anon.penet.fi was also put affline due to American pressure: the scientology cult bribed some senator to pressure Finland into obedience.
Of course this played in a time when anonymizing services were not as advanced as they are now, email traffic was much lower and the idea of throwaway single-use email addresses was unheard of.
I download them for personal (and family) use, I don't sell them. Certainly not in China, where I don't live. That's OK with the Chineze, they don't care, and although it is even legal where I live the (The Netherlands) US is still pushing my country to change those laws. I downloaded even some Chineze films (although they were spoken in English, my Chineze is not that good).
Why conquer a country when you can do buisiness with them? Throughout history, the Chinese have not been expansionalist during millenia. That's not what can be said from the European invaders whose offspring make up the current US population.
Troll? If you are offended by the fact that the population of other western countries starts to see the US as enemy rather than ally, then you whould thank the actions of your government for that. We thank your grandparents for kicking the Germans out in WW2 and your parents for keeping the Russians out during the cold war but that doesn't mean you can do anything you like.
It is. The Chinese government isn't very interested in meddling in the internal affairs of other nations as long as they can do buisiness with them. The US government tries to force their sponsors opinion about artificial scarcity (aka "intellectual property") on the whole planet, and would prosecute me when I download things the US companies would not want me to.
As for respect for human rights, both governments are comparable bad. Both countries have high numbers of executions and torture prisoners one way or another. At least the Chinese don't try to invade countries throughout the world, they were content with Tibet.
Nope, but assuming both spy, whose spying would you care the most? As a home user, the Chinese government has no interest in me. I have no contacts with the Dalai Lama. The US government probably has, since I'm hurting their sponsors by downloading the latest movies.
Who cares wether US data is stored in Europe? The other way aroundis much more dangerous.
I hope this law will give rise to morecompanies who will refuse to have any representation in the US because it can lead to expensive fines. Perhaps, in time, the US will start to listen to others when their economy crumbles even more and they go down the way any empire has in time.
American judges seem to think they are gods and give the strangest orders. In more civilised countries the law describes what a judge can and cannot order.
A de-Americanized world would finally be able to get rid of the innovation suppressing "intellectual property". Without it, innovation would sky-rocket. Except for lawyers developing patent trolls perhaps.
In reality, noone. But then, if they show they won't pay, who will borrow the US any more? And since they debt keeps growing, the need more. The only way out would be printing more dollars, and the amount needed would lead to hyperinflation.
Obama centrist in any other western country? Maybe, if you count Israel a western country perhaps. In the UE, he would be considered right wing to very right wing. The republicans would only have counterparts in some of the more obscure fascist parties around here.
And by developing nuclear weapons he probably even prevented a war: the US doesn't dare to take the risk of attacking North Korea. Now let the Iranians hurry up with theirs.
Well, remember how the Soviet Union went down? They went banncrupt due to their enormous military spendings. That hap[ppened to every large empire that has not been conquered by an enemy. The same is happening to the USA now. In a few decades the US empire will probably collapse as well. I hope for the sake of its population that the US remnant will not start another civil war to keep the parts that declare independence under their rule.
This discrepancy is inherent to a district voting system. In the UK there are similar problems, and the country has a history of specifically dividing districts so that certain parties are favored by it.
And that's what this whole laser fusion setup really is: a research lab for nuclear weapons. The whole story of energy production is only told to the public who's funding it. If Iran would setup a laser fusion lab the US and Israel would probably have it bombed.
That's why we speak of "physical break-even", which was, according to some definitions, reached here, and "technical break-even", which takes into account the efficiency of the whole system and compares power in with usable electricity out.
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Some people, like thre mass-murderers who are current and former US presidents?
Not directly, but is is making that datacollection more and more worthless since you're not viewing ads, personalized or not, anyway.
The best answer to that is to block their ads completely. And while you're at it all other annoying ads too.
anon.penet.fi was also put affline due to American pressure: the scientology cult bribed some senator to pressure Finland into obedience.
