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Comment Re:The Lawsuit Should Fail (Score 4, Funny) 117

Furthermore, Ukraine incited Russia's entry into the Ukrainian civil war by first overthrowing a lawful democracy and then by oppressing, attacking and killing ethnic Russian Ukrainians. Russia had a natural right and even a duty to intervene on behalf of fellow ethnic Russians. I have no sympathy for the arguments of the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi regime.

Putin it's past your bedtime.

Comment It's because they can't compete. (Score 2) 159

And we're not only talking about competing in the pricing. They cannot compete in the build quality or the design. Marques Brownlee test drove the Xiaomi SU7 Max. Ford's CEO has run one of those has his daily driver and has commented that if Chinese EVs are allowed to come to the USA US car makers are fucked.

Comment Re:eBegging (Score 1) 37

It's a pathetic commentary on our society that people have so little pride.

It's a pathetic commentary on our society that we fail to provide in the basic needs of so many. FTFY.

I think you'll find that if you looked at the bank accounts of many of these people you'll find things like $700 car payments, loan and credit card payments for all the shit they've bought on Amazon. Hell it would appear that on Black Friday there was $1Bn of stuff bought on Buy Now Pay Later. I can't think of anything in the Black Friday sales you can buy that you'd die without.

Comment Re: Well yeah.... (Score 1) 116

Surely the value is that with Windows 11 it's much easier for Microsoft to push ads and gather information on how you use your computer. Why wouldn't you want that? I don't understand

There are no ads on my Windows 11 install, never seen one in the four years I've been running it but then again I'm not in the USA where your government allows corporations to fuck you in the ass without even needing to give you a reach around. As for gathering information on how you use your computer telematics are a good thing too, not all bad. Without telematics you end up with godawful UIs like GIMP and the farce that is two sets of keyboard shortcuts to do the same thing in Linux depending on if you're say copy pasting in a GUI application or in a terminal.

Comment Artificial hardware limitations. (Score 1) 116

The only hardware limitations are those put in deliberately by Microsoft to force you to upgrade to run Windows 11. The proof of this is the many computers that don't meet Windows 11 hardware specs but install it using a modified installer that bypasses the checks and it works just fine.

Comment Re:Did the city of SF... (Score 4, Insightful) 143

And why is that exactly? Is there some rule that says if you ever accepted tax money from someone doing illegal or harmful things without you knowing, you implicitly approve of that behavior and therefore aren't allowed to stop it when you do find out? Because that sounds pretty fucking stupid.

But they're not interested in stopping them, just finding a way to justify taxing them or taxing them more. We've known for decades that smoking causes cancer, respiratory issues and kills people, many have called for it's banning yet governments all over the world continue to allow it to continue despite making noises about banning it. Why? Tax revenue. The UK taxes cigarettes at £6.68 plus 16.5% of retail cost in Tobacco Duty plus 20% VAT (sales tax) per pack of 20. The average price of a pack of 20 cigarettes in the UK is now £16, 80% of that is tax. It raises around £10Bn for the UK government.

Comment Re:Those who cannot remember history (Score 1) 265

the United States came up with a plan to prevent it from happening again. They invited everyone into an alliance structure where anyone could trade with anyone else

That's bullshit and just about sums up your typical American's lack of knowledge of both history and the world outside of the USA. The ALLIES came up with a plan and formed NATO which is defence only organisation NOT a trade organisation you dumb fuck. The rest of your post is just as bullshit as that.

Comment Re:Tech is happy to leave them behind. (Score 1) 26

I don't live in the UK, but if you want to ban everyone who lives in the UK from accessing your startup... you do you. Generally speaking, reducing one's potential customer base is not considered sound business strategy.

This is the EU wanting to do this, not the UK. The UK isn't in the EU, it hasn't been in the EU for half a decade. Fucking retard.

Comment Re:Tech is happy to leave them behind. (Score 1) 26

They should consider the idea that the next big thing won't be allowed in their country because of their own dumb rules.

The UK likes to believe it's this big sovereign power and it even has a museum full of stolen goods to try to prove that but the fact remains that the UK does not have sovereign authority on the rest of the world and its power is diminishing every day because of stupid choices like this.

You must be American with this display of ignorance. This is the EU wanting to do this you fucking dumbass. The UK isn't in the EU, it's not been in the EU for FIVE FUCKING YEARS.

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