This is not a site for aviation experts or airplane crash investigators. This is the miserable dwelling of ugly, sweaty neckbeards who like to play scientist or technicians but couldn't even explain how planes fly because they were too busy writing star dreck fanfiction during physics class. You're a sorry mass of losers who wouldn't find the control stick on a real cockpit. You're ignorant and misinformed. Why should you comment on stuff you do not know and understand? Go back to your dreck pedofiction.

Unfortunately that has been my experience as well: euros do not care. They do not put in any extra effort, never go the extra mile, never pursue an idea that could spell success. It seems being successful is anathema to them. They just want to get their paycheck and go home. Never an attempt to make their workflow more streamlines, their workplace a better space, their efforts more productive: they punch the clock and that's it.

They love to brag about how they're better and smarter than Americans, and then they have never capitalized on the internet the way we have done. Their entertainment industry is completely state-subsidized because they can't make anything that people actually want to see (with rare exceptions). Even their internal commerce is regulated to the point of absurdity when it should be totally free but no, because that would disrupt things.

That's the essential thing: we Americans LOVE disruption. If something better comes along we adopt it. Yooropeons like things the way they are and they do not want them to change, and if you don't grow you shrink. Well, let them shrink.

AI is taking out a lof of jobs, it's only normal. By the way, a degree in CS hasn't been a golden ticket for a long time. The average CS graduate slaves away until he or she (usually she because women are smarter and do not wait until they're middle-aged to move to other and more lucrative departments) is burned out and useless. A colleague of mine once said "computers are for chumps": unless you're a genius (and geniuses can find lucrative employment without clicking their lives away), it's a shit job and usually it attracts shit people. It was only to be expected that AI would take CS out of the picture as well. There will always be some jobs, but they will be for the top tier. The 99% is out. Move on.

If your country cannot develop a digital economy on its own it's just its fault as a government for failing to provide the right ecosystem. If you like nanny states, centralized government and bureaucracy, you will be a customer forever. One should applaud the canadiot government for understanding at last they cannot pick a fight with the US and prevail. Not now, not ever. All the fictional talk about joining forces with the EU evaporated in a moment. In time, the EU will see the light too, despite all the posturing. If you pick a fight with the US you end up with your bones broken into pieces. Now and forever. Forget about Trump, he'll probably be a lame duck by midterm and we'll find someone saner to run the country - of course both parties must come to their senses and produce sensible candidates. You won't be dealing with Trump in a few years but you'll have to deal with the US forever, and you know deep in your heart that being part of the American World is the right choice. You don't want to burn with the BRICS and you don't want to be a landfill nation. There are no other options. You may not love America but your kids will. They will wear jeans, love all-American music, eat burgers, drink cola, salute the flag and be happy.

Should we take advice on work-related matters from someone who obviously does not have any clue what it's talking about and lives in his parents' basement jerking off his miserable life to terabytes of kiddie scat bestiality furry porn from Germany?

Amazing! Were you masturbating while writing this? I bet you feel all philosophical and cultured and dark and edgy and cool and yoo-ro-peon. Have you shoved a baguette up your ass yet? Do you dream of strutting on all fours on the streets of Amsterdam wearing a collar and a leather thong? When consciousness dawns on your obnubilated loserboy mind, do you ever consider that leaping from the tallest building in the block would be a fitting end for your useless existence?

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

"Europe" didn't invent the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the basic principles and the CERN's page was the first one, but "Europe" (I imagine you refer to the european union) never capitalized on it and never followed through. Today europe has no "web giants", no search engines, nothing. Most of the continent is still behind in terms of digitization of public services, with eastern countries being the most innovative.

In order to "become a space power again" you need to have been a space power in the past, and it's not the case with europe. Arianespace is mostly an obsolete concept now, SpaceX and anyone following in their footsteps can launch more for less cost. European reacts after decades, and is left in the dust as a consequence. This is all right for the political class and the population who live by the "do not make waves, do not disrupt" principles. They still believe coal and steel will come back and all this modern madness will go away.

Yeah, LOL. Who? You, your imaginary girlfriend and your cat who has been dead for years and buried under stone in the cellar because you're too autistic to get its rotting corpse into the garden and properly bury it, hunh? When will you loserboy nerds finally realize that you're a tiny, minuscule, irrelevant, easily ignored minority nobody cares about? That your lifestyle is abhorrent to us all and that you're not shunned because you're some super-evolved next-stage human specimens but simply a bunch of maladjusted obsessed smelly abhumans that we (the Beautiful People) would rather ignore were you not so shrill and annoying? That you're universally despised? That we would all like nothing better than to throw you all into an incinerator and forget you even existed? Go ahead, boycott, scream with your infantile shrill little voice until you're hoarse, or someone decided they have enough, slap you across the face and defecate on your acne-ridden face while you're lying done oozing pus and yellowish blood from your nose. Go ahead. Loser.

Zionism has nothing to do with religion. In fact, it was founded by people who were mostly atheists. It states that Jews have a right to live in Israel and that only Jews decide their destiny - it's not in the hands of God as long as we're concerned with earthly matters. It was quite left-leaning at its beginnings. I'm fine with Zionism.

Islam is not the problem or we'd have a real big one in our hands, because there are more of a billion Muslims out there but surprise surprise, the vast majority does not want trouble.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is the problem: it's a shit government of shit people hell-bent on imposing shit ideologies upon everybody. It's the enemy of the Free World - and that is US - and that is the only thing that matters.

Now, shit lefto commie neckbeards can bicker and holler about the merits or lack of them of the Free World, but we don't care. It says a lot that you can protest against the US President all you want, and you can call for Netanyahu to be jailed all you want, and nothing will happen but if you happen to speak against the Islamic Republic (while in Iran of course) you will be imprisoned or killed.

Now, I have always been a supporter of free speech but when shit people who have never known anything but Western freedom enabled by Western weaponry and will of use it, start to chant in the streets about "globalizing the Intifada" and burning US flags, I say enough: rubber-bullet them into brain death, choke them with tear gas, drone strike them. You can WP or napalm them for all I care. The enemy within is more of a danger than the enemy without, which we can kill quite easily.

You don't like the West and the Western values? Fine. Give up your home. Give up your job. Give up everything. Get deported to shit muzzieland. See how well you do there. Losers.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

... And?

You're an anomaly, a basket case, an irrelevance, a statistical nothing. The rest of humanity does not care about you and your preference and in facts it farts in your general direction only because it does not care where you are. If it would, it would fart up your nostrils.

Nobody cares what you do or like. Nobody. Ever. If you were ran over by a garbage truck now, nobody would care except the unfortunate sod who would have to scrape your remains from the truck. That's how unimportant you are.

Meanwhile the rest of us may be amused by the fact that we could watch reruns of French TV stuff but choose not to because they're bad. Embarassingly bad. It's just a lot of croissant merde du café des escargots scooped from the toilet and warmed over. But it's there.

Careful there. One should think that being arrested twice and having to notify your neighbours you're a sex offender should have taught you a lesson.

Perhaps if it had adequate funding... ?