city in high school. As of Christmas when I went back, it doesn't even have a book store any more. Currently, I like to cook. I have a hard time finding kalamata olives, the Wal-Mart superstore sometimes has them, let alone the items I generally shop for at Persian, african and asian grocery stores. Despite a large industry in town, they have a hard time getting workers and it seems to mostly be old people as the population hasn't increased in the thirty years since I left.
Meanwhile, industry has shifted to large centers of population. Not only are industries more complicated than they were fifty years ago and needing more skilled workers, but industry wants them pre-trained and easily replaceable. That means needing to be placed in an area with a large pool of skilled workers. Add in economies of short supply lines and hubs, and even smaller cities are less attractive to industry. Factory towns have been dying out for some time now.
Rural America looks like it's the new inner city. Jobs are leaving. The people that can are leaving and have been for decades. The people that are left are screaming they just want jobs, just like the inner city did decades ago. Like I said, they already seem to be nothing but old people and meth heads when I go back to visit family in several states. It's a trend that is in Japan, America, and Europe. In the end, I suspect in the US, they'll be told to move or accept hand outs to keep them from starving.
"to fix the overutilization of the wirenet and the underutilization of airnets, bringing balance to the wire-versus-air dichotomy, providing choice in how data should travel in each case...But it can only happen if the web takes a courageous step towards its next level."
What the heck does a 'balanced dichotomy' with taking the 'next bold step' in the evolution of the web?
This reads more like a transcript from a slacker boardroom bingo game than anything useful...
I think the submitter needs to stop watching HBOs "Silicon Valley" stoned...
Actually, sounds like they've been playing the latest version of Shadowrun. The wired internet goes down due to global virus attack and crash, so there was this wireless mesh IoT going on and people decided to just put it into production and shift everything over, because that would be easier than fixing the wired version. Did I mention this was after the paper eating bacteria destroyed all written records?
Slashdot Mirror
The simultaneous landing of both the side boosters was literally awe-inspiring. SpaceX had initially said they might stagger their landings by a little in case one went wrong, but it looks like they had the hubris to land them both literally at the same time. And lesson there is hubris is fucking awesome, and those obnoxious Greek gods can go suck it.
Thank you for my QOTD!
The zaibatsu system was very popular back in the day, apparently.
From my understanding, back in the Meiji period after the US forced Japan into opening borders and unequal trade agreements with gunboat diplomacy, Japan said 'screw this' and began on a rapid modernization campaign. They set out diplomats to plead their case and learn about the rest of the world including their governments and militaries, they sent out students to Europe and the US to learn everything they could to return to Japan and teach it there, and they went to successful business families and tasked them with the goal of turning Japan into a modern industrialized nation in return for full backing of the government. Those business families became the zaibatsu in a time well before Japan had publicly traded companies. 50 years later they were able to fight Russia to a standstill in a war and have renegotiated all their trade agreements while other Asian nations were suffering colonial control of Western nations.
The fact is we donâ(TM)t know how to sterilize a spacecraft without destroying it...
Well, let's not forget that Mars is covered in perchlorates which are sterilizing agents stronger than what we'd use to clean any Mars probe.
I thought the iPhone only had about a 1/3 market share in the US. Hardly Microsoftâ(TM)s 95+% they had in the heyday of Windows and the browser wars. Come to think of it, how how does Apple Music become the biggest service when itâ(TM)s only available on a minority of devices?
I think the usually given reason is that they may have 1/3 of the market, but they have 2/3s of the users willing to pay money for things.
It's not profitable at all for America to occupy Europe. In fact, it is hugely expensive. Europeans refuse to pay for their own defense and reacted quite angrily when Trump presented them with a bill for failing to reach their (quite low) 2% spending minimum.
Hey, I'm all for lessing US involvement and making others pick up the slack. (That is pretty much Section 3 of the Libertairan party platform.) However, do not think for a second that things aren't the way they are because faction in the US want them that way. Our military isn't making us money and is way more than we need, but even Trump just wants to spend more for no return. While making Germany pay it's full 2% was an issue before the election, something that Merkel agreed to, he forgot all about it afterwards and just wants to spend, spend, spend.
