"Information wants to be free" is the kind of idealism that ignores a lot of reality in order to work. Information has never been truly free, nor does it have desires.
Err tariffs and duties are always paid on revenue and not profits. This is just a reminder for people to remember to call things what they are. This is "someone else pays" falsehood reframed in a different way. Costs that eat into profits are redistributed to customers.
Ironically for your comment Just Eat Takeaway has its drivers on employment contracts in the country where it is headquartered and doesn't pretend the people are self employed.
It would be good if this were enforced everywhere across all companies thought.
if only the installed cooling towers like so many other nuclear power plants in the world.
France is not an outlier in cooling designs. The choice of cooling towers is entirely dependent on location. Just under half of the nuclear plants in the world employ open loop cooling, just under half of France's designs do too. Closed loop cooling is incredibly water intensive losing a lot to evaporation.
Don't take it personally. Slashdot moderators are people. Statistically some of them are idiots.
You're promoting worse security in a time where security is probably the biggest concern in IT. I think your comment is dangerous and I thank the world you aren't in charge of determining product features.
I wonder if they realize that the money they get through deals like his are still subject to Congressional budgetary controls. The Reagan administration didnâ(TM)t either ( or chose to ignore the constitutional limits on presidential power) when they tried to use money from clandestine sales of arms to the Iranians to set up a fund they could use to spend without Congressional control.
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.