Fuckin-A! Well C. You know what I mean…

Haven’t used anything but Notepad++ in years.

So what’s the advantage of drones over a good satellite, if you ain’t actually flying at ground level? It’s all psyops, right?

Yes. It’s just unfortunate that tourism will concentrate a large amount in small places, too often.
On the plus side I’ve met so many wonderful people who were tourists.

I think the main difference is that one perso is, you know, someone you get to know. While many people is a crowd and crowds are ugly beasts.

It’s hard being racist against a specific country when you’re the first tourism destination in the world, but British really do produce a special kind of tourists.
I literally read an article just yesterday about some drunken asshole who tried to open the hatch midflight, was manhandled by the personnel and some volunteers, and then taken off the flight in Toulouse, with his mates. They were going to Spain, who seem to be plagued with that specific breed of lads, but still.

Also it’s difficult to distinguish genuine racism (“brown people poo in the streets!”) from xenophobia triggered by actual, repeated experience (try living in one of the most popular touristic small towns in France for a summer…)

How do you say Anschluss in Trumperican?

Welcome to the wonderful world of reverse proxies!

I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

I’m guessing that one is toward the EU?

I’m actually curious what they even import from the US that they can’t find elsewhere or make themselves.
I’m wearing NB bought in a NB shop in Wuhan at European prices and they’re… made in Indonesia. I’m guessing it’s gonna be some really unique luxury shit like alcohol? Or cars? So nothing that’s gonna affect Chinese people significantly, except perhaps to send them shopping in the EU and reinforce the Belt and Road and the railway connection with Europe (well, if Putin doesn’t fuck things up. That’s another story)

Would be interesting to see how they distinguish “personal consumption” and “transformative” consumption.

The AI did quite literally what any human educating themselves would have done : reading entire libraries to improve themselves. Then make money from it. So if little Timmy pirates 3DS Max or Photoshop to get a job, it’s fine yeah? Or a student trying to read their course without paying hundreds of dollars?

But wait, when Timmy reads a single virtual book, it’s thievery? It’s the loss of a sale? So how many sales were lost through all those virtual books stolen from paying customers by the AI?

They gotta decide one way or another at some point and stop taking the piss.

Also I wonder if the AI can actually remember the entire content of each book they read though. Or any. And if they do, then can that actually be proof, for each individual book thus regurgitated, that the copyright has been unfairly used since a full reproduction (or close enough as to fool a reader?) would be now available.

That’s gonna be some interesting jurisprudence.

Well, he could just show his birth certificate, right?

I wonder what he’ll say when he realises what the French motto means. What a muppet.

Remember the outrage when stuff like that happens in China?
Ever since living there a few years back, I keep saying how your two countries are so fucking similar, and it getting truer every day.

They probably freaked out when she started speaking Welsh. Understandable.

Have been using it for 8 years now. I never felt the need to switch back honestly. Only Google thing I really love is Maps and that’s it.

Take a page from China and remind him who’s the boss. When was the last time you heard of Jack Ma?

We have a lovely backup generator on site that turns on anytime an electrical storm is detected within 50km of our DC. That thing is something out of a cruiseship so yeah, I can imagine real huge data centers must be an order of magnitude worse.

In my mother’s hometown, they finally decided which architect would redesign the townhall after it’s roof burnt down. Five years ago. And this is a rich town. France is fucking useless at getting shit done fast. It’s depressing really. This plant finally getting built is a fucking miracle!