Of course this played in a time when anonymizing services were not as advanced as they are now, email traffic was much lower and the idea of throwaway single-use email addresses was unheard of.
A terrorist? Someone who (tried to) kill Cheney would be a hero like Claus von Stauffenberg who tried to kill Hitler.
I download them for personal (and family) use, I don't sell them. Certainly not in China, where I don't live. That's OK with the Chineze, they don't care, and although it is even legal where I live the (The Netherlands) US is still pushing my country to change those laws. I downloaded even some Chineze films (although they were spoken in English, my Chineze is not that good).
Why conquer a country when you can do buisiness with them? Throughout history, the Chinese have not been expansionalist during millenia. That's not what can be said from the European invaders whose offspring make up the current US population.
Troll? If you are offended by the fact that the population of other western countries starts to see the US as enemy rather than ally, then you whould thank the actions of your government for that. We thank your grandparents for kicking the Germans out in WW2 and your parents for keeping the Russians out during the cold war but that doesn't mean you can do anything you like.
It is. The Chinese government isn't very interested in meddling in the internal affairs of other nations as long as they can do buisiness with them. The US government tries to force their sponsors opinion about artificial scarcity (aka "intellectual property") on the whole planet, and would prosecute me when I download things the US companies would not want me to.
As for respect for human rights, both governments are comparable bad. Both countries have high numbers of executions and torture prisoners one way or another. At least the Chinese don't try to invade countries throughout the world, they were content with Tibet.
Nope, but assuming both spy, whose spying would you care the most? As a home user, the Chinese government has no interest in me. I have no contacts with the Dalai Lama. The US government probably has, since I'm hurting their sponsors by downloading the latest movies.
Who cares wether US data is stored in Europe? The other way aroundis much more dangerous.
I hope this law will give rise to morecompanies who will refuse to have any representation in the US because it can lead to expensive fines. Perhaps, in time, the US will start to listen to others when their economy crumbles even more and they go down the way any empire has in time.
American judges seem to think they are gods and give the strangest orders. In more civilised countries the law describes what a judge can and cannot order.
Why? Open source can help here very much, and the most bancrupt country on Earth can do nothing to stop publishing code.
The current version of TrueCrypt is 7.1a. Why are they only talking of older versions?
At least Chinese hardware is less likely to have NSA backdoors.
Reverse Bretton Woods and Nixon's withdrawl from the gold standard.
A de-Americanized world would finally be able to get rid of the innovation suppressing "intellectual property". Without it, innovation would sky-rocket. Except for lawyers developing patent trolls perhaps.
In reality, noone. But then, if they show they won't pay, who will borrow the US any more? And since they debt keeps growing, the need more. The only way out would be printing more dollars, and the amount needed would lead to hyperinflation.
Obama centrist in any other western country? Maybe, if you count Israel a western country perhaps. In the UE, he would be considered right wing to very right wing. The republicans would only have counterparts in some of the more obscure fascist parties around here.
And by developing nuclear weapons he probably even prevented a war: the US doesn't dare to take the risk of attacking North Korea. Now let the Iranians hurry up with theirs.
Well, remember how the Soviet Union went down? They went banncrupt due to their enormous military spendings. That hap[ppened to every large empire that has not been conquered by an enemy. The same is happening to the USA now. In a few decades the US empire will probably collapse as well. I hope for the sake of its population that the US remnant will not start another civil war to keep the parts that declare independence under their rule.
This discrepancy is inherent to a district voting system. In the UK there are similar problems, and the country has a history of specifically dividing districts so that certain parties are favored by it.
To the list of 3rd world countries. The developed world will start sending humanitarian aid to the US shortly.
And that's what this whole laser fusion setup really is: a research lab for nuclear weapons. The whole story of energy production is only told to the public who's funding it. If Iran would setup a laser fusion lab the US and Israel would probably have it bombed.
That's why we speak of "physical break-even", which was, according to some definitions, reached here, and "technical break-even", which takes into account the efficiency of the whole system and compares power in with usable electricity out.