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Very few people understand the real reason why Kodak failed to dominate the digital world. It actually dates back to a 300 million dollar lawsuit which Honeywell won against Minolta over a patent for an autofocus system. The Japanese camera companies were so outraged over this perceived injustice that they vowed never to engage in technology sharing with American companies ever again and this ended up crippling Kodak's ambitions.

His own family members snitched on him because they thought he was dangerous, he was convicted of the crime, what more do you want? Don't you think domestic violence should be taken seriously?

As far as being unstable goes you're free to peruse his Twitter account @StealthyGeek, search for his name on Youtube, etc. There's stuff I'd love to show you but I don't want to get banned for revealing his personal info.

You also probably get put on a government watch list.

Rightfully or wrongly, there are anti-BDS laws in 35 American states and we all know which side the national security establishment is on.

"I think you're making the mistake that "settler-colonialist" is some kind of demonic brand that condemns everything that it might be applied to to perdition or at least cancellation"

That's precisely what they're doing. Anyone with even a casual understanding of the modern American hard-left knows that's what they're saying and anyone who says otherwise is obviously, willfully lying.

"Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism."

I would like to see the authors of this petition clarify their opinion of the United States and its status as a "settler-colonialist" entity.

I'd be more than happy to join a cult and do their bidding if they got me a good job at Google with good long term prospects, it sounds like a fair deal to me. Mr Lloyd would have been much better off working out a deal with the cult rather than suing his employer, perhaps he could have nominally joined them and tithed 10% in exchange for their nepotism; it's certainly what I would have done.

They're ASICs, they're worthless for anything except mining certain kinds of crypto, given current prices not only would reselling them be questionable from a pragmatic perspective but it would be essentially encouraging the kind of illegal activity (i.e. electricity theft) which caused them to be confiscated in the first place.

You're right about most of the facts however

* I LIKE giving the Aussie government unilateral control over this issue vs the status quo of giving Big Tech unilateral control over it.

* I LIKE the fact this is unfair, Big Tech has been treating people unfairly for quite some time so I'd like to see them be treated as unfairly as possible. The more damage the Aussie government does to Big Tech the better, the more unfair, the more sadistic the better.

* You say that global adoption would be the end of a free and open web? It's far too late for that and the likes of Google and Facebook have nobody to blame but themselves.

"I could teach anybody, even people in this room, to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn."

-Mike Bloomberg