What are you talking about, that's absolutely how you describe a magazine. You load rounds into a magazine, ergo a magazine with rounds in it has been loaded. I suppose the more common thing to say is "pass me a fresh mag" but something like, for example: "woah hey that's loaded" when referring to a magazine someone is carelessly handling would be completely normal thing to say.
Also, filled magazines absolutely are hazardous, and in the same exact ways as a loaded firearm - mishandling could lead to premature detonation of a round. Neither a gun nor a magazine is going to cause harm just by sitting undisturbed, but the part of the gun that's filled with explosives is absolutely the most dangerous individual component of a firearm and should be treated with the same degree of respect as a loaded weapon.
Mate the argument isn’t that the entire US looks like this.
But it’s damn near everywhere in the US and it’s ugly as sin.
That is exactly the argument that was made. Population density has never come into this. Also the basis that nearly everyone lives within 5-10 miles of a scene like that is a (simplistically, because we're talking about structures on a line) 10-20 mile stretch without that kind of development (so definitionally not the whole US) and a claim you have nothing on which to base it except that 1/4 of people in the country live in the big cities - which is not news.
If that can be done without (the only phrase I know for it is "Digital colonialism": where a group takes effective control of another project because they have paid devs to throw at it. Descriptive but a bit dramatic.) that would be a huge help. To a degree that's what they're doing, releasing their in-house developments based on the LibreOffice source on their OpenCode platform, but I have yet to see anywhere that shows/says they're supporting said original developers they're relying on themselves (though in this process I have had my lacking german skills pushed to their limits).
I laud the effort to oust microsoft, but I have yet to see any of these efforts come to fruition in a "my friends can afford to eat now that their code is running huge parts of the government of the 3rd largest economy in the world" way.
Are they? My business german is a bit awful so I very well may have missed it, but I can't find any mention of their contributions to the source projects on that site, or in their most recent strategy documents. Do you mean they're actually doing that, or that they should be the ones doing it?
From their "Our Mission" page it seems clear that they develop on top of existing projects to suit the needs of their customers, which is fine:
ZenDiS builds its offerings on existing solutions, some of which have been proven millions of times over, and develops them further in collaboration with professional partners so that they permanently meet the requirements of public administration in terms of operation, performance, security, sovereignty, and user-friendliness.
But while their OpenCode platform lists their developments, I can find no evidence that they have contributed to the sources either collaboratively or monetarily. I could very well have missed it, again mein deutsch ist nicht gut, but I did look pretty hard into this and I can't find where they've stated that's what they're doing. Is it referenced elsewhere and I simply did not find it while searching for it?
... I think I understand what you mean and that's probably a good approach, but good grief the initial read of "governmental groups committing changes to main that enable AI for greater bureaucratic compatibility " is one of the most stressful things I can think of.
It does now, yes. Early days of yeet did not have a definition - "that's one Yeety Boi" as an example phrase. It was just a word you'd substitute in place of any other word for meme reasons. Eventually society settled on Yeet/Yote as meaning "to throw emphatically", which is nice (and was possibly the original meaning? There was this whole cyclical aspect to it that was very interesting).
It's a meaningless meme - if you remember the early days of "yeet" it's lot like that. People started sticking the number around as an in-joke, but it's gone super mainstream and now it's just a goofy thing to do.
So no, their hypothetical outlay for tech support can't go to supporting The Document Foundation, that isn't something offered. Instead it will go to commercial services built around that core piece of FOSS.
Why wouldn’t that be enough?
Because modern software suites aren't static products. Security updates alone are a huge outlay of effort, and that is currently being done entirely by free volunteer labor. I know that most modern countries were developed through the exploitation of free labor, but I'm pretty sure we've agreed that's a bad thing to do and in an article about how they're saving a ridiculous amount of money, there is no mention that any of that money saved will go to supporting the people enabling their espoused ideals of sovereignty and digital independence.
If the goal truly is independence and not just cost saving, why not redirect that budget to allow some of the actual workers to survive off their labor? And why do you think it's okay for them to take that budget and give it to commercial, non-contributing interests instead?
Anyone else getting tired of everything being turned into a discussion of the US vs China? You're not wrong, but OP came out and clarified this was a comment more spawned from Japanese and British imperialism and you went right back to talking about America vs China. The world is bigger than that one topic, why do we have to bring it up everywhere?
Hmm. Maybe I'm just cynical, but I have yet to see one of these "digital sovereignty" moves to FOSS software that appears to be anything more than a cost saving measure. It's good to save money, sure, but shifting your government to rely on an already overbudened volunteer-run system is a recipe for disaster, and without reliable ongoing support (which one-time grants are not) this is not going to end well. By all means kick Microsoft, but where is that €15 million/year going now, and why is some portion of it not going to The Document Foundation?
I'm curious if the switch to FOSS software means they're going to start supporting those projects, at least to some degree? I know quite a few FOSS devs for some very mainstream projects, and none of them make enough money to dedicate all their time to the projects. That lack of support really isn't what you want in a government system. A lot of the costs from using M$ software is in the service contracts, not the site licenses, especially since it doesn't sound like they're moving the data infrastructure (excel integration and SQL server are m$'s other biggest money-makers besides office enterprise and azure). Even shifting a fraction of the savings over to the devs now doing the support work for your digital sovereignty would be awesome.
So you took a tour of freeways, and conclude that's what the whole US looks like? I don't think anyone's arguing there aren't a huge number of places like the above, but those places make up a minuscule percentage of the whole US. It'd be like driving the Autobahn and concluding the whole of Europe looks like that.
How many distinct genomes are there that we include under the label "smallpox"? It's also a great deal more complicated than simply storing the genome - much as gene expression in humans is more complicated than simply "this is what the DNA says", it's also more complicated than that for viruses. We're finally to the point that we can simulate interactions, but it's -absolutely- not a trivial thing to do (supercomputer shit) and simply saving the source material prevents any risk of loss of information.
Their comments never contribute anything to the posts, either. Very weird, most bots I see these days are a lot more convincing than this. Curious what's going on here. Maybe it's just performance art.
Yes? I didn't contradict your calling it "odd", I clarified that it isn't egregiously odd, just the regular kind.