1. The Council triggered the second reading by adopting its own position and sending it back. You made it sound like the Commission just steamrolled it unilaterally.
2. The scheduling conspiracy is false. Parliament itself voted (331-304) on July 7 to fast-track this. Also, the votes in March and July were pretty stable: 311 against in March, 314 against in July.
This applies to us Europeans too, only that the most likely disaster is permanent unemployment, not a health issue. You americans have had practical full employment for decades.
They did. This was an unfortunate reality for Finnish telecom companies before the Ukraine war. Russia was an obvious market and a company looking for profit would be practically forced to try to work there.
As for Jolla, this is about the timeline:
2014 Russia attacks Crimea, temporarily occupies it
2016 Jolla grants Sailfish license to a private Open Mobile Platform LLC in Russia
2018 Rostelecom (state-owned Russian company) buys Open Mobile Platform
2020 Sailfish license to Rostelecom ends
2021 Jolla ceases all business in Russia -- at this point Rostelecom owns 32% of Jolla either directly or via subsidiaries
2022 Russia attacks rest of Ukraine in February
2022 Jolla starts dislodging from Russian ownership. Negotations with russian owners unsuccessful.
2023 Jollyboys Oy is formed, business restructuring of Jolla starts to move assets there
2024 Jolla files for bankruptcy to get finally rid of rest of the problematic ownership
So the current company around the new Jolla phone is technically a new company and has none of the previous baggage, but retains most of the non-russian owners and staff of Jolla.
The time between 2014-2022 was of course kind of problematic, but that was the reality in Europe. We still widely and naively gave Russia the benefit of the doubt back then. It seems to me that after Russia started the war in 2022, Jolla started immediately moving away from there.
Free markets work when paired with property laws that can be enforced if broken. If China could offer a cheaper solution in that framework, it would be as you say.
Coldest month average temperature where I live is around -7C, with peaks of -35C. Climate change is not going to increase that average, more like decrease. Typically, of course, electricity price is the highest during that month too.
Thing is, we also need stuff like Signal to actually use phones for their original purpose these days. Most flip phones that we've had so far are dumb phones, mostly unable to run 3rd party software.
It sounds like this Commodore phone might be able to fill that gap. I'll wait for the first few reviews though.
I know this is kind of silly, but even though TA's game mechanics are obviously great, I really liked its ambience and story. The sort of a melancholic vibe of a slow-moving neverending war.
BAR in contrast is a bit of a PvP clickfest, which I don't enjoy. I wonder if there's a game mode or another Spring mod that would give me a more authentic feel? Single-player or perhaps PvE.
Let's imagine that China and USA do some equally bad thing against my privacy, let's say intercept and store all the traffic between myself and my AI provider. I am inclined to excuse it from USA and not from China because it's much more likely that China would use it to undermine the security of my home country. USA on the other hand, is literally a military ally of my home country.
I don't naively think that USA is a 100% benign country because of the alliance and that my interests are aligned with them. Trump especially has made that part worse. They're just more aligned with me than China.
There's just no way he can be allowed to live forever unless it's in Hague prison. Absolutely not. He's the single source of 90% of the shit we see in the world right now.
1. The Council triggered the second reading by adopting its own position and sending it back. You made it sound like the Commission just steamrolled it unilaterally.
2. The scheduling conspiracy is false. Parliament itself voted (331-304) on July 7 to fast-track this. Also, the votes in March and July were pretty stable: 311 against in March, 314 against in July.