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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (192590)	10/9/2022 6:06:31 PM
From: marcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217979

--fried bread or french toast-- frying: en.wikipedia.org bread: en.wikipedia.org french toast (from rome?): en.wikipedia.org which do you think came first?

To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (192590)	10/9/2022 7:28:30 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217979

Re <<Which came first fried bread or French toast?>> Shall go far afield, literally The Coconut once told me that 'eggs and soldiers' likely bridged fried bread and French toast. She learned to cook eggs a lot of different ways including baking when attending the Montessori school. I am told by an outfit that whilst the <<French toast>> and French fries are okay, because France materially helped the American colonies against the British, to the extent of last-straw bankrupting itself, and all the gumph about Freedom fries forgotten since so far France is sort of geo-politically-supportive of the Ukraine anti-SMO, even (admittedly cynical) if all maybe as a measure that has side benefits of weakening the other Continentals (Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, etc) and the UK as all run out of electricity and tapped out of gas, as they busily supply the Ukrainians with whatever each has out of inventory and whatever they each can muster out of production or treasury, the selfish French nuclear electricity should be donated for the common good. I told the outfit they are mad but funny, to the point of being hilarious. I told the outfit to consider that a messy EU-scape and a prosperous France would lead to a migrant flood that cancels France for the count, for France is not an island, and even if an island, would not help and only delay the cancellation. Speaking of which, namely the war, the war needs to come to a stop, soon, one way or another path, off ramp or cliff, else the unpredictables can phase-change into the unfathomables. Speaking of 'bridge', in the last few days much learned about how best to construct a bridge. Getting basic now. Conclusion #1, build the coming / going lanes into 'separate' but continuous 'bridgettes' is a good idea even if slightly more expensive. Physically separating the lanes supported by duplicate / independent support a better idea. Conclusion #2, building a tunnel under the bridge, if able, also a good idea, even if really expensive. Separating the coming / going lanes better idea. Conclusion #3, maintaining the ferry terminals and mothballing the ferry boats also advisable, even if as historically interesting museum in a new mall construction, as opposed to redeveloping the ocean frontage into anything that no longer can be converted back to support a ferry boar terminal. Do not recycle the ferry boats; put them under care & maintenance in the museum. Conclusion #4, maintain spare bridge spans. Conclusion #5, do not recycle old / 'out-dated' tanks, instead figure ways out to use them as mobile pillboxes and such to guard important places, or as autonomous / self-drive / loitering ToT (Things on Tracks) Take the ubiquitous Soviet era T-59 tanks, had either Ukraine or Russia kept them around they would come in handy right about now, for example, in China en.wikipedia.org The Type 59 ( Chinese: 59?; pinyin: Wu jiu shì; industrial designation: WZ-120) main battle tank is a Chinese-produced version of the Soviet T-54A tank, an early model of the ubiquitous T-54/55 series. The first vehicles were produced in 1958 and it was accepted into service in 1959, with serial production beginning in 1963. Over 10,000 of the tanks were produced by the time production ended in 1985 with approximately 5,500 serving with the Chinese armed forces. The tank formed the backbone of the Chinese People's Liberation Army armoured units until the early 2000s, with an estimated 5,000 of the later Type 59-I and Type 59-II variants in service in 2002. ... now all replaced by T-99 en.wikipedia.org ... an English language comparison video ... a Chinese language discussion re combined arms and training ... and supplemented by dogs of war to be used against opposing infantry in urban arena Blood-Wing, a Chinese defense contractor, demonstrates drone-deploying an armed robodog. The Future is Now. pic.twitter.com/tRKnKa8xvp — Lia Wong (@LiaWongOSINT) October 4, 2022 Side note: the Russians mail-ordered from Alibaba and mounted a tank-stopper The USA has something similar but likely much more expensive (than a military-grade toilet) and requires human control Unclear about reliability of human creators theverge.com Robot makers including Boston Dynamics pledge not to weaponize their creations Back to old tanks, rather then giving them away, one might do below, such that old tanks can hurt, bravely, and more, as support to new tanks newsweek.com China Reveals Unmanned Tanks Driven by Remote Control, With Eye Toward Artificial Intelligence By Joe Difazio On 3/21/18 at 1:58 PM EDT People's Liberation Army (PLA) tanks take part in a training session at an army base in Shanxi province on April 8, 2008. REUTERS China tested unmanned tanks this week in hopes of eventually arming the vehicles with artificial intelligence, according to Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times on Wednesday. Footage of the tests was shown on state television. It depicted converted unmanned versions of a Soviet-era Chinese tank driven by remote control. This was the first time the Chinese public has been shown testing of the unmanned version of the vehicle, according to Reuters. The original Type 59 first entered into service in China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) at the end of the 1950s. "A large number of due-to-retire Type 59 tanks can be converted into unmanned vehicles if equipped with artificial intelligence," said Liu Qingshan, editor of Tank and Armored Vehicle, to the state paper. China's recently re-elected president and party leader Xi Jinping announced an aggressive military modernization last year aiming to be a world-class military by 2049. In particular, China is spending big on artificial intelligence. 無人戦車(59式改) pic.twitter.com/cECf9uV1Ej — OedoSoldier (@OedoSoldier) March 15, 2018 Last year, China's State Council announced plans to become "the world's primary [artifical intelligence] innovation center," and its market is forecasted to be worth $150 billion by 2030. Military applications for artificial intelligence span far and wide. Last month, the PLA's newspaper announced the successful test of unmanned 22-foot-long patrol boats. James Lewis, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, told the Financial Times that China's spending in the sector far outweighs that of the U.S. "The Chinese invest billions, [the U.S.] spends millions. It's hard to see how you wing it when you are being outspent a thousand to one. We are not going to win when we are outgunned to that extent; even if they are half as efficient it's still 500:1," said Lewis. Some U.S. lawmakers are worried about the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on security. Representative Elise Stefanik, the chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, brought forth legislation Wednesday that would assemble a commission to study and analyze artificial intelligence as a threat and an asset to the U.S. "Artificial intelligence has already produced many things in use today, including web search, object recognition in photos or videos, prediction models, self-driving cars, and automated robotics," said Stefanik in a statement. "It is critical to our national security but also to the development of our broader economy that the United States becomes the global leader in further developing this cutting-edge technology." The congresswoman's communications director, Tom Flanagin, told Newsweek via email that the aim of the legislation was "to ignite the conversation in U.S. defense policy to ensure the United States is not surpassed by China."