“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
The US refuses to recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court or similar bodies like this one when it relates to the US government or military. Although it's more than happy to turn "evil dictators" and "war criminals" from other countries over to them for judgment.
Likewise, any other country like Russia or China that is strong enough to enforce its sovereignty with its military ignores rulings it doesn't like.
Presumably Israel, with the agreement and protection of the US, will simply ignore this ruling like it has similar ones that we have heard about in the last couple years.
The thing is, everything that has been outsourced overseas was done so because it was cheaper. And it wasn't a decision made overnight or just one thing that prompted it. It was a combination of factors such as taxation, unions, safety laws, etc.
This presidency will last 4 years; maybe we get another Republican after, but eventually they will be another Democrat president.
All these companies that are being incentivized to bring jobs back to the US have to be doing the math and deciding whether it's cheaper to bring the jobs back to the US and take the hit in four or eight years when all the tariffs get dropped again, or to just suffer through the tariffs for the current presidency until things return to status quo and it again becomes cheaper to have everything made overseas.
But it shouldn't be surprising. Hatred for a rival nation is part of nationalism.
Where the left fucks it all up is it the other part of nationalism is a sense of pride and superiority about your own country. I'm not sure "Russia is evil, just a different kind of evil and a worse evil than our own historically evil United States" is the rallying cry they think it is.
Neon Genesis Evangelion for one. Except they were teenagers and one was a clone of the male lead's mom, so not very wholesome.
reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're two sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
You've just described every campus pseudo intellectual that admires communism and the Democrat politicians or voter that they eventually become.
Enforcing any sort of punishment outside of their jurisdiction is going to require the cooperation of the country where the website is actually based.
Now, countries do often assist each other in law enforcement, but in a situation like this it's most probable that the host country will simply check to see if the website met their own standards of due diligence in attempting to comply with UK law- which would probably be simply blocking all traffic from the UK.
I can't see any country requiring their website operators to employ expensive and sophisticated technology to attempt to suss out whether or not a connection is a VPN and whether or not it ultimately redirects to the UK. They have a vested interest in the economic success of their companies, and they are not going to make them take unreasonable measures to comply with obtuse foreign laws.
Yes I don't find this to be a very compelling request to a foreign government: "someone from the UK broke our laws and pretended to be from another country to access a website owned by someone in your country that doesn't offer services in the UK. Please assist us in levying a ruinous fine on the company based out of your country that doesn't do business in the UK."
The US in particular under Trump would almost assuredly tell them to go fuck themselves.
I'm hard-pressed to think of an author with a greater range than he had: from Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park, the Great Train Robbery, Eaters of the Dead (13th Warrior), Timeline, etc. he could write medical drama, science fiction/fantasy, or heist stories. And he had an MD from Harvard. Incredible talent there.
What, you don't think his corpse continue to work at Microsoft for 2 years after dying?
Jesus, Kagen sure looks like a man in drag to me.
I actually watched Severance and have seen bits and pieces of a couple of the others. The first season of Severance was okay, but I think it went off the rails in the second season. I probably won't keep watching when they drop the third season.
It had an interesting premise- what if you really could just blank out all the time you spend at work, but doing so meant you created an alter ego whose whole existence was doing your job (sounds like hell). There were a bunch of mysteries and open plot points in season 1 that were largely resolved unsatisfactorily in season 2.
I think DS9 is many people's favorites because it was one of the first TV shows to introduce a continuous story arc (although many of the episodes were still disconnected "alien of the week" style). That's commonplace today, to the point that you won't have any clue what's going on in many shows if you haven't been watching from the beginning of miss an episode, but it was innovative at the time.
ala Saint Elsewhere and the Sopranos? I'm not opposed to ending something by saying "and none of that was real", but audiences tend to get pissed when the characters they invested emotionally in are done dirty like that.
I never preferred the human characters in DS9. Sisko was intolerably self-righteous and preachy, and his son was completely uninteresting as a journalist. The standouts in DS9 were all the aliens: Garak, Dukat, Quark- hell, they even made Nog interesting as a Ferengi that wanted to be a Starfleet officer.
