No, I kinda like law and order. Nor am I easily offended. And I'm certainly not a good patriotic nutbag who thinks we wouldn't need courts and jails if only everyone had their own personal arsenal.
Your entire post is basically nonsense, but I'll just respond to this particularly egregious bit of horseshit:
See Blackmon's "The Re-enslavement of Black America" for details, but in a nutshell the deep south re-imposed full slavery under the guise of debt peonage for nonpayment of criminal fines for a subset of the black population, and near slavery for most of the rest in the form of the sharecropping system.
Debt peonage existed well before slavery and applied to both whites and blacks; another name for it is "indentured servitude" which, as I'm sure you know, predates chattel slavery in the US. A large portion of the Scottish and Irish immigrants who helped found the nation originally came over as indentured servants, or "peons". After slavery was abolished theses laws were again used to turn both whites and blacks into indentured servants. Only a jackass would claim that applying long standing laws to both races was an attempt to reenslave blacks specifically.
Sharecropping did initially only involve blacks. Since land owners no longer had slave labour to work their farms, they had to pay for a workforce. The economy was in ruins, many of them were already in debt, and interest rates were astronomical. The newly freed slaves had no money to buy either land of their own, or the tools and materials needed to farm it effectively. Sharecropping provided a simple and efficient way to keep farms goning and productive without needing an influx of new money. Families worked small portions of larger estates, and got to keep a portion of the crop. The landowner provided the land, tools, and materials needed.
Where issues started popping up was when things went badly. A failed harvest could land a sharecropper in debt. A crooked landowner could cheat a sharecropper out of his fair share. This, combined with the aforementioned peonage laws, could again turn sharecroppers into indentured servants. However, again, pretending that this only applied to blacks is idiotic. By the early 20th century white sharecroppers outnumbered black ones almost two to one.
You're rewriting history to suit your dogma. The actual history of peonage and sharecropping is a story of the rich often exploiting the poor and uneducated, much the same as was done by factory or mine owners elsewhere in America (and all over the world) prior to modern labor laws. They didn't give a shit about the color of your skin; they only cared about how much money they could make off of you. But you want to turn it into a story of black vs. white. Because reasons.
Well what are other country in MODERN HISTORY (ie not going back to mesopotamian civilizations) has in its constitution "all men are created equal" except n-i-g-g-e-r-s ?
No country ever, including the USA.
They count 3/5 of a white man.
See, when you say stuff like this, it makes it obvious that you have no clue what you're talking about. The "3/5ths compromise" was something sought by people who OPPOSED slavery. It was a way of depriving the slave-owning states from having overwhelming political influence. The slave-masters themselves would have been quite happy to have each black person count the same as a white man. Hell, they would have been even happier if each black person counted as 2 white men.
The US was founded on slavery.
To the tiny extent that that's true, so was pretty much every other country in the world. That makes it entirely irrelevant. It's much more interesting to look at the things which made the US unique, rather than the ones which made it common.
No. He has no clue what he's talking about. Sure, if your password is "qwerty123" I can decrypt your drive in a reasonable amount of time. If you have a decent password, though, it's going to take long enough that we will both be dead and buried well before my successors manage to unearth your porn stash.
Any hardware disk encryption, and any use of a security module like a TPM chip, will keep the decryption key out of RAM even for the one minute the system may be vulnerable.
This is either incorrect or only partially correct. Hardware encrypted drives (at least the FIPS certified ones we use at work) are unlocked once and then remain unlocked as long as there is power to the system. Insert a USB stick, force a reboot, boot off the USB stick, and you have full access to the drive.
I'm not sure if the encryption keys are stored in RAM or in volatile memory on the drive itself, so sure, you may not be able to get the keys. But you can still clone the drive, so not having the keys is pretty irrelevant.
Long story short: even with hardware encryption, shut the damn thing down when you're not using it.
The linked article - and the sections you quoted - literally has absolutely nothing to do with the steam of nonsense you originally posted. But your kneejerk desire to call everyone "fascist" certainly reinforces the accuracy of my original assessment...
