This. We need to make hoarding personal data very unattractive for companies.
One way to do this is to impose _very_ large mandatory fines for data spills. Fines steep enough that one data breach could put the company out of busines. For example, $1000 per fact, where a fact would be a single field from a single row in a DB. At the same time, require that companies be _fully_ insured against data spills. The insurance companies will take care of the rest.
Meanwhile in Russia, Vladimir Putin is laughing with delight. Goaded on by Putin's fifty cent army of shills, the worst elements of the American mandarinate are plotting a judicial coup against a sitting President.
Having lost the Mandate of Heaven through disastrous economic mismanagement, promulgation of wicked social policies, and delegitimization of the courts - the mandarins have turned increasingly to authoritarian methods to retain their undeserved privilege. They were taken aback, then utterly enraged, when widespread election fraud failed to secure victory for cartoonishly villainous candidate Hillary Clinton.
The common people rightly despise the mandarinate as the authors of their dispossession. With no hope of winning over the masses, the mandarins began plotting a coup. They would use their control of the justice system - that infernal machine for grinding up human lives - to unseat a popular and virtuous President.
So began the struggle of the oligarchy against the people. Russia, China, and nefarious international financiers rushed in to fan the flames. The financiers of course side with the mandarins. They know in their heart that President Trump is a man of the people who loves his country, so they fear and loathe him. Putin and Xi, on the other hand, just want to stir up trouble.
What could be better than seeing their biggest rival destabilized by factional strife? And if that strife leads to a successful judicial coup or even to civil conflict - then Putin will break out his finest vodka to celebrate, while Emperor Xi dances for joy.
The 95% "confessed"/railroaded statistic is for the federal gulag, per fedgov official statistics. Most state and local gulags do have a similarly overwhelming majority of inmates who were never convicted by a jury.
"Trump DGAF about approval ratings, as that would require a bit of dignity."
So the leader who does _not_ pander to the media old boys' club, nor to fickle (and often enough outright fake) public opinion polls, is _lacking_ in dignity? Oooookay then....
"first we need to deal with the dependence on low-cost undocumented labor for the agricultural sector in the US"
Easy. Any agribusiness company caught willfully and repeatedly employing illegal immigrant labor shall have the whole of their lands seized. Expropriate the traitorous capitalist dogs, and sell off their land for cheap to family farmers.
Sure sure, the enemies of the people on the Supreme Kangaroo Court would object. But let us not forget how the great President Franklin Roosevelt put the judicial oligarchy in check.
But really, illegal immigration is a red herring. The real harm to American working people comes from the fully lawful "guest worker" (unwelcome guest) programs. The entire, explicit purpose of such programs is to drive down wages for indigenous workers. Ending the unwelcome guest worker programs is a necessary first step towards making America great again.
Don't you uneducated deplorables know that space travel is ANTI-SCIENCE? Everyone knows that, or at least us real people do. And it's also RACIST!! You Trumpanzees know who else was into rockets? That's right, the NAZIS. Educated people like ME know that USian rednecks are too genetically stupid to ever put a man in space. Fire the locals, bring in the H1Bs! We will replace you! Heil Hillary!!
I bet the Great Orange Cheato doesn't plan to send even one transgender Islamic feminist astronaut! And CNN says he's planning to build a WALL on Mars!! Except everyone knows it's impossible for Americans to travel space - only our Chinese betters can do that. Death to America! Long live cheap plastic junk and the financial oligarchy!
"vote against government regulation of big businesses"
It's a culture thing, too. If the judiciary gave a fuck about this issue, I'm _sure_ they could find some interpretation of old Common Law that makes sim locking already illegal. No regulations and bureaucrats required!
Alas, our masters in the judicial oligarchy are much more concerned about which bathroom ladyboys should use, than about consumer rights.
"we have higher prison populations than other countries? Maybe, that's the sign of efficiency of our prosecutors"
No, it's a sign that the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury has been de facto repealed. Our kangaroo court system now relies almost entirely on the coerced extraction of confessions. More than 95% of the souls confined in the federal gulag "confessed".
"Your complaints are all about the lack of configurability of the default launcher"
No, no, no, _NO_. My complaints are all about Big Brother Google forcing users to have an experience they don't want. And the Googly "fuck you, pleb, that's why" attitude underlying that coercion.
