Exactly. If the GDPR is making it harder for companies that spy on their users to do their thing, it's doing its job. As the old joke goes, this is a feature, not a bug.
Don't collect user data beyond what's absolutely needed for a website or app to work and the need for popups suddenly becomes less of a problem. For example, a taxi hail site or app would actually work fine anonymously, same as calling a taxi service. Payment would be negotiated between the driver and rider, with the driver paying the app authors for referrals. Another example: I recently downloaded a step tracker app that required creation of a cloud account to even start up. Never mind that step tracking can work 100% locally, and that another app I used was purely local.
End "cloud creep" and "data storage creep" and the GDPR becomes much less of a problem. If it makes it harder and more annoying to collect data on customers, it's doing its job.
I don't LIKE many aspects of the USA to begin with. I like public health insurance and having to pay a predictable % of my income for medical care. I don't like the in-your-face religiosity of many parts of the country. I don't like the whole idea that government help and taxes are bad, because you have an 0.0001% chance of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and becoming the next Horatio Alger tale. I don't like the crappy public transit. I like trains, kind of like a little kid. I don't like the small talk, the fake smiles, the fact that "good" is always the proper answer to "how are you?" I don't like the Puritanism and shaming of the human body.
Also, I can't stand the Puritanism and Whoratio Alger brainwashing in the US. In Czech Republic and some parts of Southern Europe, I'll get a decent level of health care for my taxes and a generally more laid-back, less Puritanical culture. Work to live, not live to work.
No rail network in Hot-lainta as extensive as Metro-North, LIRR, Amtrak, and NJT... you can get a lot of places within 100 miles of NYC via public transit. Good luck in Atlanta. Even MARTA sucks, only running every 20 minutes off peak.
I like living where I can walk or take transit 99% of the time. I don't like to be stuck in a God damn car aka a sensory deprivation bubble. There's no serendipity in car-dependent places.
"Full or partly electric" doesn't mean that all of their cars will be 100% battery-electric. Sounds like a mix of battery cars and plug-in hybrids (yes, powered by ICE engines when not charged from the mains).
Nah. The average American consumer is a blithering idiot who doesn't value their privacy. I'd rather government keep some privacy-friendly options around, even if it burns the chops of the techbros and VC scum running Uber and Lyft.
In many languages, the term for train driver is the same word as "machinist." It probably went from a train engine drivers' union to driving other vehicles.
They're better in a couple ways: (1) You can hail a cab even without a cell phone, or with a phone with a dead battery. (2) The transaction is anonymous. You can pay cash and keep your privacy.
I knew it. God invented the MUTE button for a reason. Pause then MUTE, no need to hear some ad for something I can't afford anyway yammering away in the background.
"Sex crazed adults" -- sounds like you either need to get laid, or are a priest. Go back to your church and preach there, Father.
As far as teen pregnancy and STDs, their rates are typically highest in US states in the Bahhble Beilt where sex-ed is seriously restricted and sex is stigmatized.
STDs, recklessness, and unwanted can be solved by education on birth control, consent, and condom use. The attitude in many parts of the USA is not to talk about it at all, rather than teaching safety.
My thought on this is that slavery never ended, since the same people ended up leading the South after Reconstruction as prior. Whereas if the South had been allowed to leave, but the North had bankrolled a slave rebellion, the planters would have ended up without power, if they had even remained alive.
The South needed the North's industrial goods; the North also had enough money to finance a slave revolt. A revolt with the planters ending up dead and/or expropriated would have been a more equitable outcome than the planters coming back into power after Reconstruction was over.
A nipple is a harmless organ. In fact, a positive one, since it's a source of a life-giving fluid. It's not even a hand or foot, it's soft, squishy, and can't be used to beat anyone up. Its only two purposes in life are nourishment and enjoyment. There's no rational argument to ban images of female nipples.
A gun on the other hand, has only two uses: to maim or kill. OK, you can hunt for food with one too, but most of the guns in "gun porn" ain't hunting rifles.
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Exactly. If the GDPR is making it harder for companies that spy on their users to do their thing, it's doing its job. As the old joke goes, this is a feature, not a bug.
Don't collect user data beyond what's absolutely needed for a website or app to work and the need for popups suddenly becomes less of a problem. For example, a taxi hail site or app would actually work fine anonymously, same as calling a taxi service. Payment would be negotiated between the driver and rider, with the driver paying the app authors for referrals. Another example: I recently downloaded a step tracker app that required creation of a cloud account to even start up. Never mind that step tracking can work 100% locally, and that another app I used was purely local.
