They've still got QNX.

Why wouldn't it work? The oligarchs would certainly be a bit upset if they lost their yachts, mansions, sports teams, and everywhere else they keep their wealth away from Putin.

That’s all been confiscated already.

All?

That doesn’t seem likely.

It's been repeatedly demonstrated that the oligarchs are just as expendable as the ships.

No, just education in media literacy and how to critically evaluate sources.

That’s a problem that just a small portion of the population know these, so the average parent has the same problem.

One would figure a русский would be more wary of the nanny state.

And yet there's opposition to teaching it in schools!

"I love the poorly educated"

- Some Guy

All jewelry is ridiculously marked up. You see Cash for Gold places, but have you ever seen Cash for Diamonds?

That had a lot to do with De Beers blacklisting any buyers of used diamonds, so used stones would end up their only supply. Meanwhile running "Diamonds are Forever" campaigns that would paint any such recycling as the actions of sleazy dishonest pawn brokers. You wouldn't sell Grandma's precious heirloom to one of those people now, would you? Nowadays I'm not sure the cartels have the power they used to, but whatever's left does still seem pretty disproportionate.

You forgot the best bit - not removing the ones you no longer use!

Hamas isn't Palestine.

According to Wikipedia, "Gaza" is the largest city in Palestine, and "Hamas" is the government of Palestine.

Putin isn't Russia either. By that logic Russia didn't attack Ukraine?

If one wants to avoid nationalism, then yes.

As the russians were not asked about it.

The russian government decided to do so and to supress any oposition.

(But their army is largely made up of volunteers)

> If one wants to avoid nationalism, then yes

How do you do that when dealing with nationalist governments waging nationalist wars? The most generous framing of either side’s ask in the Gaza war is for nationhood.

That still leaves the question of "why?". If he wanted to commit suicide he could have had an "accident" in a light aircraft instead of murdering 238 people, and the entire point of terrorism is for everyone to know it was you.

Odd choice, now that it looks like he will be.

It also happened with fiber during the dotcom boom. Years later, that came useful when everyone wanted YouTube in their pocket.

The bottleneck was the phone line running into individual houses. ie The "last mile" was a bottleneck. Dial-up. If you're old enough you will remember people connected to the internet via Dial-up, that is, their phone line. It was a bottleneck. It's data capacity was nowhere near what the fiber was.

But that buildout brought FTTN (cell towers, DSLAMs and DOCSIS) because loads was overinstalled in places that made little economic sense at the time.

>On the other hand, you see the richest people being the ones that make a big start-up then get acquired, is a good job even necessary for lots of money?

That's like winning the lottery, becoming an A-list Hollywood actor, or a famous rock star.

You're not looking at the millions who failed.

I had a teacher who recommended what he called a Rumsfeld chart.

Read the course syllabus, now divide it into three lists:

- What you know you know

- What you know you don't know

- What's left is what you don't know you don't know