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That’s the global pop, not the UK’s.

The UKs pop should dropping, if not for immigration which the UK can control if they wanted too (being an island surrounded by rough seas and rich neighbors).

And how much does a drone and a drone hour cost?

They’re great to muscle little countries around.

Well glass tastes better, so sure.

But the benefits are not obvious. If we assume diesel as a substitute good for plastic [1] then the additional weight of transporting glass could cause more waste (by burning additional diesel)

So, if a commmunity doesn’t have a local wash and refill center, it’s not obvious that plastic wins.

[1] you can make diesel from plastic (not easy, but probably easier than recycling mixed plastic). Assuming the plastic will go to the oceans otherwise, that’s a pretty good thing to do since diesel will get burned anyway and plastic is diverted from the seas.

Thnx. Now that Nekochan is dead I’m really lost in the Irix world.

Btw, do you know if there’s a way to make the boot drive a network drive (not the install drive)? I thought I remembered the post-doc in the lab keeping a half dozen O2s alive w/out replacement drives. But I might be wrong

I used an old SGI Fuel (700Mhz, 2GB Ram) as my daily driver @ work until 2013. I would rdesktop to use heavy websites, but other than that it rocked.

Stopped using it because I graduated and I didn’t want to pay the electricity bill or keep a jet engine running at night (light sleeper)

If anyone here had successfully converted an SGI to a fanless SSD unit, let me know!

The Russians have cut their military budget.

The neocons assume the Russians can’t match the US for “tactical” nuclear capability and will stay put if, say, a small tactical nuke is used against an ally.

But the Ruskies have also been very clear that they are not going to spend insane amounts of money on an arms race. They’re stance is to go for the big fireworks early on in a potential conflict.

Also, don’t underestimate their arms industry. Their GDP is low, but their PPP GDP is not. They can build a twin engine fourth or fifth gen fighter at a fraction of the cost it takes us. A lot of the research for weapons has already been paid for by the USSR. They’re the second largest arms exporter brining in cash.

Also their weapons philosophy is to favor brutal efficiency. Their ABM over Moscow doesn’t try to hit a bullet with a bullet. It just set off a nuke in the skies over Lithuania.

Finally, weren’t the sanctions supposed to have bankrupt the Russians by now? They have very low debt, huge reserves (in Au, not their adversary’s paper).

Never mind balancing the budget; we can’t even pass a budget. The fed is forced to keep interests rates near zero because otherwise interest payments on a > 100% GDP debt become ruinous.

An arms race is something no one needs

1. The US never bothered to prove their allegations 2. The US’s ABM batteries are more likely to be afoul of the INF 3. The Ruskies invited the US to explain what concerned them about their missles - they never answered. 3. The US - particularly the folks in charge now - has a history of withdrawing from arms control treaties (see ABM) 4. The US has a history of telling ridiculous lies about arms control (See ABM treaty, and how the Ruskies called all the US’s bluffs) 5. The US has already started attacking another treaty (weapons in space ban).

So the US doesn’t supply proof. Has a history of tearing treaties. Has been almost surely in violation of the INF for some time. Is poking holes in the last few remaining treaties.

But don’t worry about Armageddon: w/out an arms treaty, launching the thousands of obsolete ICBMs loaded with tungsten carbide bearings into orbit solves any countries’ security concerns vis a vis space ;)

That’s really the genius of Trumps foreign policy. He knows the heft of the USA and the spinelessness of EU leaders.

Which really obviates the only real reason to have the EU - combined, all the EU countries are stronger in any field than the US (or China).

That being said the US is a basket case. Sure bully the EU. It’ll work today, maybe ten years from now.

But the US is a failing concern, with a completely rotten and corrupt ruling class that lead ppl to vote for an oversized Twinkee for president. World wide hegemony is done in twenty years.

“ I guess things might be a bit tougher at the base where they house the American nukes“

You’d think, but if an 80 old nun can get in and et a selfie with a nuke, it can’t be too hard ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Rice

Hmm the BBC didn’t mention Kosovo, which, after Cyprus, is maybe the most geopolitically significant quasi-state