To be perfectly honest, I lost track of who I was replying to and who the idiot was. I guess it's me for delivering snark without proper target identification. Apologies.

Latitude is not the only factor. Geography and topology also matter. Although, understanding that requires a high school level of science literacy and as the other guy pointed out, this is a US website after all.

Ah yes. This being a US website means we all have to pretend that the rest of the world doesn't exist.

So... Orban mismanaged the weather?

Just because something is unknown to you doesn't mean it's unknown to everyone. We're not all as stupid and uninformed as you.

Unusual heat and cbold aren't the only ways a broken planet will kill us.

See that's the narrative that Americans love to tell themselves. But in reality the Chinese know that hidden backdoors don't stay hidden, and their national interest is best served by making software and devices secure for everyone. They don't need to spy on their citizens with secret software backdoors when cameras are on every corner and social credit records are openly implemented.

They saw the idiotic attempts the Americans made with stuff like the clipper chip. They won't make that same mistake.

That's true to a certain degree in all countries. But let's not pretend that the couch fire that is the EU is comparable to the entire neighbourhood burned to ashes that is the USA.

Trying to tell an American to stop screaming shit about socialism is like trying to tell a small dog to stop barking.

It has nothing to do with being cowards, they are robots. It's a case of saving a little money at the expense of being excluded from a lot of money.

Piracy laws are very effective... for curbing intentional piracy in businesses because they have too much to lose to break laws like these and they are basically robots with instructions to follow the law.

But they won't outlaw these, what they'd do is prohibit companies that use them from government work/contracts and the government gives away WAY too much of our money to give that up.

Um, if there's one group that's not lazy, it's farmers.

What were more likely to see is Congress passing a law to somehow ban this.

This has to be the most obnoxious demonstration of why open source software culture is the greatest impediment to mainstream adoption of open source software that I've seen in a while.

I don't quite agree with everything you said, but I'm willing to overlook everything because of your correct use of the word fecundity. 10/10, would reply again.