Nokia at least is well documented to have made deals with US to insert spy gear into networks delivered to Soviet Union. That was in fact critical to getting required export licenses, since there was US technology in those networks.
We Finns have to be flexible both ways to be able to exist with longer border with Russia than entire of rest of EU combined while remaining outside NATO.
Prison? Try "re-education camp" if you're low enough on totem pole, and "being the star of televised execution" if you're high enough.
Seriously, this is never in the news in the West for propagandistic reasons, but televised executions of higher ups that were in some kind of opposition to Xi's policies and rising of his cult of personality have been ongoing for quite a few years now in China.
There's no deflection here. He's merely pointing out the obvious. Your "discussion" is hinged on the childish assumption that "US has engaged in unconscionable business dealings" is somehow relevant to the discussion, as if there are other partners who don't.
When factor exists to same or greater level for everyone else involved, it becomes largely irrelevant.
"I googled that word, found out that I have been completely wrong, and now I'm just going to insult you because I'm don't have the character to admit to having been wrong".
I remember working the fields as a kid in 1990s here in Finland as a decently paying summer job, and even back then, it was fairly common knowledge that farmers weren't tilling their fields yearly. Back then, I think it was once every full crop rotation between some specific crops or something similar. And that was decades ago.
Water is the most bioaccumulative substance in this ecosystem. Take a second to actually think what that word means and you'll understand how absurd of a statement you just made.
This is why TDS is so harmful to people. It makes you imagine horrible things about Trump's actions that are patently not there. Just like it made whoever wrote the TFA imagine the topic which is literally debunked in TFA.
Also there is always a safe level of exposure for everything in life. Even VX. Your TDS is making you make extremely stupid statements. Bioaccumulation does not mean that there's not a safe dose. It simply means that this particular toxic bioaccumulates through some mechanism.
>I admit it doesn't say what topic says, but it might lead to less regulation to tighten them further, therefore it does actually allow for more mercury in the air. Because math is for nerds and everyone knows that "greater" is the exact same thing as "lesser."
More TDS in action. When a nerd on a site for nerds can't even comprehend that "greater" is not the same thing as "lesser", it's one hell of a sizable cognitive dissonance.
You're regurgitating stock grade current Western media propaganda, which demonstrates utter lack of familiarity with the region. Kurdish power structures themselves, such as PKK and YPG openly declare themselves marxist-leninist all the way from the time of founding to on the ground operations today. This is so uncontroversial, that it can be read on wikipedia if you're uninterested into wading into regions history and understanding how and why these people adopted these systems.
You're also utterly unaware of realities of Turkey-US relations beyond stock propaganda either. Turkey is necessary for containment of Russia because of Bosphorus as well as being one of the three primary powers in the Saudi-Turkey-Iran triangle. US is necessary for Turkey because of its military reach and ability to provide security guarantees in the Saudi-Turkey-Iran power struggle. Ideological narratives about "person with massive democratic support in his country is actually a dictator because we don't like him" is utterly irrelevant to actual realities in the region. These narratives only matter in how the actions and outcomes are packaged to ordinary people in Western states for variety of domestic propaganda reasons. These reasons are utterly disconnected from realities in the region and do not interact with such realities in any meaningful way.
It would be better to note that this works in every field that operates on free market capitalist principles. The end game of free market capitalism is death of free market capitalism by self-serving giant monopolies in each field. Doesn't matter if its in steel production, oil production or propaganda production.
That is why the solution has typically been to constrain this tendency of market economies through sovereign intervention when it begins to tilt towards monopoly in a certain field by breaking monopoly up. This results in temporary lowering of overall efficiency of the system until the newly fragmented field of competition reconstructs itself, and long term benefit of not ending up with free market capitalism end game of all-powerful monopolies that end competition in their field and therefore, kill the free market capitalism.
Capitalism therefore is a game of balance. Sovereign must on one hand take hands off approach when it's progressing toward monopolization, because this progress reaps significant societal benefits. And then step in and fracture the monopolies as they begin to reduce systemic efficiency granted by competition through monopolization of their field.
