I would say there is a slight difference.

The Israelis would use a nuclear bomb as a last resort to keep what they have, a tiny strip of land.

Their adversaries and a few other rogue states and groups are not above using a nuclear bomb to get what they want, a tiny strip of land or even the whole western world.

So you feel a union's only tool is calling a strike?

Poor deluded you!

A union's goal is to improve working conditions and remuneration is one of them.
Increasing the number of jobs and their quality are fundamental to the success of the union, both in the eyes of their members and of the employers.

At times a union runs into an unresponsive employer who sabotages the balance between work and rewards, just like that employer they can sabotage the company until it sees the light.

I hardly ever text but I do know the texts stay in memory and there are back up programs to transfer them to a PC.

So you simply order users of phones under the scheme to once a week mail the backup to a central database.

Also via the billing info it would be reasonably easy to see if someone has deleted messages.
Put some hefty penalties on non-compliance and you don't even need to call the NSA (or Snowden who might be less bureaucratic) for a copy.

A large section of the US population believes they will in their lifetime become multi-millionaires and know consumer protection laws would be contrary to their achieving said goal.

By consequence they are against any ruling by the government that would endanger this beautiful American Dream.

Uh no, not subsidies.

If you want to force down the price of any commodity you should limit or stop demand without directly affecting production.

For a cereal producer I would suggest to market a killer cereal, it would be squarely aimed at the intended consumer group and the chance of wasteful collateral damage would be limited.

No, that's how they stay rich.

The fact companies want 18 y/o with years of experience isn't exactly new, I went through it some 40 years ago :).

I do feel for those spending hugely on education while chances of recovery is a burden on their future, in my opinion their future well-being is not only for personal gains but should benefit all in a society.
Therefore I support the old(er) way where society would enable people to study, it's for a common future were we all benefit.
It obviously does require higher taxes to be levied on those that do put their good education to use.

The company enjoys the same advantages of good infrastructure and safety as the people of the country.

If the company were to break even they don't pay taxes, they make a profit it should be taxable at the local rates.

Should be, but these guys are exporting both the profits and the tax liabilities.

I say!

Android's Dolphin ignores the certificate and Firefox recognises it.

Sadly(?) English doesn't keep the original pronunciation, though UK-English is closer than US-English.

I mentioned the reason in another post, it's that damned Great Vowel Shift what makes English stand out among European languages.

English usually retains the original spelling but the pronunciation has become an adventure :)

I agree with your point re. the thought process.

But have issues with your statement re. the impediment of communication by loosening orthographical standards.

You are probably aware law is one of the 'sciences' that needs a very accurate description in writing and it is in many languages exactly in law we see the recurring use of otherwise obsolete words and terminology.
Having discussed this phenomena with some legal scholars I do believe they have little choice in the matter, a word stands for a historical meaning and it would be dangerous if not outright irresponsible to use different terminology without including an addendum with transcriptions.

Then there is the use of Latin rooted words, phonetic spelling can drastically change or even inverse their meaning and without an authorised transcription this would become a legal nightmare.

However I feel with you on the subjects mentioned I do believe your defeatist attitude is half the problem minorities in the States face.

At the moment I'm surrounded by people who a single generation ago were doing poorly but are now among the leaders in our industry, all it took them is to shake off a negative view of themselves and their origin, industry couldn't care less were you came from, they want to know were you are today and going tomorrow.

My job title is instructor for the Global IT-related section of our company.
Places I recently worked are like Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Scotland.
All of the instruction and by consequence the tests are done in a sort of International Technical English and I could but won't tell you about some 'interesting' words and phrases I noticed this week here in Louisiana, USA.

Ignoring nor denying will fix the problem for these subcultures.

In the case of Germany and German you'd at least have to go down another century to find the first attempts at standardising the spelling.
The German language is strictly regulated, possibly even more so than present day French.

Contrary to many other European languages for phonetic reasons they decided to change out the Latin leading C to a (greek) K but also felt the need to retain the Latin 'a' that's in German plural phonetically an 'e' by adding an Umlaut: ä.

It's this partial wish to retain compatibility with original Latin and Greek words and the slightly different phonetics to Latin and Greek that is so difficult to incorporate into Germanic languages.

English is a whole different matter, the English phonetics changed drastically from their Germanic roots during/ due to 'The Great Vowel Shift'. Strange enough the spelling remained basically Germanic but the pronunciation is nothing like it used to be.
This vowel shift is even more pronounced in American, the (a?) reason they have great difficulty in comprehensively speaking European languages, including Church-Latin.

So the results of the suggestion to allow phonetic spelling depends greatly on the alphabet used, Germanic, Latin, UK-English or US-English are some of the options.