I figured it was the Gundam brand they sold on Amazon. I was very satisfied with my GQUUUUUUX brand Space Battleship Bismarck. 30% cheaper than better known space battleships.

What will get manufactured locally will be the things where there’s enough margin in it. Nothing to do with how vital or desirable it might be to make locally.

Is vampirism or zombification an option?

I tried pulling in the theming from there, and while it works miracles, I still want to do the three-headed dragon meme:

• Real Motif apps
• Qt5 apps (where there’s a Motif-like theme baked in)
• GTK apps, which don’t honour the same fonts and the theme is far more divergent from the “real deal”

There are a few other “Solaris 9” and “Perl Tk” lookalike themes that also come close, but they’re all sabotaged by GTK’s lack of bitmap font support (The old bitmap Helvetica is my go-to UI font)

I think those are Hungarian banknotes.

Heads will roll if my LS-120 drive stops working!

The wild ancestors of gerbils (jerboa) would count.

Coherent theming, although you’ve hardly had that since Windows 98.

I’ve applied themes to make Xaw, Qt, and GTK software more Motif-like, but the GTK ones seem spotty and the Qt theme doesn’t work for Qt6, and fonts are inconsistent.

It’s also a huge economic opportunity that America is pissing away to China.

Why don’t they own this messaging? 'We’re lining you up the next trillion dollar industry full of lucrative jobs that will be right where the market is heading for the next 20 years" is important, especially if you don’t have same-day relief available for rent and food costs.

Would thry?

The ticket seller doesn’t care if there’s an empty hall, he got paid early on.

You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

What about inviting them in?

Their system leans heavily on being a pariah. A core tenet of the Juche philosophy is extreme self-reliance. Remember that Korea had been a puppet state of Imperial Japan, and they can see that even today the South has to permit a foreign military presence and kowtow to American political whims. They’re willing to forego a lot to retain control over their fate.

Make them a part of the international community and provide a path where they can maintain sovereignity without keeping arms against the world, and it becomes harder to justify the hostility.

Yes, this means the current leaders endure and will get fat off of graft, but on a longer scale it promises boons for their people: development, integration, and a motive to de-escalate both because there’s a gravy train to keep running and because there’s less of a “you don’t have to be as paranoid when everyone isn’t out to get you” factor.

The S1’s claims are not validated.

The general consensus is the top recorded speed for a steam locomotive is right around 200kph, by LNER class “A-4” No. 4468 (later British Rail 60022). The effort cracked one of its cylinders.

There is a group trying to build a new example of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s class T-1 (a slightly smaller engine superficially similar to the S1, but built in larger quantities) with the intent to try to break that record.

I didn’t. It just looks like the fair number of Cisco (and the occasional Dell) 10/100/sometimes Gigabit switches I’ve seen in junk shops.

I bought a nifty blue Netgear 24-port one mostly because I’m more willing to buy junk from the Humane Society shop, but then decided it was too loud (40mm fans) and went to 2.5G (with smaller fanless switches) instead.

Old Cisco gear shows up in the thrift shops here. I think you can’t even give 10/100 kit away.

American security guarantees are the only thing propping up that stupid narrative.

They’ve always made the claim “TSMC will blow up their own fabs in the event of an invasion”. So, they’re dependent on a lose/lose spite play. If an independent Taiwanese state survives, they’ve demolished one of its major economic engines. If, as far more likely, it falls, everyone involved gets locked up or worse for gross sabotage, and you bought, what, 5 years of global economic distress (oh, no, it might pop the AI bubble…) before everyone else gets back to par with your top-line process? Or maybe you successfully blackmailed bigger and more equipped militaries to fight WWIII for you, and even in the unlikely event Taiwan survives the carnage intact, irradiated corpses buy very few semiconductors.

If America washed their hands of the situation, they’d pretty quickly switch to angling for a deal, perhaps expecting that they’d go for a HK-style “one country/two systems” play, which continues to let them make out like bandits. HSBC doesn’t seemed to have suffered too badly after reunification…

GE no longer makes appliances. It’s a licensed out name now.

I figure their star finally fell when they stopped making locomotives. What kind of giant industrial conglomerate does that?! EveN Hitachi, a brand mostly known for marital aids, makes locomotives!

Not necessarily precise, just a more resonant presentation. She didn’t have a killer sound bite. If details actually mattered, we’d be in the closing months of the second Warren administration after all.

I literally saw scads of signs saying “Trump - Low Prices/Kamala - High Prices” and one that specifically claimed “Want $2.15 gas, vote Trump.” She didn’t counter well at the slogan/vibes level. There was no “Harris/Walz/$2-per-pound ground beef” signage.

It’s also an audience problem. The Democrats, as incumbents, were stuck with higher expectations. They couldn’t pad their numbers with low-hanging “I just want different” and “let’s burn it all down” crowds, so they have to chase voters who are harder to activate.

The message was weak though. The policy was fairly limited-- like limits on gouging in emergencies-- and not expressed in terms of a tangible achievable metric. And it’s not like we have direct economic control that would allow for specific deliverables-- how exactly are you goung to get Kroger to bend the knee? A fine that’s 12 seconds of their turnover?

‘I’ll get the 99-cent Taco Supreme back’ (or the $2 gallon of milk/dozen eggs) would have helped-- a graspable specific rallying cry. “We’ll tax gougers back into the stone age” maybe too. ISTR there’s some rightwing scumball in Canada who achieved most of his political rise by literally campaigning on $1-per-can beer. Again, a tangible goal, and one more achievable because there’s direct state controlled alcohol sales in much of the country…

While prestigious, I have to think the type of lawyer who wants Trump for a client is hardly goingbto want to do heavy government work for a civil servant’s salary. Surely there’s way more cash in skip-and-falls and “get six divorce punches on your loyalty club card and the 7th is free”.

What I hate about the current situation is that there’s no room for “Russia is a significant power that won’t suddenly vanish, so maybe if we can avoid being at complete loggerheads with them 24/7, it might avoid decades of tension and expensive military grandstanding.”

You must either fellate Putin or demand the entire 82 billion square kilometres of the Russian state turned to glass. No other options. It worries me that any more nuanced takes on Russia get pushed into the “Kremlin talking points” file.

Not that she isn’t a screwball all on her own, but we could use a less militaristic take here.