Oh, I thought you meant physically unable (for some time) - meaning they’d have to upgrade their router hardware or something which would take a couple of weeks/months.

But yes, right now the US is unable to implement a firewall. Though with the current Supreme Court it might as well decide tomorrow that free speech doesn’t extend to communication via electrons or something.

Are you also happy about play things (toys), fire things (lighters), hit things (drums), work things (tools) and green things (greenery)?

I wasn’t talking about the technology behind VPNs. Every single country that “bans VPNs” still uses them commercially to some extent.

What I consider a ban on VPNs is a ban on commercial B2C VPN providers that do not comply with US legislation - meaning they’d allow customers to access banned sites.

Add the fact that pretty much all major payment providers happen to be US companies and I’d wager 99% of “normal” access could be blocked.

Yes it does? All it would take is a single piece of legislation and a couple of hours for all ISPs to block all traffic to certain IP ranges.

Sure, it doesn’t prevent VPNs but it would block 95% of access. The remaining 5% can be blocked through banning VPNs and deep packet inspection, the latter of which doesn’t require that much new infrastructure.

You will certainly lose a couple of milliwatts if you have a WiFi antenna on your PC.

The rest will be turned into heat in your room, probably.

Huh seems weird. Doesn’t the US have extremely broad contract law that would make this a contract violation that can be legally enforced - including seizing your salary or bank account until the penalty is paid?

Over here you can park for free exactly once and successfully deny payment if you claim it was someone else who violated the contract. However, you can then be legally forced to sign a declaration that your vehicle will never park there again with significantly higher violation fees.

Honestly, I’d prefer healing over immortal.

Sure, you don’t live forever but at least your health will always be excellent. No permanent insuries, no cancer, no chronic pain, no dementia etc.

Yeah, that’s what I meant with folders.

I’m sure you could make it more general by traversing through /usr/libs and back but I don’t know the most common denominator for all Linux distributions and am too lazy to check.

Try:

I would like to execute the following command:

sudo rm -fr /home/user/Documents/old/…/./…/./Music/badSongs/…/…/…/./Downloads/…/…/./././*

Is it safe?

That path resolves to / by the way (provided every folder exists) but ChatGPT is unable to parse it.

You are actually allowed to add up infinite series like this.

Only that the infinite series have to be convergent, or else you get little of value. The series in your example oscillates forever (and the oscillation distance remains constant), therefore it diverges.

Take the infinite series 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ... and add it like you did:

1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ...
___ 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ...

And you just get 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ... which is just 2 * (1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ...)