Think of it this way, you could give EVERY SINGLE AMAZON employee (all 563,000) a one time bonus of $177,500, and Bezos would still be worth $63 Billion dollars.
No, he would be worth roughly zero dollars as the value of his stock plummeted, half the workforce quit, and the company went tits up.
The NIH spending forty billion dollars a year on it helps.
It's great that you can throw around random numbers, but total money spent on medical R&D in the USA is $170 billion+, of which private industry accounts for 67.4%. Do you have some figures on how EU spending compares?
Are you suggesting that the EU under funds their universities and public research programs as opposed to the US? Really? The big eeeevil capitalist USA is spending more money on public research than the happy rainbow-farting socialist EU?
Say I sell you a digital download of a program I wrote. You pay me $15 and in return I provide a personalized download link. You download a copy of the software. A month later I disable the link.
What part of our agreement did I violate?
Because that's exactly what's going on here. You might argue that apple has implied that the link will always be available but, as far as I can tell, that stipulation was never part of any contract. They generally keep the "link" available in order to make their service more useful to you, but there's nothing that says they HAVE to do that. They've given you the ability to download it and you presumably have. They don't have to keep letting you download it in the future.
You paid for a 60kWh battery and got a 70kWh battery with artificial restrictions. Just wait until this bullshit comes to the medical world. Editing your DNA to give your kid blue eyes costs $150, but we also noticed he is predisposed for cancer. Editing DNA to fix that will cost $75,000 even though we use the exact same techniques and processes.
Presumably this means they're overcharging for one and undercharging for the other. Easy fix. Get the cheaper one done there, then go elsewhere for the other.
How in the world did you ever convince yourself that this would be a problem? If Ford tries to charge you $1,500 for an optional stereo system, do you throw a fit? Or do you just go to an aftermarket shop and get them to install an equally capable one for $500?
You only strengthen my point about ease-of-use. You can do that. I can do that. Most people can't.
I'm fully aware of that, which is why I never argued against your ease-of-use argument. For me my setup is more flexible and almost as easy to use. For the average user it may as well be some obscure voodoo ritual.
I don't recommend my setup to the average user just like I don't recommend that my mother try maintaining her own Linux based media server with a 10 disk ZFS array. For her, I just buy a media box with a Netflix app. For myself I can do better.
Side note - WTF are you talking about Plex constantly hassling you to sign up for an account? Never had an issue with that, other than their emails that you subscribed to
The android app would occasionally bug me to "sign in", and it's designed so the "skip" option is hard to find (same thing that bugs me with Windows 10 accounts). The web interface to the server would do the same thing, but at least it was slightly easier to figure out how to get around it. However the worst part was that for a while (due, I imagine, to some random bug) I couldn't access the administrative interface at all; it would just redirect me to the sign-in page. Since I had no intention of creating an account, that meant I couldn't change any of the system settings. Doing an upgrade a month or two later fixed that problem.
Mostly it's not a big deal, but it was enough to annoy me over time and make me look for other options.
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Sure, go ahead and double down on stupid. That ought to convince people.
No, I kinda like law and order. Nor am I easily offended. And I'm certainly not a good patriotic nutbag who thinks we wouldn't need courts and jails if only everyone had their own personal arsenal.
Your entire post is basically nonsense, but I'll just respond to this particularly egregious bit of horseshit:
See Blackmon's "The Re-enslavement of Black America" for details, but in a nutshell the deep south re-imposed full slavery under the guise of debt peonage for nonpayment of criminal fines for a subset of the black population, and near slavery for most of the rest in the form of the sharecropping system.
Debt peonage existed well before slavery and applied to both whites and blacks; another name for it is "indentured servitude" which, as I'm sure you know, predates chattel slavery in the US. A large portion of the Scottish and Irish immigrants who helped found the nation originally came over as indentured servants, or "peons". After slavery was abolished theses laws were again used to turn both whites and blacks into indentured servants. Only a jackass would claim that applying long standing laws to both races was an attempt to reenslave blacks specifically.
