[irony] So what if a guy votes libertarian or republican. There's no cause and effect relationship there. It's a complex, long lasting interaction. And it's existed long before you were around.
You know what? You are a simple minded moron. You are unable to unserstand the complexities of life. Your brain is unable to process too many facts so you pick the most simple minded answer and grip it in your pea brain with all your might.
Republicans are evil, Libertarians are evil, dh003i is evil. You read simple minded sites and believe that their version of reality is the only one. You should travel and maybe learn some political theory. Read some philosophy and a few history textbooks (that aren't published in the US). Read about Colonialism, Anarchism, and Socialism. [/irony]
Oil isn't really the end here, it's the means. Control over oil sources grants the US control over others (which is the real end). Think about this, the US has major sway of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and several other OPEC countries. The invasion of Iraq was justified through a series of lies, and the democratic control doesn't appear to be coming anytime soon (the US has just hand-picked 25 people for their civilian council). Now that the US has control over Iraqi oil, it can express control of it's oil monopoly to stifle any opposition to it's global policies. So if China gets out of line, the US strangles their oil supply. This is the same reason the US invaded Yugoslavia, and the same reason it maintains sanctions on Cuba, and cut off relations with Iran. Those countries are/were devoid of US influence. Milosovic did not allow US companies and influence into Yugoslavia, but Djindjic did (before he was killed) and his successor will as well. The people of Cuba, and the people of Iran, threw the US out of their countries. In fact the whole Iran-Contra scandal was an effort on the part of the US to strengthen the Iranian military in hopes of supporting a coup against the religious government. The US has a long history of working with military dictators because they are easily controlled with arms shipments and military support.
Outer Party 1984ians work 60+ hours a week, 90 if they are redacting large parts of history, for no reward, remember?
Well how many people on slashdot are working 60+ hrs a week? And our reward is the ability to pay off a mortgage, and buying those new trinkets that we NEED to have.
Also your original post said something about an invation which is way out of line.
The US invaded and bombed Yugoslavia.
Once again you are making the claim that US increased arms sales so that turkey could kill more kurds when that's not the case at all. Arms sales to turkey were increased because an embargo previously placed was lifted.
So the embargo only limited and did not prevent arms sales? Because the US was giving away and selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military equipment for decades to both Indonesia and Turkey (in the case of Indonesia, since at least the 60's). So you are saying that these embargoes were lifted just as the violence against the Kurds and the East Timorese was reaching its climax? Were these sanctions enforced by the Security Council? Because I saw no resolutions regarding Turkey or Indonesia while the violence was in full swing. There was resolution 1319 in September 2000 condemning the violence in Timor, but this was well after much violence had already occured (which I said was because the US was actively trying to prevent the UN from doing anything about it). But in Turkey, are you saying that all the 30,000 murdered kurds and over 2 million displaced were part of the PKK?
The oil for food program was initiated by clinton.
Yeah, and in the description of the oil for food program you'll see that all money was controlled by the UN sanctions committee (on which US and Britain had controlling sway). And as you'll see in the charts describing the transfers to the people of Iraq, water and sanitation repair was consistently blocked. These were infrastructure targets specifically attacked during Desert Storm, and they were specifically prevented from being repaired, and this would be a major contributing factor to the 5000 children per month death rate. The US and Britain prevented Iraq from repairing this equipment, in effect conducting biological warfare on the people of Iraq.
but that's better than having no source at all.
No it's not.
Right, so making something up is better than reading it somewhere. Usually reading about an incident or event in several varied sources provides more evidence that that event actually occured. I suppose your thinking is the same logic used by the Bush/Blair administrations in justifying the second invasion of Iraq.
People are dying all over the world. People die all over the world under all presidents. You seem to think that it's all Bill Clinton's fault which shows how stupid you are. People died all over the world before Bill Clinton was born, before he was the president, and after presidency. You are critizing Bill Clinton because he failed to stop death and tyranny. Well guess what nobody can. Nobody has, nobody will.
