The 50% question is where you will find the reason.>50% public ownership means public control. 50% public ownership just means a bailout.

Ah that old chestnut. Yes, European NATO countries have long benefited from being backed by US military guarantees. But this was in no way something the US were against. After the cold war, the US were encouraging a move away from national defence and instead towards European NATO members specializing their military for a few specific tasks. This was optimization for supporting the US military in a post-cold war world. The US didn't want a strong Europe, they wanted a Europe dependent on the US:

Now there has been a change, and while it will take years to build up European independent security, the process is ongoing and Trump has ensured it is not going to stop.

We have already started to hear whining from the US about getting exactly what they ordered when European NATO is investing more and more into European-made weapons instead of buying American. Maybe we are not so many years away from export restrictions on some high-tech weapons from the EU to the US, just like the US does not sell it's best weapons to NATO allies.

Ah yes, the brilliant master plan to destabilize the US by posting comments on Slashdot. It will surely collapse any moment now.

At least Clippy never stole your data. He was like regular Jar-Jar instead of Sith Lord Jar-Jar.

Naah, with Lost ending, no-one was entering those codes anymore which caused it.

Not to mention they were at the forefront of the move from just making singles to making albums in pop music, a trend which has really reversed only fairly recently when streaming took over.

"The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves"

Iran also has a regular army which is separate from the IRGC and is secular vs. the IRGC which is connected to the Mullahs.

Looking at the size and territory (mountains) of Iran, the US would be unable to effectively invade Iran without the draft.

With 92 million inhabitants, Iran is hardly a small country..

You seem to be assuming everything age restricted is only available for adults. What about say content restricted for ages under 13?

This whole faffing around with scanned photos etc. will never work well and is a privacy/identity theft disaster in the making. The EU age verification app is better, since it doesn't transfer private information to the online service, other than the minimal "yes, I am at of least the required age". Pass tokens are not reused which prevents tracking and unused passes are renewed automatically every three months.

But to use it, you need to have set it up with a passport, electronic ID, bank account codes etc. Will everyone have access to such a trusted provider (obviously no)? Will everyone have a smartphone whenever they might need to verify their age? No matter how good the technical solution, there are still issues with having this in place at all and there is a host of problems waiting down the road also for the EU implementation, starting with actual children and immigrants not having access.

Which is no surprise, if you are working on a civilian ship and get asked if you want to have a go at it and that there is only a 30% chance you die trying, chances are you'll say no thank you.

Well technically to capture the heat you have to move the heat away from the chips to heat up something you want to heat up instead. The first part of that process, capturing heat from chips is in fact the same as cooling them. So the data centres are already doing half of the job (at least half of their part).

What remains is to channel the captured heat into a medium that can transport the heat away to where it's needed. E.g. something hot liquid in pipes moving the heat to nearby apartment blocks and the cooled liquid back to the data centre for another round. Of course those apartment blocks have to be changed to use capture the heat from the water, but overall you can really make this work.

The biggest challenge is the usual issue that in summer there is often excess heat everywhere anyway, so the whole recycling of heat would work better if the recipient needs it all year round (e.g. some kind of industrial use, like say ovens in the food industry)

There is typically some corporate data security regulations on what public systems you can use to communicate company internal information with. Corporate does not like every team using whatever they want, because this means more systems to keep tracking for security breaches, proper user account closure when people leave etc. Or worse, no tracking because they aren't even aware of them.

So it makes sense to reduce the number of available tools that are acceptable to use. And if Teams is already installed for everyone... why greenlight something like Slack? Why use JIRA if DevOps is already available? Currently they are trying to get everyone on Copilot instead the competition because it's already everywhere for every user.

It's really the same bundling issue that made Microsoft temporarily win the browser wars with IE6 back in the day.

I remember Slashdot before all the whining about American politics in the comments..