They don't necessarily need a large number of people though. If there was full automation (which I am not convinced we will), then it is possible we would end up with the wealthy capital owners exclusively selling to other wealthy capital owners, while the masses that previously dependent on earning wages for their labor lose their place in the economy and either become dependent on "welfare" of some form, or die off.
Well part of the problem is that while waging a war that increased oil prices, the US government has simultaneously been systematically dismantling existing projects to use and incentivise alternative energy sources.
Reducing our reliance on oil would be a very sensible response. Unfortunately, I don't think it is one our current government would consider.
It reduces the attractiveness of a lot of investments, some that require oil, some that don't, and many that require labor, and that last thing means less jobs.
If you have a (&mut) reference it would actually be x = !x. Also toggle is a function that can be passed to higher order functions without needing a lambda. For example, if you have a boolean in an option you can do opt.iter_mut().for_each(book::toggle). Or similar if you had a collection of booleans.
And that is also weaponized, because paying for the legal costs of disputing a frivolous or invalid claim may be prohibitively expensive, especially for individuals.
> These fuel haulers think they got a bomb in their back, while this guy had a nuclear warhead,
Transporting a nuclear warhead is probably safer. I'm sure there are tons of safeguards to prevent an accidental detonation, and with a military escort people are more likely to be drive carefully around you.
Do they transport warheads fully assembled, or with cores and high explosives separate? If the latter, would they send explosives in the same shipment as cores? If disassembled components are being shipped via ground, with cores separate from explosives, the worst that could happen would be a small conventional explosion with no risk of radioactive contamination.
I think the fuel elements of the missiles (or fueled cases) would be much more dangerous than the warheads. Warheads are designed with extreme precautions so they don’t go off when they are not supposed to, but Minutemen missiles are solid rockets and solid fuel is usually quite temperamental.
Ideally, yes. In practice there have been a number of nuclear devices which can arm accidentally, though (at least as far as anyone has so far admitted) they were generally early ones.
Also, of course, even assuming that it’s ‘safe’, spreading one over the landscape is extremely undesirable.
(Also if it was an actual missile as described, you _definitely_ do not want one of those solid fuel motors going up.)
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