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Oh look, stochastic terrorism.

Could you electroplate the rotors?

I’m sure you could but the more armor you stack on the more you reduce the performance.

The Journalist targeted a drone at long range and burned through the body. Make the drone closer and select a less beefy component such as a rotor arm and they go down quicker. BTW if you didn’t catch it in the article maximum effective range is well over 1 mile.

You also have to remember the US Military also isn’t going to allow a Journalist to publish the full capabilities of a fancy new future-tech weapon like this. Gotta leave some surprises in place!

Which is why we’re only seeing this technology being deployed as stationary anti air defense.

Someone should let the US Army know. 😎

The US already has a DEW unit that fits in a UTV (Side by Side) for shooting down smaller drones…and they had it back in 2022.

The US also has a more powerful palletized version that fits in the bed of a pickup truck.

Then there’s the even heavier duty DE M-SHORAD capable knocking down UAVs and Mortar Rounds. It was tested and approved in 2021 and the first units of this are already deployed.

Unless they’re gps guided

These lower power DEW systems don’t target the optics they target propulsion, like the actual rotors themselves. Takes about 1-2 seconds to knock them out on the ISR type drones, maybe a bit longer on the FPV type depending on size.

Being a bulky, heavy weapon with a reliance on a lot of electricity

The SK version is bulky and heavy because it’s their 1st Gen however other countries already have versions that are significantly smaller, lighter, and fully mobile.

Plus it is huge and unweildy.

The US already has a DEW unit that fits in a UTV (Side by Side) for shooting down smaller drones.

The US also has a more powerful palletized version that fits in the bed of a pickup truck.

The South Koreans are just a few years behind is all.

That’s where they work the best. Seriously.

For fucks sake…not again.

DO most employers want to get this right?

Since MOST companies are small and privately held I’d say yeah, most of them probably do. The issue is mostly with large publicly traded companies and because they have so many employees their cheating is what drives the statistics you quoted.

That doesn’t mean a small company won’t ever try to cheat because they will, I’m just saying that the smaller companies who are closer to their workers and don’t have “shareholders” are far less likely to shiv someone over their OT.

I’m willing to bet that they somehow locked themselves into using 8 inch disks in the early to mid 80s if not earlier, when the 5¼ discs were still new-ish and the 3½ were brand-new or not even available yet.

You nailed it. The contract was awarded in June of 1988 and the ship was being designed in 87/88. That means the targeting system was almost certainly designed in 85/86. A time when 8" floppies were still prevalent in Industrial, Commercial, and Military systems.

There was quite the controversy around the F123 back in the day.

One thing to remember is that “commissioned” means built and on the water. You can see in the Der Spiegel article linked up above that the actual design work on the vessel itself was happening back in 87/88 which means the targeting system was probably designed in 85/86…and now the choice of 8" floppy doesn’t seem nearly so odd.

but 5.25” had been standard for years.

For civilian use but perhaps not in the West German Military. I say West Germany because the ships were ordered in June of 1989 and the Berlin Wall didn’t come down until November.

Europe in general, and Germany in particular, had some very peculiar technology quirks and companies back then.

Edit: It’s worth noting that while the contract was awarded in June of 1988 the ship design was being done in 87/88 which means the targeting system was probably designed in 85/86 when the 8" floppy was still prevalent, especially in Industrial and Commercial applications.

The easy way around the problem is to tax loans that aren’t being used to purchase an asset. This is the “living expenses” loan hack that the ultra-wealthy use and it absolutely needs to be removed.

Your example is a bit different because the wealthy person is selling stock to make the mortgage payment. In this case they should already be paying capital gains taxes on those sales. If they aren’t then figure out why and fix the tax code.

We can tie the two situations together by considering the annual sum of all stock sales and non-asset purchasing loans as regular income and thus subject to income tax, minus any capital gains taxes already paid.

That easily closes both of the common loopholes that the ultra-wealthy use while leaving us normal people untouched. The ultra-wealthy would suddenly be paying income taxes on the money they are spending to maintain their lifestyle, same as the rest of us are.

“Enshittification” isn’t simply raising prices and moving features between service tiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Walmart sells ammunition in more than half of their stores.

The FTC has already started the process of blocking it.

The issue is this massive monopoly, not really being mitigated by the anti trust regulators

The FTC has already sued to block this, what more is there?

Yeah, it was pretty obvious that this was going to happen sooner or later. It doesn’t meet the definition of “enshitification” though. The platform, Xbox Live, isn’t losing functionality it’s just getting more expensive. There’s also no obvious shift to favor business customers.

It’s a pretty standard price hike with a small side helping service tiers changing features.

I’m not HAPPY about it of course.

I guess that’s an argument for also having a wealth tax.

I think it would be easier if they rewrote the tax code so that everything (loans, stock sales, etc) counted as regular income and was subject to taxes.