Sharecropping did initially only involve blacks. Since land owners no longer had slave labour to work their farms, they had to pay for a workforce. The economy was in ruins, many of them were already in debt, and interest rates were astronomical. The newly freed slaves had no money to buy either land of their own, or the tools and materials needed to farm it effectively. Sharecropping provided a simple and efficient way to keep farms goning and productive without needing an influx of new money. Families worked small portions of larger estates, and got to keep a portion of the crop. The landowner provided the land, tools, and materials needed.
Where issues started popping up was when things went badly. A failed harvest could land a sharecropper in debt. A crooked landowner could cheat a sharecropper out of his fair share. This, combined with the aforementioned peonage laws, could again turn sharecroppers into indentured servants. However, again, pretending that this only applied to blacks is idiotic. By the early 20th century white sharecroppers outnumbered black ones almost two to one.
You're rewriting history to suit your dogma. The actual history of peonage and sharecropping is a story of the rich often exploiting the poor and uneducated, much the same as was done by factory or mine owners elsewhere in America (and all over the world) prior to modern labor laws. They didn't give a shit about the color of your skin; they only cared about how much money they could make off of you. But you want to turn it into a story of black vs. white. Because reasons.
Well what are other country in MODERN HISTORY (ie not going back to mesopotamian civilizations) has in its constitution "all men are created equal" except n-i-g-g-e-r-s ?
No country ever, including the USA.
They count 3/5 of a white man.
See, when you say stuff like this, it makes it obvious that you have no clue what you're talking about. The "3/5ths compromise" was something sought by people who OPPOSED slavery. It was a way of depriving the slave-owning states from having overwhelming political influence. The slave-masters themselves would have been quite happy to have each black person count the same as a white man. Hell, they would have been even happier if each black person counted as 2 white men.
The US was founded on slavery.
To the tiny extent that that's true, so was pretty much every other country in the world. That makes it entirely irrelevant. It's much more interesting to look at the things which made the US unique, rather than the ones which made it common.
The sad part is I really can't tell if you're being serious.
I am offended by our filthy excuse of a legal system, though.
That's nice. You're so awesome and virtuous. Here, have a cookie.
No. He has no clue what he's talking about. Sure, if your password is "qwerty123" I can decrypt your drive in a reasonable amount of time. If you have a decent password, though, it's going to take long enough that we will both be dead and buried well before my successors manage to unearth your porn stash.
Any hardware disk encryption, and any use of a security module like a TPM chip, will keep the decryption key out of RAM even for the one minute the system may be vulnerable.
This is either incorrect or only partially correct. Hardware encrypted drives (at least the FIPS certified ones we use at work) are unlocked once and then remain unlocked as long as there is power to the system. Insert a USB stick, force a reboot, boot off the USB stick, and you have full access to the drive.
I'm not sure if the encryption keys are stored in RAM or in volatile memory on the drive itself, so sure, you may not be able to get the keys. But you can still clone the drive, so not having the keys is pretty irrelevant.
Long story short: even with hardware encryption, shut the damn thing down when you're not using it.
See subject "APK" (fake name do-nothing nobody): You're a "ne'er-do-well" chatterbox (all talk & no work BETTER than mine) & you proved it.
APK
P.S.=> Don't take "potshots" @ your BETTERS like me you CHUMP (& I can say that since you ARE obviously a NOBODY chump do-nothing vs. me)... apk
The linked article - and the sections you quoted - literally has absolutely nothing to do with the steam of nonsense you originally posted. But your kneejerk desire to call everyone "fascist" certainly reinforces the accuracy of my original assessment ...
the poorest still pay sales tax, often when they buy food and medicine
Yeah, that really cuts into their food stamps and welfare cheque.
I think you're confused about who is actually paying those taxes.
Right, should rephrase that to "you're free to express your views as long as your views don't challenge our prevailing far-left orthodoxy".
