Financial stress. Go take a closer look at the crime stats that right wing racists like to hammer the black community with. Then adjust them for poverty rates in the community. All of a sudden the racial divide in violent crime goes away. If anything, poor white men are the most violent, but not by enough to really be significant. The driving factor, by around 10 or 15 to 1, is poverty.

We’re seeing declining standards of living across the country, while technology hides the true depths of it. The whole, you can’t be poor if you have a wide screen TV and a refrigerator, is almost true. It’s just enough to make it look like having no bargaining power, being locked into your zip code, buried in debt, and renting everything you own, somehow represents wealth.

Because the stored patterns have the where, not the how fast. What would come out is a brain dead corpse.

The buffer contains the stream(s) before being sent to an emitter. It’s not a hard drive, it’s a container.

They don’t create matter, they create an energy matter stream that moves the person molecule by molecule. How it happens is scifi magic, but it’s not the same as creating new atoms, which would require every replicator to have the energy to obliterate a planet.

They really needed to listen to their enterprise customers. Windows Phone could have easily taken over as the ‘corporate phone’, if it had any integration at all. With the side benefit that their corporate customers also employ the developers that could build out the apps they needed to create the marketplace.

Instead they tried to take on Apple and Google, in an end user space that had already been thoroughly saturated, with a product that was barely on par.

Liquid in the scientific sense, it’s more of a paste. Lithium hexafluorophosphate(aka LiFPO) mixed with Dimethyl carbonate or Diethyl carbonate which are just there to float the Lithium between the plates without letting it burst into flame from any humidity that might happen to reach in.

I did, you did not read what I wrote.

You failed at reading comprehension.

They could claim it’s for easier reporting by dropping WhatsApp, getting rid of texts is blatantly about preventing paper trails.

Text messages have to be turned over for those pesky subpoena’s. Can’t be leaving evidence laying around.

Totally depends on the task. If you do the same type of things, you’re always going to use the same type of tool.

Personally, I tend to get into very different projects. The table router is great whenever the work piece is small enough to lift. I have a second that I use for plunging and on a jig for scarfing, and a trim router that gets used on counters, tables, and bulkheads.

Times are tough, best we can do is lead.

Going exactly as planned. Should be bankrupt before the next election if it stays on schedule.

They’re the bunker buster for infantry advancement. You can’t keep them in front all the time, they’d get taken out. But being able to blast and smash fortified positions during an infantry engagement can decide a battle. They can also give short chase to escaping mobile units.

On a defensive front, they’re a bunker that can move whenever your own hard points get bombed out. Providing cover to maintain a position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEHFsO-XSI

I’d explain, but he does it better.

Schools are far too based on attendance, and often legally can only count kids with a butt in their seat at school. Even into college, progress is based more on appearance than ability.

It leads to crappy teaching, and draconian absence policies.

To be fair, forcing kids into school drastically cuts down on child abuse. So there is a logic behind it, just taken a bit too far.

China has probably gotten more from their various intel ops in the US supply chain. There isn’t a lot they could get in the field without risking serious repercussions.

Grab any modular electronics, charter a boat to the Bahamas, divert to Cuba after stashing them on a deserted island along the way. Use a thumb drive of pictures to bargain for the gps coordinates to China.

Unless I thought of something better along the way.

It’s not that he doesn’t care. It’s the goal. Killing the credibility of social media is a top priority for authoritarians. They can’t have people talking to each other outside of the shaped narratives delivered by their media companies. That’s why companies spend so much on bot farms, shills and influencers. In order to shape public narratives when they can’t control the media.

That’s the neat part, it doesn’t.

Which is the problem when it reaches other healthy cells. That’d be the next stage of research.