Top 5 is missing JD and Tencent, who would love to get to #1 and #2 with this level of stupidity. They already have experience in this field, as they got big after google et al left China after refusing to obey Chinese laws.
This is literally how Tencent and Baidu became the giants they are today. Tencent is bigger than facebook in terms of market cap last time I checked.
Pretty sure google really, REALLY doesn't want similar European giants to be formed, or even worse, cede the huge EU market to Chinese giants, effectively surrendering world leadership in search in the process.
Google already got crushed in China and effectively contained in Russia. If it loses EU, it's left with Americas, Africa and some parts of Asia.
And anything that is created to fill the void left by google will rapidly grow to be able to compete with google, as we have seen with tencent's services in Asia and yandex in Russia.
No need for air quotes. Beta decay is radiation. Idiots not knowing what radiation actually is, and assuming everything has penetration of gamma and energy of alpha isn't going to be helped by pretending beta isn't radiation.
You can also die from being too fat. And chances of you dying of it are infinitely higher than of starvation, because as I noted above, no one dies of it any more due to financial constraints.
>Literally, people are starving to death in North America
Yes, my definition of problem solved is people not starving in North America.
Have you ever seen what world hunger did in Africa and Asia? Just how sheltered, ignorant and frankly stupid are you to even suggest that this is not a good thing?
You truly are a fool, but not because you click on slashdot comments. Get out of the damn basement, and hit those few remaining regions in the world that still have hunger for a serious reality check. You sound like you desperately need one.
I personally backed it because I wanted a freelancer with modern graphics and a better flight model. Back when I backed it, I was still playing Freelancer multiplayer. It was even at that time one of the best if not THE best arcadey space combat game and multiplayer support with all the mods was excellent.
They seem to have gone really far off the rails with that one, but I'm still interested in what they'll make it. That said, I'm in for literally minimal possible support from early days, and I'm not interested in paying any more until I see and try out the finished product.
They have in fact promised that it won't be pay to win and that all ships will be available to everyone. How they will implement it with those sums being spent on ships remains to be seen.
You can tell someone has lived a sheltered life when they spin a first world problem of "mom didn't wake up in time from her hangover, so kids get lunch as their first meal" as something even remotely comparable to "people dying of hunger".
Seriously, fuck you. I've seen what actual dying of hunger did to people. You trying to conflate that with your first world problems of "oh noes, they're slightly hungry in the mornings" is beyond the pale.
If there was a case of someone genuinely dying of starvation because they couldn't afford food, which was the claim, it would be international news for weeks.
So good luck looking for citations of things that aren't about self neglect, dependent neglect or crime. Because you won't find any. Starvation has not been a thing in 1st world in so many decades, we literally don't know what it looks like any more, hence the knee jerking.
See, people dying of starvation are actually fairly visible. They look the part. And death takes weeks to month to arrive. Which is why they're usually caught by social security net even in case of self neglect, and the few cases that aren't actually do make news when found.
How many of these six millions died of starvation. Citations please.
Hint: if there was even one such death, it would be international news for weeks. Wide variety of social nets specifically aimed at keeping people that can't afford food fed in North America has been fully reaching everyone for decades at this point.
The only cases I know of are those of "starvation due to self-neglect" (i.e. elderly with no family, young children neglected by their parents) and starvation as a result of a crime (someone literally holding someone prisoner and starving them). And those are very rare cases.
Starvation due to lack of funds hasn't been a thing in North America is something close to a hundred years at this point. It's so good that even relevant charities trying to collect the funds now have to mask the numbers under arbitrary definition of "food insecurity" as to mask the fact that starvation due to lack of funds has been all but eliminated outside a few regions in Africa and Asia. And we're well on the way to eliminate those soon.
The food related problem that is actually acute in North America is the exact opposite. Far too much food. People are too fat.
Looking at commentary on its forums, big paying folks like this seem to be more of a "engineer at a tech company, earning six figures", massive nostalgia and desire for this kind of a game - types.
