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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    I don't think the quantum computing will be built into the actual hardware, in this case a tank. But the tank will be connected back to a command centre where the computation can be done and fed back to the tank.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,906 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Not a chance I'd go there now. Imagine all the Trump Whatsapp content that did the rounds over the past few years? Many of us could have relatively harmless stuff on our social media history.

    Unlikely they'd have the resources to trawl through everyone's records but still it would make for an anxious experience and flying to the US under normal circumstances can be stressful enough.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,194 ✭✭✭eire4


    Its utterly risible too all this authoritarian nonsense coming from the very crowd lecturing us about free speech. As with so many things coming from the current US regime lots of projection involved.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Well, the exact comment from the Chief of staff of the Army is here, timestamped.

    "We are going to give it to a Tank Platoon…It is modular…We can update the  Active Protection System…the engine …drastically reducing the weight…We have a company working on quantum computing to get the weight down…”

    I'm suspicious of the idea of offloading processing power from the tank to another facility, it adds bandwidth usage (as well as being a point of vulnerability), I think they're trying to put it onto the tank itself. The only other thing I can think of is using quantum computing to redesign the tank, but I'm not sure that makes much sense to me either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭thomil


    To be honest, using quantum computers to design the tank, or rather the materials used for the tank, makes a lot more sense. Materials research, together with research into protein structures, pharmaceuticals, etc., is one of the areas where quantum computers can have a real advantage. Having said that, I'm not sure how many qubits the major quantum computers can already work with. Either way, enough quantum physics for now, my head is fried enough as it is…😵‍💫

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭freebritney


    I'm not blaming anything on anyone, I'm perfectly happy with my life and I can understand people wanting to be happy also. We're a tiny country on the edge of Europe with limited resources so we cannot take the worlds poor in here. Trump is an odious human being but that doen't change the fact that over 70% of people in Ireland think their is too many people coming into the country. Only a fool would try to stop an overflowing bath without turning off the tap first.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Quantum computing is 0K.

    [RANT] As in Zero Kelvin. The best description I've heard is "physics project" They don't work at -271 C How you keep stuff that cool without constant power is an exercise in futility.

    They may have been recent developments but AFAIK the best real world performance from real hardware was to work out the prime factors of 35 ie. 5 and 7.

    Simulators don't count because they are run on non-quantum computers. You might as well claim that one of the CIE 071 locomotives held the diesel speed record even though it was in the back of an Antonov at the time.

    The whole thing reminds me of Best Defense (1984)

    "A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later."

    Eddie Murphy is listed as "Strategic Guest Star". ie it was such a turkey that they filmed a separate story set at a later time in an effort to make it better. They improved it to an IMDB of 3.9

    [/RANT]



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,289 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,077 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    It's more industry self-licking ice cream cone bullshit. From the same chancers like Andruil, who are pushing the AI powered helmet system. Throwing buzzwords at the Pentagon to get on the Defense dollars teat. Given the Army specifically is a serial failure in adopting any news major system, I wouldn't be holding my breath.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,541 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    That $12bn for farmers? Ehh. Looks like not enough. As one commenter said, start farming in Argentina, they get more subsidy from the US:

    "

    US farmers say Trump's $12 billion aid package won't cover losses

    "

    (https://www.reuters.com/business/us-farmers-say-trumps-12-billion-aid-package-wont-cover-losses-2025-12-10/)

    For some reason Reuters doesn't work embedded.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,194 ✭✭✭eire4


    They are certainly one group of Americans who deserve all the worst given it seems like most US farmers voted for the current US regime. I have absolutely zero sympathy for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,709 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    No expert myself of course either but I think quantum computers, if you wanted to make an analogy with our normal classical computers are not even at the mid to end WW2 (i.e. Colossus, Eniac) stage of development as regards design and build of something that will work reliably to solve practical problems they are suited for.

    They have lab test beds, and expensive + complex giant computers with low numbers of qubits. Maybe they could be in a big room or several rooms somewhere running calculations that can be of use somehow to the military in battle (dunno??) but they are a long way from being mounted in the tanks or aircraft.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,541 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Oh, agreed. The 'farmers' in question are typically very wealthy and have lived off government largesse for generations. This video captures it quite well:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    "we cannot take the world's poor in here."

    Details. How many are we talking in? What are our international obligations?

    "over 70% of people in Ireland think their is too many people coming into the country"

    Details. Where is that statistic coming from? And where are they are getting the information from to base their opinion on?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    Flood the zone. Complete nothing burger.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,350 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Peak case of the exceptionalism America, and specifically Trump, thinks it holds.

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-sanction-icc-2674387107

    Bold mine.

    In February, just a month after taking office for his second term, Trump announced US sanctions against ICC officials following the issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli government leaders for their role in the military assault and humanitarian embargo on Gaza, characterized by a United Nations investigative body and numerous human rights groups worldwide as a genocide.

    The unnamed official who spoke to Reuters said there “is growing concern” that after Trump leaves office in January of 2029, “the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them. That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”

    According to the source, the solution is for ICC members states “to change the Rome Statute to make very clear that they don’t have jurisdiction” over US heads of state, including Trump, for any possible crime no matter its nature or where it takes place.

    This is exactly how bad Trump is for the world and not just America. The actions of his administration against the ICC was bad enough, now, they think they can dictate to the court that it amends a statute that the US is not a signatory of to prevent Trump from being prosecuted for war crimes.

    Guess this could be taken as a sign that they know what is going down in the Caribbean is definitely illegal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    Americans in 2024: We want America to be affordable.

    Trump in 2024: I will make America affordable again.

    Americans in 2024: We will vote for Trump to make America affordable again.

    Americans in 2025: Prices are still too high

    Trump in 2025: Affordability is a Democrat scam.

    Anyone who is still a Trump supporter is too stupid or too brainwashed to see that he is nothing more than a con-man.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭mountain


    I thought the Austrians would be happy to keep going there….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭everlast75




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭freebritney


    Your right, the headline from the Irish Buisness Post entitled "3 out of 4 voters back crackdown on migrants" could be about anything.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,811 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    BBC making the point that wars have started filling actions at sea.

    And oil futures are spiking - recent fall in US gas prices at risk.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,289 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Has RFKs brainworm hopped across into Trump's head. The entire press conference today was blithering nonsense



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,988 ✭✭✭Patser


    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy07yk63x80t

    Well he's just seized a tanker off coast of Venezuela... Why? Don't know, he'll tell everyone later, but its a good reason and biggest tanker ever seized.

    Just trying to provoke a response from Venezuela to justify action at this point. If Venezuela do anything to retaliate, the US will pummel them. If not, they'll just keep slowly escalating things



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,988 ✭✭✭Patser


    Able to intercept and seize a tanker, but not able to stop drug boats except by drone fired missiles...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I've been nothing but respectful in my replies.

    If you can't manage the same, jog on.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,350 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Look at Mossad, it was able to get pager bombs in to the possession of tens of key Hezbollah leadership and then activate those simultaneously but the only way for it to challenge Hamas was to kill 70K people and level the Gaza strip.

    Truth is determined by the position from which you are observing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    Those pager bombs were indiscriminate, there were thousands of them set off the same time and it didn't matter who was near them at the time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Post the full article.

    There are too many posters on here that link to articles that they haven't even read themselves and get caught out when details within that article contradict their position…despite a seemingly favourable headline.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,289 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Just a thought, maybe stop committing war crimes



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