It's really obvious that Google holds us users/"products" in abject contempt. Once upon a time I was a big fan and advocate of Google's software, including Android. No more.
The overwhelming majority of Americans support the intelligence gathering mission of CIA et al. However only a very small fraction of the American people support the agency's special operations (such as overthrowing elected governments).
Why the fuck did you decide to _force_ Android Pie users to waste space on their home screen with that garbagey "At A Glance" widget? And you now _force_ users to have the Google search bar on the home screen - and _force_ it to be at the bottom.
It's bad enough when you futz up my user experience just because you can. But it's inexcusable when you make it impossible to disable your annoying douchebaggery.
The Android Pie update was a big old middle finger to users. WTF, Google?
Two smartphone OSes, Android and iOS, account for 99.999% of the smartphone market. Both OSes are the product of Surveillance Valley, thus both of them snoop you 50 different ways. Android may perhaps be a little more hostile to privacy, but it's a close call. I suspect most of the 'superior privacy' Apple sells is just empty marketing and lies.
Otoh, in the past I found Android to have a superior UI and therefore to win on usefulness. However over the past couple years the quality of Google's consumer baitware has nosedived, Android included.
My phone was recently updated to Android Pie. What a steaming bucket of shit! That version of Android is like a big ol' "fuck you" from Google to its users. As much as I dislike Apple's software and loathe Apple's marketing image - my next phone might be an iPhone. Ugh, gross, the thought is revolting.
How long can Google remain a major player if their baitware gets noticeably worse with every release? At this point they are already dependent on their monopoly power to stay relevant. Soon they may be forced to fall back on their horde of intellectual pooperty to sue competitors out of business.
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Stalking. Because that's just what Big Brother Google does. The Goog likes to watch. Like a creepy stalker hiding in the shrubbery.
This. We need to make hoarding personal data very unattractive for companies.
One way to do this is to impose _very_ large mandatory fines for data spills. Fines steep enough that one data breach could put the company out of busines. For example, $1000 per fact, where a fact would be a single field from a single row in a DB. At the same time, require that companies be _fully_ insured against data spills. The insurance companies will take care of the rest.
Meanwhile in Russia, Vladimir Putin is laughing with delight. Goaded on by Putin's fifty cent army of shills, the worst elements of the American mandarinate are plotting a judicial coup against a sitting President.
Having lost the Mandate of Heaven through disastrous economic mismanagement, promulgation of wicked social policies, and delegitimization of the courts - the mandarins have turned increasingly to authoritarian methods to retain their undeserved privilege. They were taken aback, then utterly enraged, when widespread election fraud failed to secure victory for cartoonishly villainous candidate Hillary Clinton.
The common people rightly despise the mandarinate as the authors of their dispossession. With no hope of winning over the masses, the mandarins began plotting a coup. They would use their control of the justice system - that infernal machine for grinding up human lives - to unseat a popular and virtuous President.
So began the struggle of the oligarchy against the people. Russia, China, and nefarious international financiers rushed in to fan the flames. The financiers of course side with the mandarins. They know in their heart that President Trump is a man of the people who loves his country, so they fear and loathe him. Putin and Xi, on the other hand, just want to stir up trouble.
What could be better than seeing their biggest rival destabilized by factional strife? And if that strife leads to a successful judicial coup or even to civil conflict - then Putin will break out his finest vodka to celebrate, while Emperor Xi dances for joy.
Fuck off, fascist, and take your dreams of a totalitarian Social Credit system with you.
Looks to me like a slow motion judicial coup.
The 95% "confessed"/railroaded statistic is for the federal gulag, per fedgov official statistics. Most state and local gulags do have a similarly overwhelming majority of inmates who were never convicted by a jury.
"Trump DGAF about approval ratings, as that would require a bit of dignity."
So the leader who does _not_ pander to the media old boys' club, nor to fickle (and often enough outright fake) public opinion polls, is _lacking_ in dignity? Oooookay then....
"first we need to deal with the dependence on low-cost undocumented labor for the agricultural sector in the US"
Easy. Any agribusiness company caught willfully and repeatedly employing illegal immigrant labor shall have the whole of their lands seized. Expropriate the traitorous capitalist dogs, and sell off their land for cheap to family farmers.
Sure sure, the enemies of the people on the Supreme Kangaroo Court would object. But let us not forget how the great President Franklin Roosevelt put the judicial oligarchy in check.