Star Trek was always pushing progressivism. ToS had the first interracial kiss and in TNG Riker fell in love with an androgenous scientist from a society where having a gender was a crime.
The problem is it's always ranged from something innocuous like imagining a future where Russians and Americans wouldn't be rivals anymore to pushing trannies and bull dykes in the newer shows. Progressivism wears this "it's all just get along and accept each other" mask, when in reality they want to throw you in a gulag if you don't agree with their world view.
Whether you like Trump or not, I think anyone who's been paying attention for the last 8 years understands that no matter what he does the press will rip him apart. If you can't possibly earn any points with these people, what incentive would you have to court their favor?
So, he's a woman?
SK men can be radical, even deranged, so it won't be pretty.
Korea is such an interesting country. As late as the 1980s they were similar to places like the Philippines- ruled by strongman, endemic poverty, assassination a frequent political tool, etc. Then they just stopped that and basically became a modern Western-style nation overnight. I'm not really a student of Korean history, but I'd love to read something about the why and how behind that written by someone that knows.
They still have the occasional fist fight in their parliament, so I'm guessing it wouldn't take too much to strip away the veneer of civility there.
It's just one of the ways they try and keep you playing longer. Just like "seasons" or events where you have to unlock the content by playing every day or playing a certain amount of time. Or like how DLC slaps a new coat of paint on an old game and allows them to dip back into your wallet again.
At some point around 15 years ago it seems like all the game companies decided putting out new games was too expensive and they would focus on extending the life and income stream from every game they released as long as humanly possible.
Except for sports games. They've always had the changing team rosters as an excuse to release a new version every year, and sports fans eat that shit up.
Jesus, Trump is basically deep-throating Israeli cock and it's still not enough. The "chosen people" could rob you off all but your last dollar and you'd still be the villain to them.
It's a lie. They want to push you to digital to kill used game sales. That's the same reason they lock content behind a "season pass" or similar nonsense, so it doesn't follow the sale of the media and the new owner has to purchase it themself.
I bet MS and Sony drop discs entirely on their next consoles. Which sucks, because they double as Blu-ray players, so it's one less thing to buy.
The whole "school shooting" phenomena is peak liberal hand-wringing.
There were 39 school shootings this year [2024] that resulted in injuries or deaths, according to an Education Week analysis. There were 38 school shootings with injuries or deaths in 2023. There were 51 in 2022, 35 in 2021, 10 in 2020, and 24 each in 2019 and 2018.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2024/01
This would include both Columbine style stalk through the halls and kill everyone in sight shootings as well as a couple of hoodrats shooting each other over some petty dispute. To put this in perspective, there are over 111,000 schools in America, meaning you had a 0.03423% chance of being in a school shooting in 2024, not considering how many of those would be avoided simply by not going to a shitty school filled with junior criminals.
This is also the chance that you will be present at a school shooting, not that you will be killed in one. Those odds are 1 in 5 million, less than drowning or being struck by lightning.
All this to say that school shootings are mostly a non issue that is pushed to the forefront by media sensationalism and liberal "won't somebody think of the children?!?" screeching.
I always tell people that communism is an interesting idea: what if we all worked our very best, took only what we needed, and placed the good of society over our own selfish desires?
But it doesn't work (even a little bit) in practice. Selfishness and abuse of power are baked into the human psyche. The 1960s was rife with failed communes, proving even small scale implementation fails.
And this is where the left pisses me off to no end, because their entire political platform is based on half baked ideas and they just hand wave it away and double down on them when they inevitably fail.
In WWII the US supplied our Russian "friends" with the following items via Lend-Lease:
- 400,000 jeeps and trucks
- 14,000 airplanes
- 8,000 tractors
- 13,000 tanks
- Over 1.5 million blankets
- 15 million pairs of army boots
- 107,000 tons of cotton
- 2.7 million tons of petroleum products
- 4.5 million tons of food
Oh, and the US and its allies also fought Germany in the Atlantic, North Africa, and Western Europe. But yeah, Stalin basically won the war by himself. Asshole.
"Out of the way, peck!"
Devs need to make it a free download and just distribute it from their own website.