You're a pretty pessimistic person. I never said it was all Clinton's fault, but I certainly think he can share in the blame. This is evident in that Clinton was able to stem violence in Indonesia. He simply asked the generals in the US client state to cut it out when conditions were becoming unfavourable. The problem is he didn't not ask this sooner and prevent many deaths. And there are plenty of examples where violence and tyranny was stopped. The massacre of the Jews, Roma, Homosexuals, and others, by the Nazis was stopped. Slavery in America was stopped. Violence in Timor was stopped (eventually). EU peace keepers are in the DRC right now trying to stop violence. So unless you can provide some evidence or references to back up your claims and accusations, about history or myself, then I don't see why anyone should take what you're saying as anything more than baseless conjecture.
Djindjic was receiving major financial backing from the US. He also handed over Milosovic to the US against the will of the people of his country. Furthermore, he was allowing major Serbian companies to be bought and taken over by foreign, particularly american, companies. Dissolving of Yugoslavia was again done against the will of the people. Kostunica was head of Yugoslavia and he was against US policy. So dissolving of the nation into its two autonomous regions stripped whatever control Kostunica had. Djindjic was assassinated, but I doubt that had anything to do with the US. That was because of his ties to organized crime.
Bill Clinton did not "help turkey"... Finally I would not take the word of a socialist party web site as the absolute word on any issue let alone this one.
So dramatically increasing arm sales to Turkey as the oppression of the Kurds was reaching its zenith is not considered "help"? Here are some non-socialist links.
Mostly to fight drugs. Again I disagree with the policy but he inherited that one too.
The US has been giving the Colombian government millions in support, Clinton just increased it to billions. And no astute person takes the war on drugs seriously. Since US involvement with Colombia, drug shipments from Colombia to the US have increased year after year. The Colombian government officials, and especially their associated para-militaries, have openly admitted their drug trafficking. The real policy in Colombia is supporting facist drug-runners against marxist drug-runners (and letting the peasants in the middle get crushed). Ironically, this support may now stop completely under the Bush Jr. administration because Colombia has not granted total immunity to all Americans from prosecution in the ICC.
Please don't mention East Timor without also mentioning Kissinger, perhaps the most evil war criminal of all time.
The Clinton administration increased weapons sales to Indonesia as the oppression and murder of the East Timorese peaked. The US also tried to prevent the UN from doing anything to stop the murders being carried out by its client state. Kissinger.
The sanctions... . he did ease them up a bit.
Do you have a source to verify that? You may not like socialist sources, but that's better than having no source at all.
Why waste political clout when you know you are going to lose?
Well there's the obvious invasion of Yugoslavia and installing a US friendly leader who dissolved the country into Serbia and Montenegro, and was then promptly assassinated. But there's also the enforcing of murderous sanctions that were, up until the second Iraq invasion a few months ago, killing 5000 children each month (UN and WHO numbers). And the bombings in the illegally enforced no-fly zones which included the bombing and killing of dangerous and deadly sheep. Of course there's also helping turkey massacre 30,000 kurds. Giving the draconian and terrorist government of Colombia billions in military aid. Increasing weapons sales to Indonesia and trying to cover for them, and delay the UN in acting to stop the massacre in East Timor.
'course I don't know if any of that stuff is as bad as getting a blowjob from Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky is ugly!
The point isn't whether the US will still lead world markets, the point is how many people in the US will be benefiting from this position. The US has between 30 and 40 million people living in poverty, that's a whole 3rd world country within the US borders. The US is the only G7 country without public health care. The top 1% in the US has more wealth than the bottom 95%. And with continued Reaganomics (like Bush's tax cut for the top 5%) this disparity will only continue to grow. I don't know about you, but I think Black Parrot's concerns are pretty justified.
Sorry US haters, we'll be here for a while.
Yeah... because Black Parrot's post was so filled with anti-US propaganda.
Concordently, the irrevocable flaws of the open source package systems are inevitabily expressed as both beginning and end. The chemical precursors undoubtably signal the quintessential human delusion that is simultaneously the source of our greatest strength and greatest weakness, our contingent affirmation from profound attachment to our software, vis a vi "love of open source". Ergo, the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly displays the emergent grotesqueries of our race, thus leading to the far slower acceptance of our source.
Uhhh, does anyone have any idea what I just said? cuz I sure dont...
Actually, I'd believe it. I've seen videos and documentaries of fishermen going out into the open water with boats that are about the size of kayaks or potoons off a small waterplane. And these are the same fisherman that come back carrying 500lb swordfish, or coelacanths (which can weigh a couple of hundred pounds). These guys KNOW how to fish.
