From what I understand, the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are completely separate organisations in the US, and also quite different in their outlook, with the Girl Scouts being very inclusive and somewhat progressive, while the Boy Scouts are a bastion of male chauvinism, patriarchal values, intimidation and sexual abuse.
A couple of years ago, the Boy Scouts tried to change that, and apparently that's really upsetting to Hegseth.
I've got plenty of criticism of Obama too, but he's easily the best US president of the 21st century, and it's not even close. And although nowhere near as good, Biden is still easily #2, because at least he didn't start two trillion dollar wars for nothing. And although he's pretty bad, Bush is still easily #3, because for all his many, many faults, at least he didn't usher in a full-blown fascist dictatorship driven by narcissism and stupidity.
Space feels cold if you have some fluid to evaporate, like blood or something. But servers will very quickly run out of whatever fluids they have if they tried this. (And so would you in their place.)
The only option to sustainably lose heat in space is radiation, which works, but is slow and limited in capacity, so these server satellites would need massive radiators. It's not impossible to do. ISS also has massive radiators.
So servers in space is possible. How big you can make an orbital server park, I don't know. I can imagine that with enough radiators, they start catching each other's heat, so there might be a limit to have many radiators you can put closely together, but I have no idea what that limit might be.
For decades there has been tension between European data protection principles and US principles that corporations should be able to monetize your data and the US government should be able to access everything. Our dependence on US tech companies had made our position weak. We should have subsidised European cloud infrastructure a long time ago.
Especially the last few years it's been terrible how many companies and organisations have surrendered to US Big Tech. Even Dutch banks have abandoned their own excellent contactless payment system to surrender to Apple Pay and Google Wallet.
Honestly, that's always been my hunch about that. Such a baseless accusation doesn't come out of nowhere; he must have been projecting something.
Thailand is known for its seedy sex tourism, but there are also tons of legitimate reasons to go there. I've always had this feeling that the "pedo guy" remark came from Musk mostly thinking of child sex tourism when he thought of tourism in Thailand. Because that's the part he was most interested in, even if he wasn't acting on it.
True, but nobody is bound by it. There are other ways to sell on PC, there are no other ways to sell on iPhone. And games bought elsewhere will work just fine on a PC that has Steam installed. Anyone can leave at any time, or buy from anywhere. The only way to do that on iPhone is to switch your entire phone with Android. Apple's position on the iPhone is far more controlling and monopolistic than Steam's on PC.
The Steam tax might be too steep as well, but these are not identical situations. It's far easier to avoid Steam if you don't want it. I prefer to buy from GOG, and only buy from Steam when it's cheaper or not available on GOG.
Especially under Trump, but also at various times in the past, has the US used corporations as an extension of foreign policy, and used foreign policy to help major corporations. Not just wars for oil (the most obvious case), but also leaking intelligence to help US companies, or using US companies to hurt people abroad that the US disagrees with (like ICC judges).
I don't know how many examples there are of China doing similar things. Around the introduction of 5G phone networks, the US was paranoid about Huawei involvement because China might use it to spy on us. Their control is such that they could. No idea if it's actually happening. But US cloud platforms are definitely sharing data with the US government.
I think the important metric here is fuel burned: how much fuel do we burn just to ship fuel to where it can be refined, and then to where it's needed?
It would probably use less water too. Crops require a lot of water, and biofuel crops more than most. I've heard it's putting a massive drain on the available water in some places.
From what I understand, the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are completely separate organisations in the US, and also quite different in their outlook, with the Girl Scouts being very inclusive and somewhat progressive, while the Boy Scouts are a bastion of male chauvinism, patriarchal values, intimidation and sexual abuse.
A couple of years ago, the Boy Scouts tried to change that, and apparently that's really upsetting to Hegseth.