Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
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askonomm · · focus · HN ↗
llm_nerd · · focus · HN ↗
Microsoft has done a lot of super shady things, and they are domiciled in a hyper-corrupt, lawless threat to humanity (one that elects quite possibly the stupidest human alive -- a rapist abomination halfwit clown -- to the highest office), however people do make far too much of the patent thing.
A lot of firms reward groups and employees that get granted patents. It doesn't actually matter if you're spitballing the most absurd nonsense that no one ever asked for and is nowhere on the product map, someone writes the application and gives it a shot. A patent being granted doesn't mean that a single person ever envisions doing this or asked for it implemented, and honestly the idea that they "invented" this is just how farcical the patent system is.
In this case the patent is held by Microsoft's "Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC", which is their "patent extortion" racket. So they literally wrote this hoping to catch someone doing something found in a single claim so that they can use the legal system to rob from people.
ericmay · · focus · HN ↗
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llm_nerd · · focus · HN ↗
Yes? Donald Trump, and the fact that he is the symptom of a fallen empire that has reverted to being an idiocracy, flailing around and trying to bully its way to a lost dominance that is fading away, is precisely why the Dutch government is doing this. It's quite literally the subtext of this discussion.
And for that matter, it's why all American companies are going to find their reach shrink. Visa and Mastercard are worldwide systems whose days are numbered, for instance. The US banking system is being ejected everywhere it is found.
> but you can’t be the stupidest human alive and be president. It’s just objectively false.
I mean, I guess people actually vote for this pathological liar / megalomaniac who is a lifetime failure in every dimension, so true. They're even worse. But Trump is objectively a profoundly stupid person. It's actually astonishing now how he is basically a simpleton in the White House, lying with every utterance, and it's just another day. It isn't even newsworthy. Oh yeah, his big TrumpTM Arch is now going to have drones and snipers! Also, how about that fantasy deal with Belarus for all that potash that doesn't exist, was farcical nonsense on its face, yet everyone reports it because this foolish liar just makes up stuff endlessly so it isn't even notable. Aren't Americans just unbelievably ashamed at how pathetic this loser is, or that he lies -- usually in the cause of pushing his greatness -- with every other word?
Seeing Xi mog this pathetic chimp yet again was amazing stuff. The world is yours, China.
> The US is one of the few (arguably the only) countries holding the barbarians at the gate
This has to be a joke. There is no way anyone on this planet is so deluded and misinformed.
creaturemachine · · focus · HN ↗
>This has to be a joke. There is no way anyone on this planet is so deluded and misinformed.
No kidding. Donald Trump just opened the gate.
ericmay · · focus · HN ↗
llm_nerd · · focus · HN ↗
Trump stood at the lectern of the UN and in an utterly insane, deranged, self-aggrandizing speech (again, just another day in the insane idiocracy that the US has become, and it isn't even notable, the decline so severe and accelerating), boasted about looting the resources of Venezuela. Boasted about his assault on the ICC.
The US is repeatedly and proudly engaged in wantonly illegal piracy at sea. It boasts about the textbook definition of terrorism.
The US has done more to encourage nuclear proliferation in the last two years than in all of history. It has taught that everyone needs to get nuclear weapons, and many of them need to be pointed at the US. It has pushed the notion that might makes right, and if you have the ability you can steal and rampage whatever you want, in a lawless world.
Your claim that the US is holding the gates is absolutely perverse, and your worldview is most certainly some US exceptional bullshit.
drnick1 · · focus · HN ↗
The US does not recognize the ICC. There is no such thing as supranational law that isn't enforced by military power.
llm_nerd · · focus · HN ↗
This American exceptionalism answer has always been amazing to me.
No other country gives two shits if the US "recognizes" the ICC. As a serial warcrime committing nation, of course the US doesn't want it having legitimacy. And of course they also want to protect their serial warcrime best pal Israel in the process.
See, the thing about the ICC is that the countries that do recognize it carry out its warrants. Netanyahu can covert around warcrime nations like the US, but he can't visit Europe, for instance.
How is this remotely the US' say? I have yet to hear an American explain their belief that they get to force others to not have the ICC that doesn't sound like devolved horseshit.
drnick1 · · focus · HN ↗
That's irrelevant. What is this "other country" going to do about it?
llm_nerd · · focus · HN ↗
Wow, sounds toothless. Pretty weird then the extraordinary lengths the US is going to in efforts to destroy it, right? I mean, these two things almost seem incredibly stupid to claim simultaneously.
> America isn't exceptional at all in that regard.
