It's not just a question of drilling, the gas / oil resources of Europe are quite limited. Yes, fracking can increase the amount that can be extracted, but it is hardly enough to satisfy the European energy market. I do agree though, Europe should start exploring what local resources can be extracted. While continuing investing in nuclear and renewables.

So we should leave the free market decide for which energy to use ?

Guess which energy will prevail ? That's right, fossil.

Government intervention is needed if we\re about to do something about climate change and nuclear energy is part of the solution.

The DMCA doesn't apply outside the US, so no it's not going to kill this.

No sane US company will risk loosing one of their biggest markets and import / export blocks ain't gonna do it either (import / export restrictions can go both ways).

Return trip will be available with version 1.4 update, hopefully coming next year. Till then - enjoy the beautiful view of our planet or watch Netflix on the in-flight entertainment screen.

Wouldn't it be good for global warming though - resulting in a drop in world population by about 30% ?

You can't have a free market in telecom due to the countless number of government regulations - from restrictions in frequencies, to regulation on how to install cables under the road, and so on and so on. The few telecom providers out there have profited big from relations with the government and those regulations are making sure nobody can challenge their position. Obviously, those companies have nothing against government regulation when it suits them, but they will invoke the free market each time a regulation doesn't suit them.

Exactly. That's the reason why they can roaam naked all day without fear of unexpected erections.

Well, if you think about it one of the guys running Crowdstrike is "Dmitri Alperovitch". It's an Ukrainian name but I guess there are no conflicts of interests.

Ok, my mistake, I was under the impression most of it was CO2.

That's not water ice, it's CO2 ice.

Yes, but they are part of the free world, so nothing to worry about.

They can always deny you from buying new GPUs at a discount price. You can still buy all those GPUs at market price though.

They can also deny you support and hardware replacements if you don't respect the agreement.

For now.

Actually it is you that misunderstood what he meant by saying that "the web is dying". He didn't imply that web usage is going down, but that the web (as a concept for sharing information on equal basis) is dying with all information being centralized in three large companies. In my opinion he is right. Now those companies will probably still be using the same web technologies as today (with future extensions) but it won't be the web we know - the web that provides free and equal access to information. He explains his reasoning pretty well in his article.

Now think again what the current administration can do with such a system during the next elections. Got it ?