This is basically their Porsche/Harley Davidson/[insert middle age crisis marker here]. And they have money to burn.
I'm just happy we don't use your standards of expertise in real life. We'd have a lot more death and destruction in society. Not really anything new for your though, I recall running into your vocal denials of observable reality before.
Thank you for both admitting you neither know what IQ tests as administered by social scientist are, and that you aren't even willing to google it to find out.
It's well documented that they are still below European average just like European average is below Jewish average and Chinese average.
What they are not however, is around 70 points on average. And it makes a whole lot of difference if population on average is is barely on the edge of being classified as mentally retarded, and someone who actually needs help just to cope with everyday life, or if you are on average a bit worse at learning new tasks quickly and otherwise a mentally functional adult.
Hint: Sub saharan kids adopted to US don't need help just to manage their everyday lives throughout their adulthood. People below 70 points of IQ generally do. When you're around 70 on average, that literally means that half of your population is below 70, and meaningfully many of them a lot below that. That's horrifying, and that is what hunger crisis a few decades did to some of the populations in the world.
The whole "it's racist to talk about it" spiel did even more damage by denying the problem which cripples entire nations who have to find something for such people to actually do as to not be effectively wards of their communities for their entire lives.
That is because of the generations that got hit by severe hunger during the critical phases of brain development. Hunger has in fact damaged brains and degraded their intellectual development.
This damage is not inheritable, and their children already are much higher on IQ scale than their parents now that world hunger has been all but eliminated.
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Top 5 is missing JD and Tencent, who would love to get to #1 and #2 with this level of stupidity. They already have experience in this field, as they got big after google et al left China after refusing to obey Chinese laws.
It is for now. It's shrinking however as a portion of entire world and the path of decline doesn't seem to let up.
These fines are not even one percent of the yearly budget (145bn EUR), as they're paid over many years.
This is literally how Tencent and Baidu became the giants they are today. Tencent is bigger than facebook in terms of market cap last time I checked.
Pretty sure google really, REALLY doesn't want similar European giants to be formed, or even worse, cede the huge EU market to Chinese giants, effectively surrendering world leadership in search in the process.
Google already got crushed in China and effectively contained in Russia. If it loses EU, it's left with Americas, Africa and some parts of Asia.
And anything that is created to fill the void left by google will rapidly grow to be able to compete with google, as we have seen with tencent's services in Asia and yandex in Russia.
That is exactly what they are doing. Google can either work with EU, or it has to leave the EU.
This story is about EU.
Considering the efficiency of solar, pretty much everywhere. These two aren't even in the same ballpark in terms of power per size.
No need for air quotes. Beta decay is radiation. Idiots not knowing what radiation actually is, and assuming everything has penetration of gamma and energy of alpha isn't going to be helped by pretending beta isn't radiation.
No, it just expends half of its maximum energy capacity.
You can also die from being too fat. And chances of you dying of it are infinitely higher than of starvation, because as I noted above, no one dies of it any more due to financial constraints.
>Literally, people are starving to death in North America
Yes, my definition of problem solved is people not starving in North America.
Have you ever seen what world hunger did in Africa and Asia? Just how sheltered, ignorant and frankly stupid are you to even suggest that this is not a good thing?
You truly are a fool, but not because you click on slashdot comments. Get out of the damn basement, and hit those few remaining regions in the world that still have hunger for a serious reality check. You sound like you desperately need one.
I personally backed it because I wanted a freelancer with modern graphics and a better flight model. Back when I backed it, I was still playing Freelancer multiplayer. It was even at that time one of the best if not THE best arcadey space combat game and multiplayer support with all the mods was excellent.
They seem to have gone really far off the rails with that one, but I'm still interested in what they'll make it. That said, I'm in for literally minimal possible support from early days, and I'm not interested in paying any more until I see and try out the finished product.
