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"A company incorporated in the EU, even if it is owned by an entity in the US, is not subject to US jurisdiction and so that does not apply."

Incorrect, this is EXACTLY the scenario that the Cloud Act was introduced to to handle.

What happened is in 2013 Microsoft Ireland refused an FBI warrant for information held on EU servers, under the control of MS Ireland.

Microsoft USA refused the warrant on the grounds on the jurisdiction grounds you mentioned above.

So the Cloud Act was passed: US law for access to digital information applies to any subsidiary anywhere on earth.

Sorry.

You are incorrect:

1. the 2018 CLOUD Act mandates US companies — and their subsidiaries — to provide information to the US government on demand, regardless of where the data is stored

2. FISA secret courts prevent companies from even saying they where summoned, or telling anyone who or what the case was about (including canaries).

So you won't ever know if your data was handed over to the US government.

"The purpose of software is to provide value to the customer."

Partially correct. The purpose of your software to its owners is also to provide future value to customers competitively.

What we have learnt is that software needs to be engineered: designed and structured.

For active soldiers, yes - kill them, any time, anywhere. That's what "at war" means. Its not a policing operation.

Oh stop being so self-loathing: Israel was created by a mandate from the League of Nations.

So, most of the planet (1)

(1) Well, excluding Ethiopia because they still thought it was cool to have slaves.

China. If they wanted to.

Come now American people,

The UK and France have long had a project 'on the shelf' to substitute the missiles with the French M51 ballistic missiles.

They don't want to do it, they'll do it if they have to.

"The concern about a new dependency on China is real,"

The dependency is latent, is only become a problem when you (USA) does something to dick with China's dependency on you.

If you don't do that, no problems. The rest of us live just fine depending on things from China.

You are mistaking the battle for the war: Denmark / EU would no doubt lose the BATTLE for Greenland. Within hours.

But the sun would rise the next day and the USA won't like the 'non-kinetic' consequences. Too many to enumerate.

Eventually the adults in USA would just return it.

You clearly don't know British understatement.

Firing on one British officer would be as bad a firing on 10000.

It's about lines.

Nah mate,

Rich powerful countries could also keep slaves and no one would be able to stop it by force.

But they don't. Civilisation advances.

The UK only had to send a single officer to Greenland to stop Trump's previous attempt to annex Greenland.

That was a signal, thankfully there are still adults in the USA who recognised it.

From The United States Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Attacking civilians is unequivocally a war crime".

https://ucmj.us/is-attacking-civilians-a-war-crime/

@dang: you've banned members from this forum before for messy threads merely discussing apartheid. Surely advocating for war crimes — that the US itself considers crimes — is beyond the pale?

That's a war crime.

… but they did bomb apartment buildings in Tehran. I saw that with my own eyes.

Stick to the challenge: what won't you accept? Nothing?

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Agreed. But that wasn't the OP's question.

I can't guess what the USA wants other than a distraction from the raping-of- children saga, but I bet Israel would settle for "we acknowledge your right to exist and won't fund or encourage organisations that plan to harm you."

If Saudi Arabia can get there…

Note that in 36 odd states in the USA companies and their officers (i.e real people) cannot boycott Israel (or even say nasty things) and then do business with the state.

By law.

So, not so much free speech.

No need for a clearance, merely explain that

1. fibre-optic traffic is a beam of light

2. this beam can be passed through a glass prism…

3. the prism splits off say 20% of the light by intensity

4. this 20% is identical to the 80%

5. both the 20% and 80% component are 'bright' enough to be used

6. the 80% continues on its merry way, the 20% is redirected for 'other' uses.

vetroresina or steel?

Yes, the dashboard must be tan. Like in Magnum PI.

I'll vibe code when vibe-coding can make a frontier LLM from scratch.

Meta-circularity is the real test.

After all, I can make new humans :)

1. medical specialists and hospitals 2. sports clubs and vibrant leagues 3. professional sports facilities 4. concerts: arts and music. …

"Now they just need to change the name so it's not so obviously French"

Where I live names that aren't so obviously American have an advantage.

> Well, I feel sorry for the first country that tries to test that theory.

I took exactly one British military officer in Greenland to stop the entire US Department of War.

I will grant the US is a superpower, even the largest. But they aren't the only one.

No, Europe had Europay, which their regulators allowed to be subsumed into Mastercard.

Hell, the EMV standard — used in all cards worldwide — means "Europay, Mastercard, Visa".

Look after your toys better.

Which is why the ECB should start a programme to issue about €5 trillion in new bonds as an alternative to USD treasuries.

IMHO.

Its not that difficult to setup a company in Europe. Tedious but not impossible.

What's really difficult is setting up a compnay and opening a bank account in the company's name from abroad.

Keir Starmer yesterday: "I will speak to Trump again. We must find a pragmatic solution to this."

QED.