As a New Zealander and a person who has been to the USA 6-7 times, at times for 4 plus weeks , either for work or personal travel by myself or with family let me correct you.
We as a family have made the decision to avoid the USA. And I am not alone, talking to work colleges , friends, and family, they feel the same.
We can travel to Europe via Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, and other ports. At work we are now encouraged to choose conferences outside the USA.
There is no need to go to the USA, sure I can't see the Grand Canyon from anywhere else but the USA, but you can't see the Pyramids, the Colosseum , Eiffel Tower, Loch Ness, the Terracotta Soldiers, Christ the Redeemer, and millions of other sights from inside the USA either.
96% of the worlds population are not US citizens, and than means 96% of the world, its culture, its history, its sights, food,etc etc etc are not in the USA either.
There is nothing magical about the USA or its people.
Sure you voted to have Trump, you have allowed invasive searches, you have allowed punitive law enforcement, we however are saying no, not anymore, and we get to vote with our wallets.
Shout USA USA USA, demand US first, just remember as you do this that the 96% who don't live there are entitled to put the US last.
You can demand competition as much as you like. But is costs money, lots of money to set up.
If the public is demanding competition, then here is an opportunity for you, take a risk, put everything you own on the line, become an ISP and compete.
There is currently no reason for ISPs to compete, they are doing well in their respective areas, and they can make a better financial return by squeezing both their customers and the end providers like Netflix for a few dollars more.
Just look at cancer patients, the ones who think drinking water from a "magic" spring will cure them. Look at homeopathy , the anti-vax movement .
People are stupid and at times of great stress they will grasp at anything they think will save them. People in that state are not "of sound mind".
However the families of the deceased are also under stress (grief) and they too will try and find meaning/cause, and if that meaning is that a non-medical dose
was used , which is against the law/ethics/etc then the doctor WILL be at fault.
Already medical errors are the 3rd largest cause of death in the USA.
Because:
If you administer a non-clinically approved dose and the person dies then you are automatically at fault.
This would result in both criminal and civil action.
Put it this way. People win big in lotteries all the time. Would you risk your house and everything you own as well as your job and your family and spend the next 20 years or more in prison to maybe win the lottery ?
There is :
- ensuring everything is done in a sterile environment
- ensuring its purity
- testing of batches
- tracing and tracking the whole process
- precise weighing and packaging
- ensuring everything is in tamper proof packaging
- auditing of the whole process
All the equipment used in the manufacture, testing, packaging and the people involved are also traced and certified, with everything going back to calibrated National Standards and tested annually (or more). The temperature, humidity, raw materials, etc etc etc etc etc are all tracked right through the whole system in triplicate.
This is not a "throw a teaspoon full in" and it will be all OK.
Ingesting something (and we all swallow a low of bugs, insects, dirt, etc every year) is totally different to having it injected into the blood stream,
When it comes to those things, the USA is also way behind the rest of the civilised world.
Parts of US cities, e.g. Detroit are basically abandoned, over 10 years after Katrina things are still not rebuilt.
US "voter registration" laws in different states are there to block peoples right to vote.
What you call corruption, others call "lobbying".
Many schools are run down in the USA, and need armed guards to try and make them safe, and you still have school shootings.
You have the highest prison population in the world (per 100,000) by a large margin
Workers rights are not great in the USA compared to other countries.
Your serious crime, murder, rape rates are higher than other 1st world countries.
The USA, when compared to the rest of the 1st world does not fare that well at all.
94% of the worlds population lives outside the USA
80% of the worlds GDP is outside the USA.
The USA has far more to loose than the rest of the world. Most of the big players earn MORE outside the USA than they do inside, if they were forced to choose they would choose the world over the USA. The US is a saturated market with little growth potential, the growth potential in the rest of the world is HUGE.
Start pissing off the world and over 2/3 of the US economy could disappear (bring the US down to 6% of the worlds GDP in line with its population)
1. You are not the leader of the free world.
2. You do not automatically have the right to attack any country or their citizens
3. ALL you will do is create enemies and loose allies.
Who said financial reward was their ultimate goal ?
