On the other hand, I can't imagine switching to Google Chrome (from Firefox). Well, I can imagine it if Mozilla magically disappeared, but as things stand right now, I don't see myself switching if foreseeable future. There is much more to the Internet than just Google.
I don't see how more aggressive can't be reasonable. In the case of the whole Ukrainian mess, we don't know based on what information Putin makes his decisions. Although, I bet he sees a vastly different picture than people whose only source is main stream media do. After all, we have newspapers and TV whereas he has arguably some of the best intelligence agencies at his disposal. I'd like to think that whatever Putin does is reasonable, even if just from his own point of view.
Regardless of political preferences... I simply can't imagine in what form those threats could have been made. Phone call? Letter? Email? How can anyone be so [IMHO, unrealistically] stupid to mention using nuclear weapons knowing that every word in today's communications is being recorded and would be published by the opposite side?
P.S. Thank you Slashdot for posting at least 2-3 stories about Ukraine every day. I guess this is really the stuff that matters to nerds that much.
"China seems to be on a mission to isolate itself from the world, at least in terms of technology."
Why would they want to isolate themselves from the world? They may be looking to increase security (with the whole NSA mess, I wouldn't blame them) or trying to cut a better deal with Apple. There may be other rational reasons too.
Given that the show is going into season 8, I wouldn't be too surprised if it went downhill from here, like it usually happens to long running sitcoms. It's not like money will reflect the quality of acting.
I know your constitution allows it, that's pretty much the whole point of my original comment - you will deal with your government violating your constitution while my (and many other) government(s) doesn't give a shit about your country spying on our citizens. And you know why? Because we are "friends". One-way friends.
I'd prefer a coordinated international effort to have more communications bypass the U.S. Many countries have laws against businesses abusing their monopolistic powers, yet the world has been content with the U.S. monopoly on the Internet control.
No, I'm not nutz and I understand the realities of all this, but the fact is that while you at least get the talk about how "bulk surveillance on U.S. citizens" is bad and a chance that it may one day be stopped or limited, spying on the rest of the world is not being discussed at all. It's not as you say:
1. make them stop spying on US citizens
2. make them stop spying on everyone else
2 will never happen from within the U.S. Our own governments are the ones who have to protect our communications and, as I said, they have not expressed any willingness to do anything in that direction, which is sad.
As a non-American I couldn't care less how much the U.S. government is spying on its citizens. What I'm concerned about is the absence of effort to curb the U.S. spying on non-Americans. I haven't heard my government even acknowledging the fact that the U.S. is going through all our communications. Decentralized Internet is badly needed and nothing seems to be in works...
Success in life in not measured by how well you know coding. Especially when you can hire someone who does know the stuff. It's unfortunate that politicians have little clue about things they talk about, but since I'm not American I quite enjoy these public blunders.
Hmm. Even in the USSR, which supposedly was in a worse shape than Poland in terms of consumer goods and stuff, my grandparents would actually buy things, not "take care of them". Or at least that is what honest people would do.
I don't think they care about violating rights of the U.S. citizens. And they care even less about those outside the U.S. It's too bad that the American allies don't care about their citizens' privacy either.
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On the other hand, I can't imagine switching to Google Chrome (from Firefox).
Well, I can imagine it if Mozilla magically disappeared, but as things stand right now, I don't see myself switching if foreseeable future. There is much more to the Internet than just Google.
I don't see how more aggressive can't be reasonable. In the case of the whole Ukrainian mess, we don't know based on what information Putin makes his decisions. Although, I bet he sees a vastly different picture than people whose only source is main stream media do. After all, we have newspapers and TV whereas he has arguably some of the best intelligence agencies at his disposal. I'd like to think that whatever Putin does is reasonable, even if just from his own point of view.
Good grief. Some 'stuff' universally 'matters.'
Some stuff that actually happened in this reality sometimes matters.
Yeah, because "field commanders" have access to nuclear weapons. Are you for real?
Regardless of political preferences... I simply can't imagine in what form those threats could have been made. Phone call? Letter? Email? How can anyone be so [IMHO, unrealistically] stupid to mention using nuclear weapons knowing that every word in today's communications is being recorded and would be published by the opposite side?
P.S. Thank you Slashdot for posting at least 2-3 stories about Ukraine every day. I guess this is really the stuff that matters to nerds that much.
What are the chances that once it's built, the U.S. will find that Nicaragua is not democratic enough to operate it "independently"?
Yes, and that could be another rational reason, not isolationism. Btw, Russia also stopped buying Apple products for government use not so long ago.
"China seems to be on a mission to isolate itself from the world, at least in terms of technology."
Why would they want to isolate themselves from the world? They may be looking to increase security (with the whole NSA mess, I wouldn't blame them) or trying to cut a better deal with Apple. There may be other rational reasons too.
Given that the show is going into season 8, I wouldn't be too surprised if it went downhill from here, like it usually happens to long running sitcoms. It's not like money will reflect the quality of acting.
I know your constitution allows it, that's pretty much the whole point of my original comment - you will deal with your government violating your constitution while my (and many other) government(s) doesn't give a shit about your country spying on our citizens. And you know why? Because we are "friends". One-way friends.
I'd prefer a coordinated international effort to have more communications bypass the U.S. Many countries have laws against businesses abusing their monopolistic powers, yet the world has been content with the U.S. monopoly on the Internet control.
If you didn't give a shit, you wouldn't be spying.
No, I'm not nutz and I understand the realities of all this, but the fact is that while you at least get the talk about how "bulk surveillance on U.S. citizens" is bad and a chance that it may one day be stopped or limited, spying on the rest of the world is not being discussed at all. It's not as you say:
1. make them stop spying on US citizens
2. make them stop spying on everyone else
2 will never happen from within the U.S. Our own governments are the ones who have to protect our communications and, as I said, they have not expressed any willingness to do anything in that direction, which is sad.
As a non-American I couldn't care less how much the U.S. government is spying on its citizens. What I'm concerned about is the absence of effort to curb the U.S. spying on non-Americans. I haven't heard my government even acknowledging the fact that the U.S. is going through all our communications. Decentralized Internet is badly needed and nothing seems to be in works...
And they say Russia is too secretive. This is the pinnacle of transparency!
Because it's disconnected from the other lakes, right?
Typical american attitude.
You've heard wrong.
Pumping out of the Great Lakes would not make Canada happy.
Success in life in not measured by how well you know coding. Especially when you can hire someone who does know the stuff. It's unfortunate that politicians have little clue about things they talk about, but since I'm not American I quite enjoy these public blunders.
Poor americans. The who gang of NSAs, CIAs, FBIs, DoHSs and others must be practically implanting cheating in their genes.
Hmm. Even in the USSR, which supposedly was in a worse shape than Poland in terms of consumer goods and stuff, my grandparents would actually buy things, not "take care of them". Or at least that is what honest people would do.
East Germany was in a way totalitarian, but in no way was it fascist after 1945 - those are not the same things.
This is beyond ridiculous.
I don't think they care about violating rights of the U.S. citizens. And they care even less about those outside the U.S. It's too bad that the American allies don't care about their citizens' privacy either.