But really, illegal immigration is a red herring. The real harm to American working people comes from the fully lawful "guest worker" (unwelcome guest) programs. The entire, explicit purpose of such programs is to drive down wages for indigenous workers. Ending the unwelcome guest worker programs is a necessary first step towards making America great again.
Don't you uneducated deplorables know that space travel is ANTI-SCIENCE? Everyone knows that, or at least us real people do. And it's also RACIST!! You Trumpanzees know who else was into rockets? That's right, the NAZIS. Educated people like ME know that USian rednecks are too genetically stupid to ever put a man in space. Fire the locals, bring in the H1Bs! We will replace you! Heil Hillary!!
I bet the Great Orange Cheato doesn't plan to send even one transgender Islamic feminist astronaut! And CNN says he's planning to build a WALL on Mars!! Except everyone knows it's impossible for Americans to travel space - only our Chinese betters can do that. Death to America! Long live cheap plastic junk and the financial oligarchy!
Orange man BAD!!!!!!1!!11!!!!!!!!
"vote against government regulation of big businesses"
It's a culture thing, too. If the judiciary gave a fuck about this issue, I'm _sure_ they could find some interpretation of old Common Law that makes sim locking already illegal. No regulations and bureaucrats required!
Alas, our masters in the judicial oligarchy are much more concerned about which bathroom ladyboys should use, than about consumer rights.
Huh? Wtf does seizure (by an ostensibly capitalist regime) of an old lady's house for back taxes have to do with Marxism?
"state front company"
The word you're looking for is "parastate".
Carrier locking really ought to be illegal.
Google Fuchsia - it fucks ya!
Big Brother Google sure does hate freedom.
Let's everyone say it together now:
Fuck you, Google!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
"most definitely are better when they're being watched."
Yay surveillance state!!!1!!
"we have higher prison populations than other countries? Maybe, that's the sign of efficiency of our prosecutors"
No, it's a sign that the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury has been de facto repealed. Our kangaroo court system now relies almost entirely on the coerced extraction of confessions. More than 95% of the souls confined in the federal gulag "confessed".
We have become Stalin's Soviet Union.
"Your complaints are all about the lack of configurability of the default launcher"
No, no, no, _NO_. My complaints are all about Big Brother Google forcing users to have an experience they don't want. And the Googly "fuck you, pleb, that's why" attitude underlying that coercion.
It's really obvious that Google holds us users/"products" in abject contempt. Once upon a time I was a big fan and advocate of Google's software, including Android. No more.
It's time for Uncle Sam to break up Alphabet.
Either you support the neostalinist surveillance state - or you're an anarchist!!!!1!!11!!!
A little history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
The overwhelming majority of Americans support the intelligence gathering mission of CIA et al. However only a very small fraction of the American people support the agency's special operations (such as overthrowing elected governments).
Exactly. Everything Red touches gets harder to use and less stable. That's basically their business model.
Yay monopoly power!
Why the fuck did you decide to _force_ Android Pie users to waste space on their home screen with that garbagey "At A Glance" widget? And you now _force_ users to have the Google search bar on the home screen - and _force_ it to be at the bottom.
It's bad enough when you futz up my user experience just because you can. But it's inexcusable when you make it impossible to disable your annoying douchebaggery.
The Android Pie update was a big old middle finger to users. WTF, Google?
Two smartphone OSes, Android and iOS, account for 99.999% of the smartphone market. Both OSes are the product of Surveillance Valley, thus both of them snoop you 50 different ways. Android may perhaps be a little more hostile to privacy, but it's a close call. I suspect most of the 'superior privacy' Apple sells is just empty marketing and lies.
Otoh, in the past I found Android to have a superior UI and therefore to win on usefulness. However over the past couple years the quality of Google's consumer baitware has nosedived, Android included.
My phone was recently updated to Android Pie. What a steaming bucket of shit! That version of Android is like a big ol' "fuck you" from Google to its users. As much as I dislike Apple's software and loathe Apple's marketing image - my next phone might be an iPhone. Ugh, gross, the thought is revolting.
How long can Google remain a major player if their baitware gets noticeably worse with every release? At this point they are already dependent on their monopoly power to stay relevant. Soon they may be forced to fall back on their horde of intellectual pooperty to sue competitors out of business.