I still do not think that the conqueror has to provide citizenship to the people living in the conquered country after said country becomes independent. While the conquered country remains part of the bigger country, the people should be able to move freely, but gaining independence means that the people of the newly independent country want nothing more to do with their oppressor, why should they still be allowed to go there?
Paying compensation for damages done on the other hand could be asked in some sort of an international court.
My country was part of the USSR (not voluntarily) until the collapse. Still, if Russia offered citizenship to anyone who wanted, it would actually be worse for us because some people might choose to go there instead of working (and paying taxes, helping the country) here.
On the other hand, they should pay compensation for all the people killed and exiled.
The reason is very simple - freeloaders. If we work hard to build a nation with good economy and living conditions (and welfare for those of use who are down on their luck), why should we accept others, who did not work hard to build their nation and do not even want to work hard when living in mine, but come here looking for free money?
Why should I pay (by way of taxes) money to someone who does not want to work and even hates me and my culture?
This is taking the worst parts of Communism. The working people get to "share" their money with freeloaders, but the elite and the Big Businesses do not need to "share" their money with the working people.
Either we all share or we don't. If you really want me to give welfare to the immigrants, how about getting some banker to give money to me? I'd be willing to split it with the immigrant.
By the way, I do not live in the UK, I live in a country that's a good source of immigrants for the UK. While UK being in the EU benefits me and many of my nationals, if I was British, I would have voted to leave, because I do not want to 1) become alien in my own country 2) get lower salary because Ivan from Belarus offers to do my job for less and 3) pay more taxes so Ivan can drink vodka all day and not work.
Actually, it makes them better off. Otherwise there would not be such massive emigration from Lithuania.
Yay I get double the pay in Norway. What do you mean my accommodation is 3 times as expensive, how am I supposed to live?
More like "Yay, I get triple pay and my rent/energy only costs 1.5 time more, with some food even being cheaper than at home".
I know of two main types of emigrants. One type decides to go and stay there, they usually get comparable wages to the locals. Another type (less educated usually) either cannot find a job at home or can only find one that gives the minimal wage (350EUR/month before taxes, what is the minimal wage in the UK?) go to the UK (mostly because of English language), get a job cleaning toilets or picking strawberries or something similar, live extremely frugally, for example renting a room/apartment with a few of their coworkers to save on costs. After a while, they return home and live in relative luxury for a while then go back to the UK and the cycle begins again. Students also do this a lot during summer.
I actually know a few people like this. They earn quite a lot compared to those who remain and try to find a job at home. And they bring quite a lot of money home.
Oh and there is a way to get a tax refund from the UK, I do not know the exact details how, since I never needed it.
I live in Lithuania. I personally know of a few people who do that. That is, they go to the UK, get a job (large salary for them, not as large for the locals), then try to save as much as possible. After a few months or a year they quit the job and come home with enough money to live comfortably for a longer time than they spent in the UK. After the money dries up, back to the UK they go.
The minimal salary in Lithuania is 350EUR/month (those who chose to go to the UK would most likely get this assuming they were able to find a job) and the average is not that higher at 750EUR (both numbers are before taxes, you get much less in your bank account), so it is useful to be able to go to the UK (UK specifically because of English language) and earn a pile of money.
Some people choose to stay there and they most likely earn enough to comfortably live there. The ones who go to pick strawberries, clean the toilets and so on, usually do not earn a lot, but much more than they would get cleaning toilets here.
Lithuania has the Euro since 2015. Before that, the exchange rate was fixed to the Euro (before joining the EU it was fixed to the US dollar).
After fully adopting the Euro, prices jumped up significantly (we joke that the currency was changed, but numbers remained, 1EUR=3.4528LTL). Salaries, not so much ("calculated honestly"). It became economical to drive 200km to Poland for shopping.
For some reason, doing good work no one else is applying for is frowned upon in the UK.
As a Lithuanian (a lot of my fellow countrymen are in the UK, not me though) I think that it wasn't that nobody else was applying for the jobs, just that the Poles and Lithuanians ask for way less money to do the same job.
This usually goes like this: 1. Someone decides to go work in the UK and does so. 2. He lives extremely frugally and saves up as much money as possible. 3. He quits his job, returns home and lives in luxury, maybe start your own business. 4. Repeat if needed.
