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Will there be actual personal responsibility for management and engineers involved?
Nobody below the C-level would have any real responsibility in a case like this.
The Western world needs to resume to exert power, or let its inability to do so be seen as a weakness, a weakness which will invite further trouble. Burmese regime is one of world's most unruly, despotic, prolific, and it can be wiped out clean by US military with ease, without involving any of its allies. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/military-rape-12032...
I'm going to be very generous and your phrasing which sounds like you mean the US should commit ethnic cleansing.
I guess you mean the US should invade, occupy the country, impose new laws and police them. I guess you believe this because that has gone so well in the past.
The Western world needs to resume to exert power, or let its inability to do so be seen as a weakness, a weakness which will invite further trouble. Burmese regime is one of world's most unruly, despotic, prolific, and it can be wiped out clean by US military with ease, without involving any of its allies. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/military-rape-12032...
The Western world needs to resume to exert power, or let its inability to do so be seen as a weakness, a weakness which will invite further trouble. Burmese regime is one of world's most unruly, despotic, prolific, and it can be wiped out clean by US military with ease, without involving any of its allies. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/military-rape-12032...
"Wiped out clean" means what? I'm going to be very generous and your phrasing which sounds like you mean the US should commit ethnic cleansing. I guess you mean the US should invade, occupy the country, impose new laws and police them. I guess you believe this because that has gone so well in the past.
Which means nothing remaining standing of the fixed infrastructure of Burmese army, and nothing moving remaining of its vehicles.
Burma has a strong, nation-wide oppositionary movement, which is now trampled by an even more powerful, and cutthroat Burmese army.
Without two things aforementioned, the balance will change. An aid of small arms supplies will be enough for the opposition to win, and unite the country.
It's only now, a once in 100 years opportunity came — to stop warring ethnic armies killing each other, in face of a common enemy with the Burmese ethnic majority.
Starting to wonder if the name became "Meta" so that the headlines wouldn't read "Class action suit filed against Facebook" or "Scandal involving Facebook".
There used to be some telecom company in my country, who had some TV personality in all of their TV ads. Then, one day he wasn't in the ads anymore. It had been said that they stopped putting him in the ads, because the audience tends to associate negative emotions with a person more easily than with abstract concepts. Perhaps something similar is going on with some of these tech companies, where they use some really…
Starting to wonder if the name became "Meta" so that the headlines wouldn't read "Class action suit filed against Facebook" or "Scandal involving Facebook".
I think this is overthinking it. Mark Zuckerberg is the head of the world's most mundane tech company at the moment, so he changed the name and the focus of the company to try and dig out of this hole.
It probably says more about me and my perceptions of social networks than anything else, and my perceptions of Facebook from the early days persisting with the name. But that's the thing with names, they don't matter. Except they actually do a little bit.
This reminds me of something I’ve been mulling over for a while. Should it be illegal for a media outlet to publish the untested claims of a lawsuit? I’ve seen this behavior all too often. “XYZ happened, person A did this, claims new suit”. You can sue over just about anything, and make whatever absurd claims you want. People see these headlines and believe as if they have been settled in court when this is almost ne…
The Western world needs to resume to exert power, or let its inability to do so be seen as a weakness, a weakness which will invite further trouble. Burmese regime is one of world's most unruly, despotic, prolific, and it can be wiped out clean by US military with ease, without involving any of its allies. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/military-rape-12032...
Maybe you missed the memo, but there is plenty of precedent for US getting its ass handed to it trying to "clean up" despotic states in SE Asia.
And as far as doing it without allies, to quote Robert McNamara:
> What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe we should ever apply that economic, political, or military power unilaterally. If we had followed that rule in Vietnam, we wouldn't have been there! None of our allies supported us; not Japan, not Germany, not Britain or France. If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning.
Will there be actual personal responsibility for management and engineers involved?
This reminds me of something I’ve been mulling over for a while. Should it be illegal for a media outlet to publish the untested claims of a lawsuit? I’ve seen this behavior all too often. “XYZ happened, person A did this, claims new suit”. You can sue over just about anything, and make whatever absurd claims you want. People see these headlines and believe as if they have been settled in court when this is almost ne…
My one firmly held view about reporting on lawsuits is that it should be stigmatized to publish an article that doesn't also publish the docket number. It's just cruel and shortsighted for the reporter to have the complaint right in front of them and not (1) publish the docket number and venue so readers can look up the current state of the case themselves; maybe also (2) publish the PDF.