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mavili commented on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries   bbc.com/news/articles/c6p... · Posted by u/no_exit
seethedeaduu · 2 years ago
was there a declaration of war?
mavili · 2 years ago
Who cares when it's the US. Laws only apply for the weak-handed. They controlled the Iraqi government anyway, and they were stealing all of its oil as they wished regardless. The reparations were only the icing on the cake.
mavili commented on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries   bbc.com/news/articles/c6p... · Posted by u/no_exit
wil421 · 2 years ago
Article III of The Hague convention:

“ (III): Convention relative to the Opening of Hostilities[26][27] This convention sets out the accepted procedure for a state making a declaration of war. It provides the basis on which, in international law, war reparations may be demanded.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_an...

mavili · 2 years ago
By the way, that summary only says "It provides the basis on which.. war reparations may be demanded". If anything I bet it sets out 'restrictions' on when countries can do that.
mavili commented on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries   bbc.com/news/articles/c6p... · Posted by u/no_exit
wil421 · 2 years ago
Article III of The Hague convention:

“ (III): Convention relative to the Opening of Hostilities[26][27] This convention sets out the accepted procedure for a state making a declaration of war. It provides the basis on which, in international law, war reparations may be demanded.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_an...

mavili · 2 years ago
You telling me a country initiating a war has the right to then ask for reparations for the damages and destruction they caused on the country they initiated the war against? That's so freaking absurd that it is actually funny!

I can only guess the wikipedia article is only a summary and the real convention could be around who is to blame for the war and other factors. Otherwise that's just so ridiculous that it actually encourages declaring wars on countries!

mavili commented on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries   bbc.com/news/articles/c6p... · Posted by u/no_exit
barbarr · 2 years ago
Also if you take a step back, it's more like the US is getting a cut of the $, almost like profit sharing.
mavili · 2 years ago
US is the same country that kills Iraqi civilians and requests money for the bullets from the Iraqi government that they control indirectly.

US is an evil empire.

mavili commented on Big data is dead (2023)   motherduck.com/blog/big-d... · Posted by u/armanke13
mavili · 2 years ago
Big Data hasn't been about storage, I thought it was always about processing. Guy obviously knows his stuff but I got the impression he stressed more about storage and how that's cheap and easy these days. When he does mention processing/computing, he mentions that most of the time people end up only querying recent data (ie small chunk of actual data they hold) but that bears the question: is querying only small chunk of data what businesses need, or are they doing it because querying the whole dataset is just not manageable? In other words, if processing all data at once was as easy as querying the most recent X percent, would most businesses still choose to only query the small chunk? I think there lies the answer whether Big Data (processing) is needed or not.
mavili commented on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes   cnn.com/2024/05/20/middle... · Posted by u/spzx
sgt · 2 years ago
Downvoting you because that is a very emotional view and not necessarily rational.
mavili · 2 years ago
Yup, very irrational to label a state guilt-free for life because "democracy".
mavili commented on Why I love Laravel (2022)   ben.page/laravel... · Posted by u/bdlowery
mavili · 2 years ago
> I wonder sometimes why more people don’t use Laravel (or similar frameworks in other languages)

They do. Most people do. If anyone is serious about putting a project up they use frameworks.

mavili commented on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes   cnn.com/2024/05/20/middle... · Posted by u/spzx
nebula8804 · 2 years ago
>One thing has been very clear during the last couple of years with Russia-Ukraine war and now this genocide: the world doesn't buy Western sht anymore.

Does it actually matter though? Much of the world hasn't bought western sh

t for decades and it hasn't really made a dent in any of the west's operations or goals.

China has proven they are just another sh*tty wannabe knockoff of the west (see BRICS and when countries default). They aren't any better.

mavili · 2 years ago
I think we are about to see a change in that. If a country like Niger can say f* off to US military presence in the country we're seeing a shift in world geopolitics.

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mavili commented on A forged Apple employee badge   cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-... · Posted by u/ecliptik
MarceColl · 2 years ago
> I didn't think not knowing accurate definition of a word warranted downvotes

I think the downvotes comes from then accusing the person writing it of clickbait. So while it's fine to not know the accurate definition of a word, it's not so fine to accuse the author of something because you don't know the accurate definition.

mavili · 2 years ago
Sure, but to be honest with my explanation I actually have a point with the distinction between fake and forged. Here is an excerpt:

> A textbook definition of forgery is the making of a false document with the intent that it should be used or acted upon as if it's genuine.

Notice the "with the intent that it should be ACTED upon", and given no one would be using a historic fake ID to use it for access, I think I have a point. Anyway..

u/mavili

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