The reason for this is that the average salary in Lithuania is 748EUR (before taxes), but obviously not everyone gets it. The minimal salary is 350EUR (before taxes) and the majority of the people who decide to emigrate get the 350 assuming they can get a job in the first place. The salaries in the UK are much higher and the UK has the advantage of being an English-speaking country (second language is mandatory here and the vast majority of schools chose to teach English) compared to other EU countries.
I personally would be pissed if some Belorussian or Ukrainian offered to do my job for half of my current salary, so I assume the Brits are pissed too. Thankfully, Belarus and Ukraine are not part of the EU, so those people can be refused entry (AFAIK you can get a work visa, but the employer has to pay you above the average salary, so no importing cheap labor), less thankfully, our wages are one of the lowest in the EU so nobody from the EU wants to come.
While the "Leave" group only got a bit less than 52% votes, those who voted to leave most likely felt more strongly toward their decision than a lot of those who voted to remain (after all, if you do not really care either way, you are probably going to vote "it it ain't broken enough, don't fix it").
Or, it may mean that somebody comes from another country and offers to do your job for half the salary (because to him, half your salary is a huge pile of money, he can do your job for a while, save up, then go back home and be rich), so your boss asks you whether you want to be let go or stay, but only earn half as much (why should he pay you more).
Or how about this: somebody comes from a different country, does not want to work and asks the government of your country to give welfare to him.
I am from a country where wages a low, so people have been going to Norway and the UK for work (and welfare), so, to the people of my country, Brexit is bad, but I can understand the people of the UK - I would not want some Russian or whoever to offer to do my job for half the salary (of course, people from outside the EU are not easily allowed in and our wages (and welfare payments) are lower than most of the EU so nobody wants to come, horray, I guess?).
What if you wanted to provide a headphone with a subwoofer specific channel or a true surround sound headset / speakers?
Then you need a dual function jack - one that can be set to work as an analog output or as SPDIF or whatever other digital protocol is used these days. A few sound cards for PCs use this.
Why do we just just use RCA cables any more for audio in home theater setups?
What should I use instead? 6.3mm? RCA is convenient and compatible with pretty much everything, so I use it. Why should I use SPDIF when only my PC, TV and CD player support it? My previous amplifier also did not have any digital inputs (my current one, a DIY tube amp also doesn't - it would take a lot of tubes to decode SPDIF signal and for no real gain over just using analog cables).
And yet, a COM port is rarely, but really useful in those rate times when you get a kernel panic and need to know why (because usually the beginning of the stack dump is not on the screen and obviously is not saved to any log file).
COM ports are also useful for configuring new switches, though it is possible to use a USB to COM adapter for this..
I did not know the proper term. If I literally translate it from my language it come out as "who has been tired", but it only applies to felonies and if the person was actually convicted.
Because gaining trust is much more difficult than losing it.
If you commit a felony, you are punished, but you also lost the trust of the people (people will think that the probability of you committing a crime again is higher than average), this is more difficult to regain. For example, somebody who has committed manslaughter probably should not be able to get a gun.
In my country, the status of "ex-con" disappears some years after release from prison. The status is used in determining punishments for any new crimes you commit and other stuff. It does not actually prevent you from running for parliament, but you need to be truthful about it (if you lie and get caught (and people check this) - you are out of the elections).
A limited user (even without sudo rights) launches a buggy application and opens an infected document. The virus can then proceed to encrypt all the files that the user can modify.
The system files will stay intact. The documents of the user will get encrypted.
The user usually cares about being able to access his documents, so the damage is done even without root access. If this happens on a single user desktop, then the damage is the same as if the virus had root access. In both cases you have to restore the PC from backups (if you have them).
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for a promise from the USA and Russia to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Russia later decided to "liberate" Crimea and parts of Ukraine because fascism.
Libya gave up its nuclear program and the whole country got "liberated" and nothing good happened to Gaddafi.
So, Kim giving up his nuclear weapons would most likely result in a "liberation" too.
I do not think that Kim is a very good leader for the country (even Stalin looks good compared to him), however, he is smart enough to understand that having multiple nukes aimed at the population centers of South Korea is a good way to prevent an invasion (even one nuke getting past the missile defense would result in a lot of casualties).
