Posts by Potemkine!

Re: Ah.

So no german cars or brands owned by German manufacturers, no Renault (because Louis Renault made trucks for the Wehrmacht during WW2), no GM and associated brand (because it owned Opel during WW2), No japanese cars either, because of what Japan did during WW2. Let's not talk about Russian or Chinese brands, both countries being dictatorships....

I wonder if there's any car maker that wasn't associated with atrocities at a moment or another?

Thanks for the information!

Re: Ffffft

Absolutely. They are exploiting people and just ask them to be glad to be exploited.

Mr. Murthy, if you want people not to be in need of a second job, the solution is easy: pay them decently.

Re: this could be a big deal

Name and shame please.

Those companies should get a little back of the dirty things they do.

Re: how about

I'm generally a nice person.

That's why you'll never become a billionaire.

Re: Toxic

Oh, I understood you said Alcohol was not poisonous. My bad.

There are enough poor people worldwide in a need of a job for him not to worry about this.

Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

What a huge load of BS.

In or out, EU is still used as a scapegoat by all these nationalist nutheads. No surprise, they need one to explain their absolute failures and shift the blame to somebody else.

UK out of the EU is a great news for the EU. When member that made everything possible to block any progress in the Union, who opted out of most of the initiatives and was a US trojan in the EU decides to leave, it's a good thing for all the other members.

Or we don't have ANY tracking of people at all, whether opt in/out, anonymous or otherwise.

You are a bloody communist, aren't you? /s

Ah, at last!

Re: So the military still hasn't learned to control Reply All

The first mistake was not to use Bcc to send mails to 10,000+ recipients.

Re: “My Lifetime as a Lettuce”. The memoirs of Liz Truss

Please show me where in the withdrawal agreement EU said that UK will be included in the 'Horizon' program whatsoever?

Re: here's an idea

You don't get the point. Regulators are unhappy because of the Cloud Act.

Er, yes.

The US say "the balloon manufacturer has a direct relationship with China's military and is an approved vendor of the PLA". This declaration could well be misleading. Who is this manufacturer? Does it only work for PLA? Does it make also civilian stuff like weather balloons or other things?

Boeing has a direct relationship with US military and is an approved vendor of the USAF. Pentagon's declaration looks like FUD. And as Boeing was awarded contracts for imaging radar satellites, there may well be Boeing's made spying devices flying over China every day. I also doubt China will use this excuse to ban Boeing, because it isn't their interest to do so. I also believe US ban of Chinese tech is not always related to security issues but to protectionism.

Let's be clear, I'm all in favour that industries which were delocalized in China come back, for instance for reasons related to human rights, but I've got the feeling the US intentions are not clear, they use security reasons to squash competition in selected fields, but still let US companies exploit Chinese misery to produce stuff at a low cost to maximize their gains.

Re: "Facebook parent could then offer that data to other advertising clients"

You mean : Facebook parent will then sell that data to other advertising clients.

FTFY

Re: Bad move to know too much

Been there, done that.

We would probably have found a way to disable the device anyway. It was also simpler times, when people weren't afraid of everything.

<insert Franklin's quote about security and freedom here>

Is that so clear?

The Wikipedia's article about this said that ". However, Walsingham and Cecil realised that that decree also impaired their ability to entrap Mary. They needed evidence for which she could be executed based on their Bond of Association tenets. Thus Walsingham established a new line of communication, one which he could carefully control without incurring any suspicion from Mary". To what point did they modify the deciphered text to reach their goal or manipulate Mary to reach that goal?

Mary "was not permitted legal counsel, not permitted to review the evidence against her, nor to call witnesses. Portions of Phellipes' letter translations were read at the trial".

REalpolitik-ally speaking, her execution even if potential unfair was an important political move, as was the execution of Louis XVI or Ceaușescu. If the pretender to the supreme power is dead, it's one problem less to deal with