That’s definitely true, and the thought has crossed my mind before.
Anything an European company manages to sell in China is going to be a huge boost too. It’s the damn IP laws that are a pain to work with, though. A Chinese company perfectly clones your product? Well, you’re not going to win if you sue them.
I think that’s mostly an American stereotype, I believe Estonia and France and several other European countries get roughly the same amount of paid holidays as well as paid time off. Though apparently you guys also have a 35 hour work week, which I’m jealous of!
It was a thought I had too, but tbh I feel iffy about China.
If China’s willing to stop supporting Russia, I could see the west sans US starting closer ties with China. That alliance would be an economic powerhouse for sure.
G8 expelled Russia for the original Ukrainian invasion in 2014. If need be, I suppose they can become G6. Or honestly, in this day and age, there are many more nations whose opinions should be considered. G7 is pretty eurocentric and I say this as an European (though not a citizen of any of the 7)
So technically they were commissioned during the Obama era, Trump 1 threatened to cancel the program if the budget went over 4 billion, then Boeing appeased him.
Also the reason they were commissioned to save money. Aging aircraft are a bitch to operate. That’s why cheap airlines like Ryanair only run new planes.
Also there are already two of them. I suppose one is probably a backup?
Also, fun fact, technically any plane that the US president is currently flying on, is at that moment, Air Force One.
I always thought this happened in the 00s because of how many people were talking about it then. Never bothered to look up the case or anything. Then again I guess the hot coffee lawsuit in Seinfeld was a reference to this so it must’ve indeed been in the 90s.
Even more disgusting is the fact that the woman everyone was making fun of and calling lawsuit happy, was 82. Not like she was trying to become a millionaire or something I reckon.
On the plus side we have actual holidays and good luck bothering me outside of hours, haha!
I mean we have that here in Estonia too :P
They also don’t wanna pay money. People who know Cobol want to be paid money in exchange for their services.
When you examine the US auto manufacturers, they have nothing to offer for the majority of consumers in the EU.
Yeah, they’ve shot themselves entirely in the foot. Used to be every other car was a Ford Sierra, then later Ford Mondeo… Opel was pretty big, but GM sold them so now it’s a Stellantis brand and Stellantis is more French/Italian than American…
Still, there’s market for muscle cars and trucks. And Teslas in recent history, but probably no longer.
If neither apply to you, then there’s no reason to ever use Windows.
I’m sure someone somewhere has found software they need that doesn’t work with Wine. Solidworks, a bunch of Adobe shit, etc. Oftentimes the free alternatives just aren’t quite there yet, even though they exist.
KDE has a GUI app called Discover that will do Flatpaks as well as other package management systems. It shows me RPM packages that I normally update with zypper
I think that’s actually a then keyword
Y’know, from back when it was common for languages to do if foo then baz
I hear the French usually program in French as well. I do not want to ever work in France.
Because as soon as you propose spending billions of dollars on defending another country, people will generally say “but I don’t wanna pay more taxes or lose out on any comforts”, which causes you to lose your position of power in case of a democracy. It all comes down to selfishness in the end.
Well, there are some in the EU who are hoping to bargain with Trump so that we reduce our import taxes on American cars (US has them at 2.5%, we have them at 10%, so we’ve been doing exactly what Trump is trying to do, at a smaller scale), buy more weaponry from them and as the US ramps up its’ gas production, we could buy more of that from them as well - if Trump in return does not put 25% tariffs on everything made in the EU.
It’s not a bad deal for either side, really, though it sorta defers the whole making more of our own weaponry part of trying to be more independent of the US. And I’m sure both the automakers and MIC would do what’s in their power to persuade Trump to take it.
Military Industrial Complex
Our leaders have been too complacent, for what I think is a simple reason: It’s easier to depend on the Americans so your own national budget doesn’t take a hit and cause you to lose the next election.
Now that we’ve seen that the US is an unreliable ally and (rightfully) wants to reduce its’ own military aid spending, they’re hopefully seeing the bigger picture.
Oh I’d just throw in a bunch of big freeleech torrents and it’d take me 3 minutes to achieve saturation. The upkeep might be difficult though
What do you mean?
Couldn’t you saturate it instantly? It’s saturated exactly while you’re using that speed and when you stop, it’s not saturated anymore
The G8 already included Russia and the US, with Russia definitely being worse than China, even before the 2014 Ukraine invasion… And honestly, has the US ever been any better?
It’s an economic alliance more than anything.