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... you can use "gisdev"'s filters and remove ALL shorts. Period.
... you can use "gisdev"'s filters and remove ALL shorts. Period.
While Trump personally would prefer the Ellisons, and maybe USoA regulators will aquice, in the rest of the (relevant) Jurisdictions WBD + Netflix has more chances chances to pass than WBD + Paramount Skydance
Think about it, the biggest overlap between WBD+Netflix is in streaming, with a smallish overlap in games (WBDs gamin g division is small, netflix's is ultra tiny), TV and movie production (WBD is big, netflix is mid), and catalogue (WBD is hugeand spans decades, netflixis small, and spans 3 lustres tops). Meanwhile, Netflix has no OtA or cable channels.
Meanwhile, paramunt has every-single-one of the things WBD has, and in comparable sizes... so, more overlap, bigger consolidation, less competition. The EU, UK, JP, BR and CR and CN, and more regulators around the planet will not like that one bit.
Except that's not what's being sold. Discovery Global, will house CNN and other cable channels. So the argument that Paramount already has a bunch of TV channels doesn't really amount to anything as the TV channels aren't part of the deal.
Therefore, frankly, the overlap of Netflix and HBO Max is what we're discussing here and that Venn diagram is a lot closer to a perfect circle whereas Paramount and HBO Max is more of a circle within a larger circle.
You are wrong: "In the days following the announcement of that deal, Paramount launched its hostile bid, taking directly to shareholders an offer of $30 per share, all cash for the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its TV networks. " emphasis mine
source? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/0...
Paramount wants CNN and the cable channels as part of their takeover deal whereas with Netflix they would be split off
More to my point. more overlap in the case of paramount less overlap in the case of netflix.
While Trump personally would prefer the Ellisons, and maybe USoA regulators will aquice, in the rest of the (relevant) Jurisdictions WBD + Netflix has more chances chances to pass than WBD + Paramount Skydance
I seriously doubt that Netflix or Paramount want to stop operating the combined company in the UK, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, or even Brazil. Which is what would happen if those foreign regulators said no, and a merger proceeded anyway with the blessing of uncle sam.
Think about it, the biggest overlap between WBD+Netflix is in streaming, with a smallish overlap in games (WBDs gamin g division is small, netflix's is ultra tiny), TV and movie production (WBD is big, netflix is mid), and catalogue (WBD is hugeand spans decades, netflixis small, and spans 3 lustres tops). Meanwhile, Netflix has no OtA or cable channels.
Meanwhile, paramunt has every-single-one of the things WBD has, and in comparable sizes... so, more overlap, bigger consolidation, less competition. The EU, UK, JP, BR and CR and CN, and more regulators around the planet will not like that one bit.
Apple won't be releasing any source code, just thinking different.
Disney and Oracle will release the hounds.
Apple is not obliged to release Darwin, as it is BSD licences, yet they do. That in itself is commendable.
As other commenters said, they maintain WebKit (GPLv2). And many smaller browsers live of Apple's webkit.
Other lesser projects abound.
PS1: Ditto with Sonny, they not release the source of the PS5, but contribute A LOT to Upstream xBSD
PS2: Many people at apple and Sone will be watching very closely the Ladybird project. Not because of it being a browser with a new and very strong security foundation, but because is one of the few browsers with a BSD license, which is what these two companies preffer.
When there were only 3 button mice, middle click paste was absolutely fantastic, used it estensively in the late '90s and early '00s in many unix workstations at Uni and early work.
But nowadays, the world is dominated by trackpads with gestures that do not have 3rd buttons, and mouses where the middle button is also a scrollwheel, leading to the aforemntioned acttidents.
As a matter of fact, I map the third wheel to "open link in new tab"
So yes, get rid of third button paste by default. Put whatever default you think is more sensible, not necesarily my preference, but put something else in the third button
Phone RAM directly competes with Laptop RAM, Compact Desktop RAM and server RAM
The same RAM chips (LP-DDR5) that go into a phone can go into a desktop or laptop, either directly soldered to the MoBo, or in CAMM2 or SO-CAMM 2 modules. And in servers, using, again SO-CAMM2 (while SO-CAMM2 can be used in laptops and compact desktops, it was designed primarely for server and datacenter applications).