Our societal problem is that there are too many noisy and utterly idiotic people with very little life experience and a lot of ego, who think that the system is evil because of its natural direction alone, and therefore should be dramatically reformed to another system entirely. This tends to go away with age for most sensible people, because as one gathers life experience, one begins to understand that many processes in life that eventually result in suffering in death is allowed to progress to their logical end, are actually beneficial during most of the progression and simply should be managed to never get allowed to progress too far.
One of the highest female genital mutilation rates in the region. Unapologetic and unironic marxist-leninist system.
It's true that enemy of your enemy can be your friend, but the enemy in question is all but gone for the West at this stage. Which means there's no need to maintain friendship with someone who's ideologically diametrically opposed to capitalism. And kurds are even more prone to fighting their civil wars in European countries after going there as refugees, and about as rapey as everyone else from the region when in contact with Western women whom they view just like everyone else in the area does. Massive sluts who view sex like those in Brave New World and who utterly emasculated their own men and are in a desperate need of a true man.
It's the same reason kurds have been dropped by the West after their purpose was served after first Iraq war. They're not any more "decent" than the rest of the region unless you either really like marxism-leninism and really hate capitalism, which is unfortunately increasingly true for modern Western media workers. Or you're into empowering women through dampening their biological interest in men. Which aligns with interests of modern feminism that are doing just that. The only divergence is that they do this via psychological rather than surgical methods in the West.
But if you're not ideologically aligned with those two groups, then compared to the rest of the region they're marginally better in some ways and worse in others. As such, your approach to alliance with such people should be pragmatic to the extreme, just like it would be with any other entity that is utterly opposed to you on societal level. And pragmatic reasons to support Kurds ran out with failure of IS. Turkey and Iraq are far more important as allies and both are diametrically opposed to Kurdistan (greater or not) as a state. Which is the primary political goal of Kurds today. So when the choice comes to choose either Turkey and Iraq or Kurdish forces, the pragmatic choice is obvious to the extreme.
Like I noted above, you can sideload. It's not easy out of the box, because android TV literally blocks user from putting anything directly on the internal memory, and there's no easy way to tell it to run apks. But it's doable.
The problem comes from lack of proper control system, as you only have a remote. If interface is touch only requiring things like swiping, you're basically SOL. Which is probably part of the reason you only have android TV google play out of the box, instead of full phone/tablet one, even though it's the same android on ARM underneath.
That's netflix intentionally crippling the service on device they can't fully trust. They can't trust a fully fledged laptop. They can trust an utterly crippled android TV.
The thing seems to be TV set integration. You're not buying a set top box, but a TV that has android TV built it.
I just had to configure one such TV, and it's quite a mess right now. It's literally an android TV on ARM system with "TV apps" as default, as well as a lot of pre-installed pay TV garbage. Want to watch TV? It's actually an app. Want to configure channels? It's actually an app.
You don't really realise this at first, because they try to make menus look like normal TV menus, but once you get into the OS and start looking around, you realise that essentially every normal TV function is just an android app. Even remote support is just an autostarted android app.
The advantage is that you do get a lot of customization capability with android, as well as access to a very crippled version of google play. Which is still a whole lot better than your typical "smart" TV, but absolute garbage compared to a typical android phone, much less a full fledged PC.
Disadvantage is that this is pretty raw android. You get occasional crashes, really crappy compatibility issues, and most of the stuff on google play for android TV is just wrapper apps for "pay to stream" paid TV channels of various kinds. You sorta, kinda can sideload actual full on apps after fucking around a bit. Use "downloader" app on the play store to download and run what you actually want to use after you give permission to install things from non-play store sources for example. But since you only have remote for the UI control, apps that aren't intended for android TV use tend to be very clunky to use, if they're even usable in the first place.
