The move away from MS crap. Not for the reason I expected, but still.
The fatal mistake that Microsoft made was disable the email of the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Law. At that point, it became blatantly obvious and impossible to ignore that MS will do whatever the US administration wants to its international (and probably national) customers.
Not only Microsoft but every US tech company. All their bleating about their European arms being supposedly out of the reach of US government is just bullshit as long as the Cloud Act exists in the US. And that's why the rest of the world needs to reduce/eliminate their reliance on US technology companies.
The primary use of Bitcoin is to have a money that no one can mess with. Unlike your bank account, it can not be blocked or frozen.
ROFLMAO. UK law enforcement in 2018 seized 61,000 BTC worth $5Bn. 5 months ago the US government seized 127,721 BTC worth more than $14bn (£10.5bn).
When you wake up and find your new (and only) digital fiat currency value swinging in the wind like shitcoin is right now?
It won't though and we already have the evidence. Most FIAT currency only exists electronically and FOREX trades can be executed 10,000 times faster than a BTC transaction. The reasons that they don't swing as wildly and as fast as crypto is because those currencies actually have functional use and are backed by governments and central banks.
Crypto is useful. It can get around international currency transfer limits
It isn't useful for those because of how wild and how fast the swings can be. It had a 15% drop over 10hrs yesterday between 14:40 on Thursday and 00:15 Friday morning and it's still down 5% over the price yesterday. That's not useful as a currency.
Crypto is NOT useless, it is a currency where anyone can pay anyone,
A currency that fluctuates against FIAT currencies as much as crypto does at the speed it does is not useful as a method of payment which is why no legitimate companies or people with a functioning brain accept it as payment. Can I pay my rent with it? No. Can I buy my gas with it? No. Can I buy my grocery shopping with it? No. The only places it's accepted as payment for goods or services is for dodgy illegal stuff like drugs and kiddy porn on the dark web.
How is Europe going to launch satellites without a reusable rockets?
The same way it's been launching them for decades.
Combined with the rest of the world abandoning the USA's SWIFT banking system
FOR FUCK SAKE. SWIFT IS NOT AMERICAN. SWIFT is European. It was created in Brussels in Belgium in 1973, it's HQ is still in Belgium. SWIFT was set up out of fear of what might happen if a single private and fully American entity controlled global financial flows. It's entire reason d'etre is to have something under European control so that America doesn't control the entire world's banking.
More self-promotion from this grifter. The internet's problem isn't "shit" it's "spam" and grifters like Corey are a part of the problem.
Enshittification just doesn't apply to the internet, it applies to all technology. Take cars for example, replacing physical controls for things like heating, windscreen demister and wipers and putting them on the touchscreen.
Yeah I don't understand this recent backlash against Steam.
It's the whole "Valve requires users to buy all additional content through Steam if they've bought that game through the platform, effectively "locking in" users to make purchases on its platform " that's the issue.
So as an actual Brit and one who isn't fucking mental.....
Basically the Chinese Embassy as it is now isn't actually in one building but spread over several buildings all of which are very old and for which plans are not available and they all have basements, the sizes of which are unknown. So our intelligence services have a bit of a clue of the layouts above ground, after all they can just go look at the house next door, but not of what's underground. Which kind of makes it a bit hard to keep an eye on what they're doing.
With the new building they know everything about it's layout, the plans etc because the Chinese govt have to submit plans and the building works have to be inspected. Because of where it is and just how much infrastructure is underground there, mains water lines, gas lines, electricity cables etc, it also means that the Chinese cannot do any nefarious work underground without anyone knowing and it makes us spying on them easier.
Our intelligence services which are some of the best in the world have already done plenty of risk assessment. If they'd not greenlighted it it wouldn't happen.
What I do wonder is how many Saudis have the skills needed to provide the services needed by this project?
None. The vast majority of work done in Saudi is done by immigrant slave labour. I say slave labour because they take their passports from them when they enter the country so they can't leave. They're also forced to live in poor conditions and work horrific hours. The rate of work injuries and deaths is shocking.
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