> Which raises the question, when you have compressed data of multiple files, should you count them as different files

There is no question. No, you don't. You can split a file into lots of little files, even 0 byte files. That doesn't mean every file is an infinite number of files. If you uncompress, which is splitting, then you have however many are left over, even if those compressed files were other files.

> Sure, those are your fears (or what you want to project as fears for others

That's a funny way of trying to spin what has been happening for decades. Do a google search.
Most of your post is reverse FUD nonsense. When you are denial about reality, 'out of touch' seems gracious.

As far as the internet is concerned, first, there were the Clinton scandals:
https://capitalresearch.org/ar... et al, primarily because Clinton was unfortunate enough to be around as the Internet became ubiquitous, it's likely there were transgressions by previous administrations.

There's endless industry articles and discussions about these "fears" that are realized every day:
https://qualityinspection.org/...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...
https://ca.stkrconcepts.com/bl...

> slight nod to semiconductor chip design, which China pursues for national security reasons fearing that US chips designs are back-doored

China had low grade facilities until American companies moved the chip fabs to Asia en-masse. The cheapest labor (and steel) for factories ended up being Chinese. China didn't "target" the industry because of fears about the US. The US moved there.

OFC It's so blatant the US literally recognizes it. https://ge.usembassy.gov/how-t...

SMH

> By leaving, Google surrendered its market to Baidu and Alibaba, which are even more compliant with the demands of the CCP.

There have been actors that are 100% dedicated to the CCP's will since its inception. Nothing changed on that front, so I'm not sure why you think that's important.

> So buy leaving, Google hurt themselves, hurt the Chinese people, and helped the CCP

That is incorrect. The CCP has had to (and will continue) to do more work to circumvent and block Google. This is a net good, compared to Google avoiding wasting effort (both present and future) to compromise their own policies (and technology) to satisfy the dynamic needs of the CCP. They hurt the CCP in both the short and long term.

> Yes, Apple and MS had more sense.

You're either ignorant or delusional. Probably a little both.

> But I think the time has come for chinese to start blacklisting US companies...

The CCP make demands that the companies make everything to work with China's infrastructure or allow unfettered access.
No need for a blacklist when you can openly intrude and blackmail.

> Bill Gates has filed an amicus brief on behalf of Id in the dispute.

Ah yes, with the spoils from his own company's litigious blackmailing past he now speaks on behalf of the oppressed.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.

Anyone who is a subsidiary of, invested in, or uses the same infrastructure as those utilities are impacted as well.

People have seen their rates triple in the Fargo area.
A case of capitalist corporate inequity in action.
When the company is profitable, corporations pay out bonuses.
When the company loses money, the customers get to pay for it.

> It is impossible to review 70 documents/hour with any kind of detail / complexity.

A title company I once worked for, NextAce, did far more than that. 3 Human reviewers reviewed up to a thousand documents a day. Some documents are trivially easy to review. Say the document is blank? Say the document has 1 page that's a declaration from 2002 in the state of CA? Might as well be blank for the purposes of title establishment. et al.

I hadn't heard anything about SA for over 15 years, until today.

I met Lowtax once, as he got off a plane in Southern California at John Wayne...when you could still readily walk in and up to any arrival gate, although there were soldiers with guns around. There was a small meetup of people. The conversation amongst the group was far more interesting than the brief interaction we had with him, as he was tired and his hot girlfriend was going to drive him home.

Shortly after that, I brought my rig to a LAN party at UCI where a number of Blizzard (Shlonglor, Trini, et al) employees had set up in a ballroom/auditorium. There was a lot of talking about games (CS, EQ, etc), playing games, and we watched Cube. Lowtax was brought up. I said something out of turn about how the community seemed smarter than him and people got very defensive about him, citing his varied history. I basically got ostracized by many of the people there and I was ok with that.

Regardless of what a theory states, humans will use currency. eg Family members trading favors (an intangible currency).

> In such conditions, money will no longer be re quired.

He was wrong here, but it's not a proof anyway. That doesn't change the theory nor does it invalidate the theory of Communism.
To pretend a particular endemic behavior won't exist is a flaw in the theory.

This change is for people at risk, who have not had a heart attack.

Existing heart patients are safe to ignore this change, for the most part.
The side effects (from the PDF):

"In primary prevention populations, low-dose aspirin reduces major CVD
events, MI and ischemic stroke, but also increases major GI bleeding, extracranial bleeding, and
intracranial bleeding."

are all primary side effects of the blood thinner you are more than likely to be taking.Your cardiologist is unlikely to change the course that includes daily aspirin.

Their foreign shows and movies have horrible subtitles.
The worst is where the dubbing doesn't match the subtitles.
This is the reason my wife, friends and I generally skip every foreign language offering.
There are exceptions, ofc.

Netflix contributes the perception that foreign offerings are inferior to hollywood and shame on them.

> Oh, I totally get it. You're pulling a "what do you mean, 'you people'." It's just not helpful.

That's is a good faith question. Otherwise, there's no other interpretation than the OP was trolling with weasel words to start a discussion that can be interpreted to fit the narrative of whoever responds, devolving into a pointless back and forth detached from the original discussion.

Your derail is not helpful, in this case,

undoing bad mod

> If you really feel this way, surely you won't mind linking to a jpg of your face.

One has nothing to do with the other.
Since you have no problem trying to destroy any random person's "reputation" on the internet, here ya go:

https://images.pexels.com/phot...

I'll await whatever you think you can do.

> Or maybe he died somehow.

Morpheus died in the Matrix MMORPG - https://youtu.be/ToQvLlToA-o?t... or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

In-Game death cutscene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Killed by some super-assassin (probably an "Oligarch") - or not? Depending on what you want to think of as Morpheus, since a copy of his consciousness resided in Zion by the end of the game.

There was also a Sarah Edmontons (Thomas Anderson anagram) that appeared in the Matrix MMORPG.
I expect the movie to use material from the game, since the Wachowskis ok'd those game plots.