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Comment Re:Every accusation is an admission (Score 1, Informative) 84

Trump is little more than a puppet for the Heritage Foundation. Trump hands out pardons to exactly who they tell him to. Case in point. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fartic...

This is about buying future power.

Comment Re:SlashDot is now a dead political site (Score 3, Interesting) 84

Forgive me if I'm skeptical of a man who unleashed grift after grift on simpletons. Like the latest example of his golden cell phone. He accepted orders and has delivered nothing. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.co...

Bibles, booze, watches, clothes, all manner of tacky shit https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fp...

Pretty soon he's going to surpass Gene Simmons on marketing made in China garbage.

Comment Re:Of course it does (Score 2) 58

the moment SpaceX makes a mistake and knocks out a Ukrainian drone on a mission, they'll be guilty for everything.

Simple solution to that, give the Ukrainian government control/access to the services operating over their territory. Provide them the tools and let them make the mistakes.

US and UK bombers essentially just opened the doors above German cities and let the unguided bombs fall wherever. We're not doing that anymore because most of the world learned that despite all this, they didn't exactly surrender.

Technology of the time made accurate targeting very difficult and far more dangerous. Even today, accurate weapons are significantly more expensive than inaccurate ones.

Comment Take action? (Score 4, Interesting) 58

One thing Starlink could do is give the ukrainian government temporary (until the war ends) full access/control of all data flowing through the starlink network from any terminals within internationally recognised ukrainian territory.

Make it too dangerous for the russians to use, but still usable for ukraine.

Comment Re:Of course it does (Score 1) 58

Indeed. The Germans started strategic bombing of civilian areas about 88 years ago, and in fact, the German president was just in Guernica paying his respects to the victims of that attack: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fwo....

We haven't stopped strategic bombing of civilian areas just because they don't work, it's also because it amounts to war crimes. Britain bombed Germany like that as a response to Germany doing it to Britain and that being the only response Britain could muster at the time, but RAF Bomber Command has always been down played because of the perception that it was wrong; they didn't even get a memorial until 2012.

Russia is behaving like it's still the 1940s. 27 Russian soldiers dead for every square kilometre of Ukraine they've taken. They don't value their own lives, and so they certainly don't value those from other countries.

Comment I have this problem with Slashdot (Score 1) 72

I do a lot of browsing using Seamonkey, and that browser cannot handle some fairly recent changes to Javascript. Most Slashdot functions don't need them but the login process does. I logon there by moving the cursor just to the SE of the "Submit" button, then slowly North until my logon appears. After that I'm home free.

Comment Battle of Sluys (Score 3, Interesting) 15

The article linked shows a painting depicting the battle of Sluys, what this article skips is that back then only the nobles were taken prisoner (because they could be ransomed), anyone else was killed. Going back to the main article, Geoffrey Chaucer is mentioned as a soldier and diplomat who had been ransomed back in 1359.

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