Before AI I replaced my flagship Android phone once every 2 or 3 years. Now I am not sure, how can I replace my phone if I do not want AI functionality in it at all?

Why would we want private industry to build it? They're already fucking us over six ways from Sunday, do we really need another way to get shafted?

The high speed rail in most of Europe is owned and run by the country's central government and is generally extremely good. The high speed rail in China is the best on the planet, owned and run by the central government. In Japan and a couple of other countries it's managed by private companies which report to, and take direction from, the central governments.

Or perhaps this is just one of those things we're uniquely incapable of doing, like providing healthcare or keeping control of our military spending.

Yes, I've seen what happens when government owns and runs the rails, we've ridden the trains in Spain, Italy and Portugal, and they're outstanding.

Why does everything have to be profitable? If that were the case then your local potable water plant wouldn't exist, or the sewer plant, or roads, or ...

yes, actually yes. I would do it differently though, I would use sodium and burn it in water to create the particulate matter, this would accomplish more than one goal, it would block a percentage point of the Solar energy and would percipitate into the ocean water deacidifying it. If done xorrectly, maybe as NaK alloy it can also be used to generate power while burning in water.

no, the goal is keeping power and gaining glory by restoring the old ussr back and then some. The fact that it is done by using the criminal element as well as the regular army just shows how unprepared the dictator is.

the Germans occupied Ukraine, actually occupied the house of one of my grandfather. What is your stupid point?

I suppose the Germans weren't actually occupying Ukraine?

Oh, it's roman_mir, your grasp of history is tenuous at best so I shouldn't be surprised.

Bandera's idea was that once Germany conquered the USSR he was going to rule it as a vassal state for the Nazis. Hitler on the other hand had no intention of any Slavic "untermenchen" being allowed to rule anything so put him under arrest. His fanatics still continued to happily serve their Nazi masters, and carried out many massacres of Roma, Jews and Poles. Several of the death camps were guarded by Ukrainian POWs, apparently the Germans felt safe arming them as long as they had Jews and Poles to abuse.

Today's Ukrainian government sees no issue with putting up statues to Bandera or his henchmen just blocks away from the massacre sites.

No, he chose war in Europe, this is the next step for putin. You didn't really think the ruzzian murderers that make up their armed forces will be allowed to return back to the motherland alive, did you? The next target is Estonia or Latvia, then Poland and the rest will follow. Regardless what anyone thinks, ruzzia has learned to fight the next type of war and nobody is ready for this except for one nation, that is holding the orcs - Ukraine.

Bandera is a national hero, fighting for Ukrainian freedom from occupiers, the ruzzians spout nonsense. Ukrainians are actually proud that Bandera was a Ukrainian. If the ruzzians went to war against the USA they would call George Washington a nazi, whatever.

It is what religion is. Faith. Belief without evidence. They very definition of stupidity and the source of much evil

I just landed in Warsaw, taking a ride to Ukraine right now. There are dirt poor people living in Ukraine, I am sure, probably some older folks are. That said, I work with over 950 people from Ukraine, vast majority of them living in Ukraine, over 200 people in software development, over 600 in support, many sales and other roles. Half of them own their homes, half of them have their own cars, everyone owns a computer, power banks, generators, satellite communication equipment, most also have fiber at home. They dine in nice restaurants, food is not worse than anywhere.

Here is a link to one of many restaurants I frequent when in Odessa for example. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GvHDHh...

Here is one in Kiev https://maps.app.goo.gl/JSnpEW...

one in Mykolaiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/Sd72r6...

here is a shopping mall in Harkiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/3osPzi...

You should maybe find out a few things before typing something, though we know that paper tolerates everything.

Bixby's Law says, "In any security installation the weakest link is not in the hardware or the software, but in the wetware."

SlashDot has been infested with Libertardians for a long time, otherwise intelligent people who believe that if we just get rid of taxes and government the Magical Mystical Free Market Fairy will wave her magic wand and clean water, clean air, bridges and safe work places will appear.