Of course they subcontract the actual BTC processing to someone else. That's not the point. The point is that they deemed the demand sufficient to warrant doing something like that in the first place, and to make a public announcement about it.

Thing is, distasteful as you may find it, it's ultimately what won the war. Were USSR to surrender the same as France did, unwilling to pay that high a price, that would mark the complete dominance of Germany in Europe. Given that USSR is ultimately responsible for 2/3 of total Axis casualties (including Japanese; if you only count Europe, that proportion is even more skewed), you can imagine the likelihood of Allied victory if Soviets were knocked out, and their territory - including natural resources such as oil, as well as heavy industry, all far removed from the front lines - would all become German strategic assets. Even if that was doable - which I find dubious - the cost would've been insane. Just as it was, for the country that ended up bearing it, because it could (being a totalitarian state).

Let's settle at 10-20% of the prewar population, then.

Allowing non-intrusive ads is an option in Adblock Plus, that you can set as you see fit during the initial configuration step (it's all explicitly spelled out). And my understanding is that the money they're asking for that categorization is basically a fee for the service of verifying that the ad is, indeed, "non-intrusive" under their established criteria.

I suggest you actually read the decision in Quirin. That constitution applies doesn't mean that they get all the rights that civilians do.

Ex parte Quirin, stating that military tribunals for POWs are constitutional, implies that constitution does apply. That Geneva also applies is orthogonal to that.

But you'd also be living in US while working in US, and your cost of living would be the same as for a local worker.

They already pay - there are a bunch of costs associated with filing. Then again, the company that hired me also paid my relocation in full... and trust me, for a family moving across the ocean, that is an expensive proposition - yet they were willing to pay. So no, the count wouldn't be reduced to almost zero. An order of magnitude down would be more likely.

Not all H-1Bs prefer temp work. In fact, every single one I know is either in the process of applying for a green card, or waiting to be eligible.

It's largely the same thing in US. People think about Facebook, Google, Apple, MS etc when they think H1-B, but in reality those account for something like 5% of the quota last I checked - and they actually pay the people they hire really well, and sponsor them for green cards to get them off H1-B as soon as they're eligible. OTOH, the remaining 95% are by "consultancy businesses" like Tata, and these do run sweatshops and pay as little as they can get away with, and use all the sticks that come with the status (threatening to fire if person doesn't work unpaid overtime etc).

Their public debt is, yes.

Their private debt is not. This includes several of the major banks, which the govt now has to bail out because they cannot service their outstanding debts in the face of the sanctions.

When Japanese did the same thing to Americans during WW2, the soldiers doing that, and officers issuing orders to do that, were found guilty of war crimes and hanged after the war. Funny, that.

No, it's not allowed. Not by US law, not by half a dozen treaties that US has signed, and not by the international laws and customs of war.

So what you're saying is that sticking electrodes right into your brain's pain center and stimulating it directly is not torture?

Wanna try?

No, it does not - it applies to all people under the jurisdiction of the United States, except where it says otherwise. Go ahead, try to actually read it - e.g. "the right of people to keep and bear arms ...". And yes, there are court cases that have established that as a precedent, too.

There are different rules on the battlefield, but once you capture them and bring them under US jurisdiction, all constitutional protections apply.

In any case, torture is an atrocity and a war crime regardless of what US Constitution says about it.

Sure. Given the usual inertia when going against something very entrenched, this is always how it is going for a new contender. But so long as it is actually meaningfully growing, time will inevitably come when it overtakes.

The big part to it was the libraries. It took a long time for all the big players to embrace 3.x, but this is the case now - Django, scipy stack etc are all here now. So, when starting a new project, there's pretty much no reason to go 2.x anymore. This hasn't been true even two years ago.