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Comment Re: One of the few advantages of a repressive reg (Score 1) 179

It is fairly obvious what's going on, because nowadays you can just buy satellite pictures for a few hundred dollars.

And that is not counting the verified reports of hundreds of women raped in the camps, or the pleasant little habit of installing party members and soldiers in the houses of Uyghurs in jail to look after their kids - including teenage daughters.

It is ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide. The Han Chinese are truly despicable.

Comment Re: What exactly is "Steam" anyway? (Score 3, Interesting) 164

And Epics platform still sucks. It's so bad I mostly even ignore the free games they offer. The hassle of finding stuff on their platform is so much worse than on Steam.

People may complain about steams cut of the profit, but at least it provides a payment platform, merchandising platform, shop in shop, patch service, addon delivery platform, and content delivery platform. Oh, and authentication and cloud storage. They're all part of the platform.

Really big publishers may build that for themselves but smaller ones just can't afford that. So steam does it for them.

There are many reasons to dislike a monopoly, but what is the alternative here?

Comment Re: Just speculating. (Score 4, Informative) 265

In this case, because it demonstrates that the price is the main issue.

I've worked for Mercedes-Benz and I saw this coming years ago (you can find my posts on that on /.). They had a decade to prepare, but the internal culture of established German car companies attributes status to how well you know engines. They have a ton of managers who came to power based on their knowledge of ICE.

But the new world is driven by software, much more than hardware. And when I left in 2007 or so, the IT corner was where you ended up if you failed at car knowledge. That that attitude would hamper them could be seen coming yeaes in advance. A heavy dose of NIH combined with denial is also pretty much par for the course in Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen for every new development.

And that goes double for foreign inventions.

They brought this upon themselves but they'll lobby their way out of it. Just like oil. In the end the taxpayer will buy all the shares once all profit has been drained.

Comment How does it feel if the shoe is on the other foot? (Score 1) 127

The USA claims jurisdiction over the entire Internet based on "the bits touched our server!"

How do you like the same argument applied to US companies? Not so much? Then maybe change a few of your "might makes right" laws like the patriot (lol) act.

Otherwise this is just the beginning of the end of free Internet.

Comment Re: The UK has fallen (Score 1) 127

Similar to all the people who love bananas so much they throw them on the field at football matches when black players are in the team. They also love monkeys so much they imitate them.

Just free speech, not harassment or intimidation at all, even when it's 200 people doing it.

How would you like for me to shout the constitution in your ear all day? I hear you like the constitution a lot, so it's just free speech. Or do you disagree with the constitution?

Free speech absolutists are hypocrits in general, idiots in the main, and will go all surprised pikachu face whenever there is another genocide fomented by a few groups that like to get rich quick, because "personal responsibility".

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