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I understand the point you are making. However lets take a look at the following:

Cloudflare is U.S. corporation providing services to other people and companies. You have to be a member in order to use their services, so you are tied to their terms. This basically a "private" club you are joining

Cloudflare is not beholden to uphold the Constitution of the USA. They are beholden to their shareholders and the laws of the USA in order to operate as a Corporation.

Cloudflare can do what ever it wants. People and Companies do not have to use cloudflare. Boycott them, do not recommend them ever.

Now if the USA had some kind of non-profit, Nationwide Municipal ISP (fibre), for instance, the US Public Library system could be a good choice. They could offer some basic services and at the same time be the location that would protect speech/text (based on the Constitution). It's not perfect, but it's something to consider & you wouldn't be kicked off because somebody doesn't like what you are saying/producing.

Or there should be a law in the USA, stating that companies doing business in the USA cannot refuse service if they find the clients content to be offense and protected under the Constitution of the USA

Peace

All the love to you my friend. I have stage 4 colon cancer + it made its way into my liver. I've been alive for a year now and I have no idea how much longer I have.

I know what you are both going through. I know what myson & wife is going through, seeing me on my bad days during treatment. Knowing that one day I will leave them sooner than we had originally planned.

No matter how bad things are or appear to be I'm a firm believer that there's more after this life and unfortunately we have trek through the good and bad of this one to get to the end. Besides, where did we come from before we were born?

I only live for today, because this is all I have.

Be strong if you can. It's tough and hard. What we are experiencing is apart of life

Peace

Please make sure your wiring and electric box can support an air conditioner (mobile or not). You don't want to cause a blow out or fire...

A separate circuit for the A/C (window unit, mobile or central) is ideal, if possible.

Peace

They should first take a look at the Telco/Cable companies and the lack of competition and upgrades. Plus they need to look at the laws these companies are writing to prevent municipal Fibre etc. from seeing the light of day too.

What if our very own public Libraries had the ability to host local communities' dialogs etc. One of the things that it would protect is "freedom" of speech and it would be a better platform for communities to voice their concerns etc, without the fear of having their data mined or even have their voices or issues removed, because it was offensive.

Of course it would not be a perfect platform, but as an American, we need to start understanding and protecting the liberties and rights our own Constitution is providing us.

Peace.

They are a for profit company and can do what ever they want. regardless if their membership is free or not.

There are other choices out there. They may not be the best. People can build their own youtube if they want to.

At least in the USofA you can build something similar with your own rules.

youtube can be taken down, but people appear to be too lazy or unaware of what youtube is doing slowly. Taking away certain liberties that used to be available in YouTube.

peace

What I don't understand is the the following.

1. Julian is not a United States of America Citizen. So USA laws don't apply to him, unless he is in the USA and has committed a crime or offense of some kind

2. Julian is a citizen of another country. How do the laws of USA all of a sudden encompass people outside of the USA? Yes, wikileaks did receive "secret" stuff, but the exposure of these events is for the greater good and exposes how the USA is corrupt and "evil." The USA needs to be held accountable for their actions. The USA has no business in other countries, killing, maiming, destroying their homes and lives. Regardless of what happened on 9/11, which I was present on NYC when it happened. Yes, it was horrible, but our own government and their meddling in the affairs of other nations is to blame

Is there some kind of unknown laws of the USA that apply to people and countries not part of the USA (non-citizens and other countries)?

Peace

The apple store where i live is packed too. I think many of those people are in for repairs on their stuff.

Meanwhile, the Microsoft store diagonally located across the mall is usually empty. But some kids are there to play the games on the Xbox side.

peace

The stores are more sterile and the employees and service is more "clinical" and less "hands on."

I miss the original stores' refurbished/discount tables/bin they used to have. You could find great deals on those tables..

Oh.. one other thing that annoys the hell out of me about the stores an service. I bought a new iphone8, I asked if they could transfer the iphone5 data+ apps to my new phone. They said no, do it yourself.. I was pissed. A damn tech company, that sells a portable cpu for $700+ dollars and they won't perform a data transfer?

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I don't see this as a threat to any Unix like operating system. In my 20+ years in IT, Microsoft has had many years to perfect their command line experience, but never did. They have a long way to go in terms of Unix like features that are part of the command line ecosystem of Unix land.