LOL. And when Trump said let's withdraw from NATO, the screams were loud and numerous. Suddenly NATO became Europe's prized asset and America was Europe's best friend. Ungrateful freeloaders.
Which is why there is a large part of the European left that is happy for a Trump election. They feel he will so damage US relations and reputations that it cannot be repaired and will never regain control over the world again. There is a big difference between saying the US wants to reduce it's roll and for other nations to pick up the slack, something that Merkel had pretty much agreed to already, and picking up our toys and rage quitting at a party the US has organized and been telling people what to do. Yes, there is certain things the other NATO members can't do without the US, which is why we joined in on North Africa which was mostly a French and Italian thing. That is no doubt because we have previously let them know that we're behind them in an organization that we created. Now, they'll have second thought, know they can't depend on the US, and give less care to what we want as they move to duplicate what we do.
Firstly, there seems to be a lot of deep-state resistance to Trump's agenda.
It's called "Rule of Law', along with a large amount an administration not knowing what the fuck they are doing, and the inability to spell 'Illuminati", and it all adds up to 'Deep State".
Every time you step away from the computer, you can just turn that program on to pollute the data in the profile that Facebook, Google, et al have built up on you.
Sounds like a good screen saver, except for the part about random porn, viruses, malware, etc.
You never heard of atmosphere processors? It's a one terawatt fusion reactor power plant, about 1500 metres in height, manufactured by Weyland Corp.
For Mars, there's not really enough atmosphere to process, so what they really need is a smelter. it would take the iron, silicon, and aluminium oxides that are common on the planet and process them into building materials while pumping oxygen into the atmosphere. Other gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen would probably have to be shipped in from the satellites of Jupiter.
I'm also not a physicist, but I'm pretty sure we could get lots of places farther than 15 light years "in the space of our lifetime" if we were able to accelerate to nearly the speed of light, since time would nearly stop for the ones making the journey. We would be "frozen" just by virtue of relative speed, without all that temperature freezing cell destruction hassle.
Can a knowledgable physicist confirm my other thought, that in the relative frame of a photon itself, no time passes at all between the time it is emitted and absorbed no matter how far it traveled? So if we had a way to convert our entire bodies into light and back, we would experience instantaeous transportation no matter how far we travelled?
To the first paragraph, yes, given say 1G constant acceleration and deceleration, time dilation comes into play. The longer you accelerate, the slower the spaceship time goes compared to the rest of the universe. It approaches an asymptote which effectively means the spaceship can reach anyplace within it's Hubble limit by a maximum time. IIRC, that time is around 24 years.
It's hard to say how a photon experiences time. It has a frequency and that can change due to various reasons, however, it doesn't really decay or change to something else without being absorbed and re-emitted. From what I can tell there is a theoretical half life which would give an idea that photons do experience time, but that theoretical half life is something like 100 million times the current lifetime of the universe.
Using words to convey one's thoughts and emotions has become too challenging.
Pretty much. Spoken language uses many different signs such as emphasis and tone to convey meaning which is not represented in written language. Some of that can be imparted by punctuation such as "?" or "!" but not all. Emoticons generally fill in the gaps where written language fail for conversational language where someone does not wish to write paragraphs of prose to represent otherwise simple meanings.
The real question is 'why' we would colonize Mars...
Because the Earth, including antarctica, and nearby space, including the moon, have become too crowded.
An old friend back in the Rustbelt works at an insurance company telephone call center that's choc full of PhDs. Because that's the best job they can find.
Well sure, they're in the Rust Belt which is experiencing rural decay. They should move to a coastal city if they want a job where industry is needing large pools of skilled workers.
Because the system can only send one of a small number of pre-defined messages and "my bad... ignore the previous message" wasn't one of them.
This is no doubt a security feature meant to keep erroneous messages from being sent out by mistake.
