Duh. Most of the world has been through economic collapse to one extent or another within living memory, they have some clue what to do and will recover. The last time that happened in the US was the Great Depression, and that generation is almost gone. Americans are not going to react well to not being able to buy food, much less the latest gee-gaw.

We have a ticketing system with multiple levels of importance, levels 3, 4 and 5 are in common use. Level 2 people get paged, and if the ticket isn't addressed quickly the pages rather quickly escalate to VP level. Level 1 and the executives get paged, it's only supposed to be used in situations where the company is losing large amounts of money quickly. There are multiple prompts attempting to alert the user what they're about to do, including one that flashes "ARE YOU SURE?"

We had a security guard who got annoyed that the access he had requested hadn't been granted in 4 hours (SLA is 6), and escalated his ticket directly from 5 to 1. The CEO was not amused, and his employer almost lost the contract for guard staff the next year.

A programmer left and created a Level 1 ticket saying essentially, "Hey, I've had a great time the last five years and learned a lot, now I'm going to a new job and just want to thank everyone responsible." Something like 150 people got paged, from the CEO down.

Colombia was supposed to be a prototype, to be retired after a decade or less and replaced with an improved version.

You forget Congress, the principle reason why Webb isn't replacing Hubble right now. Also the principle reason why if Webb doesn't open up as it should NASA will have to abandon it

Meanwhile Congress gave the almost-unknown National Reconnaissance Office so much money that they had two Hubble-class telescopes sitting in a nitrogen-filled warehouse for over a decade just as spares for an unknown number of others we the taxpayers paid for but are not allowed to know about, until they were finally declared obsolete. After NASA had scraped up the money to receive them Congress has slow-laned the plan to put them to use so badly that a decade later they still haven't been able to be launched.

The reason the Space Shuttle used 486 cpu in its computers until the end was because the die size was large enough to minimize bit flips caused by radiation. The Pi would be toast in a day or two.

Congress is in the way, a "fast turnover" is not in the cards. The space shuttle Colombia was supposed to be prototype, to be replaced with a new version incorporating improvements and lessons learned after 10 years, instead the rocket scientists in Congress continued to insist that it fly until it failed.

And all of that is dwarfed by the bottomless pit of useless military spending. Do we really have to spend more than the next 8 countries combined (6 of whom are allies) on a military that hasn't actually won a war since 1945? (Grenada doesn't count.)

For $2700? Good luck hitting that price point for the next two or three decades.

You don't understand, it's just fine for US or European companies to build on the technology developed worldwide over the centuries, but if the Chinese want to build an airplane they need to reinvent the airfoil all on their own or else they'll just be simple copycats! I'm sure they think that if Unitree didn't rediscover electricity, batteries, and motors independently then they're just copying someone else's work.

It may shock you to learn this, but the Untied States is not the only country on the planet that China trades with. Your solution has an easily predictable result:
1) US bans all trade with China
2) China stops propping up the US dollar
3) US economy implodes
4) Chinese economy takes a strong hit for ~5 years while they redirect their marketing
5) Chaos reigns in the US with armed gangs ruling cities
6) China continues being China, just like the last 5,000 years

Of course it does, it's an electromechanical quadruped mimicking biological quadrupeds, if it looked dramatically different that would indicate they did something really wrong.

This is pretty much the ignorant bigotry that I expected to see when I posted this article, but I thought, "What the heck, some people will think it's cool" and posted it anyway. It never fails to amaze me that some people are such racist pricks that they think 1/4 of the world's population can't have a single person capable of an original thought, only the European-descended have such a talent. You really should take your 1985 mindset and toss it in the shredder, look around at the world as it is today and say, "There's a lot to learn, I'd better get with it." Doubt you're capable of it though, which is sad.

Yes, and Republicans not only milk the problems, but they're very good at creating them to start with.

Gen IV reactors can burn the waste of earlier reactors, and their own waste is much easier to deal with.

That's why you should only use tunneling algorithms that encrypt the application data with modern or validated ciphers, such as AES if you're doing illegal shit.

FTFY. Your other conversations really just aren't that interesting to anyone else.

Only from the US, I don't think any other countries had that restriction. Even then it was widely ignored, anyone in the world with access to MSDN at that time could just download IE with 128-bit encryption for example.