When I can do this in windows (unix command line): cat somefile.txt | sort | uniq > output.txt, then it'll become a threat. Otherwise, Microsoft should fork a version of GNU/Linux and port all of their apps and GUI. They need to stop trying, they had their chance but may never achieve equality when it comes to the Windows Vs. Unix/GNU-Linux command line.

This is my opinion and observation.

Peace

Smalltak too

Another link describing what a black hole is:

Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJYo6LKzgA

Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlry6LqWwJ0

Peace

It's fine to be upset at my point of view and implied experience within this area. I understand 100%. There are some coding mistakes that cannot be tested or caught during development and deployment. These can be exploited. There are however some that appear to be mistakes and are allowed or missed during the process.

This is a great website for freely expressing opinions, truth, lies and such!

Peace be with you.

I disagree with your statement. it's easy to keep a secret, if your life or livelihood is at risk, through blackmail or similar. You just haven't experienced it.

Yes. The recent Huawei article above.

I believe any piece of hardware that is sold local or internationally has a backdoor of some kind for government access. There are no mistakes. No company will say this, due to "laws" or "NDA" from a government that prevents the company from discussing these "mistakes."

Maybe there's an exploit with the hardware or operating system that is not known to the standard population, but is known by the government, hardware/OS manufacturer and black hat/white hat crackers.

Secrecy is another tool. The real keystones are the implied use of imprisonment, violence and death, if you don't obey.

When a government no longer abides by their constitutional oath (if they have one) and does not respect the people it is supposed to represent, then you will have tyranny.

"The Impersonal Life" by Joseph Brenner

The management and executives should also go to prison, but they don't. This is where the corruption begins, but it's only the "little" guys that get thrown in jail.

Holy fucking shit! I can come out of the foul language closet!

My desk (home/office) is always messy and I like staying up late.

Fuck yeah!

Peace and love! ;p

Maybe it's not a bug, but something akin to a backdoor that has been uncovered.

I wonder what an AtariLisp would look like ;p

maybe the real estate companies & money lenders want housing priced so high that you will always need to take out a loan no matter what. only the wealthy have the money to pay for a home with 'cash' or at least a good chunk for a low/short term mortgage.

as an american, i can see that 'we' have lost our compassion for those truly in need.

peace.

I wonder if the big tobacco companies are behind this.

They have much to lose because e-cigs are not used for tobacco, in my experience.

So they (tobacco corps) will lose future tobacco addicts to e-cigs and vaping liquid producers.

peace.

Queens Village - a little further from the city.

Flushing

Fresh Meadows

Rego Park

Maspeth

Middle village

Kew Gardens

Take a look at the NYC subway map. Follow trains heading East of Manhattan: E,F,7,L etc...

Maybe it is time we stop relying on a central company to provide our browser software.

Maybe it is time for people to build or configure their own personal browser, so that the authority to install add-ons is a personal choice and not dictated by a company.

If a website has some shitty paywall on their site or article and that can be bypassed, then that site needs to implement something better. Instead what these companies do is make laws that is a cover for their shitty service or lack of good security.

This article sounds like an advertisement.

It kind of sounds like a 3rd world mind set in trying to get people to pay more. Only because they are not getting paid enough to live on, but may have no other options as employment. So they, the drivers become a captive employee/consultant, hoping to make ends meet.

It's a shame our system (USA) allows this type of abuse to happen. Time to bring back unions (at least until they become corrupt).

peace

It's not cheap and frankly speaking, it's infested with roaches, rats, and mice. Don't ever want to live in LIC or the surrounding area. It's expensive, to rent and own. you need to be making a very high 6-fig salary (180+ base) or greater to counter balance the mortgage/rent and taxes. Otherwise you'll be house poor. Plus MTA is going up in price per ride very often and the quality is going to shit.

good luck. Only the rich can afford to live in NYC and the surrounding boroughs. I used to live in Queens Village, Moves out 20+ years ago. Even in the late 90's and early 2k, queens village was becoming expensive the Neighborhood was getting worse. houses are old and they're asking too much for them, even then.. forget about today.. astronomical..

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