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by throwaway210222 5y ago
No, no. Ukraine paid the 'entry price' that was asked of them to be protected by USA, (and France, UK, Russia, China) by surrendering their nuclear weapons. This was a level of vulnerability and trust in third parties the good cit
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> America is preventing Russia from antagonizing Europe? Er, Ukraine is in Europe. Out of 10, how would you rate the USA's efforts at stopping Russia there so far?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Make it illegal for providers to send location data anywhere other than the tower hardware. The entire planet's mobile telephone system would then stop working. As far back as GSM, your approximate location is continually updated
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Indeed, which is why my trusted definition of 'senior' is that you have a budget and can sign off on a decent signed purchase order. There are very few senior people.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> There is a secret court called FISA, which we all know about and therefore isn't secret. Its not the existence of the court that is a secret. Its the cases it hears and the rulings it makes that are secret. From you. Quoting you:
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Or France. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/us-secret-assistanc...
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Fair point. 2/3 of the armada (modulo dry dock) is still coming to the fight.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> China could nuke US carrier groups assuming their satellites aren't taken out first. That spells game over for US projection of power if successful. Incorrect, the USA will probably just shrug, and call in the other 11 super-carri
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> US really need to think hard on why Huawei gets ahead in 5G. Good question, and a lot of of the answer is truly banal. The GSM/UMTS/LTE/… telephone network was designed on the concept of standardised, layered message pro
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> It would be like Biden/Trump ordering JP Morgan to finance Boeing deals, and to coordinate it all with the Treasury and the Central Bank. No need for that - the US government already finances Beoing's deals. There is a reason
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Odd that an academic paper would fail to mention the work of the UK company Bell Pottinger that conducted a deliberate, paid Twitter campaign with thousands of false account in 2018 with the intent to stoke a racial war (nevermind overtur
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
No.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. So lets deal with Russia today, and de-fang the USA tomorrow at 9am. No? Why not? See?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> accidentally killing civilians ? When you are killing children using rocket propelled explosives deliberately launched into crowded urban areas, from high-altitude unmanned vehicles, operated by professional soldiers an ocean away, on
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> but drawing an equivalence of wrongdoing to another wrongdoer does not exonerate the former (Russia). Incorrect, it completely exonerates them if you are going to merrily let the the other wrongdoer carry on with the offending behavio
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
The USA imports about 3.7 million b/d in 2021. Russia is now the second largest supplier at 844,000 (May 2021).
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Can you give some evidence for this wild claim that Covid was a naturally occurring event. Sure: https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JVI.00902-20 Read it (and the referenced documents) until you tru
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Surely those existing long-term contracts would have clauses guaranteeing driver availability* and deliveries? Which, if this is indeed the problem *, could now be voided? [Out of curiosity, which drivers were delivering all the fuel a few
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> That imposes a pretty big risk on any such strategy. Surely long term haulage contracts would deal with that?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
If this is true, what is preventing a British equity company from leasing a few dozen trucks, hiring from said 100k pool and arbitraging against the incredibly low 'slave labour' wages? Presuming of course the customers want their
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
If the tech firms are that desperate they can try dropping the must-be-US-timezone from their remote jobs descriptions. Or someone has to sit them down and explain what 'nightmare scenario' really means and when to use it.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Surely - if this is your goal - then its better to focus on encouraging a 50:50 representative choice of candidates and humbly accept whoever the men and women then chose to represent them? You may just get a large group of competent wome
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Implicit in your world-view is that its the women who voted for the women.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> And accurate representation a good thing What if all the women decide a particular set of men best represent their values and priorities? That would be a bad thing?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Whether he should be pardoned? How do you pardon a foreign citizen?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> He can side with whoever he likes. Doesn’t mean anyone has to like him for it. Indeed, hate away. But its a big jump to imprisoning (or as some would like killing) him. Just as - and focus here - its not ok to extradite atheists to S
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Surely, as a non-American he could chose any side he felt like? Much like I can - randomly or otherwise - choose any faction in the Nigerian elections. Or is their some planet-wide law that he fell under?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> they know when a scientist is communicating with the intent to persuade rather than inform. Persuasion is part of a good scientist's responsibilities to his/her community. What is not is: "Here is our explanation, add it
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Yip, their is a rogueish honour to admitting that they were hostages and getting it over with without delay or fuss. Instead the USA has to go through all this undignified confession theatre; its beneath a country with as proud a history as
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
And somewhere in between those two is "don't be in the wrong place when we are rounding up people we don't like in a country we just invaded, else you might just spend 15 years in an island prison without charge, representati

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