No, I'm also talking about the ISA. Part of this ISA was designed in the US, therefore the US government considers this is US technology. Supposing the US government decides to impose export restrictions on the RISC-V ISA, if a company in Malaysia makes its own processor that uses the RISC-V ISA and then sell this processor to a country where there is no export authorization, then the US government will sanction that Malaysian company for exporting "US technology".

It goes even beyond this. If that Malaysian company designs its own processor with its own ISA, but uses American software under export restriction to make the design, then the US government can sanction the Malaysian company under the pretense that this processor was made using "US technology".

This is how the US government can forbid ASML or TSMC from selling their own products to China, even if both companies are quite unhappy with this (and losing a lot of money).

It can control it using sanctions.

The US government can declare that any part of RISC-V made in the US must not be used outside of the US by anyone without an export authorization. If a company outside of the US still use it without authorization, the US government will impose sanctions on it, mainly by limiting or forbidding its ability to make international transactions.

China, Russia and many other countries are now working to implement a real alternative to Swift and ultimately to the US dollar, but it will take several years for that to happen. Until then, the US government controls the world.

I live in Quebec. According to official government statistics, 97% of deaths and 87% of hospitalization associated to Covid-19 had at least one comorbitidy (source : https://www.inspq.qc.ca/public...). It's not Covid-19 that caused people to return to the hospital, it's their other diseases that made them vulnerable to Covid-19 in the first place.

Mental health is indeed important. Here's an interesting quote from the government of Canada :

Source : https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n...

For people under 45, lockdowns were at least 27 times more deadly than Covid-19. And you call people who refuse to submit to those deadly lockdowns "self-cantered (sic) idiots"?

Dangerous behavior? Do you also think using a car is dangerous behavior? Because according to statistics, for people under 50, using a car is between 5 to 10 times more dangerous than Covid-19.

Call me naive, but I think it would be better if politicians had integrity and voted for or against laws only based on the merit of those laws instead of voting for strategic reasons. I don't think it's "normal" for politicians to play these kinds of games.

You do not have any statistics about those "long-term health problems" (what they are, how serious they are, how many people are affected and for how long they last). You want to believe the disease is serious, so you choose to believe there are long-term health problems, but your belief is not based on reason, it is based on emotions.

Are you aware of why you wish for Covid-19 to be serious disease for people under 50?

This "95 percent effective" is marketing and it doesn't say much about the result we can expect.

As far as I know, the studies have not been published yet. Not only we don't know the probability of this 95% effectiveness, but we don't know if this "95% effectiveness" is the same for all people. Apart from some very rare exceptions, Covid-19 is not dangerous for healthy people. In Canada, 89.3% of people who died from Covid-19 were 70+ years old despite being only 14% of the cases. It is for people from this age group that we had lockdowns. So what is the effectiveness for this particular age group?

Also there are already cases of severe allergic reaction in the UK. So how many people will die or end up hospitalized because of this vaccine? Again in Canada, from a population of 23.4 million people under 50, only 126 of them died because of Covid-19. Up to now, that's a mortality rate of 0.0005%. The vaccine given to everyone having a mortality rate of more than 0.0005% because of allergic reactions is certainly possible. Does this mean we are going to possibly kill young people in order to save old people?

Empty claims.

BTW, Israel is now mainly using their own Iron Dome system. This system has a good track record. This is why the US has bought this system to help protect Saudi Arabia.

As for your assertion that Iran would keep shooting, you have to realize that this attack from Iran was a symbolic retaliation following the assassination of Soleimani by the US. Iran knows it won't win a war against the US, so it has no intention of starting one. It's the US who wants to start a war with Iran and tries to get support from the international community to justify that war. Thankfully, European countries still don't want to support a war against Iran.

You assumed wrong. For example, one of the attacks I'm referring to was the one in December 2017 over Riyadh using one Burkan H2 ballistic missiles. Saudi Arabia said they intercepted those missiles using Patriots, but according to the BBC) :

"analysts have since cast doubt on that assertion and said the missile's warhead landed close to the domestic terminal." https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Since then, there were several missile attacks from Yemen. Each time, the Saudi government and the US claim they were intercepted, but many times these statements were disputed either by witnesses or experts. It's clear both the US government and the Saudi kingdom do not want to publicize that the Patriot system is unreliable.

Interesting fact, the US government bought two Iron Dome batteries from Israel in 2019 to be delivered to Saudi Arabia.

Considering the modern Patriots were not able to stop the low tech ballistic missiles from Yemen against Saudi Arabia nor the missiles from Iran against the American base in Iraq, I'm tempted to think the Patriots are still as useless as they were before. Maybe that's why Turkey and India chose the S-400 system despite the serious threats from the US government.

Western news organizations are now torn between political activism and a desire for profit. They don't care much about truth anymore. But then, from my experience, very few people in the West still care about truth. So I guess we just have the news organizations that we deserve.

Whether a disease is contagious or not is irrelevant. It's not like you won't be as dead if you die from heart disease or from cancer than if you die from one of the many viruses that kill several million of people each year.

Considering Covid-19 deaths will most probably be about 3% or 4% of the total number of deaths in 2020, you should realize this disease is, from a humanity point of view, rather insignificant.

More than that, one of the top microbiologists in France specialized in infectious disease (Didier Raoult) said that about 90% of the people who died from Covid-19 would probably have died from something else within a year anyway (the vast majority of people who died from Covid-19 had severe comorbidities). Another study in Canada even said that one third of people who died from Covid-19 would have died from another disease within a few weeks.

He's pushing for more regulations to make sure people can't say "crazy lies" on the Internet. He wants the government to force social media to delete content that the government deems as "crazy lies". It is clearly against the first amendment.

Maybe you should read the fucking article. He's saying the government should create regulations and corporate practices to make sure people can't say "crazy lies" on the Internet. What he is saying is beyond allowing social media to delete whatever they want, he wants the government to force social media to delete content that the government deems as "crazy lies". What he is saying is directly against the US first amendment.