Just finding out now that the suffering of Palestinians has been monetized?

Don't stress about it, buy yourself something nice from Hasan's merch store to make yourself feel better. Tell yourself you're on the right side of history™.

Doesn't seem all that difficult to blow up a pipeline or a transmission tower. How many Americans are signing up to repair a transmission tower deep in the Canadian forest?

Don't worry about that buzzing noise that's getting closer to you, I'm sure it's nothing ;-)

It's called "flooding the zone". Steve Bannon described the strategy before Trump came into power the second time, and they're implementing it.

They're openly telling everyone their strategy to manipulate people, and it still works.

And the electricity, and the aluminum, and the potash...

It's really a big joke when Trump says the US doesn't need anything from Canada. It's actually the other way around. In Canada grow our own food so we won't go hungry, and we have lots of water and energy, we don't have any worry about getting cold in the winter. I can't think of anything we need from the US we couldn't also get from Europe or Asia. It would just cost a little more to ship it over the ocean. But really for most products The European and Asian made products are about the same price as the US made products.

I suppose the US midwest could retool their refineries and you could send oil by rail up from the Gulf of Mexico. But I don't think that'll be cheap. I guess you could get potash from further away too, though I hear there's some supply chain problems with getting fertilizer from the Middle East that might be a problem there.

The US has basically the lowest rate for recycling aluminum in the world. I suppose they could put a lot more effort to encourage recycling so they won't need as much aluminum.

But I somehow doubt there's a plan to do any of these things. Americans are just going to have to pay even higher prices for stuff.

Yeah, I actually want him to do it. Why stop a clown when he's making a fool of himself?

Yeah I generally avoid the Star Wars communities. I do really love the OT movies. But there's only so much I can stand being around people that think posting a "Somehow Palpatine Returned" meme for the 1000th time is the height of cleverness. Especially when the movie actually explained how he returned. It seems to me the memes get to to be more important than the movies themselves in those kinds of communities.

I'd join a JJAbramsDidNothingWrong community though.

You still can't say the words "I denounce Hamas."

I don’t even know what you’re complaining about at this point, this whole comment chain is talking about organizations switching between Windows/MS Office and Linux/LibreOffice.

Because you're saying that it's wrong to do that, and giving wrongheaded rationalizations in favour of Microsoft.

It’s also funny that you think rolling your own servers is going to be more secure than using Microsoft’s (or another cloud provider) at this point. Security through obscurity has never been a good idea, and AI has made that strategy 1000x worse.

It's funny that you think putting everything on a MS cloud server isn't security through obscurity. It's just CYA security. Put it on a MS server, if it's compromised blame MS. Enroll the employees in some anti-phishing training, if they get scammed, then it's their fault. But at the end of the day, you're the one that put all of the data on a server that's accessible to everyone on the internet.

Do you even know of the boneheaded things MS has done like leaving backdoors in sharepoint that have been compromised?

And someone can just as easily misconfigure Azure to be insecure as with anything else. Putting stuff on the Cloud does not make it more secure. Where did you ever get that idea? From a Linked In course?

With the cloud, you still have to worry about both the boneheaded things someone at your company might, but add onto that the boneheaded things Microsoft employees AI might do. Pretending like a computer becomes magically secure simply because it's been blessed by Microsoft isn't just security through obscurity, it's security through ignorance. A big problem with security through obscurity is falsely believing something is secure when it isn't. Thinking "that's good enough" and not putting the work in to make it actually secure. That's what Microsoft is promoting. I guess you bought into it.

At the end of the day, someone needs to make decisions about who should have access to what, how to ensure everything works for the people it's supposed to and anyone who's not supposed to have access is forbidden. Sticking something onto the cloud doesn't change that, it just means there's a lot more potential points of attack and more things you have to verify is secure.

I think you’re too far removed from the jobs regular people, if they sit in front of a computer all day.

