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Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 252

even if that were true, china and russia (and iran) have very powerful reasons to put any conflict aside for the time being. also, none of them are typical expansionist/colonialist mindset nations (unlike the west)

Donbas what?

oh, btw, about "russia infiltrating ukraine" ... you should check a bit of ukranian history. "ukraine" literally means "frontier" in russian

Ukraine had paved streets and multi-story buildings while Russians were still crawling in the mud.

Comment Re:False optimism - no permanent tech advantages (Score 1) 252

Ukraine needs to:
(a) make an offer that the Russians can at least use as a fig leaf to concede peace.

Never pay the dane-geld.

Why? So Ukrainian people can live. So its current leader can live. So the country is not at risk.

The only way that's true is if Russia is destroyed. Is that what you want?

Comment Re:No, It Won't. (Score 1) 46

by drinkypoo (#66174748) Attached to: Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before

This is true only if "can be done" includes the fine print "maybe within the lifetime of the universe"

At this rate, that's still going to be before someone makes a practical quantum computer. These clowns are dicking around with a handful of qubits with which they can't do anything useful and claiming they're going to have a working and useful solution in three years? Absolute nonsense.

Comment Re:Good Luck (Score 1) 119

by drinkypoo (#66174728) Attached to: EU Plots To Abandon US Tech

Minix was virtually as functional - had Tanenbaum released it under the GPL or a more permissive license, there's a good chance - given Linux's history - we'd be using Minix with the Linux kernel today.

No. GNU was taking over Unix before Linux even existed. Unix sysadmins were installing GNU tools as fast as they could from early days.

Comment Re:Capitalism wins again. (Score 1) 71

by drinkypoo (#66174696) Attached to: Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

I'm not sure what improving capital means.

It means GETTING MORE MONEY.

Capital != money only in that just having money doesn't mean you have enough to invest meaningfully. For the most part it's a bullshit statement, because someone with no money also has no capital. They might borrow some, but what they are borrowing is... money.

Comment Re:Capitalism wins again. (Score 1) 71

by drinkypoo (#66174694) Attached to: Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

Let's be clear: Attempting to prevent the customers that 'bought' your product from repairing them is NOT capitalism.

What? I don't think you know what capitalism is.

Capitalism is all about the free market.

Oh, I was right. You don't know what capitalism is.

Capitalism means one and only one thing: Capital controls the means of production. There are many kinds of capitalism, and "free market" capitalism is only one of them. Regulatory capture is absolutely an expected aspect of capitalism.

People want freedom, not to be owned by the company they thought they were buying stuff from.

Yes, but that's irrelevant to the question of whether or not this is capitalism. Not just slightly, but completely. It has absolutely no place in that discussion.

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