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Comment Well then ... (Score 1) 35

... put it in the bid specification. Spare parts, maintenance manuals, etc. It's what the commercial airlines do.

Can't get anyone to bid on such terms? Well then, you let too many suppliers merge, creating an oligopoly that isn't in the best interest of the nation. Or if its collusion between the manufacturers, set a trap for them and then it's off to prison. Goodness knows you've got enough FBI agents sitting in bars, waiting for some dirt bag to walk in and hire a hit on an enemy.

Comment Re: One of the few advantages of a repressive reg (Score 1) 147

It is fairly obvious what's going on, because nowadays you can just buy satellite pictures for a few hundred dollars.

And that is not counting the verified reports of hundreds of women raped in the camps, or the pleasant little habit of installing party members and soldiers in the houses of Uyghurs in jail to look after their kids - including teenage daughters.

It is ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide. The Han Chinese are truly despicable.

Comment Re:Well, I suppose -fms-extensions is better than (Score 1) 36

in order to let gcc use data structures in MS's headers and have somewhat source compatible builds

This is what I fear. I'm just not certain whose source will be "leaking" into whose kernel. Or why, if Linux devs (Linus) have decided up to this point _not_ to adopt a standard C construct, it is now considered to be a good idea.

Are we developing Linux using the Cut-N-Paste culture of Stack Overflow?

Comment Re: One of the few advantages of a repressive reg (Score 1) 147

You used a whole lot of words to still be describing collective punishment, which is still a war crime under the 1949 Geneva Convention.

But do go on about why that's perfectly fine in the circumstance of a brutally oppressive authoritarian regime and how the "western media" got it all wrong.

Comment Re: One of the few advantages of a repressive regi (Score 1) 147

Well, you see: the word "socialism" is bad, but the concept is just fine.

See: the Trump Administration seizing the means of production in the tech industry by having the government take a stake in Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc. while also saying that the medical insurance companies are evil parasites all of a sudden while simultaneously shitting on anyone that dares to talk about a single-payer health care system.

Comment Yes ... No (Score 1) 36

As a step toward application portability between Microsoft apps and Linux systems, maybe. But that seems to be more at the library level. But who out there is suggesting that we need to splice Microsoft stuff (drivers, etc.) directly into the Linux kernel?

On the other hand, it could help in porting systemd to Windows.

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