Guess the guys should have thought what the benefits but also drawbacks and costs are. Not only for them, but for all people involved.

Dead, Inc. offers this incredible new service, dispose the your ex, for a dynamic fee.

And these pesky authorities around the globe insist that it's murder and illegal. Obviously the authorities want to protect the interests of divorce lawyers.

Basically Uber decided to ignore local laws in most jurisdictions, so I think they should be happy that they are just ordered to cease operating, instead of getting a confiscation order for their illegal gains.

You do realize, that a huge chunkof IP US stylee is rather new.

Software patents
Business method patents

Come immediately to mind

Guess with current roaming fees, 4G is a really quick way to create a 5-6 digit bill

Affordable 3G (big enough data a package, or flat fee) is probably way more useful.

4G just mean that you can in theory use one GB in 1-2 minutes.

Another thing you might want consider is that you probably don't want to be reach able transparently, personal experience show that getting voice calls during the night (locally) just to say Hi is not only expensive but also gets boring really quick.

LOL, considering that the *US* courts are really known for finding for foreign companies.

Because the police is not interested in catching the criminal. They are interestesting in arresting somebody that could get realistically convicted.

they need the statistics to look good.

police officers have been known to get the wrong belief.

police officers do lie, and they commit perjury. Can land you in innocently in death row. (And the funny part is, because a crime needs to be proven, and many of the crimes that law enforcment commits require intend, and intend is always very hard to prove, these creeps tend to go home freely.)

From having seen it myself, an interrogation is quite often not much better than bullying the "suspect" into confessing. "Ok, so you don't want to confess, no problem, let us book you, and we'll talk again with you when you've lost your job for not being there for some days. In the meantime we'll probably have to check on all your family, bring them in for interrogation, I'm sure their employers will be understanding if we question them for a day, ...." While many innocent people might be okay with fighting for their innocence, see how many won't try to avoid pulling their family into the hole?

So basically, never talk to the police tends to be a good starting point. Try to prepare mentally. Use any breaks the system allows you, and that means "do not talk" and "ask for a lawyer". Fact is that nearly everything you say can be twisted into making you look bad.

The only drawback is that law enforcement can ruin almost any person that relies on their work to feed themselves and their family. With impunity.

Yes, think about the kids. I mean they will be devasted if you require them to learn something.

True. And McVeigh was mostly a home-made terrorist.

That still leaves some issues:

• How do you influence a government (and their private sector buddies, let's call them the "elite")? They've shown many times that they don't really care much about their constituents. Plus they've shown time over time, that they don't consider them bound by the rule of law.
• One has to wonder how the press in GB at the time described the Founding Fathers. Wonder if they were described as nice loving freedom fighters. And how the current press (current language usage, morals, understandings, would describe the situation in the colonies.

Does not change the fact that in practice many businesses have similar (sometimes less, sometimes more) regulation in the US than in the EU?

And they employ similar tactics, e.g. jurisdiction shopping.

This is basically how "data protection" (I guess US people would call it privacy) works currently in the EU.

The issue is, that while the broad outline is the same everywhere in the EU, the law is implemented slightly differently everywhere. And how strongly the authorities are enforcing it is also a local detail. E.g. that's why many US companies have their local subsidiary in Ireland, it's not only taxes, but also the fact that Irish authorities are kind of friendly in regards to their business models.

Well, as we already know, private keys in the US not necessarily private.

Even a simple court order might end up with giving normal "law enforcement" personal access to the private key.

The NSA does not operate with THAT much publicity.

Ever worked with commercial support?

While I know that negative experiences stick longer in memory, the best commercial support experience that I had was when the vendor just was slightly sluggish (as in taking months even acknowledging a bug report. Considering that the bug reporter was a really big customer.). Other cases where more like active sabotage (e.g. telling us that our replacement hardware will be delivered the day after tomorrow, surprise, surprise, one day before delivery the order disappeared from their tracking system). In other cases getting correct firmware updates worked only by knowing personally people at the vendor, while the official "premium" support claimed that the servers in our data centre cannot be there, because this model is not being yet delivered to customers.

So don't talk about "commercial" support, it's usually not worth the bother.

Well, that's not an issue, beside any performance aspects, all PCIe cards can work with more narrow connections.