Comment Re:I'm an American (Score 1) 152
If I lost all of my property I would want to die
Lies.
If I lost all of my property I would want to die
Lies.
What happened 60 days ago that Microsoft wants you to forget...
Won't you buy me
a color TV.
Dialing for Dollars
is trying to find me.
horseback riding
If the saddle isn't secured, some people end up riding underneath the horse.
once the Chinese want to add the rest of the world to their market
That would be yesterday. The rest of the world (not just the USA) is worried about China's monopoly in rare earths (magnetics) and battery manufacturing capacity (of which they have about 80%). Both of these are dual use resources. Both for civilian EVs as well as military uses.
In all fairness, she didn't get the chance, but she said that she would not change policies from those followed by Biden in any noticeable way. He was having people "snatched off the street" in anti-genocide protests, and they both fully supported the Gaza genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Or if it's developed in China, where gouging for healthcare is prohibited. Already a lot of new drugs are being developed in China, licensed by US Pharma, produced mostly in China, imported to the US, and sold for 10-100 times the price.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.substack.com%2Fpub%2F...
Well, when the only choices we're allowed to vote for are 'fast fascism' or 'slow fascism' it's easy to understand why a lot of people don't vote. As someone here said in 2016, "If two people are sawing off my legs why do you think I should thank the one who's doing it slower?"
I blame MBAs for that situation, mostly. To people who've never done the job programmers are fungible inputs, like plastic or solder. "A programmer is a programmer, right? If they can write device drivers to make my hardware work they should also be able to create a usable interface to it, build the database, configure communications protocols, and make the whole package secure! It's all programming, so what's the problem?"
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen