It's a six mile chunk of rock. Should this really be classified as a Moon? It's basically an asteroid in temporary orbit.

"Look, we know you spend a lot of time connecting to Western sites, but ya'll have been getting a bit uppity again. Don't ever forget who's boss here".

Thing is - this kind of behaviour is what I want to avoid by buying iOS. If I wanted multiple stores - well that capability already exists, I buy Android. There's no monopoly, I can buy an Android device tomorrow. I can buy one right now online.

The argument is made that if alt stores become available then it's a user choice as to whether to install them or not - no-one's forcing me to and I could just stick with Apple's. Well, this behaviour from Sweeney is exactly the counter-argument - the moment alt stores become possible, every corporate exec and their dog will immediately insist on their apps only being available via their store, with none of the same rules as the main one. All the web dark patterns would be back - an obvious one might be no one-click unsubscribe, for example.

It's less open, but that's the trade off I actively chose to make when buying an iPhone over an Android phone. Those who prefer Android made different choices - absolutely no shade on their preference, good for them for picking what they'd prefer. But it's stripping my choice away when people try to turn iOS into the same thing.

LOL. Who's been bitching "You can't deport illegal aliens! I'll lose my gardener!"?

...I thoroughly support whatever measure is necessary to keep Tim flaming Sweeney comically going "whaaaaahhhhhh!!!" every two weeks. Why people are taking this self-interested hustler seriously beats me.

The Netherlands has 3 times the GDP of the largest economy in Africa. $1.228 Trillion compared to South Africa's $410 million. If you add Africa's total GDP up, the Dutch alone make almost half that. Their land area is about 16K square miles. Africa is almost 12 million square miles.

In wealth production, land size doesn't necessarily matter.

The leadership is a reflection of the culture at large. It starts at the very bottom. If a young man decides to better his station in life, and start a business, the first time he starts getting ahead, his father will swoop in and claim it. Because the culture says that the head of the clan owns everything his wives and offspring produce.

It wasn't westerners that came up with the expression "Africa wins again". It was Africans.

"Now Playing Axel F, by Harold Faltermeyer".

It's pretty dishonest for the link to group auto accidents with armed robberies, assault, rape, etc. Violence, as a legal definition, is intentional. Accidents, by their very definition, are not.

Bald eagles in the sky are a natural occurrence. Coms satellites are not.

Spacefaring nations should be held responsible for hauling their dead orbital junk out of the sky. You could do that now with robotic "pusher drones" launched into orbit that are guided from place to place and nudge dead junk into burning up over the ocean.

I did read it. It doesn't state that the dead have rights. It's an argument that they should. And it'll go nowhere. It's not going to turn over centuries of legal standards.

The dead have no rights. Their successors who hold their estate have rights, but not the dead themselves.

Hydrogen is eventually coming one day. Just not for cars. Your grandkids will probably fly on airliners running hydrogen fuel, and there will probably be big power generation facilities running it. But running it on common automobiles cheaply and efficiently is just too big a hump to get over. It's a lot easier for an airport to manage hydrogen than a gas station on the Interstate. As the Japanese have proved, you can do hydrogen automobiles, it's just really, really impractical at that vehicle size. Kind of like Chrysler's 1960's experimentation with gas turbine engines in cars. You can do it, and people will go "Oh, neat", but no one is going to buy one with the hassles involved.

All I want is a mainstream-supported fast, simple, clean browser with an efficient rendering engine. That's it. I don't want an AI "helper". This isn't an Iron Man movie where I'm Tony Fucking Stark talking to JARVIS. And if I wanted an AI to talk to, it wouldn't be a component in my goddam browser.

Build a web portal for that shit and otherwise leave us be.

The same. DC should be a neutral capitol regardless of who is in power. Any future Democrat, Republican, whoever. James Madison had a good idea when he came up with the concept of the non-state capitol district. Besides, the Constitution mandates that the district is ultimately under the exclusive control of Congress anyway:

The DC home rule act was always a mistake and should be reversed. The whole point of the creation of the District of Columbia as a federal capitol of a union of states is that it would be neutral with no interests of its own, unlike states, existing solely as a place for the federal government to conduct its business on behalf of the other states. "Home Rule" has led to its current state, along with demands for statehood and senators, completely contradicting the explicit purpose of the district. Congress should go back to direct district management. DC was never intended as a normal place to live like everywhere else.