Oh, it absolutely is exceptional. Ignoring that Russia is also a universal shitheel problem for the planet, and there are clear reasons why it doesn't like such civilization, China and India have done nothing to thwart or attack the ICC. Nothing. China has overtly stated that they support its mission and disagree with attacks against it. Because China is an infinitely more civilized country that the US is. Which is why the US is flailing and grasping as a fallen empire shithole relegated to the dustbin of history.
ericmay · · focus · HN ↗
Maybe the current American administration just hates the ICC and disagrees with some of their rulings and is casually destroying it without so called “extraordinary efforts”.
llm_nerd · · focus · HN ↗
It...hasn't destroyed it at all. In all likelihood China will join the group just to fully take the mantle as leader of the world.
>without so called “extraordinary efforts”
The US administration has burned enormous political goodwill attacking the ICC on behalf of Israel. But more importantly they have set the gears in motion for enormous financial consequences as well.
Do you know why Europe is fast-tracking replacing Visa and Mastercard? Because the pedo-kleptocracy in power in the US used those systems to punish ICC judges. Do you understand how profound the consequences of this will be?
See, the US has decades of goodwill and inertia and entrenchment in place. These things don't change overnight. But it again elected a criminal pedo that is pushing garbage polices, so the whole world is being de-US'd. The consequences are going to be enormous for Americans.
ericmay · · focus · HN ↗
Well not yet but if the US proceeds with sanctions that will likely spell the end. But if the US can’t destroy it then who cares?
> In all likelihood China will join the group just to fully take the mantle as leader of the world.
I don’t see how China allegedly joining the ICC makes it the “leader of the world”. Seems like a stretch to me.
> The US administration has burned enormous political goodwill attacking the ICC on behalf of Israel.
Well some of that (perhaps most) is well-placed.
> But more importantly they have set the gears in motion for enormous financial consequences as well.
Because of the ICC? No I don’t think so.
> Do you know why Europe is fast-tracking replacing Visa and Mastercard? Because the pedo-kleptocracy in power in the US used those systems to punish ICC judges[1]. Do you understand how profound the consequences of this will be?
That’s not happening. First even standing up a “European” platform has challenges because not all European countries agree on how this would be implemented. Second, Americans have and will for the foreseeable future have a shit load of money. Europeans want that money, so they’ll continue to accept Visa and Mastercard. I see American Express accepted more and more too on my regular visits to various European countries. By the way, you know that Europe can stand up payments systems and still accept cards issued in other countries? Tell me, do you think Americans are walking around worried Europeans are not going to take Mastercard or something? Please have some pride and stop acting like random things like this are your political Super Bowl or something. Americans just do not give a shit about this lol and nobody is worried.
> as a fun fact, any business operating anywhere in the world should be kicked out or fined enormous amounts if it ever applies sanctions that aren't locally recognized.
You should be careful not to confuse what you want the world to look like with how the world actually works. I think it’s clouding your judgement and ability to make good decisions.
> If the US abuses the fact that post-WWs the West centralized business in the largest "safe" country among the cohort, it should very quickly be removed from this position.
Good luck or sorry that happened or whatever. Let us know.
llm_nerd · · focus · HN ↗
It's a process. The US is a busted shithole, and everyone is moving on. Well I guess you have the Board of Peace.
> Because of the ICC? No I don’t think so.
PRECISELY because of the ICC and the US abusing sanctions.
> Americans just do not give a shit about this lol and nobody is worried.
I mean, yes the whole world knows this. Americans are profoundly stupid and uninformed, generally, and sorry but almost all of your comments are just hilarious to this ends. The original claim that the despotic, terroristic US is holding the barbarians back is just the chef's kiss of insane nonsense.
The US is effectively bankrupt. Bond rates are spiralling. Yeah, friend, revisit this thread in 5 or 10 years. You, and so many like you, have absolutely no idea how the world works and it's amazing.
> You should be careful not to confuse what you want the world to look like with how the world actually works.
Never has self-deception been more blatantly stated. Actually amazing.
ericmay · · focus · HN ↗
What’s a process? Didn’t the poster above already tell you China isn’t a member of the ICC? 2/3rd of the world doesn’t care about the ICC or its dictates.
> PRECISELY because of the ICC and the US abusing sanctions.
So you want us to stop sanctioning Russia?
> The US is effectively bankrupt. Bond rates are spiralling. Yeah, friend, revisit this thread in 5 or 10 years. You, and so many like you, have absolutely no idea how the world works and it's amazing.
Remind us about debt and bond rates in countries in Europe. Perhaps you can speak to the UK, Italy, Spain, and France for starters.