yeah, and somebody mounting i.e. some sort of audio/video equipment might make a mistake of putting flammable wire through firewall, while a software engineer in a different field (i.e. embedded or network firewall) might get lawful action in case of a design flaw
Licenses and reprimands are not bulletproof as those are often portrayed: take 737MAX for example, or Ford Pinto, or bridges, which fail every day as it seems
I've always thought americans had an amendment specifically for situations when voting does not work
I think it's a great illustration of complicated cybernetics at work, i.e. its not enough to give people the right to enact change and own the instruments for it: homeostatic forces will preserve status quo no matter how many firearms are circulating. Can't really think of a clean approach to this predicament though
90% killrate might be a little bit of a stretch, but the problem is real, although not for all locations and not for all types of vehicles -- small civilian SUVs and various humvee-like trucks don't have that problem: more agility and speed. Most importantly, however, is the tuning of a CNN aborad autonomous killer drone, those can figure out the military 6x6 target as it is sufficiently large and distinct to be targeted autonomously, but for smaller trucks its still a problem
So the answer for troop transport and some of the logistics shifted onto smaller vehicles, although the tendency have been there the whole war -- the key innovation was the use of small drones for recon, which basically lifted fog of war and increased kill chain speed for inter-unit operation, i.e. infantry calls an artillery strike precisely on target and from the comfort of a pillbox equipped with a large screen to monitor feeds from 5-10 recon drones hovering 24/7 over allied positions
on foot (not 20km, usually its something like 3-5km AFAIK, 20km is the width of both sides strongpoints + no-mans-land between), or on some fast and agile one-way craft: motorcycles, buggies, e-bikes
the key idea is that you need something which can get you onto the enemy position either before hunter drones take off, or that a drone won't take out the whole complement, hence the uselessness of trucks
going on foot is not really due to the human wave nature of the attacks, but rather its like WW1 stosstruppen - they use whatever cover they can find and a squad of 4 on foot is much easier to go through bushes used as cover or when weather is not suitable for flying
of note here is that trucks were not really used for transport on the tactical level on the frontline, however lately (with drones from destinus) logistics runs in the rear have also become a problem even 100km+ deep - thats where the 90% killrate figure comes from
not really, the problem here is not that the government is involved per se, but that there is practically no involvment at all as the government is directly controlled by a clique of businessmen
so instead of involvment proper there is leverage somebody tries to pass onto competitors
I can't really even be smug about the framing anymore, this is like a developer deflecting blame for a bug by saying "oh I don't know, it was cursor/claude"
oh of course, to discredit both his least favourite idea and socialism together the yuppie always picks the most outdated strawmen
the thing is, any ideology whatsoever (capitalism, rationalism, communism, religion - anything) has the utopian asymptotic unachievable point, its the inherent feature of the ideology and human mind in search of a sublime itself + some rituals around forming common knowledge
I haven't read the passage fully, but if it does make a point that the current ai crowd invokes the "you have to try harder" argument for coercion and therefore the ai push is invalid -- that passage in itself is irrelevant, you are adressing the wrong flaws, not that of the ideology itself, but only the one you personally does not like: an honest move, but a mediocre one.
"Tehran oil sites on fire as Iran exchanges strikes with Israel and US – video report"
You know, the usual independent and objective framing - its "Iran exchanges strikes", not "Israel and US started a war of aggression amid negotiations and bombed Tehran" or whatever
isn't without its issues of course, but you know, desperate times call for desperate measures