"A sentence of over a year would have almost certainly meant deportation for a young man who has never known a home other than the United States"
Good riddance. Being allowed to come here is an incredible gift and any non-citizen who commits the least crime against Americans should be kicked out. Further, such ejection should be done administratively and without appeal.
If you don't want it you don't give your money to the machine, and you run no risk since you don't "market chum" by downloading and seeding their shit.
Gently help any superstitionist you know get access to things which may help them question their superstition. Anything you can do to help erode religious belief and especially orthodoxy is good for the human race.
Superstition is bad, Superstitionists are bad because they propagate nonsense unsupported by evidence.
If they PROVE their Sky Fairie is real, I'll bow down and kiss his/her/it's Noodly Appendage. If not, their beliefs are shit and they are liars.
I have no use for the beliefs of flat-earthers. The only reason they are treated with respect is centuries of religious oppression enforcing that "respect".
Respect for superstition and for the dangerous liars who propagate it should end.
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"The only time you need factories like this is n preparation for a global conflict."
If there were a prize for "Absurd Asserted Conclusion", your post would win it.
Foxconn reconfigures by issuing orders to hordes of expensive workers.
US manufacturing could reconfigure taking advantage of technology, and negate the Chinese labor advantage.
Once you level the playing field with automation, the hordes of cheap Chinese labor are less of an advantage.
The ideal would be reconfigurable, lights-out manufacturing.
The Chinese couldn't compete because of shipping costs.
"The locks on your door are also a security hole."
They are indeed. Most locks are vulnerable to simple exploits.
The best locks are often inconvenient to use, and integrated with special enclosures and doors.
Water is also wet. Must be a slow news day.
"The internet is MAKING the people depressed!"
Then cheer up and watch some Fox News!
Oh.
...steal cars.
Clearly we need stronger legal controls.
Indeed, and this is Mega-FUD.
If you give people financial support it doesn't make a fuck what you think you do or do not support.
Your ACTION is support.
Over that time it's still more economic to rearrange infrastructure than change anything else.
There is nothing on the coasts man can't afford to readjust/move/scrap in such a long timeline.
Worked fucking great the first time!
You can't build a system that Bolsheviks and Maoists won't take over. Nature of the beast.
It's global adjustment, the Chinese are NOT racing to the bottom.
Americans can work for much less money then they do now but it will take years for low wages to FORCE down the cost of living.
The world is catching up. Get used to it.
They should continue it in order to make using their software suck even more.
I suggest "anvil-sized, spiked, parallel port dongles painted with necrotizing fasciitis" be required for every closed-source program.
People won't even spit out the leprous genitalia of the commercial music industry, so no great number will leave the country.
Flexible work force. You can issue orders to a group and have them execute different orders or work different shifts immediately.
He invaded privacy. That's no prank.
I demand privacy and I want those who invade it to be hammered as examples to others.
"A sentence of over a year would have almost certainly meant deportation for a young man who has never known a home other than the United States"
Good riddance. Being allowed to come here is an incredible gift and any non-citizen who commits the least crime against Americans should be kicked out. Further, such ejection should be done administratively and without appeal.
He invaded privacy where there was reasonable expectation thereof.
I'd like to see privacy invaders broken on the wheel in the public square.
A persons home is their castle and even if a "home" is shared, there is an expectation of privacy.
"Should everyone in the US be driven to suicide then as they are spied upon literally day in and day out by their own government."
Not suicide, but revenge.
I want my tax dollars spent PUNISHING people who invade privacy.
The only way to protect privacy is to use exemplary punishment on those who invade it.
It's invasion of privacy, so I'm fine with crushing those who do such things.
If you don't want it you don't give your money to the machine, and you run no risk since you don't "market chum" by downloading and seeding their shit.
I got mine in 1999 from Cheapbytes:
http://www.cheapbytes.com/
Corel Linux FTW!
True, and shouldn't have been posted AC.
Good.
Gently help any superstitionist you know get access to things which may help them question their superstition. Anything you can do to help erode religious belief and especially orthodoxy is good for the human race.
Superstition is bad, Superstitionists are bad because they propagate nonsense unsupported by evidence.
If they PROVE their Sky Fairie is real, I'll bow down and kiss his/her/it's Noodly Appendage. If not, their beliefs are shit and they are liars.
I have no use for the beliefs of flat-earthers. The only reason they are treated with respect is centuries of religious oppression enforcing that "respect".
Respect for superstition and for the dangerous liars who propagate it should end.