Also there are already hurricanes in the map legend. Nobody would notice a little earthquake during a hurricane.
This question might look like a stupid joke. And it actually is. But any joke has a little bit of truth in it.I was walking down the street in the morning. On the sidewalk I saw a group of children with parents waiting for the school bus because the school was too far because of zoning. The cars were passing by despite any moment some child could jump and rush across the road. Why the cars...
There are talks about implementing solutions to fight climate change, e.g. raise taxes on fossil fuel, subsidize green energy, etc.But how an ordinary citizen can verify that the money were well spent? What checks and balances will make sure that the climate is actually improving or stays the same because of implemented measures (!) rather than on its own?The reason I am asking is because there...
E.g. the school told me that I belong to some ethnicity and that there are other ethnicities I should know about. As a child I couldn't care less. Why would they tell me this if ethnicity doesn't even matter for future job?
Another example is socio-economic system classification: capitalist vs socialist vs fascist vs monarchy etc. Why does it have to be so clean-cut categories? Like if you're not in one camp then you have to be in another. Just another divisive tool.
So they do want to create the work force but they also want to prevent any sort of revolt and thus plant psychological leverages in peoples' heads. It is a science of social engineering that they don't teach in schools.
The US just can't do anything to these countries. Too far from the Middle East.
The US can't do anything to the companies either. It is private business, you see? Corporate personhood. For non-corporate persons there is FATCA.
Is is not a bad thing, it is a horse @#$*! It smells with rentier capitalism and serfdom. Especially IP and copyright which is just a global cenzorship in disguise.
Lack of control and dependency on third-party is what I don't like the most. All I want is to buy a thing and forget about the seller.
- Cannot upgrade, downgrade, copy on-demand
- Tied to lifetime, profitability of the service
- Cannot fix the price
- Cannot prevent from adding "features" like ads or microtransactions
- Connectivity requirements
- One more account
- No privacy
- Cenzorship (ban, restriction by territory)
The list goes on.
> In 2012, Bruce Willis took Apple to court after discovering that he couldn't leave his iTunes library to his children - on his death, the rights are nullified
We need something like this for wealth.
Is there any actual proof of any of this rather than some bogus numbers from noname Kapor Center who admit they are just evangelists?
https://www.kaporcenter.org/our-work/ > Our pioneering work ranges from education programs and community building to evangelism and investing.
That's the thing. Crime-prevention is a plausible excuse. "Normal" consumer's data is mass harvested, profiled, stored, and used for social engineering of some more convenient "normal" consumer. Is there so many mobsters that require exabytes of data storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
> Regardless of society, isn't there always a certain kind of person, due to their upbringing, feels persecuted, though?
Well there were some precedents of abuse in history. Secondly, people don't like to be a subject to be ruled. Thirdly, some people are under(d)evolved and still are primates that fear any powerful entity (leopard) watching them. Surveillance makes them paranoid and then depressed and then they snap and bad things happen.
I am afraid investors only care about growth. First they are going to grow untill no more subscribers. Preferably the company will have monopolistic position by that time. Then they will start increasing rates up to "what market will bear". Then they will start tweaking "personalizing" experience with microtransactions etc trying to squeeze more. Add regulatory capture to this. This rent-seeking won't stop.
https://www.zuora.com/2018/12/09/how-subscriptions-are-remak...
What is the time and place to discuss politics? Apparently I can only discuss it in my head, with myself.
Why don't politicians, activists, media, celebs and other propaganda tools just stop discussing politics in public? That'd help to resolve some tensions.
They probably feel being stalked. They must be anxious and paranoid.
> On a final note, the few people in US that scoff at surveillance are the same people who line up to get $1600 smart phones
Like they have a choice not to have a "smart" phone. Like with dumb-phone they can avoid cell-tower tracking, voice recording. The people that scoff at surveillance are an indicator that something is broken. State and corporate stalking must stop.