"cozy post-apocalyptic paradise" . . . not words I usually see together.

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I do understand it is scary, but it will not happen.

Oh, it won't happen, but he may well try. I currently rate the chance of full on military invasion around 20%, the chance of intensified economic warfare to try to make us knuckle under around 50-60%. And an insurgency to kick out the American army would be . . . a very bad news situation. We'd do it, but it would take a lot of death and destruction.

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Not sure I really want to delve into those themes, to be honest. I'm Canadian, we have enough problems with Trump next door saying he wants to annex us.

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As long as they're making use of pre-compiled and unmodified binaries then GPL doesn't effect them. GPL only comes into effect if your using them as a library or modifying the source code.

Um, no. If you use GPL code in your private residence or something, you can do what you want. If you redistribute it, you have to make the source code available. That could be as simple as a link to the people who are actually maintaining the code, but the license requires it.

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Wonder if there will be a fork.

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This will be a gamechanger for me!

Yes, literally.

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One wonders what would happen if Microsoft ever wised up and created a version of Windows that was specifically designed for handheld PCs.

Nothing much for quite a while, I would imagine. When was the last time Microsoft developed anything significant? Between the decision to do it and something usable emerging would be quite a long story I expect.

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Some of the 4.0 stuff does look interesting, but I think I'll wait to try it until 4.0 plus a few patches. I do feel like the pop system could use some work, time will tell whether the work it needs is the stuff they're actually doing.

I'm not sure if I think the Empire Focus Tasks thing sounds really cool or kind of railroady. The support thing sounds good, except this new Trade schtick I don't think I like--seems to me lots of alien races wouldn't be focused on trade, and with this I have to do it whether I like it or not.

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Try the base game--yes, quite a few of the DLCs are stuff that's worth getting if you play the game a good deal, but the base game is still a damn good game. So if you already have it, you might as well at least give it a shot.

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So, TheSHEEP's position seems to be:
1. The United States is turning into a vicious dictatorship/oligarchy
(That seems pretty likely, not gonna argue.)
2. The vicious oligarchs hate unions
(Definitely true.)

3. Therefore, unions are bad.
(What the actual fuck?)

That's definitely the weirdest anti-union argument I've ever seen.

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