Users put up with it because there is no alternative OS. There are just 2 mobile OS competitors with >99% of the market. Both contenders are made by dystopian Progressive-Capitalist Silicon Valley companies with close ties to the US security services and open contempt for freedom, who consider their users a product to be sold to the highest bidders.
Were there another viable mobile OS on the market - one that did not constantly snoop on its users - I'm sure many people would rush out to buy phones running it. Otoh, it's probably illegal to sell a privacy-respecting mobile OS in the the States. Maybe illegal in China and Russia too - their regimes have just as little respect for privacy and freedom as does our regime.
I would be highly surprised if the Chinese Communist Party permits their industrial base to be packed up and shipped to their geopolitical rivals. CCP may bankroll American destroyers of industry (e.g. B. Clinton) but I don't believe they allow such capitalist degenerates to influence their domestic policy.
Smug people on the internet sure did hate that guy for having the temerity to suggest that working class people ought not starve and die in the streets. I wonder what happened to him?
I am no expert in Chinese law. Yet I suspect that many forms of bribery and corruption which are funny lawful in America remain serious crimes in China.
How many of the US identity politics movements are bankrolled by the Chinese state? Supposedly we finance Falun Gong for the same reason - social destabilization of our geopolitical rival.
Apparently corrupt public officials don't like being called out in their corruption, and will eagerly abuse their official power to silence whistleblowers. Who knew?!
The SF Bay Area is one of the great sewers of humanity. The weather (in the City, at least) is terrible. The streets are filthy beyond belief. Despite the dystopian panoptic police state, crime remains high. The young women are intentionally unsightly. The people in general are smug, elitist, money-grubbing, anti-intellectual douchebags.
I made the mistake of living in San Francisco for a decade - a decade of my life that alas I'll never get back. Now I frequently thank the gods in heaven for having delivered me from out of that destestable Sodom.
Did you know that 72% of doctors and 104.3% of economists agree that only 6% of people would benefit from having enough money to live indoors and buy food?
Sure. But to what country should they move? It would need to be some place with actual national sovereignty - i.e. they cannot be bent to the will of Five Eyes, Russia, China, Israel, etc - that also has no desire to snoop on the world.
Does such a country actually exist? If so, I may want to go live there.
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Because it's fictional...
Obviously it was the French. It's always the French.
Out of curiosity, what are some high wage service jobs you had in mind?
Dude bro, look out! There's a fascist under your bed, and Vlad Putin is hiding in your closet!
Users put up with it because there is no alternative OS. There are just 2 mobile OS competitors with >99% of the market. Both contenders are made by dystopian Progressive-Capitalist Silicon Valley companies with close ties to the US security services and open contempt for freedom, who consider their users a product to be sold to the highest bidders.
Were there another viable mobile OS on the market - one that did not constantly snoop on its users - I'm sure many people would rush out to buy phones running it. Otoh, it's probably illegal to sell a privacy-respecting mobile OS in the the States. Maybe illegal in China and Russia too - their regimes have just as little respect for privacy and freedom as does our regime.
sudo rm /etc/passwd
That should do it....
I would be highly surprised if the Chinese Communist Party permits their industrial base to be packed up and shipped to their geopolitical rivals. CCP may bankroll American destroyers of industry (e.g. B. Clinton) but I don't believe they allow such capitalist degenerates to influence their domestic policy.
Smug people on the internet sure did hate that guy for having the temerity to suggest that working class people ought not starve and die in the streets. I wonder what happened to him?
I am no expert in Chinese law. Yet I suspect that many forms of bribery and corruption which are funny lawful in America remain serious crimes in China.
We have hardly any factories left to shut down if we wanted to. It's easy to have cleaner air when your heaviest industry is telemarketing.
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How many of the US identity politics movements are bankrolled by the Chinese state? Supposedly we finance Falun Gong for the same reason - social destabilization of our geopolitical rival.
Apparently corrupt public officials don't like being called out in their corruption, and will eagerly abuse their official power to silence whistleblowers. Who knew?!
Paid trolls, information warfare operators, and shills now outnumber real Slashdot contributors at least 8 to 1.
So you like your facts the way you like your music: insubstantial, manufactured by the semi-official culture industry, and conducive to shopping?
The SF Bay Area is one of the great sewers of humanity. The weather (in the City, at least) is terrible. The streets are filthy beyond belief. Despite the dystopian panoptic police state, crime remains high. The young women are intentionally unsightly. The people in general are smug, elitist, money-grubbing, anti-intellectual douchebags.
I made the mistake of living in San Francisco for a decade - a decade of my life that alas I'll never get back. Now I frequently thank the gods in heaven for having delivered me from out of that destestable Sodom.
Did you know that 72% of doctors and 104.3% of economists agree that only 6% of people would benefit from having enough money to live indoors and buy food?
Ain't no commies gonna get nominated by either the D or the R face of the Capitalist Party.
Prohibitionists are always so violently hysterical.
I want a ticket on that airline!
Goddamit, this will show those uppity Californians that New York IS STILL the least-free state in America!
Well, drat! I guess we should all go back to using telnet...
What primary sources do you suggest? My knowledge of African history is weak - I'd love to learn more.
Fwiw, archive.org has tons of old pre- internet books scanned and available.
Blue Coat Systems. Google it.
Sure. But to what country should they move? It would need to be some place with actual national sovereignty - i.e. they cannot be bent to the will of Five Eyes, Russia, China, Israel, etc - that also has no desire to snoop on the world.
Does such a country actually exist? If so, I may want to go live there.