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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="http://www.bbc.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com</a> has this headline:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>China and US are at each other's throats on tariffs, and neither is backing down</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>IMO, Trump likes to play tic-tak-toe And he likes to initiate the game so he can make the first move with the center square. Anything more complicated, like checkers is beyond his comfort zone.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>The Chinese like to play Go. A game much more complex than chess. And they have a long view of time. If they can't get something today, they plan to strengthen their position in 5 or 10 years. </span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Trump shaking up international relations reinforces Xi's narrative that China is a friendly country.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 03:22:34 PM PDT, Ron <admin@bclug.ca> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Don Marti wrote on 2025-04-03 14:38:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> > They also said that Google is going to have to sell the Chrome web<br clear="none"> > browser.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">They can list it for sale, but who's buying it?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Even if free, the maintenance burden would be enormous. A modern day <br clear="none">white elephant.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> ...and probably a change in spam handling on Gmail. As long as they play <br clear="none">> ball with the [s]administration[/s]GOP, [...]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Did that - years ago:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> > On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal<br clear="none"> > from Google to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23301554/google-gmail-spam-filters-republicans-gop-trump" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23301554/google-gmail-spam-filters-republicans-gop-trump</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> > Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> > Republican leadership introduced a bill this month that would require<br clear="none"> > platforms to share how their filtering techniques work and make it<br clear="none"> > illegal to put campaign emails into spam unless a user asks.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/27/google-campaign-email-spam-gmail" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2022/06/27/google-campaign-email-spam-gmail</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> > Don't know what Apple is going to have to do for their exception<br clear="none"><br clear="none">They've shown they're ready and willing (eager!) to comply:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> > Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Never thought a coup in America would be welcomed by so many and yet, <br clear="none">despite the despair of many (the majority?), hardly a damned whimper <br clear="none">would be heard.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Can't do anything to incite the baddies, that may cause them to drop the <br clear="none">restraint they're so famous for. Apparently.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Good luck down there.<div class="ydp81d4c22ayqt9300675365" id="ydp81d4c22ayqtfd03927"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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