The only problem with this is you have to go stand in the sunlight to charge it.

These types of draconian laws will ruin the internet if they are ratified.

Itâ(TM)s easy to switch the search default in Firefox to whatever you want. I use duckduckgo, personally.

You don't get to come back a year (or a century) later and say, "Hey, I just found out what that painting is actually worth. Give it back."

Actually... Why not? You said yourself you're in the wrong and you certainly acted in bad faith, so why shouldn't your victim have their demand to annul the deal enforced?

As opposed to people with nativist and inward looking views, companies like Apple HAVE to work overseas, and if you keep following the US govt kool-aid, then you will only be able to do business with Western Europe and other allies.

Try to understand that a big part of the world actually sees the US as the big bad empire that they portray China to be and it makes sense that they ask Stewart to tone it down a bit.

It's not that China is a big bad empire, it's that Xi is an emperor who's unable to placate his people with promises of a better tomorrow due to China's economy having caught up enough that the rubber band has gone slack and dictatorships being inherently incompatible with the rule of law which a strong economy requires, so his only hope for survival is to placate them with promises of glory which makes a confrontation with China and West pretty much inevitable, and Xi knows that. It's the same deal as with Russia, US is simply being wiser than EU was.

Basically, what's business to Apple is a weapon to China, and China is a fundamentally hostile nation to anyone who doesn't think Xi would make a great world leader, which he wouldn't judging by everything I know about life in China and also because he's a genocidal tyrant. That's not "nativist" or "inward looking", that's simply realism.

I recently saw a very insightful interview where dictatorships are defined by things you cannot criticize, like the CCP in China, Kim Jong-un in Korea, etc. In the US the thing that will absolutely get you canceled will be talking about the Israeli lobby and the influence such a small group holds over US culture in general.

Seriously? You're equating getting canceled with getting disappeared?

Note that such a system would also prevent Slashdot from leaning left and censoring conservatives, which they're doing now by institution an idiotic "karma". Slashdot karma is all about politics. And Slashdot is left leaning. One could express that cutely as "CowboyNeal is an imbecile".

But you're not being censored. Your comment is right here, readable for all who care to engage with users with bad reputation. That you have managed to earn a bad reputation through your own actions does not reflect badly on Slashdot or CowboyNeal, it reflects badly on you. It is the consequence of your actions, in other words, your karma.

That most people ignore you doesn't mean you're being censored, it just means that they think you and your opinions are not worth listening to. That your response to this is that the government should force them to pay attention just serves to demonstrate that their judgement is completely right. It's not a political judgement, it's a judgement about you as a person.

Given your vitriol here, I think you know that too, and judging by the fact that you keep posting on Slashdot despite hating the place I doubt you're more welcome elsewhere either. So perhaps you should reflect on the only common factor for a change, try to see your self from other people's eyes and maybe, just maybe accept that you might actually be the one who's in the wrong and needs to change? It's painful, but so is eternal bitterness, and there is no government big enough to make other people like you, so those are your options.

Reddit used to have principles that aligned with the open source model. Now they are removing mods that protested their API pricing. They have changed and that is how they are killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Everyone was cheering for them to succeed. Not anymore. The good will people had towards reddit is gone. They killed it.

It's going to cost $20mil a year to run Apollo with the current API pricing. It's not sustainable. Reddit is killing themselves like Digg did.

Einstein's letter that called to start research on a nuclear bomb predicted that the bomb would be so big it could only be delivered by boat. Making the nuke is the first step. Miniaturization and vectors improvement are different efforts. People willing to bet that rockets improvement or nuke miniaturization were not around the corner were the crazy ones. It is a bit hard to understand in our era where we refuse to anticipate predictable progresses but the biases were opposite at that time. To paraphrase Arthur Clarke: "I predicted manned missions to Saturn in 2001. No one batted an eye. If I were to predict that by that time USSR would have fallen, I would never have been taken seriously"

I felt the line about the military not knowing what they wanted it for was unfair. Strategists of this time were trying to not redo the mistakes of the past by preparing for the previous war. They had to have plans for all-out nuclear wars, small scale tactical nuclear exchanges, hybrid nuclear-infantry assaults, space wars, arctic wars, etc... Read about the theory of nuclear warfare, it is fascinating and chilling. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two uses of nuclear devices in conflict, were used to raze towns but a lot of different uses were envisioned: to create EMPs, to wipe out a navy, to dig out a lunar base. The radius of destruction of a Tsar Bomb seems ridiculously high when you center it on Manhattan, but when you use it to damage a spread out navy, it becomes small quickly. Bigger bombs led to consider different uses, so "make a bigger bomb, we will find a use for that" was not as stupid as it sounded, military-wise.

Hopefully we see more races like that.

There is more than that at stake. People are going to evaluate how good CCP's style of economic management actually is. 2008 handling of the crisis was mediocre in EU and meh in the US. Evergrande's default is not s surprise like Lehman's was. The govt decided to not bail it out and apparently believes it has all the tools to prevent a spiral of defaults. If that spiral happens, that's an indictment to the CCP's management. If Evergrande's fall does not goes any other fall, that's a huge success for CCP.

They probably honestly believe it and that's probably also a bad move.

How long before people who consider "intellectual property" to be a fraud will be considered PLA sleeping agents?

We indeed have the numbers, and getting vaxxed reduces the contaminations by a number ranging from 35% to 60%. That roughly means it divides R0 by 2. Individuals may not care about a 50% decrease of personal risks, but for fighting the pandemic, that's a great tool.