Overall, I think the best way to go is still to just buy a cheap non "smart" TV, and if you want internet etc capability to go with it, just buy a cheap laptop and hook it up to another HDMI port on said cheap TV. Best of both worlds. Android TV set just seems like too much of an intentionally crippled system to get you to pay for paid TV apps.
The oil was going for the price it was going because of supply and demand. Price collapsed because supply in the world's biggest oil refining and consuming economy shifted dramatically in last decade, shifting the oil trade routes completely. To the point where people who always paid premium before the shift, like East Asians, actually had a discount in the end, and people who had a discount as primary purchasers stopped buying alltogether.
Just because all you have is a hammer, doesn't mean that all problems are nails. Just because all you know is banking doesn't mean that all trade is about finance shenangans.
Russia can't fill in. It's a local major power with local interests. European majors' need is of a foreign power with no local interests to provide security guarantees to all majors.
That way, majors do not have to treat other majors as existential enemies with significant security interests in their own territory far as national security goes.
Yugoslav war etc are not even on radar in this scope. They're far too unimportant. This is the highest level of geopolitics, concerning itself with matter of state survival of European majors.
The problem in Europe is that all main antagonists you mention cannot trust one another if they have no outside security guarantor. Price of misplaced trust is simply too high of a risk to be acceptable.
So if US retreats, the only way for primary European antagonists to stay peaceful would be for another comparable foreign power to provide comparable security guarantees.
If US cut it's defence budget in half, US would no longer be able to act as a guarantor for maritime trade as it existed since Bretton-Woods. The world as we know it would literally end, because global trade would perish within a year or two, world powers moving rapidly to pre-WW1 intra-imperial trading model instead.
It doesn't. Firefox and Chrome like all other browsers have problems with buggy implementation of standards. And it's often rival product developers that find them.
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Nokia at least is well documented to have made deals with US to insert spy gear into networks delivered to Soviet Union. That was in fact critical to getting required export licenses, since there was US technology in those networks.
We Finns have to be flexible both ways to be able to exist with longer border with Russia than entire of rest of EU combined while remaining outside NATO.
Prison? Try "re-education camp" if you're low enough on totem pole, and "being the star of televised execution" if you're high enough.
Seriously, this is never in the news in the West for propagandistic reasons, but televised executions of higher ups that were in some kind of opposition to Xi's policies and rising of his cult of personality have been ongoing for quite a few years now in China.
There's no deflection here. He's merely pointing out the obvious. Your "discussion" is hinged on the childish assumption that "US has engaged in unconscionable business dealings" is somehow relevant to the discussion, as if there are other partners who don't.
When factor exists to same or greater level for everyone else involved, it becomes largely irrelevant.
"I googled that word, found out that I have been completely wrong, and now I'm just going to insult you because I'm don't have the character to admit to having been wrong".
I remember working the fields as a kid in 1990s here in Finland as a decently paying summer job, and even back then, it was fairly common knowledge that farmers weren't tilling their fields yearly. Back then, I think it was once every full crop rotation between some specific crops or something similar. And that was decades ago.
Water is the most bioaccumulative substance in this ecosystem. Take a second to actually think what that word means and you'll understand how absurd of a statement you just made.
NLT has been long debunked.
The irony of this statement is so obvious, it takes a serious mental disorder to miss it.
This is why TDS is so harmful to people. It makes you imagine horrible things about Trump's actions that are patently not there. Just like it made whoever wrote the TFA imagine the topic which is literally debunked in TFA.
That is literally the opposite of what TFA says.
Also there is always a safe level of exposure for everything in life. Even VX. Your TDS is making you make extremely stupid statements. Bioaccumulation does not mean that there's not a safe dose. It simply means that this particular toxic bioaccumulates through some mechanism.
>I admit it doesn't say what topic says, but it might lead to less regulation to tighten them further, therefore it does actually allow for more mercury in the air. Because math is for nerds and everyone knows that "greater" is the exact same thing as "lesser."