While the US does not agree with everything that Germany or the UK does, it agrees with most of the important stuff (I wonder what would happen if, say, the EU decided to ally with Russia (and, for example, send military help for Assad) or just stand on its own), but plenty of other countries were invaded or had their regimes replaced by the US, Iraq for example.
Russia acts the same way of course - do something to really piss them off (and have no nukes or NATO membership, coincidentally, trying to get EU/NATO membership counts as "really pissing Russia off") and you will get invaded.
They didn't have the technology to data-mine. Even if all TVs were bugged, you would still need a lot of people actually listening - no speech recognition or automatic flagging of "interesting" recordings.
So, they had to choose who to bug, even tapping all phone conversations (could be easily done technologically back then) would require a lot of manpower.
And now we have - speech recognition, data mining for phone conversations and text messages. A lot of information put online on facebook and similar by the people themselves. Bugged PCs, cell phones with location tracking and so on.
To accomplish that in the 1970s or 80s would probably have required the KGB to be big enough to become a nation on its own.
You don't get it - the reason EU criticizes China or Russia for lack of freedom is not actually because it wants the people to have freedom. The problem with China for the EU is that it's not EU that is tracking the people of China.
Thy said that in the USSR you were tracked by KGB - I'm sure the KGB did not even dream of the tracking capabilities of modern "democratic freedom-loving" governments of today.
One day the EU will be renamed to Democratic Union of Free Democratic European Republics for Freedom and Democracy.
I'm sticking with my 1982 car. Maybe someday I'll buy another (similar age) car as backup, but I will not give up my current car unless it is completely destroyed or the government passes a law that forbids the use of my car. However, if the law only concerns the fuel (my car runs on gasoline or LPG), then I'll look for someone to replace the engine with electric motor (assuming such modifications would be allowed by the law). Even then, the car would not be connected to the internet and all controls (except throttle) would be mechanical.
Something like the Psion Series 5 was quite useful - it is small enough to fit in a pocket, but has a relatively good keyboard and a touchscreen. Its downsides (IMO) are only related to its age - no built-in internet connectivity, slow CPU, incompatibility with desktop file formats, like.doc (without conversion).
Viliv N5 is more modern (2010), but still quite slow and 1GB RAM pretty much limits it to Windows XP (though it can run Linux, I have programs that are not fully compatible with it).
Something like that made in 2016 should be much better.
Having a mini-laptop is useful because I do not need to look for alternatives to the programs I use. I do not have pockets big enough for Surface Pro, but Viliv or Psion can fit quite well.
I also doubt that there will be a time when "all the desktop stuff you need is web based" - I do not particularly like storing my data on somebody else's servers, also, there are places where mobile internet is slow.
You mean software has not been bloating and slowing down fast enough? That's great.
While web browsers today have to do more complex stuff compared to web browsers years ago, other software should not change (that is, slow down).
What I used MS Word 2000 for: Writing/editing a document and printing it. What I use MS Word 2016 for: Writing/editing a document and printing it.
In both cases, the document looks pretty much the same (basic layout etc, you know, stuff like an office memo), so why would Word 2016 need 30 times faster hardware to do the exact same thing?
The idea is that I do not have to carry the big screen/keyboard all the time, but still have all my files and programs (and do not need to set up terminal services and a storage server, both of which require an internet connection, so are not as useful in places where mobile internet is slow). Of course, this is if you use something that is not web based, if all you need if facebook and gmail, then, I guess, you do not need a Windows dockable phone.
I would be satisfied with a more modern Viliv N5 (or a Psion Series 5 with 2016 internals) though.
Once the electric technology is developed enough I probably would be able to (if such a need arises) convert my W123 to electric power and still have the same range and performance as it does now.
That is, only the power source would change, the car would still have no internet connectivity, touch screens or anything like that.
Also, it is interesting on how the sale ban would work.
Will all sales be banned or just the new imports (and people will be able to sell their cars, much like with full auto guns in the US)? That is, if I lived there, would I need to buy multiple cars now or would I still be able to buy a used car later (at a higher price)?
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I still do not think that the conqueror has to provide citizenship to the people living in the conquered country after said country becomes independent. While the conquered country remains part of the bigger country, the people should be able to move freely, but gaining independence means that the people of the newly independent country want nothing more to do with their oppressor, why should they still be allowed to go there?
Paying compensation for damages done on the other hand could be asked in some sort of an international court.
