Listen sweetie: Your bank doesn't give a shit if you pay taxes. They care about whether you pay interest. If you can't do both, they'd prefer you to focus on the interest - it's not like they won't foreclose on your home after you're dragged off for tax evasion, so no skin off their nose.
So, I guess nVidia finally ran out of companies to play financial musical chairs with. Microsoft just can't find anymore janitorial closets to pack full of excess GPUs, so nVidia finally has no choice but to see if they can't get consumers in on it. Gotta keep that merry-go-round spinning a little longer.
Oh no. You can get close to any star of your choosing with only minuscule amounts of reaction mass if you start out in vacuum away from significant gravity wells - eventually. Granted, the star in question may or may not have gone supernova or collapsed into a black hole by the time you arrive, but I doubt that'll make a lot of difference to the person doing it at that point.
With that said, I'm not about to discourage anybody from taking an interest in fusion of the up-close-and-personal-kind. And if people aren't into the math of Magnetohydrodynamics? Well, first off, sucks to be them, but second: Then donate to the cause to pay those who are. Fusion is fucking awesome, and we desperately need it.
That or the right job application and a lot of propellant and oxidizer - but seriously, don't do that. It didn't end well for Icarus. Gravitationally-driven open-core fusion reactors are best admired from a safe minimum distance.
"And since only very few if any of our customers have ever actually tasted horse, they'll never think to question the shit we're feeding them. It's perfect."
"It's always nice to get a customer who can appreciate the finer points of palaeoenvironmental conditions. I swear, some days I have clients without even the most basic epistemological
awareness. Then again, I suppose someone needs to watch all that so-called reality TV they're producing. Let's get you all fixed up, hun."
Yeah, but these days he can hardly speak even partial words without a bucket to catch the drool, and it's damn hard to hang a gag on that. Call it creative license.
That too, yeah. There's plenty of options. It's like once humanity heard of the Great Filter concept, the response was to collectively go: "Yes, but are we absolutely sure we've discovered all the anthropogenic causes? Maybe we should explore that some more. The best learning is by doing, you know?"
xxx@xxx:~$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 1.514s (kernel) + 3.331s (userspace) = 4.846s graphical.target reached after 3.328s in userspace.My machine is instantly usable in <5 seconds.