What the heck is "illegal speech"? I have heard somewhere that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, which leaves only the direct calls to breaking the law as illegal. Hopefully, that still applies. Bravo for Trump for protecting the US companies from the highway robbery and censorship. Quite frankly, I hoped that his response to the blatant censorship by EU will be stronger and that it will target Airbus or T-Mobile or some other large company like that. Let's see whether they received the message or does the US need to send an even stronger one.

You don't particularly like the freedom of speech? US has shown that it can retaliate for the political prosecution of their companies. American freedom of speech is almost absolute. And I support the administration in protecting American companies from censorship. This is a very mild warning, just banning few people promoting censorship from entering the US. Things will be OK if EU stops trying to rob the American companies. The message could have, and in my opinion, should have targeted an EU company like Airbus or T-Mobile with an equivalent $150M fine in retaliation. Those who try to stifle our freedom of speech are not our friends. Trump should have sent a stronger message.

And you will have to talk about their demands or lose every election. There is more of us than there are people like you. Your totalitarian dreams have a problem with majority people disagreeing that the planet will die soon or that "trans women are women" (they're not). That's what we have the word "leftard" for.

You mean like Wokepedia is an encyclopedia for retards? With an entry for "white privilege" and "trans women"?

Last couple of hundred years? The first maritime chart showing the name "The Great Gulf of Mexico" was a British map from 1700. Here are some of the names that were used for that body of water: Sea of the North (Mar del Norte) – Used by Hernán Cortés in the 1500s. Gulf of Florida (Golfo de Florida) – Used by Spanish explorers. Gulf of Cortés (Golfo de Cortés) – Possibly honoring Hernán Cortés. Gulf of St. Michael (Sinus S. Michaelis) – Found on some Latin maps. Gulf of Yucatán (Golfo de Iucatan) Yucatán Sea (Mare Iuchatanicum) – Referencing the Yucatán Peninsula. Great Antillean Gulf (Sinus Magnus Antillarum) – A broader Caribbean name. Cathayan Sea (Mare Cathaynum) Gulf of New Spain (Golfo de Nueva España) – Reflecting Spanish control. Great Bay of Mexico – Used on English maps from 1700. The name is colloquially used since 1900's. That is barely ONE hundred years. As all leftists you don't know your facts.

I stopped using Wikipedia long time ago. And I stopped sending money to Wikipedia even longer ago. Wikipedia has stupid things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It's Wokepedia, not Wikipedia. If Musk manages to create something good, I'll gladly switch. He did a good thing with Twitter. For almost a decade I've been sending $50/year to Wikipedia. I stopped 8 years ago when I checked pages about white privilege and trans stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I am sorry, but trans women are men. Trans women are deluded men. Leftists will have to debate the issues, not just put them in Wokepedia.

Son, race is not a part of everything.

Policing by other users is an invention that was brought to /. by the leftist idiot who calls himself "Cowboy Neal". I know this because he was kind enough to brag about that on Slashdot. The net result is that I no longer visit, except very occasionally, and always with ad block on, so that they don't get to profit from my visit. Slashdot is a cesspool of boring leftists, hardly anything here worth attention. Good riddance!

The country is very good, that's why everybody wants to come here. I was born outside of the USA and I immigrated to the USA because USA is much better than my country of origin. Of course, USA has its share of problems and will always have its fair share of problems. However, from my personal experience, USA are the greatest country on the Earth.

Funny leftist conspiracy theories, typical for Slashdot. Mueller didn't find anything actionable. This one is particularly funny. What does Federalist Society have to do with Tesla? Does Federalist Society own Tesla? The rot goes really deep, I agree. Our president is a senile old oligarch who has been in public service for half a century and has millions of dollars. How did he get rich as a public servant? Yet, that fairly obvious and well documented corruption doesn't bother people nearly as much as Trump's loudmouth behavior. I believe that leftard's are more bothered by Trump's cutting taxes and regulation then by corruption.

Slashdot is a leftist cesspool with rampant censorship. The main mechanism for the censorship on Slashdot is so called "karma", invented by an idiot who calls himself "Cowboy Neal". My understanding is that he's no longer with Slashdot, but he's still an idiot with some following. His "karma" system is still in place, which makes /. not worth reading any more. I only pop in once every month or two, just to see whether there is anything interesting. And, of course, I am using ad blocker.

Ah, so open border and millions of illegals is somehow not the problem? It is all a contrivance by Gregg Abott? Somehow, I am not convinced. The fact is that she has failed miserably. I am impressed by the speed of Kamala trolls appearing on /. It really tells me everything that I need to know about /.

"Your betters" do not decide your income. The market does. That is the good thing about the market capitalism. If someone is willing to pay X for your work, then that's what you're work. Also, my managers are not "my betters". That is such a medieval term! My managers are people who are specialized in managing people and resources. I specialized in managing databases. The fact that my boss can tell me what to do does not mean that he's better than me. Also, to paraphrase Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas (played by Joe Pesci) better how?

Slashdot is about the same as CNN. Biased and left oriented. I am using an ad blocker to avoid generating any profit for Slashdot. Cowboy Neal is an imbecile who has introduced "karma" to censor the ideological opponents. He will be forever remembered as an imbecile. Now, that a former president is convicted in a kangaroo court, all masks are off. We have to get rid of the commies everywhere: in the ivy league, in courts and in the media. The utter idiocy of the underlying article about "saving $250B by using wind and solar" is not even worth commenting. It is just one of the "environmental" articles trying to eliminate gas and oil because "we will all die in 12 years" (AOC). Only a steaming pile of dogs*t like Slashdot would even publish such crap.

Only if you don't have to calculate the past. Since we weren't around 2000 years ago and since the backup technology was much more primitive then, we don't really have the numbers for 2000 years ago. That means that we have to calculate or, "predict" if you wish, the numbers. I believe that 2000 years ago, during the reign of Pontius Pilate and his friend Biggus, we only had an early version of NetBackup and LTO 1 tape which cannot be read any more. GPS records from those days are also not very reliable. So we don't have the records and we do need to "predict the past", as you've succinctly put it.