Comment Hobbling yourself doesn't make anyone else slower. (Score 1) 89
Is the intent to hand the initiative to China? They have less than zero reason to conform to our demands.
Comment Re: And this is news why? (Score 1) 16
Yeah, but not the old Delhi.
Comment Re: bUt NuClEaR bAd (Score 1) 45
Ok bot.
Comment Re: Feels kind of 50/50 to me? (Score 0) 17
No monopoly is required for them to violate the law.
That's true even in the US, not that we enforce antitrust law here.
Comment Re: Feels kind of 50/50 to me? (Score 1) 17
And you've made your own non-anonymous coward comment. You're afraid to not be a cuck for corporations.
Comment Re:sure thing uberbah, everyone believes you. (Score 1) 161
The reality is that if Russia launched nuclear missiles at the U.S., the U.S. would wipe them off the map.
What appear ignorant of is that during the cold war the US/NATO defense of Western Europe depended on immediately using nuclear weapons against a conventional invasion by the Warsaw Pact. Despite the fact that the Soviet Union could wipe the US off the map. That is why when Gorbachev and Reagan agreed that "a nuclear war cannot be won and much never be fought", they also acknowledged that a conventional war involving the Soviet Union and NATO was equally unacceptable. Reagan was not agreeing we wouldn't use nuclear weapons to defend Europe against a conventional attack.
Lets be clear, Russia using nuclear weapons in Europe is not "suicidal". As De Gaulle allegedly pointed out when the US complained about France developing their own nuclear capacity, "Are you going to sacrifice Washington to punish an attack on Paris? If De Gaulle was uncertain of the answer then, Russia is likely willing to take the risk that the answer is "No" if the stakes are high enough. But if US unsuccessfully responded by attempting to "wipe Russia off the map" before it could launch its missiles, that would be all but suicidal.
I was explicitly talking about what would happen if Russia launched nuclear weapons specifically at the United States, not an arbitrary non-nuclear NATO country.
NATO would still be obligated to retaliate in an attack on other NATO countries, whether nuclear or otherwise, and Russia's military would still almost certainly lose very badly and very quickly, given their current levels of force depletion, but I do agree that it would probably not involve a nuclear response. It wouldn't need to.
Comment You don't understand the Luddites (Score 1) 89
The Luddites didn't want to ban technology.
They wanted The People to share in the benefits, not just the capitalists (who have all the investment capital.)
You are still falling for and propagating anti-Luddite PR over a century old.
Comment Re:The alarm bells have been ringing for awhile (Score 2) 53
After that, there may be mass disease spreading in livestock which could severely affect our food supply.
You will eat nothing and like it.
Or, you know, starve.
Comment Re:Not just new EVs... (Score 0) 60
Now do the calculations with a non-swasticar.
Tesla is worst at service of all US automakers, who wants to be chained to them?
Comment Vaccines (Score 1) 53
At least we can develop more vaccines. Oh wait, the right told me those are evil.
Comment Re:Too specific (Score 1) 90
A small percentage of Americans could barely get used to cab over vans
Driving a cab over is not hard. We got a diesel pusher bus where you're way further out in front of the front axle than that, and the only adjustment really is turning a little later. You get reasonably used to it in short order. If you don't have to deal with an 8' vehicle in a 10' wide lane (yeah they're meant to be 12' but then there's bridge crossings and such) then I bet it's not even scary.
Comment Re:Just say no to snap (Score 1) 52
I thought that systemd was created to boot faster by starting daemons in parallel.
That's a feature of systemd, but it's also a feature of other systems which predate its adoption, so it's not actually a change for most users.
Comment Re: The data was unreadable (Score 1) 66
Thanks for the assist. I really loved how you included Mechahitler's supporting comment, even a literal bot knows better than that meat bot.
Comment Re:They are delivering ... (Score 0) 35
The great thing about cutting your nose off to spite your face is that you eventually run out of nose.
The great thing about licking boots is that they will always find a new boot to put in your mouth. Great if you love licking boots, that is.
Comment Re: The data was unreadable (Score 0) 66
More name calling...
bubububububu
Cry more, bootlicker.
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