The spectre of 'Big Brother' is slightly ridiculous now, thanks in some part to the warning that '1984' gave us.
Yeah, because we don't have governments that try to watch what we're doing all the time. We don't have governments that change allegience with foreign governments, or dictatorships, on a whim. We don't have people being whisked away to imprisonment and torture without being charged with a crime or given due process. And we certainly don't have governments that lie to us or make false claims to justify their actions.
Ha ha ha! Big brother is ridiculous!
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That all depends on how you mean to acheive peace. If you want to have peace by making sure everyone gets to keep their machinge guns and missiles, then yeah it could be expensive. If you try to acheive peace by just stopping the flow of weapons, then it can actually save money.
About 50% of international aid given by the US is military aid, and the vast majority of it goes straight back to the US to pay weapons manufacturers (billions of tax-payer dollars being used to pay corporate salaries...). The US is the largest weapons exporter in the world by far. And the 2 biggest receivers of military aid? You guessed it, Israel and Egypt. In fact about 20% of Israel's national budget is from US donations. Just stopping the flow of weapons to Israel and the PLO would do a lot in moving towards peace.
And as we all know by now Iraq's now defunct weapons of mass destruction came from the US (bioweapons), UK (chemical weapons), France (beginnings of nuclear capability), Germany, and Russia.
The US recently announcement that it will halt military aid to any country that hasn't given americans immunity from ICC prosecution. This will save hundreds of millions of dollars that would otherwise be spent on distributing more weapons to developing countries.
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In any case, this soft-wall plan sounds pretty good. While calling it 'hack-proof' is obviously a mistake, putting up one more barrier to terrorist attacks (and a very complex barrier to breach at that) without having a reduction in personal freedoms sounds like a good thing to me.
The only question is how well can this be implemented and it will only work if all the sizeable planes use this technology. If only american planes have it, and a terrorist hops aboard an Air France plane, what good is it?
Trying to twist Microsoft's arm into releasing an official Linux bootloader is definitely the wrong way to go. If people were able to convince MS that there was actually a market for that sort of thing then they might do it themselves, but that's doubtful. Nevertheless, trying to blackmail MS into doing it will only increase the already massive resentment MS suits feel towards the open source movement. And quite frankly it doesn't make the Linux crown look very nice. Not that MS has very moral business practices; but there's no need to lower ourselves to their level.
Also, weren't they GIVING their ancient linux away until very recently? It's hard to give something away then claim trade secret. Although I'm not sure that covers all their claims, as they tend to jump around a lot.
You can still download it for free from here. While you are allowed to use it and make derived products, the license makes it pretty clear it's strictly for non-commercial use.
Because the South Korean government has repeatadly propped up a dying company that dumps product onto the market below cost?
And the US hasn't? The US constantly pours money into its corporations. The US-Canada disbute over softwood lumber is the perfect example. The US has been massively supporting its lumber industry and placing stiff tarrifs on Canadian lumber claiming that Canada provides major support for its own industry. The reality is that the particular Canadian lumber is just of much higher quality and is has lower costs in acquisition or production so the Americans can't compete.
The same can be said of the US-European fight over American steel.
In fact the US just considers itself beyond the power of the WTO because it refuses to accept WTO rulings. Look at the Helms-Burton act; it was condemned as illegal by the entire international community and the effectively said "Screw you guys. I'm going home."
This doesn't even include the billions in taxpayer dollars that the US funnels into corporate pockets through other means. In fact 50% of foreign 'aid' is actually military aid; and most of that money goes right back to the US to pay big US weapons manufacturers.
Also, people are not computers. They will not remember lines and lines of code with any precision,
Hah! Speak for yourself. I've got the whole Linux scheduler memorized. I'm working on the character device drivers next. So there!...
sigh... I really need a girl.
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What!? You mean use Ruby instead of Python? No thank you.
[irony]
So what if a guy votes libertarian or republican. There's no cause and effect relationship there. It's a complex, long lasting interaction. And it's existed long before you were around.
You know what? You are a simple minded moron. You are unable to unserstand the complexities of life. Your brain is unable to process too many facts so you pick the most simple minded answer and grip it in your pea brain with all your might.
Republicans are evil, Libertarians are evil, dh003i is evil. You read simple minded sites and believe that their version of reality is the only one. You should travel and maybe learn some political theory. Read some philosophy and a few history textbooks (that aren't published in the US). Read about Colonialism, Anarchism, and Socialism.
