The government can use whatever system it wants, and if there aren’t components on the market it can justify a make work program to domestically produce them.
Governments were able to run perfectly well without high density removable storage, why is it necessary now?
There’s a cost to maintaining old technology, at some point it becomes higher than transitioning to new technology. People have known that since ancient times, that’s why the Neo-Assyrian Empire chose to switch from Akkadian to Aramaic.
There’s also a cost to transitioning to the new technology.
Normalizing arbitrary size removable media makes physical exfiltration much easier because no one is asking why you’re using an illegal technology in the government building.
Floppy disks are not able to identify themselves as a keyboard and release a payload of keystrokes on command, or hide entire soc computers complete with network adapters.
There is also the matter of retraining on an institutional scale, and if you think it’s as simple as “put this into the computer, not that” you’re woefully underinformed.
Just as an aside, it’s pretty fraught to compare a language transition caused by centuries of forced resettlement to switching the kind of computer thingy government employees use over the course of two years.
What is best for China is peaceful coexistence and small concessions to incentivize trade and development of the world.
What China is doing is maliciously taking everything they can get their hands on until every bridge is burned, and by the looks of it they’re ramping up military production to cross the river and keep taking.
Exactly the sort of shortsighted belligerent actions you would expect from a dictatorship.
LMAO, China has been playing games with currency values and undercutting electronics manufacturers for decades.
FYI we don’t do this btw
In 1979, President Carter proposed a Trade Agreement that changed China to favored trader status with much lower tariffs across the board, and in return China agreed to a cap on textile output so as not to flood the market with cheaper goods than the USA was producing.
The 1980s saw even more favorable deals in exchange for similar restrictions as Reagan was eager to work with China.
Trade broke down in the 1990s over China committing crimes against their own people, broadcasted live across the entire world.
In 2000 President Clinton helped China enter the WTO to renew trade again.
And in return they spent the last 24 years shitting the bed, doing everything in their power to mess with any market they can, like sharks drawn to blood.
From my perspective it looks like US "spent the last 24 years shitting the bed" while enabling this behavior. Again, people who made these decisions are not held accountable.
Fuck china and all but poor leadership is primary reason why we are here... with china being a bad faith actor being no 2.
Maybe don’t write good for you in response to churches and synagogues getting attacked? It’s not like these guys went after legitimate military targets (with the exception of a police checkpoint).
These attackers may very well be tied to Isis; there is absolutely nothing good about them other than the fact that this is a problem for the Kremlin.
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