My country was part of the USSR (not voluntarily) until the collapse. Still, if Russia offered citizenship to anyone who wanted, it would actually be worse for us because some people might choose to go there instead of working (and paying taxes, helping the country) here.
On the other hand, they should pay compensation for all the people killed and exiled.
I like the law in my country - you can hire a foreigner (non-EU), but you have to pay him a lot, above the average salary in fact.
So, you can hire the expert you cannot find locally, but you cannot hire someone to do some job for the minimum wage where a local would want more.
Yes to borders.
The reason is very simple - freeloaders. If we work hard to build a nation with good economy and living conditions (and welfare for those of use who are down on their luck), why should we accept others, who did not work hard to build their nation and do not even want to work hard when living in mine, but come here looking for free money?
Why should I pay (by way of taxes) money to someone who does not want to work and even hates me and my culture?
This is taking the worst parts of Communism. The working people get to "share" their money with freeloaders, but the elite and the Big Businesses do not need to "share" their money with the working people.
Either we all share or we don't. If you really want me to give welfare to the immigrants, how about getting some banker to give money to me? I'd be willing to split it with the immigrant.
By the way, I do not live in the UK, I live in a country that's a good source of immigrants for the UK. While UK being in the EU benefits me and many of my nationals, if I was British, I would have voted to leave, because I do not want to 1) become alien in my own country 2) get lower salary because Ivan from Belarus offers to do my job for less and 3) pay more taxes so Ivan can drink vodka all day and not work.
If you conquered another country - you owe its people citizenship of yours.
But not after the conquered country gains independence.
Russia does not owe me citizenship, even though my country was in the USSR.
UK does not owe citizenship to any Americans.
Big Business is worse than Big (but democratic) Government. At least I get to vote for/against the government.
Actually, it makes them better off. Otherwise there would not be such massive emigration from Lithuania.
Yay I get double the pay in Norway. What do you mean my accommodation is 3 times as expensive, how am I supposed to live?
More like "Yay, I get triple pay and my rent/energy only costs 1.5 time more, with some food even being cheaper than at home".
I know of two main types of emigrants. One type decides to go and stay there, they usually get comparable wages to the locals.
Another type (less educated usually) either cannot find a job at home or can only find one that gives the minimal wage (350EUR/month before taxes, what is the minimal wage in the UK?) go to the UK (mostly because of English language), get a job cleaning toilets or picking strawberries or something similar, live extremely frugally, for example renting a room/apartment with a few of their coworkers to save on costs. After a while, they return home and live in relative luxury for a while then go back to the UK and the cycle begins again. Students also do this a lot during summer.
I actually know a few people like this. They earn quite a lot compared to those who remain and try to find a job at home. And they bring quite a lot of money home.
Oh and there is a way to get a tax refund from the UK, I do not know the exact details how, since I never needed it.
I live in Lithuania. I personally know of a few people who do that. That is, they go to the UK, get a job (large salary for them, not as large for the locals), then try to save as much as possible. After a few months or a year they quit the job and come home with enough money to live comfortably for a longer time than they spent in the UK. After the money dries up, back to the UK they go.
The minimal salary in Lithuania is 350EUR/month (those who chose to go to the UK would most likely get this assuming they were able to find a job) and the average is not that higher at 750EUR (both numbers are before taxes, you get much less in your bank account), so it is useful to be able to go to the UK (UK specifically because of English language) and earn a pile of money.
Some people choose to stay there and they most likely earn enough to comfortably live there. The ones who go to pick strawberries, clean the toilets and so on, usually do not earn a lot, but much more than they would get cleaning toilets here.
Lithuania has the Euro since 2015. Before that, the exchange rate was fixed to the Euro (before joining the EU it was fixed to the US dollar).
After fully adopting the Euro, prices jumped up significantly (we joke that the currency was changed, but numbers remained, 1EUR=3.4528LTL). Salaries, not so much ("calculated honestly"). It became economical to drive 200km to Poland for shopping.
For some reason, doing good work no one else is applying for is frowned upon in the UK.
As a Lithuanian (a lot of my fellow countrymen are in the UK, not me though) I think that it wasn't that nobody else was applying for the jobs, just that the Poles and Lithuanians ask for way less money to do the same job.
