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ta20240528
·il y a 19 jours·discuss
Huh, a lot on the 737 Max situation was due to standardisation.

Boeing didn't want the time, expense, and hassle of certifying (= standardising) a new narrow-body aeroplane, so they continued to reuse the FAA type certificate (= standardised design) of the original 737 from 1966.

This meant they had to keep, inter alia, the short landing gear, which in turn made the wings lower to the ground, which forced them to position the new big engines ahead of the CG, which forced them to add the faulty MCAS computer, which killed all those people.

Admittedly the decision to use just a single sensor on said MCAS was due to systematic, decades long corruption and emasculation of the FAA.
ta20240528
·le mois dernier·discuss
"climate doomerism"

Just a reminder that actual adult scientists at the ACS (American Chemical Society) have calculated (for all to see) that the excess heat being trapped just over the continental USA since 1750 is about 28 500 Hiroshima bombs.

Per second, every second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimZGu5GadQ 11' min in.
ta20240528
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
"they also send thousands of sex-spies"

Could they send one (or two) my way?
ta20240528
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
And when you here unsubstantiated rumours* that ­say Anthropic has been sending exchanges to say Alibaba's Qwen, will you als oconclude the same about the entire US AI industry?

I doubt it.

* publish the logs.
ta20240528
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
"Especially outside of US market."

A euphemism in polite company for: we'll ban them on national security grounds like we did with cars and phones.
ta20240528
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
… for which (if you think women are equal) they should receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Husband and father of daughters).
ta20240528
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
"A company incorporated in the EU, even if it is owned by an entity in the US, is not subject to US jurisdiction and so that does not apply."

Incorrect, this is EXACTLY the scenario that the Cloud Act was introduced to to handle.

What happened is in 2013 Microsoft Ireland refused an FBI warrant for information held on EU servers, under the control of MS Ireland.

Microsoft USA refused the warrant on the grounds on the jurisdiction grounds you mentioned above.

So the Cloud Act was passed: US law for access to digital information applies to any subsidiary anywhere on earth.

Sorry.
ta20240528
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
You are incorrect:

1. the 2018 CLOUD Act mandates US companies — and their subsidiaries — to provide information to the US government on demand, regardless of where the data is stored

2. FISA secret courts prevent companies from even saying they where summoned, or telling anyone who or what the case was about (including canaries).

So you won't ever know if your data was handed over to the US government.
ta20240528
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
"The purpose of software is to provide value to the customer."

Partially correct. The purpose of your software to its owners is also to provide future value to customers competitively.

What we have learnt is that software needs to be engineered: designed and structured.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
For active soldiers, yes - kill them, any time, anywhere. That's what "at war" means. Its not a policing operation.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Oh stop being so self-loathing: Israel was created by a mandate from the League of Nations.

So, most of the planet (1)

(1) Well, excluding Ethiopia because they still thought it was cool to have slaves.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
China. If they wanted to.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Come now American people,

The UK and France have long had a project 'on the shelf' to substitute the missiles with the French M51 ballistic missiles.

They don't want to do it, they'll do it if they have to.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
"The concern about a new dependency on China is real,"

The dependency is latent, is only become a problem when you (USA) does something to dick with China's dependency on you.

If you don't do that, no problems. The rest of us live just fine depending on things from China.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
You are mistaking the battle for the war: Denmark / EU would no doubt lose the BATTLE for Greenland. Within hours.

But the sun would rise the next day and the USA won't like the 'non-kinetic' consequences. Too many to enumerate.

Eventually the adults in USA would just return it.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
You clearly don't know British understatement.

Firing on one British officer would be as bad a firing on 10000.

It's about lines.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Nah mate,

Rich powerful countries could also keep slaves and no one would be able to stop it by force.

But they don't. Civilisation advances.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
The UK only had to send a single officer to Greenland to stop Trump's previous attempt to annex Greenland.

That was a signal, thankfully there are still adults in the USA who recognised it.
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
From The United States Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Attacking civilians is unequivocally a war crime".

https://ucmj.us/is-attacking-civilians-a-war-crime/

@dang: you've banned members from this forum before for messy threads merely discussing apartheid. Surely advocating for war crimes — that the US itself considers crimes — is beyond the pale?
ta20240528
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
That's a war crime.