The title is phrased a little weird though, as if Ukraine is to be blamed for this cluster fuck of a situation.

Why did you switch up the title?

That’s not flying, that’s just falling with style.

Except that the download numbers don’t correspond at all with the population numbers.

Huh, I thought I recently read China accused the US of tricking China into invading Taiwan but that they won’t take the bait.

I guess this is what ‘not taking the bait’ translates to in Chinese?

Surely they can’t both be true at the same time though, right? Either governments are rightfully not participating in a price-gouging racket, or they are cheapskates not willing to pay pharma companies.

Every rule has an exception.

That sure sounds like a rule with no exception

Impressive porn collection you got there.

I think if he tried they’d look like something out of a cartoon.

So many questions. Starting with the most insignificant one: Why did they use a picture of her from the 90s ?

That’s not how it works. Right now the situation is: it doesn’t work. You claim it should be a workable situation. Show how it should work, don’t ask people to prove a negative.

Unless you bring a solution to the table, taking the position that it isn’t impossible is just cheap contrarianism on your part. Sure we can try new things, but if it doesn’t work and everyone is commenting the approach isn’t helping, then maybe take the hint. Or not, and keep swimming against the stream (in which - seeing OP’s other comments - they seem to be more interested than actually solving the problem)

ITT: people giving wrong answers to a post linked to a blog that answers the question ‘What is PID 0?’

If someone is trying to achieve a goal through (what they might not know are) impossible means, “letting them be” isn’t going to help them.

Although it might not seem very helpful (and indeed there are better ways of helping) pointing out the flaws in the approach is contributing more than “letting them be”. Doesn’t cost a thing to be civil about it though.

“This is terrible, can someone please find Ja Rule ?”

Thumbnail alone is enough for me.

I come I shit I conquer

Veni, faeces, vici.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Hey, what else are you gonna do if you’re craving some prime rib.

Number 2 is exactly where my hesitancy lies. Is a CDN still chugging along - not serving stuff to a select user group that has passim enabled is actually finding the fw - saving enough energy for it to cancel out a whole p2p network. I don’t think so (and again, I’d need some metrics before I will. you can’t just waive that away with 'local == fast&less steps == obvious; don’t need statistics)

As for number 3: p2p can only say if there are peers. if there are no peers, there still can be an update (what about the first person to download the firmware for example). It would be a security risk for the system to not give you updates if there are no peers, so I highly doubt that’s the case.