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Submission + - With Google Suite Free going away, what are some good alternatives? 1

t0qer writes: So I recently got an email that my google free will be going away soon (July 2022), and I'll have to subscribe for $6 @ month per user. My domain is just my family last name, and I have a few accounts for my immediate wife and kids. I'm not really sure if that's worth spending the money on for hosted email. I do use other parts of the suite (Drive, sheets/Docs) but I can happily use other products for that.

Just wondering if any /.'ers are in the same boat and what they're thinking of moving to?

Comment FALSE PREMISE (Score 4, Informative) 199

Boycotts are not censorship.

A producer, dissastified with other arrangements by his commercial vending platform and switching outlet is not censorship.

US First Ammendment rights prohibit the actions of government. They do not license, endorse or sanction the agency of people to contest messaging or choice of platform.

Comment Re:A Stunning Victory (Score 1) 197

No, the Taliban did not offer to deliver Osama bin Laden to anyone. Here's an interesting article about the Taliban leader at the time, so you understand why he wouldn't have offered to hand over Osama bin Laden, even if he could.

I'm not saying that invading and occupying Afghanistan was a good idea, but since you're so passionate about hating on the US, at least get your facts straight.

Let's look at that again, shall we? "Taliban agreed Bin Laden handover in 1998" — The Guardian, Sun 4 Nov 2001.

"King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah sent me to meet Mullah Omar to persuade him to hand Bin Laden over to the kingdom," the prince said. "Mullah Omar asked me to inform the king and the crown prince that he wanted to set up a joint committee to arrange procedures for the handover." One possible reason for the Taliban's willingness to surrender Bin Laden at the time was that they were not keen to have him in the first place.

After another attack and US reprisals, the offer was mooted.

Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over
9.30pm update: * Taliban demand evidence of Bin Laden's guilt
— The Guardian, Sun 14 Oct 2001

President George Bush rejected as "non-negotiable" an offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan.

OBL was a geopolitical excuse for the adventure of US occupation, which after 20 years of violence, culminated in the US falsly claiming to again strike "terrorists" while obliterating an aid worker, and blowing his small children into confetti.

US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds —The Guardian, Sat 11 Sep 2021

The victim, the newspaper said, was 43-year-old Zemari Ahmadi, who died with nine members of his family, including seven children, when a missile from a US air force Reaper drone struck his car as he arrived home from work in a residential neighborhood of Kabul.

Small change for the USA, who had 70 years earlier killed almost 20% of the population of the Korean peninsula - in a struggle against the supposed "horrors" of Communism.

Comment Re:Boring yet oppressive US exceptionalist jingois (Score 1) 197

Of course I agree with your points for being effective in the way you describe! The evidence is all around us.

I cite ineffectiveness versus OBL's primary goal, which remains the goal of many different groups and factions of "post-colonial" West Asia: Disengagement and territorial withdrawal by the US and principal allies from Saudi Arabia in particular, and generally across West Asia and North Africa.

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