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Comment On the other hand a Russian victory is terrifying (Score 1) 115

Russia does not have the resources to occupy Ukraine. They can invade it they can't occupy it. The amount of troops and resources needed to occupy a hostile nation is extremely well researched and well understood. And Russia with its population of 120 million can't even come close. They don't have the troops they don't have the money and they don't even have the population for it.

If they tried they would get bogged down in insurgency that makes Afghanistan look like a Sunday picnic. Never mind the fact that the rest of the world would be flooding Ukraine with weapons to keep Russia busy.

That means Russia will go straight to genocide. Every single person in Ukraine will be killed or sent to death camps to be worked until they die. The only exception will be people who flee.

That is the only thing Putin can do with the country. Kill everyone there and put his own people in.

Incidentally every single world leader knows that this is going to happen if Russia wins and they are letting Russia continue this war instead of properly arming Ukraine because it's beneficial to them to do so so long as Russia doesn't completely take the region. If Russia takes the region it'll kind of suck for Europe because Europe wants access to Ukraine's bread basket. But it's worth the risk to do this much damage to Russia. At least as far as European leadership is concerned. American too Frankly and I'm not happy about that

Comment Re:Ukraine needs to find the kompromat (Score 1) 115

So it's not that easy to get your hands on something that valuable. If Ukraine had the dirt on Trump then it would already be out there. Putin is completely incompetent at virtually everything. He can't run a country and he can't run a war.

But he is good at two things. First he's good at feudalism. Which is basically the technique of playing all the other people who are trying to replace you as King rat against each other so you stay on top. And the second thing he's really good at is information warfare. It's literally what he did at the the kgb.

Comment Re:It's the fees (Score 1) 128

You can afford a lawyer but you use airbnb?

Airbnb vs hotels is far more than just cost. I regularly stay at Ritz-Carltons and JW Marriotts, I'm even a gold-for-life member. That said yesterday I spent the night in an airbnb, quite a shitty one. Why? Because there was no hotel where we went and we wanted to be walking distance from a concert venue and a brewery.

It's not always about skimping cost.

It's not like airbnb has a good reputation.

Airbnb is fine. It's the hosts who may or may not have a shitty reputation. I had a perfectly flawless experience yesterday. Nice apartment, clean, effortless checkin, effortless checkout. Ticked every box I needed ticked.

Maybe update your biases and assumptions.

Comment Re:Statistics (Score 1) 44

The Saudi firm that bought them has more money than they know what to do with.

Yes, all companies who use leveraged buyouts to acquire another do. And then they run them into the ground making bank from interest all the way home. It helps to understand the play here.

Frankly, this is what should've happened 20 years ago

No, leveraged buyouts of game studios should never happen ever.

Comment Re:You cannot destroy data, harmless or not ... (Score 1) 321

Actually it has everything to do with it.

Nope, it has nothing to do with it as he is literally not being charged with a crime related to a border search. That's not the article the prosecution went with. When you search without warrant or without cause you're not in the process of taking lawful possession of anything. This isn't my view here, this is the prosecution. They themselves are declaring it has nothing to do with it.

Actually the above accurately repreents that section:

The part of the section you are ignoring is that of taking lawful possession. But I'll throw you a bone here, let's assume the government did follow a specific process to lawfully possess specific data, let's make that up and move on to:

"The statute lists examples including knowingly destroying, damaging, wasting, disposing of, or transferring property. It also includes taking “any other action” with respect to the property or records.

This will be an interesting test case for this law, because as far as anyone is concerned he didn't do *anything*. He wasn't even in possession or control of the device at the time. And before you come up with some bullet proof case for him to be found guilty, note that actual lawyers, legal professionals, have opined on this and all have concluded it is the greyest of grey areas with no clear indication of where this can go, and have also concluded this kind of case could make it up to the supreme court as a result.

Do you want to share your legal qualifications and write 20 pages of justification for why you think you are right? If so, I'm all ears (well... eyes, unless you have a legal blog or something).

This is an interesting case, and everyone with a law degree seems to agree the government will have an insanely difficult case to prove that the statute applies, and then an even harder case to prove that he violated it.

Comment Re: uh no (Score 1) 117

I'm sure you're right, but when? The vikings conquered it at one point. The Mongols demanded tribute from parts, and conquered other parts. At one point Lithuania held at least the Ukraine. Most modern states don't really have a long history. I think there was a period where Poland was the aggressive empire. Saying "throughout history" is just wrong.

Comment Re: Fuck Trump (Score 1) 256

There are direct replacements for diesel and gasoline which we know how to make and which we absolutely could use to replace our transportation fuels without switching to EVs. And you can just read about them on the Internet, they are not secret.

If you don't care enough about a subject to learn about it then don't make declarative statements about it.

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