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Re:ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:42AM (#50100949)
ICE is doing something important. They are cleansing the country of outsiders. It is frightening to imagine the US ending up like Great Britain, where the local population is already being oppressed.
Re:The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
on Saturday January 17, 2026 @08:19AM (#46657844)
Do you mean there's no problem?
The appalling situation in France, Sweden, Great Britain and Belgium with crime, rapes, harassment of local residents and the associated financial losses on benefits is striking. Perhaps the situation is better in Spain - I haven't visited Spain in a long time.
Re:The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:37PM (#46638913)
Why then don't people unite against the dominance of not very friendly and culturally alien migrants, Muslims?
Re:The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:33PM (#46638860)
Democracies are vulnerable to many things: populism, vote-rigging, importing migrants to vote for a given party, and much more. Without a reboot, many democracies slide into autocracy. First, the government bans weapons, then curtails civil rights under the guise of child protection, offending religious sensibilities, blocks websites, and gradually tightens penalties for free speech. It all happens gradually. And suddenly you can't write your opinion online without being arrested. The UK is a case in point. Unarmed people are doomed to change things not only in authoritarian countries, but even in nominally democratic ones. Examples include peaceful and not-so-peaceful protests in Iran, Belarus, and Russia in the struggle against the authorities. Peaceful protests without the support of the army and the elite always end in failure. Another example is the protests in the UK against the influx of Muslim migrants, where the authorities support the latter.
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas
on Monday December 25, 2023 @01:25PM (#38764812)
Merry Christmas!
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened
on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:02AM (#35501927)
by tax revenues
In China, corporations pay more than 2 times more taxes than individuals (in the US, individuals pay almost 6 times more taxes than corporations).
China: corporate income tax (19%), individual income tax (7%)
USA: corporate income tax (7.6%), individual income tax (41.1%)
Re:EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Own Chat Con...
on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:32AM (#35355150)
I think they understand.
I remember how in Russia they justified the blocking of sites and the transfer of encryption keys for messengers. I have deja vu. At first they were justified solely by the fight against pedophiles and terrorists. Then gradually the fight against pirates, then with misleading information, the fight for fair elections, and so on and so forth. Then they canceled the receipt of permits through the courts. Opposition blockades appeared without justification...
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:38AM (#30577825)
these are official government statistics, am I right?
Re:EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:18AM (#27287025)
This is not entirely true. Even the elite who were included in the sanction lists (Russian) are regularly noticed in the EU countries. They can come to rest through diplomatic channels or through bribes. Also children of people under sanctions live mainly in EU or the USA. While they are investing in those countries, they are not asked questions about the origin of the money
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:07PM (#25695346)
this in itself is a dangerous precedent for censorship at the request of the twitter management.
Re:DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Qua...
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:50PM (#16748442)
Moscow, Russia
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
adguard 6 ms 8 ms 4 ms 8 ms 11 ms 5 ms 7 ms 4 ms 4 ms 22 ms 7.90
google2nd 4 ms 4 ms 5 ms 22 ms 30 ms 18 ms 3 ms 27 ms 3 ms 3 ms 11.90
yandex 5 ms 9 ms 5 ms 9 ms 87 ms 50 ms 9 ms 9 ms 5 ms 60 ms 24.80
google 3 ms 18 ms 3 ms 20 ms 29 ms 165 ms 3 ms 18 ms 3 ms 19 ms 28.10
cloudflare2nd 45 ms 44 ms 46 ms 44 ms 46 ms 44 ms 44 ms 45 ms 65 ms 48 ms 47.10
quad9 47 ms 48 ms 47 ms 48 ms 46 ms 57 ms 46 ms 44 ms 46 ms 45 ms 47.40
opendns 45 ms 47 ms 46 ms 59 ms 47 ms 45 ms 47 ms 49 ms 51 ms 44 ms 48.00
norton 52 ms 49 ms 53 ms 52 ms 58 ms 56 ms 51 ms 48 ms 54 ms 52 ms 52.50
cleanbrowsing 96 ms 48 ms 60 ms 46 ms 49 ms 46 ms 45 ms 49 ms 44 ms 46 ms 52.90
neustar 54 ms 56 ms 52 ms 59 ms 50 ms 57 ms 55 ms 57 ms 59 ms 54 ms 55.30
comodo 80 ms 88 ms 73 ms 113 ms 79 ms 75 ms 75 ms 74 ms 74 ms 90 ms 82.10
cloudflare 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000.00