End "cloud creep" and "data storage creep" and the GDPR becomes much less of a problem. If it makes it harder and more annoying to collect data on customers, it's doing its job.
I don't LIKE many aspects of the USA to begin with. I like public health insurance and having to pay a predictable % of my income for medical care. I don't like the in-your-face religiosity of many parts of the country. I don't like the whole idea that government help and taxes are bad, because you have an 0.0001% chance of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and becoming the next Horatio Alger tale. I don't like the crappy public transit. I like trains, kind of like a little kid. I don't like the small talk, the fake smiles, the fact that "good" is always the proper answer to "how are you?" I don't like the Puritanism and shaming of the human body.
Also, I can't stand the Puritanism and Whoratio Alger brainwashing in the US. In Czech Republic and some parts of Southern Europe, I'll get a decent level of health care for my taxes and a generally more laid-back, less Puritanical culture. Work to live, not live to work.
No rail network in Hot-lainta as extensive as Metro-North, LIRR, Amtrak, and NJT ... you can get a lot of places within 100 miles of NYC via public transit. Good luck in Atlanta. Even MARTA sucks, only running every 20 minutes off peak.
I know how to drive, I just don't care to do it on an everyday basis.
I like living where I can walk or take transit 99% of the time. I don't like to be stuck in a God damn car aka a sensory deprivation bubble. There's no serendipity in car-dependent places.
I can afford a decent place to live in any number of Eastern/Central European cities, in a part of a city where I can walk everywhere I need to.
If I left NYC, I'd likely leave the US. Most parts of the US are basically unlivable without having to own a car.
"Full or partly electric" doesn't mean that all of their cars will be 100% battery-electric. Sounds like a mix of battery cars and plug-in hybrids (yes, powered by ICE engines when not charged from the mains).
Nah. The average American consumer is a blithering idiot who doesn't value their privacy. I'd rather government keep some privacy-friendly options around, even if it burns the chops of the techbros and VC scum running Uber and Lyft.
You seem angry. Go get laid...
In many languages, the term for train driver is the same word as "machinist." It probably went from a train engine drivers' union to driving other vehicles.
Taxis are better than Uber in some ways. You can pay cash and remain more or less anonymous. You can hail one without having a working phone.
They're better in a couple ways:
(1) You can hail a cab even without a cell phone, or with a phone with a dead battery.
(2) The transaction is anonymous. You can pay cash and keep your privacy.
Also, don't go to the onion link with a TOR browser. It might work and allow you to break the law. Breaking the law is bad.... uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion
Use an external audio amp, problem solved. Fucking thing is easier than easy to mute, no matter what the scum pushing ads down your throat want.
I knew it. God invented the MUTE button for a reason. Pause then MUTE, no need to hear some ad for something I can't afford anyway yammering away in the background.
"Sex crazed adults" -- sounds like you either need to get laid, or are a priest. Go back to your church and preach there, Father.
As far as teen pregnancy and STDs, their rates are typically highest in US states in the Bahhble Beilt where sex-ed is seriously restricted and sex is stigmatized.
Haiti, 1803.
STDs, recklessness, and unwanted can be solved by education on birth control, consent, and condom use. The attitude in many parts of the USA is not to talk about it at all, rather than teaching safety.
My thought on this is that slavery never ended, since the same people ended up leading the South after Reconstruction as prior. Whereas if the South had been allowed to leave, but the North had bankrolled a slave rebellion, the planters would have ended up without power, if they had even remained alive.
Exactly, and the planter class regained that power after Reconstruction. Thus fomenting a slave revolt would have been a better way to do things...
The South needed the North's industrial goods; the North also had enough money to finance a slave revolt. A revolt with the planters ending up dead and/or expropriated would have been a more equitable outcome than the planters coming back into power after Reconstruction was over.
A nipple is a harmless organ. In fact, a positive one, since it's a source of a life-giving fluid. It's not even a hand or foot, it's soft, squishy, and can't be used to beat anyone up. Its only two purposes in life are nourishment and enjoyment. There's no rational argument to ban images of female nipples.
A gun on the other hand, has only two uses: to maim or kill. OK, you can hunt for food with one too, but most of the guns in "gun porn" ain't hunting rifles.