Yahoo weirdly has a better story via bloomberg. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews... It appears they got something, "At least one company has confirmed that data from their Oracle systems has been stolen, according to one of the people." So I don't think complete BS. Other things in the bloomberg/yahoo describe a bit how the hack happened via oracle exploit. Too soon to claim real/fake I think. And if they really got some pee-pee tapes or epstein sized data, the exec's companies will just pay and we will never know.

I thought the deal was at least 1/2 your parts have to be made in the US or no cookies for you. So as you say, they'll have the Intel fab make a bunch of trivial parts for pennies each, and just flush them. Cheaper than paying 2X tariff on those 100 dollar parts. You can always game the system. Trump of all people should understand that. He was excellent at it. Well his tax accountant was, donnie was clueless beyond "bring me back a return with a 5% tax rate or less, or YOUR FIRED"

I think more complex with humans though. I agree the more successful at procreation wins, Not so sure it is all about resource availability. Wars are often fought over things besides resources amongst humans. I think we are the only species that is known to kill for things like ideology(religion). And we've had some doozies over it. Other species do (and so do we) kill & maim over who gets to have sex though. That is pretty common.

And I kind of get why. Also from memory, there was no place to change it. I thought it ran around a hill. Short of redoing the entire section of freeway, unfixable.

Kind of like here in Austin the 2 level 35 thru downtown. Very poorly designed. The bottom level has the short ramps, and considering it was built way after Pasadena, no excuse there, and the upper deck has no exits, so crashes mean wreckers take forever to clear. It is the problem with tunnels as well, which is what they are proposing next. Its like they never learn in some places. And of course tunnels add the air becomes an inferno if a crash with a fire happens. So why make it better when the obvious thing to do is make it worse at 10X the price. I get it though, east of 35 has been gentrified, and now we can't have a barrier between the east/downtown anymore.

Yes, it seems the Chinese are now competing against each other instead of the Euro's/US. Who will win, Xiaomi or BYD? EV racing has come a long way since the plaid sputtered out at the track.

When I lived in LA, there was one on the Pasadena that I never figured out what the road designer was thinking. If I remember right, you twist around a tight curve and merge onto the freeway 10' later. Death trap.

Mine was accurate. I don't take kindly to insults. And how would YOU characterize, "Shove your soapbox up your ass."?

If you look up the chain one more post the convo is about a job. Unless this person in Pittsburgh wants seasonal work at very low wages, his living near farmland is pedantic at best.

Have you read your HOA CCR's? My bet is no. If you want the house, you take the conditions. Further in the US, anything built after around 2000 is in an HOA. I'm in a small neighborhood, 17 houses. You'd think HOA, wtf? Well, we got one. And if you think anyone on the street has read them, think again. Mine is pretty benign as their is no fine mechanism in it. Fortunate. EVERYONE and I mean everyone would have been fined by now. Just the no more than 2 cars in the driveway would get most people everyday. And I have tried to get it dissolved. Weirdly, those same people with 2 cars in the drive every day are the vociferous voices to not dissolve. Everyone is afraid someone is going to paint their house purple. And even after I explain there is no fine mechanism, whatcha gonna do? Head shrugs.

As middleroad also said, this is the answer to the rhetorical question. There is a new big dog at the bowl, and it is ravenous. And the owner is letting the big dog have all it wants.

In the US, you almost certainly do not own the mineral rights. Worse, if they are discovered on "your" property, the owner of the mineral rights can come in and start mining while you live there. It is usually in the fine print of your title. I think the "Bush" family owns mine and I live in a very urban area. Those rights go back generations.

Heck in the US, your HOA can take away your property for hanging christmas decorations too soon. Welcome to America.

So in winter, you plan on traveling south and living in a tenement while working the fields? I don't think you understand the farm worker job.

I'd add one more thing to hammer the point. For those on /. think about your food budget, and I'm talking about if you ate at home and bought your food. Eating out adds dramatically to food costs. What % of your budget would go to food. I know for me personally it may be near the bottom of my monthly costs. My health insurance is double to triple food per month as just one example. Our high standard of living depends on not spending much on food, so we can spend it on other stuff, including eating out, where someone else does the work of food prep/cleanup.

I've built many of my own "remote" control stuff. I do have a cloud server with a static IP so I can get my hone dynamic one though. Majority would not have that advantage so "home" IP could be impossible to get while away. Pi's and beaglebones make great little controllers.