It's a crime, but it is still widespread.

News broke just yesterday of a child beaten to death by teachers for drinking from a pot reserved for teachers of a higher caste.

You are delusional if you think most rich Americans are "self-made"

The best indicator of economic success in the US is what zip code you were born and raised in. In other words, being born rich is the best way to be rich as an adult.

That doesn't make them legal or desirable. What exactly does your comment add to the conversation?

Think about what you are saying. If "never mutate up" was true, no virus could ever be dangerous. They literally could not come into existence. The evidence is pretty clear thatâ(TM)s not the case.

Yes, it is not evolutionarily advantageous for a virus to become lethal kill off its host population. But that is not the same thing as saying it cannot happen. It can and it has, many times.

"because I realize that viruses mutate over time to be less and les lethal"

This line of reasoning is bullshit that is provably false. COVID mutated from something that was less lethal into what it is today.

The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Bluetooth to what exactly? Smart home devices generally need to keep active network connections even when your phone and laptop are out of the house.

Exactly, it could be quantifying the speculation reflection, or a shadow, or the hue of a particular pixel for all that it matters for predictive behavior.

The sign is sufficient if there is no legal requirement for doing age verification, or if the legal risk is on the seller.

At the moment there is little to no legal requirement that the operator of an anonymous random connection service must do age verification.

You've correctly identified another example of a product cheap to produce with limited inherent value that is sold with a marketing strategy designed to take advantage of basic fundamentals of human psychology tied to artificial scarcity.

This program wasn't designed to catch the smart criminals, just the lazy ones.

Even Monero can be somewhat deanonymized by monitoring the exchanges. At some point criminals want to turn it into a usable currency.

When every criminal organization at scale is using international banking to hide their money, international supply chains for hardware like skimming devices, international communications for routing call center scams, international employees to write malware and hacking tools, etc, then yes, there is justification for the FBI to conduct international investigations. Organized crime rarely stops at borders.

And the FBI didn't "wiretap the world". They didn't slip malware into everyone's iPhones and Androids. They created a targeted honeypot device especially tantalizing to criminals and it worked exactly as intended.

FBI can investigate crimes internationally when it is related to crimes committed in US jurisdictions or when US citizens and companies are the victims. When you consider the criminal support services (banking, technologies, hacking, communications, law evasion, etc) almost any domestic criminal operation will have some international ties worthy of investigation. Furthermore, CIA and NSA are intelligence organizations, not law enforcement. They do not investigate crimes for the purposes of prosecuting criminals and they are unlikely to share their information for those purposes as it would compromise their classified tools and operatives used for collecting said information.

Cheap to produce, and capitalizes on basic human tendencies for hoarding and desire for exclusiveness. It's a lot like gambling in how it preys on fundamental psychology.

The unique pictures are tracked via blockchain. It's a Non Fungible Token (NFT). Just because you buy it with real currency instead of crypto doesn't make it not an NFT. Purchase method isn't the defining charteristic of an NFT.