You mean gerbil right?

No. Those laws are secret.

Which one? Louis XIV was the fracking Sun King. Louis XVI was the one who lost his head.

If you decide to get a $19.99 bargain bin android from one of the major carriers then it will probably loaded to the gills with crap-ware. Why? Because you only paid $20 for the phone and they need to make money on it somehow - enter third-party crap-ware vendors that pay to be preloaded onto your phone.

You want a crap-ware free phone? Suck it up and buy a Nexus, yes they are $350 but in exchange you get a bare as-vanilla-as-you-can-get OS with nothing aside from Google Apps loaded onto it. The fact that it's trivially rootable and gets updates direct from Google, guaranteed, is icing on the cake.

You want to have a crap-ware free phone but don't feel like shelling out the cash for a Nexus, fine, root the phone you have. Install an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM like CyanogenMod and call it done.

TL;DR you get what you pay for.

I thought the quote was " Life will find a way". Or are you implying that Life == Stupid? Considering the shenanigans the human race has been engaging in you might have an argument there...

No, encryption won't get your data back, that's what backups are for. Encryption does mean that the thief cannot skim your passwords and whatnot before fencing your computer at the local pawnshop. You might not have the data anymore but no one else should be able to get it either.

INGSOC!!

Texas, one of the hardest-core red states out there, for one...

And that surprises you in what way?

They don't need to be. By your own words, the extremists have the lion's share of rebel military hardware. Guns make for a very persuasive political amplifier (e.g. "do what we say or your village burns")

If the exec is aggressive and will fire you for not "getting with the program" then politely bring it to their attention and then shut up and abide by whatever decision they make. They want to be The Decision Maker(TM)? Fine, let them, just make sure your ass is covered when the defecation inevitably interfaces with the oscillation so that they can't throw you under the bus to save their own hide (or at least make it a touch more difficult for them to do so).

probably not but anyone here will automatically run an inline "sed s/s/u" while reading it

That's why you make any warnings or recommendations in writing so that there can be a paper trail you can point to and say "I warned them about this, they chose not to act on my warning, Ergo they're liable. They had the authority to take the corrective measures that I suggested but chose not to, ultimate fault lies not with me the messenger but them the executor"

CEO response: "You are not a profit center, you are a cost center; therefore you a necessary evil that we tolerate only as much as we absolutely need to. You get in the way of business, of making money, of paying your bloody paycheck, and expect me to thank you for that and say "more please"? Get the fsck out of my office, you're fired!"