Look at rural and small town census tracts after the Great Recession -- there was no "after the recession" for them, it's still on. Sure they get lip service, but if you think anyone is going to prioritize the interests of an out-of-work coal miner over a fracking billionaire, consider that these are also the places which are ravaged by the opioid crisis. There's lots of posturing on that issue too, but no action. Drug wholesalers, over the course of two years, shipped nine million pills to a single pharmacy in West Virginia serving a community of less than four hundred people, and no politicians have proposed anything to prevent things like that happening again.
59,000 people are killed in the US by the opioid crisis annually, the equivalent of a 9/11 attack every two weeks, but we must tread carefully lest we harm drug company profits. I submit to you that demonstrates the lower value we put on the lives of those people relative to the lives of bankers.
If we can't be bothered lift a finger to save their lives, why would we save their jobs?
My own theory on this, is that rural America is the new 'inner city'. As industry gets more complicated, desires more efficient supply chains, requires a nearby large pool of skilled employees, there is very little economic reason to be located in small towns that used to be supported by manufacturing companies effectively running company towns. The only real reason will be farming and natural resource mining, which are being greatly automated. Instead of urban decay, we are experiencing rural decay. Those that can are moving out, those left possibly can't, and will probably cry that they don't want handouts, just jobs, just like those suffering from urban decay did after WW2.
If FB were in China, they definitely would not allow the US to write obviously fake news articles.
If they were in China, the Chinese Government would not allow ANYONE to write articles critical of the Government - fake OR true. If your article is pro-Government - fake or true - it would be published. Being fake or true would have nothing to do with it, it would come down to "is it critical of the Government".
It's been a while since I've had a good Chinese friend to explain things as they are in China, but it has less to do with "critical to the Government" as "critical to the social order". Certainly, the government is part of that social order, but they are also interested in so much more. Sex, violence, deviant acts, all would also be moderated. The Government has an idea of how China should be and act and anything/body who noticeably doesn't fit in that idea is a nail to get hammered down (or at best be allowed to go to Hong Kong).
No faster-than-light communication or travel seems to be a very fundamental part of the way the universe works. The laws of physics conspire against our sci-fi dreams.
Really depends on how you define 'faster than light' and which sets of physics you are using. It seems impossible in Minkowski (flat) space because things like mass, energy and time get imaginary. However, in Reinmannian (curved) space, where the general theory of relativity gets used, it depends on the topology. It's already trivial, such as in the case of gravitational lensing, to show that there are two separate lightlike paths between two points, and one gets there in less time, technically 'faster than light' as if goes faster than the other light-like path. Most "sci-fi dreams" that bother to explain things do so in ways that are not forbidden by current physics which is why we get hyperspace, worm-holes, warp drives, etc. even causality would seem to be just the way we prefer (observe) things rather than some actual natural law, except for thermodynamics (entropy) and its relation to the arrow of time.
But after that, with some exceptions (I do like Blondie and the Police) it begans a downhill slide. I think the money men finally replaced all the good old fashioned A&R guys. There wasn't going to be any more Elvises or Ray Charles or Beatles or anything like that.
And thank God. Elvis, Ray Charles, and the Beatles were all old, boring, and needed to die. It wasn't that money men took over the A&R positions, its that they were taken over by younger people, usually hip artists, to find the next new thing, not another old thing. I came in with punk rock and the 80's and interviewed quite a few musicians for my music 'zines, and the same thing was repeated to me over and over, "by the mid 70's, the music scene was dead with just a few big bands playing arena shows and no creativity to be seen." So, people had to do their own music again. Blondie and the Ramones were both first wave punk rock but once the Brit punk thing happened, it got split up into American Hardcore and New Wave, with the later being the more cleaned up, marketable bits.
It isn't that they're more efficient, but that they are wielding more control.
