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Comment Re:The parallels between China and Russia are (Score 1) 152

Capitalism has only performed well for a short period on a historical timescale, and it seems to be burning itself out.

Nonsense. It emerged in 16th century when trade started to replace farming. And most economies are mixed economies combining free private business with state intervention. See John Maynard Keynes.

Comment Re:They get compensation from readers (Score 2) 73

The rules are different in different countries, but libraries pay authors sometimes by the numbers of loans sometimes just for the purchase. And libraries are often financed with public funds.

I sure hope that I will be able to read new original fiction written by creative humans in the future.

Comment Re:Rosy picture (Score 1) 67

Well it will certainly take time to wean the world off fossil fuels, and perhaps one shouldn't be an optimist.
But with the decrease in prices for wind and solar power, they are predicted to generate 33% of the worlds electricity by 2030. They are only forms of power generation currently increasing.

Comment Re:Why use VMWare? (Score 5, Informative) 196

VirtualBox is licensed under GPL 2 and that can't change for existing code.

It is the "Extension Pack" that is only free for personal use, and not for corporations. Standard VirtualBox only support USB 1.1, so for USB 2 or 3 and some other features one might nead the Extension Pack.

I'm not arguing for or against anything.

Comment Re:Interference Litmus Test. (Score 1) 41

Moscow has claimed that there is no evidence. Why do you?

"Because of the UK’s support for Ukraine we are in a state of ‘grey warfare’ with Russia; and the Russians will use every means at their disposal to attack British interests short of open conflict," Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, told Reuters.

Many of Cold River's targets were vocally critical of Russia and its war in Ukraine.

- https://www.reuters.com/world/...

Comment Re:Is there a shortage? (Score 1) 138

There is also the question of image quality .
See: https://www.howtogeek.com/8727...

A 1080p Blu-ray disc typically has a much higher bitrate than a 4K compressed video stream. This means the Blu-ray can use more data to represent each frame, resulting in a clearer and more detailed image than the highly compressed 4K video stream.

And also the lossless blue-ray sound vs compressed streamed sound.

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