[/irony]
Oil isn't really the end here, it's the means. Control over oil sources grants the US control over others (which is the real end).
Think about this, the US has major sway of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and several other OPEC countries. The invasion of Iraq was justified through a series of lies, and the democratic control doesn't appear to be coming anytime soon (the US has just hand-picked 25 people for their civilian council).
Now that the US has control over Iraqi oil, it can express control of it's oil monopoly to stifle any opposition to it's global policies. So if China gets out of line, the US strangles their oil supply.
This is the same reason the US invaded Yugoslavia, and the same reason it maintains sanctions on Cuba, and cut off relations with Iran. Those countries are/were devoid of US influence. Milosovic did not allow US companies and influence into Yugoslavia, but Djindjic did (before he was killed) and his successor will as well.
The people of Cuba, and the people of Iran, threw the US out of their countries.
In fact the whole Iran-Contra scandal was an effort on the part of the US to strengthen the Iranian military in hopes of supporting a coup against the religious government. The US has a long history of working with military dictators because they are easily controlled with arms shipments and military support.
Outer Party 1984ians work 60+ hours a week, 90 if they are redacting large parts of history, for no reward, remember?
Well how many people on slashdot are working 60+ hrs a week? And our reward is the ability to pay off a mortgage, and buying those new trinkets that we NEED to have.
Also your original post said something about an invation which is way out of line.
The US invaded and bombed Yugoslavia.
Once again you are making the claim that US increased arms sales so that turkey could kill more kurds when that's not the case at all. Arms sales to turkey were increased because an embargo previously placed was lifted.
So the embargo only limited and did not prevent arms sales? Because the US was giving away and selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military equipment for decades to both Indonesia and Turkey (in the case of Indonesia, since at least the 60's).
So you are saying that these embargoes were lifted just as the violence against the Kurds and the East Timorese was reaching its climax? Were these sanctions enforced by the Security Council? Because I saw no resolutions regarding Turkey or Indonesia while the violence was in full swing. There was resolution 1319 in September 2000 condemning the violence in Timor, but this was well after much violence had already occured (which I said was because the US was actively trying to prevent the UN from doing anything about it).
But in Turkey, are you saying that all the 30,000 murdered kurds and over 2 million displaced were part of the PKK?
The oil for food program was initiated by clinton.
Yeah, and in the description of the oil for food program you'll see that all money was controlled by the UN sanctions committee (on which US and Britain had controlling sway). And as you'll see in the charts describing the transfers to the people of Iraq, water and sanitation repair was consistently blocked. These were infrastructure targets specifically attacked during Desert Storm, and they were specifically prevented from being repaired, and this would be a major contributing factor to the 5000 children per month death rate. The US and Britain prevented Iraq from repairing this equipment, in effect conducting biological warfare on the people of Iraq.
but that's better than having no source at all.
No it's not.
Right, so making something up is better than reading it somewhere. Usually reading about an incident or event in several varied sources provides more evidence that that event actually occured. I suppose your thinking is the same logic used by the Bush/Blair administrations in justifying the second invasion of Iraq.
People are dying all over the world. People die all over the world under all presidents. You seem to think that it's all Bill Clinton's fault which shows how stupid you are. People died all over the world before Bill Clinton was born, before he was the president, and after presidency. You are critizing Bill Clinton because he failed to stop death and tyranny. Well guess what nobody can. Nobody has, nobody will.
You're a pretty pessimistic person. I never said it was all Clinton's fault, but I certainly think he can share in the blame. This is evident in that Clinton was able to stem violence in Indonesia. He simply asked the generals in the US client state to cut it out when conditions were becoming unfavourable. The problem is he didn't not ask this sooner and prevent many deaths.
And there are plenty of examples where violence and tyranny was stopped. The massacre of the Jews, Roma, Homosexuals, and others, by the Nazis was stopped. Slavery in America was stopped. Violence in Timor was stopped (eventually). EU peace keepers are in the DRC right now trying to stop violence.
So unless you can provide some evidence or references to back up your claims and accusations, about history or myself, then I don't see why anyone should take what you're saying as anything more than baseless conjecture.
Now that's what I call spin!. Bravo!.
