I understand it completely. Because I understand it completely, I will eat my own gun before I have anything to do with people who strap bombs to their own children and tell them that paradise awaits.

Yep. And in such a situation, mercenary considerations take priority: better to *not* throw in with the guys you have to pat down for suicide vests.

32 bit OS's coming back because no one will be able to afford 4GB :-)

Crucial was always my go-to for RAM upgrades. I'm getting my son some upgrades for Christmas, and when I saw desktop memory prices, I was stunned. It's the same thing everywhere. "AI vendors are grabbing all the RAM they can get their hands on, dramatically driving up the price".

Syria says "Hi".

We're the United States. The world's most powerful country. Outside of Russia and China, all countries are "small".

And Russia and China... they have nukes. Attacking them means WWIII. If you think this is a good idea, by all means, run for President on your End Humanity platform.

Dangling NATO membership in front of Georgia without a plan for how that would actually work is one of those showy performance theatre things. Didn't work for W with Georgia, didn't work for Obama with Ukraine, and it won't work now.

You libs crack me up. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry each spent four years pretending like showy diplomacy with Putin was an adequate substitute for demonstrating military strength and the will to employ it. Now that he's Trump's problem, y'all pretend like you've always seen him for unadulterated pure evil...the solution to which isn't deterrence by military strength but more performance theatre.

The ones who mindlessly walk into traffic in while staring at their phones, not even bothering to see if they're even at a crosswalk?

Coca cola, Frito-Lay, and the Monsanto Corporation did not force San Francisco to give out free stuff to homeless people. San Francisco voters did that.

Perhaps blue cities can get out from under the weight of their bullshit policies by suing their own voters?

Same as when a drunk falls onto subway tracks: it's capitalist society's fault.

"Society" isn't a monolith. Choosing to dwell on the bad to the exclusion of good is just that, a choice.

Plenty of clear-eyed, clear-headed yet well-adjusted individuals have survived and found some measure of happiness, if not prosperity, under Communism, serfdom, and everything before and since. "The injustice of it all" is demonstrably *not* too much for people who are capable of compartmentalizing.

Yeah. Better lock it down so it only allows posting on slashdot.

Yeah, because it's the nomenclature that's uncomfortable, not the reality it described.