More TDS in action. When a nerd on a site for nerds can't even comprehend that "greater" is not the same thing as "lesser", it's one hell of a sizable cognitive dissonance.
Topic: Rule change that would let power plants release more toxic pollution.
Content: Rule change that doesn't let power plants release any more toxic pollution.
Comments: Trump is letting plants release more toxic pollution.
TDS in action.
You're regurgitating stock grade current Western media propaganda, which demonstrates utter lack of familiarity with the region. Kurdish power structures themselves, such as PKK and YPG openly declare themselves marxist-leninist all the way from the time of founding to on the ground operations today. This is so uncontroversial, that it can be read on wikipedia if you're uninterested into wading into regions history and understanding how and why these people adopted these systems.
You're also utterly unaware of realities of Turkey-US relations beyond stock propaganda either. Turkey is necessary for containment of Russia because of Bosphorus as well as being one of the three primary powers in the Saudi-Turkey-Iran triangle. US is necessary for Turkey because of its military reach and ability to provide security guarantees in the Saudi-Turkey-Iran power struggle. Ideological narratives about "person with massive democratic support in his country is actually a dictator because we don't like him" is utterly irrelevant to actual realities in the region. These narratives only matter in how the actions and outcomes are packaged to ordinary people in Western states for variety of domestic propaganda reasons. These reasons are utterly disconnected from realities in the region and do not interact with such realities in any meaningful way.
It would be better to note that this works in every field that operates on free market capitalist principles. The end game of free market capitalism is death of free market capitalism by self-serving giant monopolies in each field. Doesn't matter if its in steel production, oil production or propaganda production.
That is why the solution has typically been to constrain this tendency of market economies through sovereign intervention when it begins to tilt towards monopoly in a certain field by breaking monopoly up. This results in temporary lowering of overall efficiency of the system until the newly fragmented field of competition reconstructs itself, and long term benefit of not ending up with free market capitalism end game of all-powerful monopolies that end competition in their field and therefore, kill the free market capitalism.
Capitalism therefore is a game of balance. Sovereign must on one hand take hands off approach when it's progressing toward monopolization, because this progress reaps significant societal benefits. And then step in and fracture the monopolies as they begin to reduce systemic efficiency granted by competition through monopolization of their field.
Our societal problem is that there are too many noisy and utterly idiotic people with very little life experience and a lot of ego, who think that the system is evil because of its natural direction alone, and therefore should be dramatically reformed to another system entirely. This tends to go away with age for most sensible people, because as one gathers life experience, one begins to understand that many processes in life that eventually result in suffering in death is allowed to progress to their logical end, are actually beneficial during most of the progression and simply should be managed to never get allowed to progress too far.
One of the highest female genital mutilation rates in the region. Unapologetic and unironic marxist-leninist system.
It's true that enemy of your enemy can be your friend, but the enemy in question is all but gone for the West at this stage. Which means there's no need to maintain friendship with someone who's ideologically diametrically opposed to capitalism. And kurds are even more prone to fighting their civil wars in European countries after going there as refugees, and about as rapey as everyone else from the region when in contact with Western women whom they view just like everyone else in the area does. Massive sluts who view sex like those in Brave New World and who utterly emasculated their own men and are in a desperate need of a true man.
It's the same reason kurds have been dropped by the West after their purpose was served after first Iraq war. They're not any more "decent" than the rest of the region unless you either really like marxism-leninism and really hate capitalism, which is unfortunately increasingly true for modern Western media workers. Or you're into empowering women through dampening their biological interest in men. Which aligns with interests of modern feminism that are doing just that. The only divergence is that they do this via psychological rather than surgical methods in the West.
But if you're not ideologically aligned with those two groups, then compared to the rest of the region they're marginally better in some ways and worse in others. As such, your approach to alliance with such people should be pragmatic to the extreme, just like it would be with any other entity that is utterly opposed to you on societal level. And pragmatic reasons to support Kurds ran out with failure of IS. Turkey and Iraq are far more important as allies and both are diametrically opposed to Kurdistan (greater or not) as a state. Which is the primary political goal of Kurds today. So when the choice comes to choose either Turkey and Iraq or Kurdish forces, the pragmatic choice is obvious to the extreme.
