I'm amused by those who imagine that the laws of physics can be defied merely by looking the other way. It makes me ponder how unbelievably moronic humanity is, how pathetic, and how deserving of what it is come.

Indeed. Replacing half a century of collective experience with a new language in an entirely different and far less tested environment to write low level code, where all the memory safety features have to be disabled at all the same failure points where C and assembly have been used... for reasons.

So, in other words, it really isn't any better at bare metal development than C/C++. If you have to direct memory and hardware manipulation in unsafe blocks, then really, it's just the same thing as doing it in C.

My point is that he will be able to pay for a pardon, just like the Biance guy did:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F...

Utterly corrupt pay-to-play pardon scheme by this most corrupt administration. Mindboggling how many pardons he already granted.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F12%2F08...

The Dems should make a lot of noise about this pardon corruption.

It's easy to explain and easy to understand that pay-to-play pardons make a mockery of justice. I think this could cut through similar to the Epstein Files.

And while I am all in for Ukraine, I don't think that this administration's betrayal and, frankly treason, will resonate as much. Fog of war, and a country far, far away, will make this less front and center than these domestic affairs.

I think Epstein, affordability cost and pardon corruption will be the winning issues.

Only 9% of refugees aged between 25 and 54 are unemployed.

SOURCE: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmadeinca.ca%2Frefugee-st...

But thank you for illustrating what MapleMAGA looks like, and for demonstrating that we are fighting the same kind of willful stupidity and hate mongering up here.

We are just lucky that our system doesn't allow for gerrymandering.

If he still has enough to grease Donnie's palm a pardon won't be a problem.

Most corrupt administration in my lifetime.

They had a very good reporting engine when OLAP was a new thing back in the early 2000s. A business model licensing software that actually delivered value to their customers. What a concept!

Now they are a Ponzi scheme dressed up as a company. Another indication how far the US has fallen that the SEC tolerates this kind of BS.

It's quaint that you think the United States is still a republic. It's a monarchy, and Trump's handlers are likely moving currently to make sure that when Vance succeeds him, that the Executive branch and a Congress that will be, through the use of naked force if necessary, remain filled with Republican paper tigers to complement the paper tigers in the Supreme Court, settles into the oligarchy the Framers always really intended it to be. The military will largely be used to recreate the American hemispheric hegemony. The National Guard and ICE will be used as foot soldiers within the US to "secure" elections.

The morons that elected that diseased wicked and demented man have destroyed whatever the hell America was. As a Canadian, I can only hope we can withstand this hemispheric dominance and the raiding of our natural resources to feed the perverse desires of the child molesters, rapists, racists and psychopaths that have already taken control of the US.

Doubtless, I will be downvoted by the remaining MAGA crowd here. You know, the guys that pretended they refused to vote Democrat because Bernie wasn't made leader, but are to a man a pack of Brown Shirts eagerly awaiting the time when they imagine they can take part in the defenestration of American society.

Win9x and Win2k (and the other NT descendants) are fundamentally different operating systems. In general, NT had a much more robust kernel, so system panics were and remain mainly hardware issues, or, particularly in the old days, dodgy drivers (which is just another form of hardware issue). I've seen plenty of panics on *nix systems and Windows systems, and I'd say probably 90-95% were all hardware failures, mainly RAM, but on a few occasions something wrong with the CPU itself or with other critical hardware like storage device hardware. There were quite a few very iffy IDE cards back in the day.

The other category of failure, various kinds of memory overruns, have all but disappeared now as memory management, both on the silicon and in kernels, have radically improved. So I'd say these are pretty much extinct, except maybe in some very edge cases, where I'd argue someone is disabling protections or breaking rules to eke out some imagined extra benefit.

Perhaps you should just grow up.

No amount of AI can make up for the number of interceptors. The entire dome metaphor is stupid and misleading. Layered air defense systems have been around since forever. Slapping the AI and dome label on it doesn't change this one bit. It's just marketing.

The only new quality in air defense are laser based systems such as the British Dragon Fire. But those aren't a dome either.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

OK. So just petty.

And BTW I am based in the "51st state" and advocate that we need a nuclear break out capability because of such nice neighbors as you.

During the Biden admin the US passed several support packages. None during the current administration. The support now falls squarely on Europe alone.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kielinstitut.de%2Fto...

There also has been a bipartisan sanction bill ready in the senate for months now but it won't move unless he gives the go ahead.

The current DimWit "peace plan" obviously originated in the Kremlin and Witkoff couldn't act more like a Russian agent if he tried.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fnews-and-pol...

The NATO operating budget is but peanuts and I am not aware that any member ever missed their dues on those.

The GDP targets were politically set goals. I don't have an issue with Donnie hammering on those, I just wished he would have made clear that this was about overall defense spending.

Of course by abandoning Ukraine he now gives EU countries plenty of motivation to play catch up and to spend more on defense.