The US is the safest place on the planet. If your passport is valid and you're not committing any crimes, there's a 99.9999% chance you'll just enjoy the ceremony and go back home when it's over. Canadians, Europeans, etc all claiming to be afraid to travel to the US are lying because they don't like the president. And want to make some type of statement.

Oh no! Not the Canadian border officials. They'll kindly escort me back to the greatest country on earth. Offering me a plate of poutine while I wait to be deported. LMAO!

You're still not understanding humor. A sad place to be.

I am American. And I voted for Trump 3 times.

That would be the funniest thing of all time.

This just makes the joke even funnier.

This is the military, not a government contract to buy widgets for some construction project. Compare to building fighter jets for the Pentagon. Military says you need to make changes to the jet. You don't get to say no, because you'll use it in a way we dont like. We'll, you can say no, but there will be consequences.

I think you forgot about the 6 month disruption while they re-tool everything for OpenAI. We had supply, now we don't. Now we have to find new supplier and wait 6 months to get back on track. It's almost by definition a supply chain issue.

It may feel like punishment. Given the temperament of the current administration. But the logic is pretty sound. The military wanted Anthropic tech as part of their supply chain. Anthropic said no, we won't provide unless you accept our terms. Military said no thank you, we don't agree to those terms. Military now has a supply chain issue they need to solve. If a company disrupts your supply chain, what's to prevent them from disrupting their other clients who have contracts with military. Again, this isn't vide-coding javascript. It's the military. The original, and single most important function of federal government.

It's the military. What did you expect? They aren't playing games. If you want to contract with them, it's on their terms. No different than any other company wanting to contract with them. Good for Antrhopic for saying no. It's their call. I'm not sure why this all had to be public theater. They didn't provide what they wanted. Contract cancelled. Not much else to see here.

I guess that depends on how you define victim. This is what I voted for. You can't be a victim if you're happy about the outcome.

You have a far too low Slashdot ID to be spouting such nonsense. They are just games. It's not real. Kids know this. They don't even need government warnings. Anything political about this is made up by you and other simple-minded people like you. Your work isn't that important. It's political theatre at best.

Making things political when they are not. It's just video games. Their workers aren't slaves. They are incredibly competent coders who chose their profession. Could easily walk away and pick up a job somewhere else in the industry.

This is a reach at best. Pokemon GO and EA games are not influencing children's politics. The same way they are not influencing their violent behaviors. It's a stupid argument.

That's because you are their spokesperson.

I think you're right. They should be able to charge what they wish. But if you agree to that, you should also agree that Microsoft should be able to take a 30% cut of any Windows application. And charge developers a fee to have the privilege of writing code on Windows. And prevent any application from accepting payment in any other form than the Windows Store payment system. And prevent you from displaying other payment options.

After all, it's their OS. They don't owe anyone access to their ecosystem.

The part where you stop reading.