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Western countries aren't ruthless enough to really win wars in the Third World. They should think less like Rome and more like Byzantium. But those opening scenes look amazing.
I can't answer your question though, so I'll leave it at that. Maybe it's the wrong question. Probably best to ask simply for 'people' who supported regime change as opposed to a straightforward trackdown and punishment of guilty parties.
For instance, at this point I'd probably place George Bush at the progressive end of the political spectrum, or at least as an ally. A lot of people have changed their seating position in the last five years.
As usual, James Howard Kunstler has an opinion regarding Afghanistan, a person could argue that the shadow of the CCCP looms over the US. History doesn't repeat, it rhymes:
I'd say that it's possible (quite possible) to be conservative and to be against foreign adventures. It's probably better to view a country as being occupied by multiple cohorts of political thought, one of which is a ruling class that likes to play Risk.
That ruling class has shifted party allegiance and probably will do so in the future.
In any case, from my uninformed armchair, it seems pretty obvious that it's easier to run foreign policy by attempting to influence the existing dictator (whether it's in Iraq or Libya or Syria) rather than install a new one with the attendant cost in blood and treasure.
I'll definitely say that this applies in the car hobby.
It's a helluva lot more fun to arrange a garage than to pull out a transmission.
In terms of software, and this is perhaps just my age (and industry) showing, but it would be interesting to set up a shop that used only simple/traditional make files, gdb/gcc, simple text editors, extremely simple source control, waterfall design.
It wouldn't work at Google but you sure can get wrapped up in building the garage at smaller companies.
It seems to me that Tesla door handles (in a world where they've been designing door latches for some time) are just plain ridiculous and likely unreliable but are a side effect of the market the company has been selling into. Gadgets go a long way with Tesla owners.
Obviously, things like a latch should not only work under all conditions including no-power, but they should probably be the same under all conditions. 'Emergency' latches aren't going to be used during an emergency as muscle memory is too important.
I don't give a damn about smartphones, so there's no temptation there, and simply organizing around a handful of computer-oriented reddit groups (as opposed to the crazies at /politics), science news sites, the local newspaper, and oddly enough, RT (mostly international news) pretty much does the trick.
Add in the forays to email/banking plus archive.org, libgen, Sci-Hub for books/papers and Amazon for stuff and the internet is pretty much handled except for the occasional technical question.
For some reason, the discipline of RSS is good for calming down any need for outrage porn.
As an aside, my latest experiment in social media consists of sending vintage postcards.
3) The urban public likes purty forests to go vacation in.
Sometimes I think it would be an interesting mental exercise to convert most (all?) web pages and PC apps to something like a bog simple Windows 3.1 application. You could melt an online banking site to a handful of drop down menus and dialog boxes.
You have to wonder what the effect of ever-more-obtuse interfaces combined with visual gingerbread has on people with vision problems.
OTOH, there's apps that have been around for years where you have to wonder what they were thinking to begin with. Calibre. After Effects. Gimp.
Do peer reviewed papers make the reviewers public?
That would be an interesting angle if not. Allow anyone to publish, but they compete for high-status reviewers. Also, the reviewers have some skin in the game so far as correctness.
A quick Old Man(tm) rant.
Concerning healthcare, you have to be your own project manager. They're a lot better at curing things they can see (ie. surgery), GPs have crude tools for analysis and mostly serve as gatekeepers to specialists and pharmacists. Also, GPs work mostly from flow charts and you are just one of 1000 patients they see that year. Communications between hospital departments, independent contractors like specialists or ER personnel, GPs, etc. are poor. Continuously audit procedures and drug regimes. Sci-Hub is your friend but don't overestimate the value of studies.
Politicians of any age aren't domain experts and don't appear to be any smarter than they have to be to get and hold office. Judging from reading the writings from politicians of yore, I do have to say that the better minds in Congress can't compare to their 19th C. equivalents. It could simply be that a classical education served as a sort of filter.
As far as implications, humans are notably bad at that generally, whether it's tax law or something that involves those computer things. The laws of unintended consequences continue on, but that never stopped the writing (by Congressional staff) of more and more rules for us all.
I wonder what super secret representation of primes results in unknown patterns?
Probably just best to stick to Cinerama and be done with it.
Not to be rude, but what do you think a 'market segment' is? What is there besides market segments? For that matter, what is there besides money? at least in terms of the entertainment biz.
'Robot police killer insect dog' is not a great look. Maybe it just needs a nice little crocheted jacket.
BoomerFlix.
What better market to target if you want to make a few coins?
Who's in?
Judging from the Netflix recommended videos and casting for Netflix originated shows, I'd say that goal has been achieved at this point.
You do have to wonder how overlooked Spanish speakers must feel. That's probably where the real money is in 'Netflix for xxx people'.
Now that I think of it, the right answer would have been several 10k hour professions. I can't say that the products I designed in 2020 were more complex or amazing than those in 1980. It would have been a chance to achieve high levels of proficiency in multiple fields.
If you find any niche that makes sense, go for it. There's a reason for MotorTrend to shift into cable and on-demand, Disney, etc. The market can get slice 'n diced in a million ways from the Left Handed Channel to TrannyTV (for transmission specialists naturally).
>make you think about the ways in which Netflix does not serve black people.
Heck, it (Netflix) doesn't serve me, and I ain't black. It's a pity that they can't run out and buy rights to a jillion older movies, but I guess everyone is still loathe to license them (or too expensive).
Hah. That's an interesting point.
If anything you are encouraging new child porn.
The point in bitching to Apple isn't to make them change, but to bring attention to privacy issues to the hoi polloi. Cleaning up your own privacy act is the main lesson.
Maybe the only logical place to end up is a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions, air-gapped workstation to do artistic or other useful things, rarely-used dumbphone, get out more among physical people.
People have made all of these points before, but I still wonder what the legal and/or practical basis of the law is when the pictures or videos are entirely synthetic.
On another note, I wonder how much of this kind of Apple(tm) auto-surveillance magic has made it into the MacOS.
Imagine the fun when it all goes obsolete in five years, a controller board dies with no replacement available, all for very little advantage.
Maybe this is Peak Technology. Sticking a computer and communications network on things that gain little from the addition. The one exception I might make is low-cost surveillance cameras, but of course it took the industry about ten seconds to add subscriptions and spying-on-you to the business model.
Truth is, everything turned out somewhat fine.
I can definitely see planning for a sketchy future, plan for the worst and all that, but I'd say that the average person's biggest risk is simply staying employed for an entire career. The sub-average is in constant trouble with LEOs, ex-wives, has poor health lifestyle choices, but you have relatively good control over that.