... Finally I would not take the word of a socialist party web site as the absolute word on any issue let alone this one.
... . he did ease them up a bit.
Djindjic was receiving major financial backing from the US. He also handed over Milosovic to the US against the will of the people of his country. Furthermore, he was allowing major Serbian companies to be bought and taken over by foreign, particularly american, companies. Dissolving of Yugoslavia was again done against the will of the people. Kostunica was head of Yugoslavia and he was against US policy. So dissolving of the nation into its two autonomous regions stripped whatever control Kostunica had.
Djindjic was assassinated, but I doubt that had anything to do with the US. That was because of his ties to organized crime.
Bill Clinton did not "help turkey"
So dramatically increasing arm sales to Turkey as the oppression of the Kurds was reaching its zenith is not considered "help"?
Here are some non-socialist links.
Mostly to fight drugs. Again I disagree with the policy but he inherited that one too.
The US has been giving the Colombian government millions in support, Clinton just increased it to billions. And no astute person takes the war on drugs seriously. Since US involvement with Colombia, drug shipments from Colombia to the US have increased year after year. The Colombian government officials, and especially their associated para-militaries, have openly admitted their drug trafficking. The real policy in Colombia is supporting facist drug-runners against marxist drug-runners (and letting the peasants in the middle get crushed).
Ironically, this support may now stop completely under the Bush Jr. administration because Colombia has not granted total immunity to all Americans from prosecution in the ICC.
Please don't mention East Timor without also mentioning Kissinger, perhaps the most evil war criminal of all time.
The Clinton administration increased weapons sales to Indonesia as the oppression and murder of the East Timorese peaked. The US also tried to prevent the UN from doing anything to stop the murders being carried out by its client state.
Kissinger.
The sanctions
Do you have a source to verify that?
You may not like socialist sources, but that's better than having no source at all.
Why waste political clout when you know you are going to lose?
To try to save peoples lives.
Well there's the obvious invasion of Yugoslavia and installing a US friendly leader who dissolved the country into Serbia and Montenegro, and was then promptly assassinated.
But there's also the enforcing of murderous sanctions that were, up until the second Iraq invasion a few months ago, killing 5000 children each month (UN and WHO numbers). And the bombings in the illegally enforced no-fly zones which included the bombing and killing of dangerous and deadly sheep.
Of course there's also helping turkey massacre 30,000 kurds. Giving the draconian and terrorist government of Colombia billions in military aid. Increasing weapons sales to Indonesia and trying to cover for them, and delay the UN in acting to stop the massacre in East Timor.
'course I don't know if any of that stuff is as bad as getting a blowjob from Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky is ugly!
The point isn't whether the US will still lead world markets, the point is how many people in the US will be benefiting from this position.
The US has between 30 and 40 million people living in poverty, that's a whole 3rd world country within the US borders. The US is the only G7 country without public health care. The top 1% in the US has more wealth than the bottom 95%. And with continued Reaganomics (like Bush's tax cut for the top 5%) this disparity will only continue to grow.
I don't know about you, but I think Black Parrot's concerns are pretty justified.
Sorry US haters, we'll be here for a while.
Yeah... because Black Parrot's post was so filled with anti-US propaganda.
The code for 1905 is written on stone tablets... duh!
Concordently, the irrevocable flaws of the open source package systems are inevitabily expressed as both beginning and end. The chemical precursors undoubtably signal the quintessential human delusion that is simultaneously the source of our greatest strength and greatest weakness, our contingent affirmation from profound attachment to our software, vis a vi "love of open source".
Ergo, the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly displays the emergent grotesqueries of our race, thus leading to the far slower acceptance of our source.
Uhhh, does anyone have any idea what I just said? cuz I sure dont...
I still don't know what the hell SOAP stands for, because I just don't use it.
Ahhh, a true geek. Well you see there are these things called showers...
Honestly, are any of us geeks ever willing to admit that we don't inherently recognize and grok every single term that is thrown our way?
Nonsense, I grok all the time! I just took my new grok out this morning.
Is anyone else reminded of that stupid architect from Matrix Reloaded? As though using more syllables implies hyper-intelligence.
Actually, I'd believe it. I've seen videos and documentaries of fishermen going out into the open water with boats that are about the size of kayaks or potoons off a small waterplane. And these are the same fisherman that come back carrying 500lb swordfish, or coelacanths (which can weigh a couple of hundred pounds). These guys KNOW how to fish.
