Not sure that makes sense in this context: "each operator improvising its own survival plan in isolation" is the essence of open source. Scratch your own itch. Do it without endless coordination and compromises with other people being required. Explain and share your solution. If others like it, they can use it. If not, they can improvise their own.

Hush now, trumpist, we've debated this to death in another story. You lost.

I think it's a great idea. It was a technically reasonable solution to sharing the costs of hosting and serving content when the web was small. It got run over by spam and trolls and warez eventually but we've learned a lot about content moderation and filtering in the last 25 years.

The main issue is that companies feel they can't monetize their own content if they have no way to control distribution servers, but that should not be a consideration for open source provided it's the kind of open source that is willing to be free to use by everyone.

And just like that.... we're reinventing Usenet.

Violence doesn't work for left-wing causes. The left wing is by nature bad at organizing and following orders and those are what you need to make violence work. Sooner or later any left-wing movement that uses violence turns into a right-wing movement when it inevitably gets taken over from inside by the right wingers.

The left wing is good at being right about basically everything but not good at violence. And that's not going to change because people who are right about things aren't good at following orders.

Trump voters gave up friends and family and husbands and wives. It's tough to turn on Trump after giving up that much for the man

They will not receive the phone and they will not get their deposits back. The regulatory agencies that would punish Trump for doing that are run by Trump. I would have a laugh at their expense except it means those same regulatory agencies aren't going to protect anyone else from anything else..

So they should willingly contribute to the public good by wholly paying for not just the expansion they want themselves but also extra.

Many of them will eventually, by going out of business. That will cause demand destruction. In the meantime they are like the smelly neighbour who showed up at the party, and everyone just has to hold their nose.

I think we're also still "two weeks" away from that imaginary beautiful gift Trump claimed the Iranians offered as well...

I got that, but your delayed shipment could actually say "two weeks" - which would also be funny, actually fitting the meme. Anyway, if this clown would simply stop thinking he knows literally everything, he could get information from others - he literally picked - who do know specific things and give more accurate timelines, which might included, "we don't know", which people would tolerate more than lies, knowing he hates admitting he doesn't know something - which is most things. So much unnecessary stupid with him and his administration. (*sigh*)

I actually can't tell if you're joking or not as either is plausible. Every delayed idea, (concept of a) plan, project, etc... with Trump always seems to be two weeks away. Hell, we're *still* waiting on Infrastructure Week from his first term and his ACA replacement.

Google: Trump two weeks
For Trump, ‘Two Weeks’ Is the Magic Number

Outside of banning the technology there isn't really a hell of a lot you can do. We are not going to build the capacity because that would require tax dollars from extremely wealthy people and those people run the country so no they're not going to pay for you to have electricity.

Our entire civilization is being slowly dismantled. But how about those trans girls in sports am I right? /s

I'm happy the band is available to help out. ;-)

Maybe it's on a cargo ship, stuck in the Persian Gulf. :-)

We lost all the information about your pre-orders, so even if we start selling them we'll never deliver, but we're keeping the money