Instead of invading a neighbor who never did us any harm why not attack the scammers who attack Americans all day every day? I’m sure the intelligence agencies could track down the ringleaders. Indict them, heck I wouldn’t even be mad about a little extra-judicial killing if you targeted the lead scammers.
To many people, America accusing Cuba of theft is hypocrisy. I don't have a strong opinion either way; I think a party can be guilty of 'theft' only to the extent that there's consensus on who owns what.
No Cuban would ever say that, given Cuban Americans overwhelmingly support military invention in Cuba (79%), probably because most of them were fleeing extreme civil liberty crackdowns, persecution or violence.
American cars spy even worse. Pass a real consumer privacy law making it illegal to spy on your customers, illegal to sell their data and enforce it.
This is being done to protect American car companies not American citizens.
The funny thing is that it’s a tacit admission that American cars can’t compete on level footing with Chinese. And it means that American cars have lost the rest of the world.
How does that change if we assume the strait stays closed? Because strategically speaking they’re incentivized to (and able to) keep it closed till us and Israel cease hostilities.
Yes, and oversea buyers pay more than you do. Trump doesnt understand global markets and big oil is well aware that their days are numbered, so they sell as profitable as possible.
Maybe people aren’t having kids because on the whole the world doesn’t seem like a safe and healthy place. And more importantly humanity is failing to do the bare minimum to make it better. Why would you bring a child into that?
So this is a marketing piece where they were paid to make a case for why Microsoft might still be relevant in the face of a really cheap and really capable Mac laptop.
Yes, it is. Interesting are the ways they try to spin it: e.g. they compare the performance to older Intel machines ("Today’s Windows PCs vs. a Five-Year-Old System") and not to the MacBook Neo - of course you get a performance boost in that comparison.
(the linked pdf whitepaper covers the methodology)
The old permit process was a joke: fraught with delay, arbitrary decisions and red tape. You literally have to pay an expediter to get a permit in SF. In most countries in the world That’s code for “some to handle the bribe”. I’m not accusing anyone of corruption (though there was a case of corruption uncovered in sf planning recently). I’m saying the system was broken and ripe for abuse.
As far as I can gather from the article, The new system is a few months late and a few permits short. (Which frankly doesn’t sound so bad)
The question: is it better than what was there before? (I haven’t even seen the new one but I can tell you ANYTHING is better than the old)
Yes, the contract was important to the vendor. How could it not be? Yes a former employee would have wanted more staff on the project. Of course. Yes someone at the permit office is derisive about someone doing her job in a new way. That’s absolutely to be expected.
At the end of the day the only thing that matters is: can residents and businesses owners get a permit in a fair, fast and reliable way.
I don’t give a shit about any of the other noise in this article.
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