No need to reconfigure the production lines, change the lithography masks, change procecess or anything. Literaly the same chips in the same organic encapsulations with the same pin distribution.
You are already behind.
In the press conference, Trump said he does not want the legitimate winner (MarÃa Corina Machado) to take over.
In fairness, the winner was Edmundo Gonzalez-Urrutia. Yes, that guy onl won because MariaCorina could not run, so she raised his hand. But still HE is the president, and SHE has already confirmed she will "just" be the VP
PS: In Venezuela the Executive VP has more power and attributions than a VP in the USoA
'nuff said.
The opposition leader USA is backing has won no election.
The venezuelan contitution demands that detailed results of the elections be presented 90 days after the fact. This has not happened, so, Maduro's govt violated the constitution. the "Moral power" (in venezuela we are a 5 powers state, while the USoA only has 3) is obliged to inhabilitate any civil servant that does not comply with their duties (like electoral functionaries not showing results in 90 days, or electoral supreme court not ruling on elecoral matters in 120 days), that also has not happened.
Meanwhile, the opposition showed reasonable proof that they won in 2024 3:1...
What I want to see is if Trump's claims that the US will now be magically in control of Venezuela holds true because without that removing this guy is pointless. His VP (who is likely just as corrupt as Maduro is) will just come to power and then what's even the point of all this?
Maybe our government has infiltrated Venezuela's enough that we can follow this arrest with a coup that might actually change things there. I kind of doubt this administration planned that far ahead though.
The constitution says that if the president's absence is permanent (which it is), elections have to be had in 90 days. And the law here does not has provisions like in ucraine, that elections can not be held during invasion. Also, there is no invasion.
In the next days, watch closely if they call for elections or not. that will be the clue/cue for more actions. Either more "surgical extractions" if there are no elections, or wait and see if there are elections.
As a veteran of the last Regime Change/ Nation Building exercise that ended in failure, I can only think that capturing (kidnapping) Maduro was the easy part. Trump has publicly declared we're going to run Venezuela now. But removing Maduro doesn't remove his government. Marudo was just the top of the pyramid. All the other layers are still in place. So I don't know how Trump is supposed to run Venezuela, unless he proceeds with some sort of invasion. I highly doubt the rest of the Venezuelan government will simply surrender to American occupation. If anything, I think removing Maduro was a symbolic exercise for an ego-driven and insecure President, who disparately craves attention and demands respect and fear. Imho. Maduro was a marginal leader, and if anything his replacement will be far more competent and more resilient than Maduro was.
Keep on doing extractions on people with tribunal issued capture orders and bounties on their heads, and keep issuing tribunal capture orders and bounties until moral improves, and chavistas that want to play ball rise through the ranks by sheer attrition.
Slow and costly in the short term, but effective and cheaper than boots on the ground in the long term
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Just turned up in Russia. I think you'll start to see the the high level actors that were complicit in Cartel de los Soles activity rushing the exits now.
That was the rumour in the early morning. The rumour now in mid-day is that she is in caracas, in hididng from other factions of the chavista apparatus that want her head.
May I remind you that unlike Padrino and Cabello, she (and her brother Jorge, president of the Assamblea) do not have tribunal issued capture orders, or bounties on their head, like Maduro, and other high raking figures of chavismo do. Those are first in line for future extractions.
I see so many crazy people comparing ruzzian invasion of Ukraine and this arrest of a specific dictator... if USA really wanted to do something useful, Trump would have arrested putin in Alaska instead of rolling out the red carpet (while yelling at Zelensky).
In any case, how about taking a logical step and doing the same thing in ruzzia, iran, north korea, cuba?
Putin and Kim have Nukes, and targets that the USoA values. Maduro has no nukes.
I'm guessing Petro is going to be a LOT less "argumentative" now.
His administration already rejected/condemned the attack and extraction.
Petro is not worried, there is plenty people in line in from of him with USoAn court aprehension orders and bounties on their head before the USoA even thinks about snatching him.
While the trump admin shows a blantant disregard for intl and national law, the modicum of pretense they still have is towards internal law, and Petro is not a wanted man in the USoA, yet
Have you reconsidered a computer career?