So you better start paying me better.
Why? Just go die like everyone else that is undesirable. Your usefulness to society has expired. Go away. Society does not need you or want you. Gone on, get now. Don't make this harder than it needs to be.
You are happy with a status quo which involves the torture and murder of Muslims, so you don't want anything done. Just admit that so we can move on without you.
Everything else you said makes sense; however, this attack on the OP is unwarranted. They were talking about the purpose of the UN and you came up with a suitable response. Assuming he was talking about the purpose of the UN merely in order to prolong the murder of Muslims is a step WAY too far. OP has/had a valid point: The UN should not be visiting sovereign countries with force. Your point was also valid: The UN created this situation, they have a responsibility to fix it.
Personal attacks are NOT useful and will prevent useful conversation from occurring. Don't do that.
I'm not sure what the fascination beyond making sure people don't cheap out and skip the battery packs.
Control. More specifically, control of the velocity and direction of money.
Why can't you?
Your first mistake was believing that people weren't seeing the issue. They all saw it. Very few people will deal directly with truth, they will avoid it even until death. So they lie and come up with all sorts of mental gymnastics to keep you from the truth, completely ignoring that dealing with the truth with solve all of the problems.
So we get 'energy' companies lying, politicians lying, and a bunch of stupid people following those lies and blocking any chance at fixing the issue.
Welcome to the planet Earth. Enjoy your short stay in this less than idyllic vacation spot away from the metaphysical world.
There are consequences for actions, and when governments show that they are untrustworthy on an ongoing basis, people stop trusting them. Welcome to the real world, kids.
The only thing that matters *IS* the government. The people, its citizens, are more like accoutrements. They can be set aside, thrown away, and completely disregarded as long as "the greater good" mantra is repeated.
The fact that the citizens are upset is irrelevant. The citizens will tolerate it because they have no other choice.
The most heinous of all crimes is dictatorship, based on number of deaths, rapes, child trafficking, and so on.
Dictatorship is maintained with terror and murder and growing technological panopticons.
E2EE is just what the doctor ordered to thwart this, the most heinous of crimes. It's tough enough as it is. We, the free west, should lead the way, not offer ready-made tools with ready-made patter for dictators to spout.
This is probably the most insightful post EVER posted to Slashdot. This is the only +100 Insightful post I have seen on this site.
The Panopticon is only partially useful in keeping people's behavior within reason. The entire reason for the Panopticon is to control business and social outcomes... or in other words, a Dictatorship.
So ah... Since you think others might choose wrong, you're going to make that choice for them?
LOL, no. I am merely remarking on what I have witnessed. I used to do that kind of thing a lot though, so I really do understand it. But yeah, you have to leave room for other people. Even if you are truly the only one who can fully see the issue and resolve it, you HAVE to let others try or else they will eventually kill you to get their independence.
Some people would rather be dead if they are not free to make their own choices.
Why not let people, and companies, vote their wallets?
Because, for things this important, people might choose wrong.
Apply that thinking widely, and you can see where our system of governance has gone terribly wrong. We want to control the outcome, not the process.
It is logically impossible to control the outcome because you do not control the entire Universe. All you can do is control the process. But go ahead and keep trying to control the outcome. Let me know how that works out for you. (Royal you, not you personally russbutton; although maybe...)
At the same time, MS still makes beginner's mistakes with critical and very critical functions, see, for example, their catastrophic Azure compromise in 2023, were they did _everything_ wrong they could do wrong where that would not be immediately obvious.
Experience is not worth paying for. These new people will get it right. They were trained for many years and there is no excuse for 'not knowing', so everything should be fine and if it isn't, we will discipline them until they do get it right... but, once they get too much experience, they become too expensive, so, freshly trained people again. They were trained for a long time. They have no excuse for getting it wrong. Everything will be fine. Who needs experienced people when experience is so expensive?
Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures over the past few years.
Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures, as it has throughout its entire lifetime of existence. Not merely the past few years.
Incumbent US-focused auto makers/sellers, whether HQ'd in the US or elsewhere, should be worried about their own collective abandonment of the market for entry-level cars and small cars in general.
Lucky for them, they are insulated from Reality. Unlucky for us as we have to pay to maintain their ignorance of Reality. But, that is what America has become: A few people utterly disconnected from Reality while an entire country labors away to keep those few insulated from Reality. War will remind them. Sounds fun for the rest of us.
Exactly. In some states itâ(TM)s illegal to even sell a new car direct to the public.
You do realize that there is a reason such laws were passed? Same with movie theaters and movies.
Hint: It is/was for YOUR protection. Somehow or another, it got into someone's head to pass a law preventing vertical monopolies from forming. Those laws were the result. Go ahead and tear them down if you want. I don't have much time left anyways. Why should I care if you work with great motivation towards building vertical monopolies?
If the US domestic industry can't compete, I'm inclined to say it deserves to die. It certainly does not have the consumer's interests at heart, at all.
The literally CAN"T compete. In my lifetime, I have seen 3 major bailouts of American automobile manufacturers. Even just 1 represents an unhealthy industry. Those fuckers just want money, they have absolutely no interest at all in building cars. They build cars just because that is how they print money, not because cars have any intrinsic value.
You can blame CenturyLink and the federal panopticon for your Qwest woes.
Hey man, that panopticon is REALLY important. So important that losing some 911 calls isn't even considered water under the bridge. If thousands have to die in order for Law and Order to prevail, that is a small sacifice that I am willing to make for you.
Yes, a warmer planet is 'all that bad'.
Evidently, nobody fucking cares. They will care when they are gasping for breath, but until then, we will continue blowing CO2 into the atmosphere unabated. The only thing many people will be gasping with their last breath is, "we made lots of profit!".
"You dead bitch. You dead. Why are you still breathing?"
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