Their software testing tool is called "sapienz". Presumably SapFix fixes problems that sapienz finds.
Think of it this way, you could give EVERY SINGLE AMAZON employee (all 563,000) a one time bonus of $177,500, and Bezos would still be worth $63 Billion dollars.
No, he would be worth roughly zero dollars as the value of his stock plummeted, half the workforce quit, and the company went tits up.
Bullshit, the richest pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than the poorest by a factor of magnitudes.
The poorest pay zero. What's "a factor of magnitudes" smaller percentage than zero?
You don't really believe all that nonsense, do you?
It's like you copy-pasted a couple paragraphs from an official KGB "news release".
I hope Chinese organs are of a higher quality than their other products. Otherwise "the highest bidder" won't be bidding much.
That's a cute way of saying "I have nothing to back up my claim". You could have just said so right away.
The NIH spending forty billion dollars a year on it helps.
It's great that you can throw around random numbers, but total money spent on medical R&D in the USA is $170 billion+, of which private industry accounts for 67.4%. Do you have some figures on how EU spending compares?
Are you suggesting that the EU under funds their universities and public research programs as opposed to the US? Really? The big eeeevil capitalist USA is spending more money on public research than the happy rainbow-farting socialist EU?
Something is a wee bit off with your narrative.
See subject "APK" (fake name do-nothing nobody): You're a "ne'er-do-well" chatterbox (all talk & no work BETTER than mine) & you proved it.
APK
P.S.=> Don't take "potshots" @ your BETTERS like me you CHUMP (& I can say that since you ARE obviously a NOBODY chump do-nothing vs. me)... apk
Say I sell you a digital download of a program I wrote. You pay me $15 and in return I provide a personalized download link. You download a copy of the software. A month later I disable the link.
What part of our agreement did I violate?
Because that's exactly what's going on here. You might argue that apple has implied that the link will always be available but, as far as I can tell, that stipulation was never part of any contract. They generally keep the "link" available in order to make their service more useful to you, but there's nothing that says they HAVE to do that. They've given you the ability to download it and you presumably have. They don't have to keep letting you download it in the future.
You paid for a 60kWh battery and got a 70kWh battery with artificial restrictions. Just wait until this bullshit comes to the medical world. Editing your DNA to give your kid blue eyes costs $150, but we also noticed he is predisposed for cancer. Editing DNA to fix that will cost $75,000 even though we use the exact same techniques and processes.
Presumably this means they're overcharging for one and undercharging for the other. Easy fix. Get the cheaper one done there, then go elsewhere for the other.
How in the world did you ever convince yourself that this would be a problem? If Ford tries to charge you $1,500 for an optional stereo system, do you throw a fit? Or do you just go to an aftermarket shop and get them to install an equally capable one for $500?
You're free to rip out the radio module any time you like. Yay freedom!
You only strengthen my point about ease-of-use. You can do that. I can do that. Most people can't.
I'm fully aware of that, which is why I never argued against your ease-of-use argument. For me my setup is more flexible and almost as easy to use. For the average user it may as well be some obscure voodoo ritual.
I don't recommend my setup to the average user just like I don't recommend that my mother try maintaining her own Linux based media server with a 10 disk ZFS array. For her, I just buy a media box with a Netflix app. For myself I can do better.
Side note - WTF are you talking about Plex constantly hassling you to sign up for an account? Never had an issue with that, other than their emails that you subscribed to
The android app would occasionally bug me to "sign in", and it's designed so the "skip" option is hard to find (same thing that bugs me with Windows 10 accounts). The web interface to the server would do the same thing, but at least it was slightly easier to figure out how to get around it. However the worst part was that for a while (due, I imagine, to some random bug) I couldn't access the administrative interface at all; it would just redirect me to the sign-in page. Since I had no intention of creating an account, that meant I couldn't change any of the system settings. Doing an upgrade a month or two later fixed that problem.
Mostly it's not a big deal, but it was enough to annoy me over time and make me look for other options.