The reason you live in a nice safe developed nation is because you have a powerful government that can defend that nation and provide services that mean you're unlikely to starve to death or to die of a preventable disease amongst many other services that you take for granted. Is our system perfect? Nowhere near. Would it be better if we had to get those services from the private sector? No because large numbers of us would be excluded from getting those services due to cost.
South Vietnam was a US client state. Their government wasn't a legitimate one. By your logic the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan wasn't an invasion because they were invited in by the puppet government.
People in South America don't have as many problems with death squads as they did when the US was supporting murderers like Pinochet and the Vietnamese would probably be better off had the US not engaged in wide scale chemical warfare.
Is there any more evidence that people that ask Cortana rude questions are likely to treat real people like that? Are there more abusers amongst iOS users as Siri doesn't do this? This to me is more like looking up rude words in the dictionary and giggling than some normal person turning Jekyll and Hyde like into a monster due to being able to say what they like to a computer.
You're a white male. No white man has ever suffered oppression in the entirety of history or if they did it doesn't matter because other white men are rich and powerful.
The righties in America all think that they're invincible and that bad things won't hasten to them so a social safety net is just fit shirkers out to steal their money.
That's why those turkeys keep voting for Christmas while the people they vote for extract more and more from them.
They hate the Nordic countries because it gives the lie to the idea that any kind of social democracy will destroy their way of life so anything negative about those countries is seized as an example that those Scandinavian commies are a failure.
The parlous state of the US infrastructure that is supposed to be paid for by their taxes never enters their consciousness except as an excuse to privatise everything in the name of efficiency which is actually the worst of all worlds, setting up private monopolies at taxpayers' expense.
And that one too. I can do this all day. Where's the security fixes for my old Note 2 which is newer than the iPhone 4s? Nowhere in sight unless I install a ROM that may or may not support my hardware. The Android ecosystem sucks hard, regardless of the merits of the OS itself (which I like and use). I don't know why you're so ardently defending Samsung / HTC / Sony et al when they don't give a shit about your security. Apple are a bunch of scumbags, but a bunch of scumbags that actually fix their software, rather than leaving their users hanging out to dry.
There are many other unpatched bugs. The Note 2 took over a year to get Kitkat and there were no updates in between. It's really poor from the biggest Android OEM.
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The reason you live in a nice safe developed nation is because you have a powerful government that can defend that nation and provide services that mean you're unlikely to starve to death or to die of a preventable disease amongst many other services that you take for granted. Is our system perfect? Nowhere near. Would it be better if we had to get those services from the private sector? No because large numbers of us would be excluded from getting those services due to cost.
I wish I had mod points right now
It's just big boned with genetics making it curved.
South Vietnam was a US client state. Their government wasn't a legitimate one. By your logic the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan wasn't an invasion because they were invited in by the puppet government.
A lot of people did say that but the warmongers and profiteers didn't want to know.
Whatever you want to call it, it was the deliberate poisoning of large parts of another country by an invading army.
People in South America don't have as many problems with death squads as they did when the US was supporting murderers like Pinochet and the Vietnamese would probably be better off had the US not engaged in wide scale chemical warfare.
Is there any more evidence that people that ask Cortana rude questions are likely to treat real people like that? Are there more abusers amongst iOS users as Siri doesn't do this? This to me is more like looking up rude words in the dictionary and giggling than some normal person turning Jekyll and Hyde like into a monster due to being able to say what they like to a computer.
You're a white male. No white man has ever suffered oppression in the entirety of history or if they did it doesn't matter because other white men are rich and powerful.
Until you mention that men have problems too and then they turn really nasty.
That well known example of high morals the convicted monopolist.
And the rest of us will be expected to abase ourselves for the vile crime of being the same gender as those people.
That depends which country you're from. I'm sure there are plenty of South Americans, Middle Easterners and Vietnamese who would disagree.
The righties in America all think that they're invincible and that bad things won't hasten to them so a social safety net is just fit shirkers out to steal their money.
That's why those turkeys keep voting for Christmas while the people they vote for extract more and more from them.
They hate the Nordic countries because it gives the lie to the idea that any kind of social democracy will destroy their way of life so anything negative about those countries is seized as an example that those Scandinavian commies are a failure.
The parlous state of the US infrastructure that is supposed to be paid for by their taxes never enters their consciousness except as an excuse to privatise everything in the name of efficiency which is actually the worst of all worlds, setting up private monopolies at taxpayers' expense.
Have you ever driven in a country where most drivers haven't had to pass a test? It's very scary.
If you have a better way to fund a developed nation with all the advantages you take for granted feel free to offer an alternative.
When's that happening in the US and how long would it be before the rebels get bombed by the USAF?
Very good ;-)
And that one too. I can do this all day. Where's the security fixes for my old Note 2 which is newer than the iPhone 4s? Nowhere in sight unless I install a ROM that may or may not support my hardware. The Android ecosystem sucks hard, regardless of the merits of the OS itself (which I like and use). I don't know why you're so ardently defending Samsung / HTC / Sony et al when they don't give a shit about your security. Apple are a bunch of scumbags, but a bunch of scumbags that actually fix their software, rather than leaving their users hanging out to dry.
I do. It's not a great idea for me to read Slashdot on my work computer given the random nature of the comments.
That one's fixed too.
Yes it does. You just need to turn it on in the settings.
That should be off by default.
Spoken like someone who's never written a public facing website
There are many other unpatched bugs. The Note 2 took over a year to get Kitkat and there were no updates in between. It's really poor from the biggest Android OEM.