The spectre of 'Big Brother' is slightly ridiculous now, thanks in some part to the warning that '1984' gave us.
Yeah, because we don't have governments that try to watch what we're doing all the time. We don't have governments that change allegience with foreign governments, or dictatorships, on a whim. We don't have people being whisked away to imprisonment and torture without being charged with a crime or given due process. And we certainly don't have governments that lie to us or make false claims to justify their actions.
Ha ha ha! Big brother is ridiculous!
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That all depends on how you mean to acheive peace. If you want to have peace by making sure everyone gets to keep their machinge guns and missiles, then yeah it could be expensive. If you try to acheive peace by just stopping the flow of weapons, then it can actually save money.
About 50% of international aid given by the US is military aid, and the vast majority of it goes straight back to the US to pay weapons manufacturers (billions of tax-payer dollars being used to pay corporate salaries...). The US is the largest weapons exporter in the world by far. And the 2 biggest receivers of military aid? You guessed it, Israel and Egypt. In fact about 20% of Israel's national budget is from US donations. Just stopping the flow of weapons to Israel and the PLO would do a lot in moving towards peace.
And as we all know by now Iraq's now defunct weapons of mass destruction came from the US (bioweapons), UK (chemical weapons), France (beginnings of nuclear capability), Germany, and Russia.
The US recently announcement that it will halt military aid to any country that hasn't given americans immunity from ICC prosecution. This will save hundreds of millions of dollars that would otherwise be spent on distributing more weapons to developing countries.
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In any case, this soft-wall plan sounds pretty good. While calling it 'hack-proof' is obviously a mistake, putting up one more barrier to terrorist attacks (and a very complex barrier to breach at that) without having a reduction in personal freedoms sounds like a good thing to me.
The only question is how well can this be implemented and it will only work if all the sizeable planes use this technology. If only american planes have it, and a terrorist hops aboard an Air France plane, what good is it?
No, he's using VMWare.
and the ink doesn't run when it gets wet, I'm happy.
ewww. Gross dude. Do your 'books' get wet often when you ogle^H^H^H^Hread them?
I can imagine "Blasting" is not something they would want to have happen.
You obviously haven't met anyone from Calgary...
Trying to twist Microsoft's arm into releasing an official Linux bootloader is definitely the wrong way to go. If people were able to convince MS that there was actually a market for that sort of thing then they might do it themselves, but that's doubtful. Nevertheless, trying to blackmail MS into doing it will only increase the already massive resentment MS suits feel towards the open source movement.
And quite frankly it doesn't make the Linux crown look very nice. Not that MS has very moral business practices; but there's no need to lower ourselves to their level.
Mozilla Assclown, is that in the one of the 1.4 releases? awesome!
Also, weren't they GIVING their ancient linux away until very recently? It's hard to give something away then claim trade secret. Although I'm not sure that covers all their claims, as they tend to jump around a lot.
You can still download it for free from here. While you are allowed to use it and make derived products, the license makes it pretty clear it's strictly for non-commercial use.
Because the South Korean government has repeatadly propped up a dying company that dumps product onto the market below cost?
And the US hasn't? The US constantly pours money into its corporations. The US-Canada disbute over softwood lumber is the perfect example. The US has been massively supporting its lumber industry and placing stiff tarrifs on Canadian lumber claiming that Canada provides major support for its own industry. The reality is that the particular Canadian lumber is just of much higher quality and is has lower costs in acquisition or production so the Americans can't compete.
The same can be said of the US-European fight over American steel.
In fact the US just considers itself beyond the power of the WTO because it refuses to accept WTO rulings. Look at the Helms-Burton act; it was condemned as illegal by the entire international community and the effectively said "Screw you guys. I'm going home."
This doesn't even include the billions in taxpayer dollars that the US funnels into corporate pockets through other means. In fact 50% of foreign 'aid' is actually military aid; and most of that money goes right back to the US to pay big US weapons manufacturers.
Normally there are hourly updates anyway. Except they're usually just dupes ;)
Also, people are not computers. They will not remember lines and lines of code with any precision,
Hah! Speak for yourself. I've got the whole Linux scheduler memorized. I'm working on the character device drivers next. So there!...
sigh... I really need a girl.