This usually goes like this:
1. Someone decides to go work in the UK and does so.
2. He lives extremely frugally and saves up as much money as possible.
3. He quits his job, returns home and lives in luxury, maybe start your own business.
4. Repeat if needed.
The reason for this is that the average salary in Lithuania is 748EUR (before taxes), but obviously not everyone gets it. The minimal salary is 350EUR (before taxes) and the majority of the people who decide to emigrate get the 350 assuming they can get a job in the first place. The salaries in the UK are much higher and the UK has the advantage of being an English-speaking country (second language is mandatory here and the vast majority of schools chose to teach English) compared to other EU countries.
I personally would be pissed if some Belorussian or Ukrainian offered to do my job for half of my current salary, so I assume the Brits are pissed too. Thankfully, Belarus and Ukraine are not part of the EU, so those people can be refused entry (AFAIK you can get a work visa, but the employer has to pay you above the average salary, so no importing cheap labor), less thankfully, our wages are one of the lowest in the EU so nobody from the EU wants to come.
While the "Leave" group only got a bit less than 52% votes, those who voted to leave most likely felt more strongly toward their decision than a lot of those who voted to remain (after all, if you do not really care either way, you are probably going to vote "it it ain't broken enough, don't fix it").
Or, it may mean that somebody comes from another country and offers to do your job for half the salary (because to him, half your salary is a huge pile of money, he can do your job for a while, save up, then go back home and be rich), so your boss asks you whether you want to be let go or stay, but only earn half as much (why should he pay you more).
Or how about this: somebody comes from a different country, does not want to work and asks the government of your country to give welfare to him.
I am from a country where wages a low, so people have been going to Norway and the UK for work (and welfare), so, to the people of my country, Brexit is bad, but I can understand the people of the UK - I would not want some Russian or whoever to offer to do my job for half the salary (of course, people from outside the EU are not easily allowed in and our wages (and welfare payments) are lower than most of the EU so nobody wants to come, horray, I guess?).
What if you wanted to provide a headphone with a subwoofer specific channel or a true surround sound headset / speakers?
Then you need a dual function jack - one that can be set to work as an analog output or as SPDIF or whatever other digital protocol is used these days.
A few sound cards for PCs use this.
Why do we just just use RCA cables any more for audio in home theater setups?
What should I use instead? 6.3mm? RCA is convenient and compatible with pretty much everything, so I use it. Why should I use SPDIF when only my PC, TV and CD player support it? My previous amplifier also did not have any digital inputs (my current one, a DIY tube amp also doesn't - it would take a lot of tubes to decode SPDIF signal and for no real gain over just using analog cables).
And yet, a COM port is rarely, but really useful in those rate times when you get a kernel panic and need to know why (because usually the beginning of the stack dump is not on the screen and obviously is not saved to any log file).
COM ports are also useful for configuring new switches, though it is possible to use a USB to COM adapter for this..
I did not know the proper term. If I literally translate it from my language it come out as "who has been tired", but it only applies to felonies and if the person was actually convicted.
Because gaining trust is much more difficult than losing it.
If you commit a felony, you are punished, but you also lost the trust of the people (people will think that the probability of you committing a crime again is higher than average), this is more difficult to regain. For example, somebody who has committed manslaughter probably should not be able to get a gun.
In my country, the status of "ex-con" disappears some years after release from prison. The status is used in determining punishments for any new crimes you commit and other stuff. It does not actually prevent you from running for parliament, but you need to be truthful about it (if you lie and get caught (and people check this) - you are out of the elections).
Linux has the same problem.
A limited user (even without sudo rights) launches a buggy application and opens an infected document. The virus can then proceed to encrypt all the files that the user can modify.
The system files will stay intact.
The documents of the user will get encrypted.
The user usually cares about being able to access his documents, so the damage is done even without root access. If this happens on a single user desktop, then the damage is the same as if the virus had root access. In both cases you have to restore the PC from backups (if you have them).
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for a promise from the USA and Russia to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Russia later decided to "liberate" Crimea and parts of Ukraine because fascism.
Libya gave up its nuclear program and the whole country got "liberated" and nothing good happened to Gaddafi.
So, Kim giving up his nuclear weapons would most likely result in a "liberation" too.
