See: Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea…
Actually sanctions don’t work at all, what’s happening here is the result of a war of attrition.
See: Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea…
Actually sanctions don’t work at all, what’s happening here is the result of a war of attrition.
Yes, but as a specific exercise, the US government wants to spy on US citizens because if gives them the power to arrest you. You could be committing crimes right now and not realize it, but if you ever become a person of interest they will use them against you.
Of what use is specific data from specific nationals to a foreign government? They don’t have anywhere near the same level of power over your life as your home government does, unless you’re a defense contractor or a government official or something, all of that information is just fluff to them.
And not for nothing, but the original conversation was about Discord, which is partially owned by Tencent but partial ownership by a private Chinese firm does not give the Chinese government any kind of special control over the platform.
Power to do what, exactly? It’s not like China is going to get non-citizens extradited from their home country to punish them for saying bad things about the CPC. Believing in vague generalities doesn’t help anyone, you’ve got to be specific.
Why exactly do you believe the Chinese government wants the messages of non-Chinese citizens? Because Discord is blocked in China proper.
Blow a fat cloud on someone else’s desk so their name pops up, bonus points if your teachers suck and blindly punish anyone whose name gets triggered.
we hope this will reduce vaping through social pressure
The social pressure of all of your friends knowing that you’re cool and break the rules?
The whole IP paradigm needs to change. I can accept the logic that IP needs to exist in the first place so that people who invent something can get paid (at least in our current system) - but the term should be shortened to something like five years, or if it’s going to be longer there needs to be a list of events that immediately invalidate it, including the product no longer being legally available. IP shouldn’t be able to be traded between companies like a commodity, and it shouldn’t be able to be locked up to prevent it from going into the public domain.
The days of modular components in cars is nearing an end.
It’s a shame, because with EVs especially modular everything should be a whole lot easier than ever before. I guess it took a decade and a half for governments to force smartphones to be able to be jailbroken or use the same messaging protocol, hopefully we see a similar evolution on EVs where these locked down features get forced onto common standards.
The best copilot can do is autofill lines that everyone’s written a million times. That’s not nothing, but it aint replacing a human brain any time soon.
amazon cloud CEO reveals that they have terminal CEO brain and have no idea what reality is like for the people they’re in charge of
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Actually all of the TOS films are great.
Ten years before they pulled this. Hopefully the cookers can be used without the app.
I agree, but I just know that someday Mozilla is going to go down and I’m gonna lose my passwords and I won’t even be able to get into my email to reset them.
electric trains are an over one hundred year old technology.
lol. lmao, even.
One of their favorite strings of words to say while being almost indistinguishable from the worst fascists in history is “I’m a moderate”.
The argument is that if Iran had been allowed to keep its original government and not had one imposed upon it, the conditions that resulted in the Islamic Revolution would not have been created and the fundies never would have taken power.
They must have just made that change, I got it the other day from someone who I had just added to my list.
On a more practical and immediate level, it crashed because of COVID. Chinese real estate companies were using new money to finish old projects, and when supply shocks and work stoppages interrupted the system, it fucked the whole thing. The government has been reacting to that crash ever since.
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When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same with everything I learned in Home Ec, most the stuff I learned in wood/metal/auto shop, etc. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything useful.