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Which are the two? NOAA and what else?

Don’t know what it is but that looks more like Apple II to me.

It might have been good or bad, and it would certainly have long-term impacts that we can’t predict and don’t matter now since it didn’t and can’t happen in that way.

But if god is omnipotent then satan is not, as satan could not hold power over god.

Didn’t say it made them heroes, just pointing out a time when it was likely people would be supporting them.

“Rooting for them” in general is probably overstating but “rooting for them to take out Putin” would be reasonable IMO.

ME refers to “myalgic encephalomyelitis” for those following at home.

I mean there was that very brief period when it seemed like they might revolt against Putin.

Yeah but it’s written like operating systems are thought of as something “written by/for” a government. That’s pretty rare, whereas other pieces of software are far more common.

It’s also completely backwards: “the government will use only open source software” is the opposite direction from “software the government makes will be open sourced”

I think it would mostly apply to software other than operating systems, really.

Weird custom one-off databases that only a government would need, mostly.

The “third party rights” is a loophole you could drive a truck through, if you wanted to circumvent this law.