Make its output in the teravolt range, and you’ll only have to deal with milliamps.

The point is that he wants data off those disks. The SD card adapter won’t help there.

Well, man up, you voted for this!

Whoever did this deserves to burn in hell.

Not a tornado, but I’ve been on the Autobahn once in rain so heavy that the wipers could not cope with it at the highest setting. Under every bridge crossing the Autobahn, bikers were parked on the hard shoulder. I left the Autobahn and parked for an hour before the torrents ended.

Not experienced personally when it happened, but…

There is that forest valley we pass through on our annual pilgrimage. We have to take a wooden bridge over a small brook there. That water is so small that pilgrims even crossed it by removing shoes and socks and wading through at a time the bridge was broken.

Five years ago, there were heavy rainfalls and flash floods in the area. At the point where that bridge was, the water ran 8m/26ft high. Imagine standing there and looking up the cliffs left and right where once were trees. The bridge has been replaced, but the valley definitely looks different.

In other words, the reasons and explanations were too difficult for the American envoy to grasp.

The main horror is not that it’s closed, but that it is ketchup.

Of course they know. Do you think that was an accident? Whoever did that knew those things and did it on purpose.

In the US? You never know…

It is more than sustainable. For those who profit off this.

Warm water is the best hurricane fodder. The warmer the water, the stronger the storm.

A general health insurance does not rule out private health insurance at all. They can cover things the normal insurance does not.

So why didn’t they keep him? They could have sent them back after doing time.

I don’t deny those problems existed. But in comparison to today’s situation on the net, they were basically irrelevant.

Following that argument, and with the dropping life expectancy in the US, shouldn’t people starting pension earlier?

Kleptocracy.

I’ve been on USENET back then (I wrote software for it), and it was nothing like the Internet of today. The amount of spam was neglectable, and perpetraters were quickly taken care of. Spam started to be a problem with Sanford Wallace (may he fry in the deepest hell!), and that was an email issue.

And the “expert systems” from back then were not even close to modern LLMs. They used rather sparse resources (even the big ones), they were “hand-made”, single problem oriented, and did not even try to look intelligent in any way. And nobody shoved them down your throat at every corner. A typical “expert system” of the time was an OCR system or a statistical analysis software for optimization purposes.

There is a difference between disaster recovery aid and bailout for managment failures.

No, the taxpayer should not have to pay bailouts. But they will, whether they want or not.