Most starry eyed college socialists probably realize that socialism isn't just the government being your mom and giving you free stuff, but expects and *forces* you to work if you're able. You don't get a fat check to sit on your couch playing video games, no; rather than leeching on other people you *have to* do your part. If you can't find work in Silicon Valley, then the government will relocate you and put you to work in Alaska, or wherever they'd make you useful. Of course, part and parcel with all socialist systems is giving up your personal rights, so you can't just leave your job at Alaska and move where you please.
Company stores weren't simple tools of oppression like you make them out to be. While getting paid in cash was *always* an option, in fact most workers preferred to be paid in company credit. Why? Because they didn't need to pay payroll taxes on it, therefore goods in company stores were cheaper.
- no Muslim terrorism - no anti-Muslim terrorism - no political violence at all in fact - actual free speech, without any hate speech laws - uncensored Internet - lax gun control by European standards
Such a society is not only possible, but exists in practice. Just saying.
Up to you to figure out what the differencemaker might be.
I had one for a couple of years, and by today's standards it's not that great, frankly. The biggest problem are the glide pads underneath, which are quite small and will wear off completely, so it doesn't last that long. The ergonomics aren't that great, either.
I posted a link above regarding how it works exactly.
The point is that data isn't centralised, but kept at agencies that manage it. Different agencies offer different, secure interfaces (some more or less public, some not) to the data they do have. If one agency is hacked or DDOSed, then it doesn't affect the other agencies, or the traffic between them.
It's transported over regular (and/or government-only) Internet strictly over TLS with known certificates, but the reference security implementation (software as well as hardware) is provided by the government. Basically, each agency only needs to implement the services and make them available for the security server, which takes care of publishing the service, validation, encryption, logging -- all the tricky and sensitive stuff. The common security solution is of course developed and maintained by competent people. But even if case that gets hacked, then the communication relies on public key cryptography, and the private keys of the security servers themselves are generated and stored in hardware, which is never accessible from server software.
The data *isn't* kept in one convenient place. On the contrary. Each government agency only keeps data relevant to them.
If they need information about, for instance, someone's company's mailing address, then they can request it -- straight from the agency that deals with this information -- over X-Road, a sort of secure intranet/SOA hub. Each agency publishes a set of SOAP services (with various access restrictions) to make use of the information they maintain, and other agencies can securely and directly access these services. Access from/by each agency is protected by standardised security servers that take care of encrypting, validating and logging the data. If a hacker gets access to, say, the local DMV, then they would only have access to DMV's information and could make some individual requests that other agencies allow DMV to make -- no more.
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You could've just pressed Alt-X to bypass all the questions. No crack needed.
Most starry eyed college socialists probably realize that socialism isn't just the government being your mom and giving you free stuff, but expects and *forces* you to work if you're able. You don't get a fat check to sit on your couch playing video games, no; rather than leeching on other people you *have to* do your part. If you can't find work in Silicon Valley, then the government will relocate you and put you to work in Alaska, or wherever they'd make you useful. Of course, part and parcel with all socialist systems is giving up your personal rights, so you can't just leave your job at Alaska and move where you please.
Company stores weren't simple tools of oppression like you make them out to be. While getting paid in cash was *always* an option, in fact most workers preferred to be paid in company credit. Why? Because they didn't need to pay payroll taxes on it, therefore goods in company stores were cheaper.
Here in Eastern Europe we have
- no Muslim terrorism
- no anti-Muslim terrorism
- no political violence at all in fact
- actual free speech, without any hate speech laws
- uncensored Internet
- lax gun control by European standards
Such a society is not only possible, but exists in practice. Just saying.
Up to you to figure out what the differencemaker might be.
Patreon itself is pretty cancerous and may decide to remove your account for whatever you did or said on the platform or off it.
I had one for a couple of years, and by today's standards it's not that great, frankly. The biggest problem are the glide pads underneath, which are quite small and will wear off completely, so it doesn't last that long. The ergonomics aren't that great, either.
Purposefully using an older 7.40 version of Skype while I can, because the newest version is a bloated, buggy piece of crap.
The point is that data isn't centralised, but kept at agencies that manage it. Different agencies offer different, secure interfaces (some more or less public, some not) to the data they do have. If one agency is hacked or DDOSed, then it doesn't affect the other agencies, or the traffic between them.
It's transported over regular (and/or government-only) Internet strictly over TLS with known certificates, but the reference security implementation (software as well as hardware) is provided by the government. Basically, each agency only needs to implement the services and make them available for the security server, which takes care of publishing the service, validation, encryption, logging -- all the tricky and sensitive stuff. The common security solution is of course developed and maintained by competent people. But even if case that gets hacked, then the communication relies on public key cryptography, and the private keys of the security servers themselves are generated and stored in hardware, which is never accessible from server software.
The data *isn't* kept in one convenient place. On the contrary. Each government agency only keeps data relevant to them. If they need information about, for instance, someone's company's mailing address, then they can request it -- straight from the agency that deals with this information -- over X-Road, a sort of secure intranet/SOA hub. Each agency publishes a set of SOAP services (with various access restrictions) to make use of the information they maintain, and other agencies can securely and directly access these services. Access from/by each agency is protected by standardised security servers that take care of encrypting, validating and logging the data. If a hacker gets access to, say, the local DMV, then they would only have access to DMV's information and could make some individual requests that other agencies allow DMV to make -- no more.