No, I work at a company that's very dependent on MS. And I build software that the people that sit on a computer all day use. They use the software I've built every day in addition to various Microsoft software that are integrated. I have to sit on a computer all day at work using Microsoft products too. Microsoft is on a steady downward trend. When they had to entice people to pay for licenses, they had an incentive to improve their products. After they move people's data to their servers, what incentive do they have to improve their software? Improving software is just a cost, and once they're the landlord of your data, they'll just collect the rent payments and never improve anything.

It would be a lot of work to transition from Microsoft at my workplace. More work for me than anyone else at my company, I'd wager. I'm willing to do that work because I can see the direction MS is going. And there's a significant amount of work involved with continuing with Microsoft.

I've also worked with all of the big cloud services... AWS, Google, Azure. Cloud services really don't improve all that much. Because why would they? They know it's expensive to migrate to another cloud service, so you won't do that. They're better off spending money on marketing than improving the service.

They're telling you cloud services are great, MS spent billions on Linked In so people will take training courses teaching them this is the best way to do things. But it's really just what's best for them, it's not good for anyone else. You're basically putting all of your company data on a fucking webserver and hoping MS knows what they're doing.

Kinda, but also not really. The automobile seems like the way to go for quite a number of decades pretty much everywhere. Some countries made more effort than others to be car-centric. When it became clear that a car-centric city kinda sucks, some countries made more effort than others to change away from that.

Sure, some places had historic buildings that meant going 100% car-centric impossible so they effort needed to move away from that is less.

But we can't ignore the fact that a lot of this is culture. I'm in Canada and I can admit that a lot of places here do look like those photos. And I know that a lot of people are against things like bicycle lanes, and just want to add yet another lane to the roads. It's controversial to even build an apartment building with shops on the ground floor. Why would people get up in arms over that? I don't know, but they do.

We don't even want to try all that much to make the places we live better.

Never!

Yeah I think you're confusing countries with businesses. Any analysis from the perspective of a country being a business is inherently wrong.

Thinking money is real and people are abstractions has things totally the wrong way around.

If what you were saying were true, there would still be a separate West Germany and East Germany.

The reasons for Canada not being a part of the US or California separating from the US or it not making sense for California to be part of Canada has nothing to do with liabilities.

Okay...

Probably a liar!

"it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks"

Liar!

Didn't know there were Star Wars tankies LOL.

Yeah but what does it look like where people live?

I picked random spots in European cities in google street view and most of the places did not look at all like the photos above. Brick streets, people driving bicycles, people chilling in out door cafes. I did see some spots (mostly in Eastern Europe) that looked like the photos above. I did same bigger cities and some cities I never even heard of.

Doing the same thing in the US, I got dropped into a train station in Charlotte NC, so that was cool. But besides that, I saw a lot of suburbs, parking lots, and places that looked like the photos above from random cities across the US.

It's a joke so it only needs an element of truth to it. And it's directed at American culture, not about landmarks. From what I can see from my very non-scientific survey, the joke definitely has an element of truth about American culture being very samey in terms of how the places the live look.

It might also be fair to say Western Europe all looks the same with people driving bicycles on brick streets to cafes and such. But that probably wouldn't sting all that much.

In Canada when a budget doesn't pass, the government doesn't shut down. Instead all of the politicians are fired and they face an election where they have to explain to the voters why they couldn't do their fucking jobs and pass a goddamn budget.

The US would have to make significant changes to their political system so it doesn't suck. Also change to the Canadian flag, the US flag is tacky as fuck.

Even if Luke didn't know anything about the Senate, Storm Troopers killing his family and burning down his house might've clued him in about the Empire being a little bit fashy.

Also he didn't officially join the rebellion until he got to Yavin, after he met Princess Leia. Kinda feel like Leia would be in the loop about the Senate being dissolved.

He used an armada of tanks assembled into a Voltron-style robot that shoots Flammenwerfer capable of turning air into fuel.

I really wish this was in the prequels.

Order 66 would fall under the emergency powers the Senate granted to him.

It's possible the emergency powers bill was written by a complete idiot.

And how will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?