Maybe its to force the US government into revealing all their exploits so they can be patched.
The alternate is that US allies will feel betrayed, that loss of trust will get reflected in attitudes to the USA, make it a tipping point where US citizens get scrutinised more heavily at international boarders, need Visas for entry, trade goods will need closer (and more expensive) inspection, US owned transport given lower priority at ports and airports, reduction on dependence of US software companies, etc etc etc etc etc
One way or another, this is a huge setback for the USA. And if that's the goal, the money is a smoke screen.
I wonder if there is now some means for whole countries to sue the USA government under current trade agreements.
After all, it can be shown that the US government (via its agencies) knows about these flaws but is choosing to hold them back to stop them from being patched. This causes financial harm to countries who may have the rights to sue under trade agreements.
THAT could get interesting.
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And yet in 1st world countries with gun control the rates of murder and rape are a lot lower than the USA (per head of population).
Nope, we were there for 4 weeks about 12 months ago.
We have now chosen as a family not to go back,and its not just me and my family, its lots of people I know.
As a New Zealander and a person who has been to the USA 6-7 times, at times for 4 plus weeks , either for work or personal travel by myself or with family let me correct you.
We as a family have made the decision to avoid the USA. And I am not alone, talking to work colleges , friends, and family, they feel the same.
We can travel to Europe via Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, and other ports. At work we are now encouraged to choose conferences outside the USA.
There is no need to go to the USA, sure I can't see the Grand Canyon from anywhere else but the USA, but you can't see the Pyramids, the Colosseum , Eiffel Tower, Loch Ness, the Terracotta Soldiers, Christ the Redeemer, and millions of other sights from inside the USA either.
96% of the worlds population are not US citizens, and than means 96% of the world, its culture, its history, its sights, food,etc etc etc are not in the USA either.
There is nothing magical about the USA or its people.
Sure you voted to have Trump, you have allowed invasive searches, you have allowed punitive law enforcement, we however are saying no, not anymore, and we get to vote with our wallets.
Shout USA USA USA, demand US first, just remember as you do this that the 96% who don't live there are entitled to put the US last.
"Don't be Caught being Evil"
Yeah, but Trump is both malicious and stupid.
You can demand competition as much as you like. But is costs money, lots of money to set up.
If the public is demanding competition, then here is an opportunity for you, take a risk, put everything you own on the line, become an ISP and compete.
There is currently no reason for ISPs to compete, they are doing well in their respective areas, and they can make a better financial return by squeezing both their customers and the end providers like Netflix for a few dollars more.
Just look at cancer patients, the ones who think drinking water from a "magic" spring will cure them. Look at homeopathy , the anti-vax movement .
People are stupid and at times of great stress they will grasp at anything they think will save them. People in that state are not "of sound mind".
However the families of the deceased are also under stress (grief) and they too will try and find meaning/cause, and if that meaning is that a non-medical dose was used , which is against the law/ethics/etc then the doctor WILL be at fault.
Already medical errors are the 3rd largest cause of death in the USA.
Because:
If you administer a non-clinically approved dose and the person dies then you are automatically at fault.
This would result in both criminal and civil action.
Put it this way. People win big in lotteries all the time. Would you risk your house and everything you own as well as your job and your family and spend the next 20 years or more in prison to maybe win the lottery ?
There is :
- ensuring everything is done in a sterile environment
- ensuring its purity
- testing of batches
- tracing and tracking the whole process
- precise weighing and packaging
- ensuring everything is in tamper proof packaging
- auditing of the whole process
All the equipment used in the manufacture, testing, packaging and the people involved are also traced and certified, with everything going back to calibrated National Standards and tested annually (or more). The temperature, humidity, raw materials, etc etc etc etc etc are all tracked right through the whole system in triplicate.
This is not a "throw a teaspoon full in" and it will be all OK.
