Well, individual responsibility isn't exactly compatible with totalitarianism, at least not far past the imposed duty to obey. Policies that put the government in control of more things are compatible. Policies that put the government in charge of everything (i.e. enabling socialism or fascism) are totalitarian.

I guess we just needed to iron out some cultural/linguistic misunderstandings. Works for me.

"that isn't an excuse to let them take market share from Western companies."

Is that how you intended to word it? If so, I may have been misunderstanding you for some time.

Oh, and by "real government", are you saying that with tongue-in-cheek, or are you actively promoting totalitarianism? I'm hoping the former.

Isn't there already meaningful competition at the low end of the market? Mid-range too.

Except in the case of any other similar incident reported here. Look at the past headlines. This one is unusual in comparison. Most use the passive voice. this is the only one that assigns blame in this way, even under identical contexts.

And I've found a way to prove that bias by simply reviewing past headlines for similar incidents.

Then maybe you should stop thinking he's all powerful?

I thought they had to be Southern.

I don't know how the UK counts unemployment, but in the US, there is more than one measure. U3 is what usually gets reported (jobless people actively looking for work) but there's also U6, which captures people who have given up on finding a job or can only find part-time work.

So, you're saying that the point of cars and trains was to profit off of the destruction of the horse industry? That doesn't make much sense. Doesn't it make more sense that they were built because they could move things and people much faster and more efficiently than horses could? Henry Ford didn't hate horses. He didn't secretly loathe whip-makers. He did hate cows, but he didn't build an industry that made them obsolete. He tried to do that in his spare time, for free.

Maybe they can delay for a day, but at what cost? If your guesses are accurate that is. For all we know, what looks to you like a one-day delay is actually a three-month delay, they just had a different launch scheduled the next day.

To me at least, launch windows makes more sense than just making non-retail employees work on a federal holiday.

Wait, signing it would piss off the tech sector, which you then say want this signed? It can't be both. And are you suggesting that the Democrats who wrote and introduced this bill did so in order to hamper his Presidential ambitions? I guess that could be the case, but it doesn't seem very likely.

And you meant "they're quietly gutting"

They're requiring that OSs collect age information?

That's not the justification being used. From the summary it looks like they justify it on the basis that a decentralized project can't easily and safely store those user details. Which is essentially, "it's too hard to expect us to do that". But any other OS maker faces the same hurdle, so I don't see how it is fair to exempt any of them. Why can Linus ignore it, but MS can't?