BenLeMan

Sorry if I was wrong about the prevalence of such protections. My perception may be biased because the notebooks used by our company are all equipped with a switch or shutter of some sort. (HP brand, IIRC) Regarding your second point, however: surely a shutter physically obscuring the camera lens is just as effective as disconnecting the camera when it comes to protecting the user's privacy?

They often come equipped with a privacy slider to cover the lens. Or you can just put a sticker on them.

Pah, mein bester Kumpel und ich sind seinerzeit noch aus dem Unterricht geschmissen worden, wie echte Lausbuben. Legendär zum Beispiel die Rede von Martin Luther King, während der irgendjemand im Publikum blökt wie eine Ziege. "I have a dream <blök> that all men are created equal <blök>"... wie soll man da bitte ernst bleiben? 😇

Schuld sind wie immer...

I wouldn't mind my tax money paying for their one-way tickets. Especially if they leave their passport at the gate.

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But if the help had come from North Korea or China, Vlad would have been fine with it.

And I'll bet Germany knew as well. Remember that clip of Biden saying Nordstream is not going to happen, with Scholz standing RIGHT NEXT TO HIM? Nordstream needed to go, and go it did. We could have just buried that topic and never brought it up again. But then some DA supersleuth had to go sleuthing... 🙄 Hey, at least it proves that Germany's judiciary is somewhat independent from the executive, after all.

Or, or, hear me out: just close that cesspool right down to make the world a better place.

So they're sharing their "fap material" folders now, huh? Getting weirder by the minute.

Doesn't Storm Shadow require Western operators to program targets? I want Ukraine to win this war of national survival (unlike the US administration) but Western operators programming missiles to hit targets in Russia does sound escalatory to me. I'd rather see Ukraine receive a decent number of F16s (i.e. much more than currently pledged) with corresponding munitions. There's a lot of really useful stuff in the Western arsenal that would otherwise remain unused forever, including older-gen glide bombs & standoff weapons. It's not going to be the Wunderwaffen winning this war, anyway. But an ample supply of decent weapons could work wonders. Just look at the success of Russia's cheap glide bomb upgrades. (Sorry for the wall of text, by the way, but I can't get Connect for Android to retain line breaks)

Woman's gotta get off those Disney movies.