Recent content by spat

As bad as the US government is, China is *far* worse.

If they drop the requirements for new engines, then they kinda have to drop the prohibition on deleting them from old ones too. At least at the federal level.

Should just go back to Persia, I think the locals would prefer that. Then forget all about that unfortunate time they were called Iran.

You're not wrong, but I think limiting the ban to China is going the wrong direction. I think they should expand the ban to anyone who can't certify a fully domestic supply chain.

Isn't that the guy who played Palpatine?

Those were supermicro motherboards assembled in China. They were designed in the US by a US company that outsourced the assembly to China. China made the boards to look identical to the design, but added that back door in a way you can't find it without very sophisticated disassembly of the...

Because literally everyone else (and even probably half the domestic manufacturers is still using parts from China. Do a search for "chinese backdoor" and they're probably the only nationality out there where the first page is all hacking and not porn. Some of it is insidious. Malicious...

One of these came through the local gun shop out here a couple years ago. I was *this* close to buying it. EWGC Custom Glock 17 Gen3 17rd Nintendo Zapper Edition in 9mm (PI1750203-ZAP) EWGC Custom Glock 17 Gen3 17rd Nintendo Zapper Edition in 9mm (PI1750203-ZAP)

Iran would give ISIS a nuke in a heartbeat if they thought it would be detonated in NY or DC. They may dislike each other, but they won't pass up a "death to America" opportunity for it.

Well, I certainly don't accept what the US .gov says without question, their credibility is obviously orders of magnitude better than Iran's.

OMG, another sneak attack....

They were #1. Iran was just easier to take out.

Except for all the violence. That's the fundamental difference between "I just want to be left alone" and "use my pronouns or else".

They seem to have some very senior sources, so it's quite likely it's above the level where that information is aggregated.

Except that logic *does* follow when it comes to "how much are we missing". "Our intelligence on Iran was so bad we didn't know about a missile that could reach London, what else don't we know" is a valid line of reasoning .