More, or perhaps less? I'm not a good one to ask as I've been off in fringe music genre land since the early 80's, and everybody I know is getting their music from places like Bandcamp. We seem to know that CDs are dying (and albums and cassettes are coming back, but from what I can tell, only as collectables), so have we seen where people are getting their music from these days. I suspect that a combination of being able not only get what you want (rather than what is being given to you) along with a large, easy to acquire back catalog of past music. Meanwhile, there are plenty of mainstream venues that "pop" music can be funneled through that won't be able to fraction like individual tastes can. I really wonder if the pop music just isn't being eaten away by countless fringe genres and artists.
And for those who can't drive anymore (eldery people).
Ya, good luck with that. In my experience it's not finding them a way to get driven around but getting them to admit they can't drive and taking away their keys that is the real hurdle. As it is, when I ride with my dad, I just politely tell him when he is on the wrong side of the road despite his claims he is not.
Yeah it was probably the Reptilians working with the Bilderberg Group and the Clinton Foundation
Get with the times. The Deep State has absorbed all those groups and is the current danger to everything.
I suspect most people come to populated areas for career reasons, not necessarily because they prefer crowds and density.
It seems outsourcing and technology have shifted the jobs to more populated areas for some reason, good or bad. Rural areas recovered slower from the slump, and this is partly why T was elected: they felt slighted.
I believe the shift is partly due to farming automation, and partly due to the fact if your job is easy to do remotely, it's also easy to outsource to a cheap-labor country. Those jobs left here tend to require heavier teamwork and personal interaction. In the late 90's I thought telecommuting would take off and relieve population density. I was wrong.
The things I have seen and read seem to indicate that people decide where they want to live, and then look for a job. How well the economy dose is part of that, but many friends have had the choice of living an average lifestyle in a large city or "live like a king" in a smaller one for less. They have always chosen the large city. The large the city, the more options there are to full fill your interests. The more people there are, the more people you will meet that hold your interests and you find likable. The town I grew up in doesn't have a game store or comic book store. Being a nerd, I had to drive an hour to the big city in high school. As of Christmas when I went back, it doesn't even have a book store any more. Currently, I like to cook. I have a hard time finding kalamata olives, the Wal-Mart superstore sometimes has them, let alone the items I generally shop for at Persian, african and asian grocery stores. Despite a large industry in town, they have a hard time getting workers and it seems to mostly be old people as the population hasn't increased in the thirty years since I left.
Meanwhile, industry has shifted to large centers of population. Not only are industries more complicated than they were fifty years ago and needing more skilled workers, but industry wants them pre-trained and easily replaceable. That means needing to be placed in an area with a large pool of skilled workers. Add in economies of short supply lines and hubs, and even smaller cities are less attractive to industry. Factory towns have been dying out for some time now.
Rural America looks like it's the new inner city. Jobs are leaving. The people that can are leaving and have been for decades. The people that are left are screaming they just want jobs, just like the inner city did decades ago. Like I said, they already seem to be nothing but old people and meth heads when I go back to visit family in several states. It's a trend that is in Japan, America, and Europe. In the end, I suspect in the US, they'll be told to move or accept hand outs to keep them from starving.
Welcome to 1939. Although that Iceland part is confusing still.
Once Germany overran Denmark, they technically controlled Iceland also, which is why the US and UK invaded and took control.
"to fix the overutilization of the wirenet and the underutilization of airnets, bringing balance to the wire-versus-air dichotomy, providing choice in how data should travel in each case...But it can only happen if the web takes a courageous step towards its next level."
What the heck does a 'balanced dichotomy' with taking the 'next bold step' in the evolution of the web?
This reads more like a transcript from a slacker boardroom bingo game than anything useful...
I think the submitter needs to stop watching HBOs "Silicon Valley" stoned...
Actually, sounds like they've been playing the latest version of Shadowrun. The wired internet goes down due to global virus attack and crash, so there was this wireless mesh IoT going on and people decided to just put it into production and shift everything over, because that would be easier than fixing the wired version. Did I mention this was after the paper eating bacteria destroyed all written records?
Deep state
Is that the new catch phrase for people who can't spell Illuminati?