They have in fact promised that it won't be pay to win and that all ships will be available to everyone. How they will implement it with those sums being spent on ships remains to be seen.
You can tell someone has lived a sheltered life when they spin a first world problem of "mom didn't wake up in time from her hangover, so kids get lunch as their first meal" as something even remotely comparable to "people dying of hunger".
Seriously, fuck you. I've seen what actual dying of hunger did to people. You trying to conflate that with your first world problems of "oh noes, they're slightly hungry in the mornings" is beyond the pale.
If there was a case of someone genuinely dying of starvation because they couldn't afford food, which was the claim, it would be international news for weeks.
So good luck looking for citations of things that aren't about self neglect, dependent neglect or crime. Because you won't find any. Starvation has not been a thing in 1st world in so many decades, we literally don't know what it looks like any more, hence the knee jerking.
See, people dying of starvation are actually fairly visible. They look the part. And death takes weeks to month to arrive. Which is why they're usually caught by social security net even in case of self neglect, and the few cases that aren't actually do make news when found.
How many of these six millions died of starvation. Citations please.
Hint: if there was even one such death, it would be international news for weeks. Wide variety of social nets specifically aimed at keeping people that can't afford food fed in North America has been fully reaching everyone for decades at this point.
Off the top of my head, things like Divinity Original Sin games, Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, etc all delivered on what was promised.
Some projects get things done, some don't. Welcome to world of entrepreneur.
Who's starving to death in North America?
The only cases I know of are those of "starvation due to self-neglect" (i.e. elderly with no family, young children neglected by their parents) and starvation as a result of a crime (someone literally holding someone prisoner and starving them). And those are very rare cases.
Starvation due to lack of funds hasn't been a thing in North America is something close to a hundred years at this point. It's so good that even relevant charities trying to collect the funds now have to mask the numbers under arbitrary definition of "food insecurity" as to mask the fact that starvation due to lack of funds has been all but eliminated outside a few regions in Africa and Asia. And we're well on the way to eliminate those soon.
The food related problem that is actually acute in North America is the exact opposite. Far too much food. People are too fat.
Looking at commentary on its forums, big paying folks like this seem to be more of a "engineer at a tech company, earning six figures", massive nostalgia and desire for this kind of a game - types.
This is basically their Porsche/Harley Davidson/[insert middle age crisis marker here]. And they have money to burn.
I'm just happy we don't use your standards of expertise in real life. We'd have a lot more death and destruction in society. Not really anything new for your though, I recall running into your vocal denials of observable reality before.
Thank you for both admitting you neither know what IQ tests as administered by social scientist are, and that you aren't even willing to google it to find out.
That's not how IQ tests work. You seem to mistake the online stuff that markets itself as "IQ tests" for actual IQ tests as used by social scientists.
Google it. It's about as hard of a science as you can go in social science.
It's well documented that they are still below European average just like European average is below Jewish average and Chinese average.
What they are not however, is around 70 points on average. And it makes a whole lot of difference if population on average is is barely on the edge of being classified as mentally retarded, and someone who actually needs help just to cope with everyday life, or if you are on average a bit worse at learning new tasks quickly and otherwise a mentally functional adult.
Hint: Sub saharan kids adopted to US don't need help just to manage their everyday lives throughout their adulthood. People below 70 points of IQ generally do. When you're around 70 on average, that literally means that half of your population is below 70, and meaningfully many of them a lot below that. That's horrifying, and that is what hunger crisis a few decades did to some of the populations in the world.
The whole "it's racist to talk about it" spiel did even more damage by denying the problem which cripples entire nations who have to find something for such people to actually do as to not be effectively wards of their communities for their entire lives.
That is because of the generations that got hit by severe hunger during the critical phases of brain development. Hunger has in fact damaged brains and degraded their intellectual development.
This damage is not inheritable, and their children already are much higher on IQ scale than their parents now that world hunger has been all but eliminated.