Inaccurate.

Broadcoms cease-and-desist to perpetual license holders was in regards to applying updates after the support part of the contract expired. The perpetual licenses are still in effect, frozen at the last update that was included under the support part of the contract - perpetual license holders can extend the support contract separately.

Impossible by human standards. Are you naturally psycho-probed into shitbrainedness or did you have to work hard to achieve your current state, devils of Sark?

Lol. You not only fail nuclear physics but you fail astrophysics as well. The fusion reaction in stars are incredibily inefficient. Stars output a lot of energy because they're massive, on a pound-per-energy unit basis they're not very energetic. But even within those inescapable realities, how do you plan to make a proton-chain reaction work on Earth? You're an embarassment to primates. Drown yourself in the nearest septic tank.

Fusion bombs are not a correct analogy, loserboy nerd: the purpose of the fusion stage in a fission-fusion-fission device is not to produce energy (the yield of the fusion stage is a minuscule percentage of the total yield) but to produce neutrons to fission the U-238 tamper. You fail nucleat physics forever. Die in a nuclear fire.

Except livestock won't be a food source for the commie block people: meat supposedly wrecks the environment and democracy, and stuff. It's nazi food.

UBI is a fantasy. Resources are not free. Energy is not free. You will never get free money. And especially not computah weirdos. Maybe you're not aware of that, but workers universally despise nerds, because they believe (with some degree of accuracy) they are responsible for the loss of jobs and the outsourcing and automation that has eroded most people's ability to make ends meet. Expect no sympathy from the common men. In fact, advertising you're a coder may shorten your life.

Of course. Sierra Club, Aspen Institute, and all the other pressure groups are — like all pressure groups — single minded. There is no commercial/economic activity they support. None. And there never will be.

Fortunately, that's not actually a problem. Such pressure groups are a natural and inevitable consequence of a free society, and they are free to adopt whatever irrational polices they wish. The problem is, nearly our entire ruling class lives in abject fear of any blemish on their Sierra Club report card. They fear this more than any other consequence they can imagine. For them, not being in good standing with Sierra Club is the greatest known evil in our world. If they find themselves unable to attend a dinner party and receive smiles and handshakes from Sierra Club grandees, they are social pariah, on the order of KKK members.

That's a tremendous accomplishment. It's the highly successful product of over a century of cultural engineering. It took a staggering amount of money and influence and patience to achieve this, and now they are the gatekeepers of essentially every aspect of governance in the Western world.

Infinite. This lithium deposit in the environment. There are plenty of lithium deposits outside the environment, so we don't need to permit mining of this for the foreseeable future.

Wow. Had to go back to the 16th century for that one, huh? Until a few years ago, you had grooming gangs using little white girls all over the UK, and no one cared at all. They still don't. Caring means looking at certain unseeable demographic peculiarities.

I guess you live in Bumfuck, Flyover Country, because if you had any clue you would know that "Europe" is a lot of countries with different systems and different cultures. Healthcare quality and access varies a lot. You have countries with free healthcare, which is paid with taxes that end up quite high as a consequence. If you're just interested in being a salaryman, this is all right, but if you are looking to be an entrepreneur this is going to hurt you badly. Mind you, the only thing Europe is unfailingly coherent at is being extremely adverse to individual enteprise, especially if you want to be innovative. "Don't make waves" is the rule and mind you, I have lived in different european countries: there is a good reason the home/personal computer and internet revolution did not take place here. As for the healthcare where it's "free" (tax-paid), it's ok if you want to be on a waiting list for pretty much everything. In other countries you have mandatory insurance which again is all right if you have a good income. If you do not, you're in trouble and with the population growing older and older, health costs are rising every year and with it the insurance costs to the point that in many places this has significantly eroded the buying power of the citizens, and this is causing an economic downturn. You should also remember that "free movement" within the bloc is not absolutely free: you can't move from Spain to Luxembourg and then go on Luxembourg welfare if you can't sustain yourself. It's for work only or if you have enough money.

It's not just that.

Its the US shouting "protectionism" while simultaneously restricting a lot of tech transfer to China in an effort to try and block their development.

If China cant rely on other countries for what they need, because the US forces restrictions on other countries trade with China (see the banning of an European countries chip UV manufacturing technology sale to China), then of course they are going to reduce their reliance in all areas on other countries.

Silicon has grades of quality, and while many beaches are made of silicon, barely any of it can be used for high quality purposes.

Would it? It would be interesting to learn about yet more corruption? More no-show non-profit jobs for politician's children? More "family foundation" contributions?

The only interesting thing here is the mysterious way this can happen despite the lack of whatever "Democrats" "proposed legislation" you have in mind. Also, why you seem to have a need to attribute this to someone other than the people that deserve the credit.

Here tell around Slashdot et al. China is the greenyest of the green goodie greenies building out more solar than everybody everywhere put together times x10!!1 Why would they need or want nuclear power? Why did China commission >30 GW of new coal power and start building out >94 GW of coal power in 2024?

Solar solves all of that. It's cheaper. There is no point to any of these legacy technologies when you can just solar.

I'm told.

Until recently, EVs were exempt from road user charges, but in the past couple of years they have been phased in.

Basically, for petrol vehicles the taxes are built into the fuel costs - but because diesel vehicles are used a lot for non-taxable purposes (eg farm use off of public roads), there is no road user charges on diesel fuel. Instead, NZ has the concept of a Road User Charge fee that you have to buy per 1000KM of usage on the public road - the fee varies depending on type of vehicle and weight of vehicle, so heavier vehicles pay more, as do those who travel more.

EVs weighing up to 3500kg currently have to pay a RUC charge of $76NZD per 1000KM, which is the same for diesel vehicles in the same weight class.