I do not think that Kim is a very good leader for the country (even Stalin looks good compared to him), however, he is smart enough to understand that having multiple nukes aimed at the population centers of South Korea is a good way to prevent an invasion (even one nuke getting past the missile defense would result in a lot of casualties).
While the US does not agree with everything that Germany or the UK does, it agrees with most of the important stuff (I wonder what would happen if, say, the EU decided to ally with Russia (and, for example, send military help for Assad) or just stand on its own), but plenty of other countries were invaded or had their regimes replaced by the US, Iraq for example.
Russia acts the same way of course - do something to really piss them off (and have no nukes or NATO membership, coincidentally, trying to get EU/NATO membership counts as "really pissing Russia off") and you will get invaded.
They didn't have the technology to data-mine. Even if all TVs were bugged, you would still need a lot of people actually listening - no speech recognition or automatic flagging of "interesting" recordings.
So, they had to choose who to bug, even tapping all phone conversations (could be easily done technologically back then) would require a lot of manpower.
And now we have - speech recognition, data mining for phone conversations and text messages. A lot of information put online on facebook and similar by the people themselves. Bugged PCs, cell phones with location tracking and so on.
To accomplish that in the 1970s or 80s would probably have required the KGB to be big enough to become a nation on its own.
You don't get it - the reason EU criticizes China or Russia for lack of freedom is not actually because it wants the people to have freedom. The problem with China for the EU is that it's not EU that is tracking the people of China.
Thy said that in the USSR you were tracked by KGB - I'm sure the KGB did not even dream of the tracking capabilities of modern "democratic freedom-loving" governments of today.
One day the EU will be renamed to Democratic Union of Free Democratic European Republics for Freedom and Democracy.
I'm sticking with my 1982 car. Maybe someday I'll buy another (similar age) car as backup, but I will not give up my current car unless it is completely destroyed or the government passes a law that forbids the use of my car. However, if the law only concerns the fuel (my car runs on gasoline or LPG), then I'll look for someone to replace the engine with electric motor (assuming such modifications would be allowed by the law). Even then, the car would not be connected to the internet and all controls (except throttle) would be mechanical.
Something like the Psion Series 5 was quite useful - it is small enough to fit in a pocket, but has a relatively good keyboard and a touchscreen. Its downsides (IMO) are only related to its age - no built-in internet connectivity, slow CPU, incompatibility with desktop file formats, like .doc (without conversion).
Viliv N5 is more modern (2010), but still quite slow and 1GB RAM pretty much limits it to Windows XP (though it can run Linux, I have programs that are not fully compatible with it).
Something like that made in 2016 should be much better.
Having a mini-laptop is useful because I do not need to look for alternatives to the programs I use. I do not have pockets big enough for Surface Pro, but Viliv or Psion can fit quite well.
I also doubt that there will be a time when "all the desktop stuff you need is web based" - I do not particularly like storing my data on somebody else's servers, also, there are places where mobile internet is slow.
You mean software has not been bloating and slowing down fast enough? That's great.
While web browsers today have to do more complex stuff compared to web browsers years ago, other software should not change (that is, slow down).
What I used MS Word 2000 for: Writing/editing a document and printing it.
What I use MS Word 2016 for: Writing/editing a document and printing it.
In both cases, the document looks pretty much the same (basic layout etc, you know, stuff like an office memo), so why would Word 2016 need 30 times faster hardware to do the exact same thing?
The idea is that I do not have to carry the big screen/keyboard all the time, but still have all my files and programs (and do not need to set up terminal services and a storage server, both of which require an internet connection, so are not as useful in places where mobile internet is slow).
Of course, this is if you use something that is not web based, if all you need if facebook and gmail, then, I guess, you do not need a Windows dockable phone.
I would be satisfied with a more modern Viliv N5 (or a Psion Series 5 with 2016 internals) though.
Once the electric technology is developed enough I probably would be able to (if such a need arises) convert my W123 to electric power and still have the same range and performance as it does now.
That is, only the power source would change, the car would still have no internet connectivity, touch screens or anything like that.
Also, it is interesting on how the sale ban would work.
Will all sales be banned or just the new imports (and people will be able to sell their cars, much like with full auto guns in the US)? That is, if I lived there, would I need to buy multiple cars now or would I still be able to buy a used car later (at a higher price)?
Kim is smart enough to know that having powerful weapons is the only way possible for him to stay in power.