Ingesting something (and we all swallow a low of bugs, insects, dirt, etc every year) is totally different to having it injected into the blood stream,
Like the Aliexpress/alibaba App ?
I use lots of Chinese made stuff , buy in thousands a year for both work and personally, as do other people I know.
So feel free to go back to sleep because one day you are going to wake and find that you were wrong.
When it comes to those things, the USA is also way behind the rest of the civilised world. Parts of US cities, e.g. Detroit are basically abandoned, over 10 years after Katrina things are still not rebuilt. US "voter registration" laws in different states are there to block peoples right to vote. What you call corruption, others call "lobbying". Many schools are run down in the USA, and need armed guards to try and make them safe, and you still have school shootings. You have the highest prison population in the world (per 100,000) by a large margin Workers rights are not great in the USA compared to other countries. Your serious crime, murder, rape rates are higher than other 1st world countries. The USA, when compared to the rest of the 1st world does not fare that well at all.
weird I feel the same way about the USA. However that does not change the facts, China will overtake the USA within the next decade.
Keep believing that, because one day very soon you will find the USA is lagging behind China, India, EU.
Just like the health system
Unless you bribe (I mean lobby) the right people with enough money (I mean alternative facts) then of course you can expect to get nowhere.
Fact, figures and logic dont feed the re-election beast boy, she only eats greenbacks.
Its small enough that some will pay anyway, and who knows maybe its going to them, or maybe to a 3rd party.
But the hit that spy/law enforcement agencies and the US is going to take to their reputation is probably priceless.
And as they dribble out more exploits, this is going to be the gift that keeps on giving and its going to take YEARS to recover, if they ever do.
It may even be that if this is state sponsored, they have made themselves much safer while leaving everyone else open to the exploits they know about.
Its not about USING Facebook, its that even when you are NOT a Facebook user, Facebook tracks you and builds a profile anyway.
Seriously, the USA does not run the world.
94% of the worlds population lives outside the USA
80% of the worlds GDP is outside the USA.
The USA has far more to loose than the rest of the world. Most of the big players earn MORE outside the USA than they do inside, if they were forced to choose they would choose the world over the USA. The US is a saturated market with little growth potential, the growth potential in the rest of the world is HUGE.
Start pissing off the world and over 2/3 of the US economy could disappear (bring the US down to 6% of the worlds GDP in line with its population)
1. You are not the leader of the free world.
2. You do not automatically have the right to attack any country or their citizens
3. ALL you will do is create enemies and loose allies.
"Oops, sorry, we thought that American Airlines plane full of passengers was the military aircraft used to ship in the US terrorists...our bad"
Trump is NOT really smart.
And of course such an action could put a target on the back of every american overseas
Brutality and killing has only ever resulted in MORE people being brutalised and killed, is never actually a solution.
Americans "We come in peace, shoot to kill".
Can I assume that you also believe any foreign government has a right to retaliate ?
No matter what you have been told, American lives are not automatically worth more than anyone elses.
Who said financial reward was their ultimate goal ?
Maybe its to force the US government into revealing all their exploits so they can be patched.
The alternate is that US allies will feel betrayed, that loss of trust will get reflected in attitudes to the USA, make it a tipping point where US citizens get scrutinised more heavily at international boarders, need Visas for entry, trade goods will need closer (and more expensive) inspection, US owned transport given lower priority at ports and airports, reduction on dependence of US software companies, etc etc etc etc etc
One way or another, this is a huge setback for the USA. And if that's the goal, the money is a smoke screen.
I wonder if there is now some means for whole countries to sue the USA government under current trade agreements. After all, it can be shown that the US government (via its agencies) knows about these flaws but is choosing to hold them back to stop them from being patched. This causes financial harm to countries who may have the rights to sue under trade agreements. THAT could get interesting.
As someone outside of the USA
I am less afraid of North Korea getting NukeS than Trump having access to them already.
If you are very very quiet and listen really hard you will hear the sound of everyone else laughing at the USA.
To pillage Dr Seuss "Huston hears a whohoohahahahahah"