Like I noted above, you can sideload. It's not easy out of the box, because android TV literally blocks user from putting anything directly on the internal memory, and there's no easy way to tell it to run apks. But it's doable.
The problem comes from lack of proper control system, as you only have a remote. If interface is touch only requiring things like swiping, you're basically SOL. Which is probably part of the reason you only have android TV google play out of the box, instead of full phone/tablet one, even though it's the same android on ARM underneath.
That's netflix intentionally crippling the service on device they can't fully trust. They can't trust a fully fledged laptop. They can trust an utterly crippled android TV.
Most streaming services do not do this.
The thing seems to be TV set integration. You're not buying a set top box, but a TV that has android TV built it.
I just had to configure one such TV, and it's quite a mess right now. It's literally an android TV on ARM system with "TV apps" as default, as well as a lot of pre-installed pay TV garbage. Want to watch TV? It's actually an app. Want to configure channels? It's actually an app.
You don't really realise this at first, because they try to make menus look like normal TV menus, but once you get into the OS and start looking around, you realise that essentially every normal TV function is just an android app. Even remote support is just an autostarted android app.
The advantage is that you do get a lot of customization capability with android, as well as access to a very crippled version of google play. Which is still a whole lot better than your typical "smart" TV, but absolute garbage compared to a typical android phone, much less a full fledged PC.
Disadvantage is that this is pretty raw android. You get occasional crashes, really crappy compatibility issues, and most of the stuff on google play for android TV is just wrapper apps for "pay to stream" paid TV channels of various kinds. You sorta, kinda can sideload actual full on apps after fucking around a bit. Use "downloader" app on the play store to download and run what you actually want to use after you give permission to install things from non-play store sources for example. But since you only have remote for the UI control, apps that aren't intended for android TV use tend to be very clunky to use, if they're even usable in the first place.
Overall, I think the best way to go is still to just buy a cheap non "smart" TV, and if you want internet etc capability to go with it, just buy a cheap laptop and hook it up to another HDMI port on said cheap TV. Best of both worlds. Android TV set just seems like too much of an intentionally crippled system to get you to pay for paid TV apps.
The oil was going for the price it was going because of supply and demand. Price collapsed because supply in the world's biggest oil refining and consuming economy shifted dramatically in last decade, shifting the oil trade routes completely. To the point where people who always paid premium before the shift, like East Asians, actually had a discount in the end, and people who had a discount as primary purchasers stopped buying alltogether.
Just because all you have is a hammer, doesn't mean that all problems are nails. Just because all you know is banking doesn't mean that all trade is about finance shenangans.
Russia can't fill in. It's a local major power with local interests. European majors' need is of a foreign power with no local interests to provide security guarantees to all majors.
That way, majors do not have to treat other majors as existential enemies with significant security interests in their own territory far as national security goes.
Yugoslav war etc are not even on radar in this scope. They're far too unimportant. This is the highest level of geopolitics, concerning itself with matter of state survival of European majors.
The problem in Europe is that all main antagonists you mention cannot trust one another if they have no outside security guarantor. Price of misplaced trust is simply too high of a risk to be acceptable.
So if US retreats, the only way for primary European antagonists to stay peaceful would be for another comparable foreign power to provide comparable security guarantees.
If US cut it's defence budget in half, US would no longer be able to act as a guarantor for maritime trade as it existed since Bretton-Woods. The world as we know it would literally end, because global trade would perish within a year or two, world powers moving rapidly to pre-WW1 intra-imperial trading model instead.
It doesn't. Firefox and Chrome like all other browsers have problems with buggy implementation of standards. And it's often rival product developers that find them.
Compare your quote to that reply in the post immediately prior. If you're still confused, ask someone next to you.
So you didn't notice the removal of the key word in that reply?
Ok.