Not all Linux applications come from repositories, either.

For voicing opinions safely though...

...car jokes incoming...

The website looks decently fine. Plus, other open-source projects are also amazing but have shitty crappy looking websites.
Even Microsoft's operating system Metro interface doesn't look all that good, yet the proprietary MSOffice is still pretty decent.

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Because they understand that the Israelis are trying to avoid killing civilians?

So, it's as if you can still find it in your heart that they aren't really trying to kill anybody when your house gets demolished by an unexpected military visit, a hospital gets bombed, and a community-congregation area is attacked?

Because Hamas forces them to be human shields? Because they're stupid, enough so to provide hundreds of suicide attackers every year?

Or perhaps, despite the insurgents around them, it is still their home, for a considerable amount of Palestinian Muslims. For example, here in the U.S. in certain cities, even though the crime rate is high, people still choose to live in them. You may say that they just lack the resources to move out, but what about the millionaires and celebrities that still choose to move back to their home cities, no matter how sub-standard they are?
I'm not even going to comment on the sheer number of flaws in the second line in the quote.

...and how long did it take for the criminals to figure out that Tide detergent can be used as currency, as someone earlier mentioned.
There are better ways to reduce crime.

No undocumented, untaxed, under-the-radar transactions will be tolerated.

...unless you're a large corporation
...unless you're rich enough to afford legal protections
...unless you happen to be an important politician

No illegal drugs, no paid-for sex, no firearm/cash transactions.

No matter. The criminal underworld will simply just come up with another "currency", or a barter system. Banning bartering would make no sense.

So, what did you say would be different again, other than losing the freedom of tangible cash?

...or do we really want to give them more and more data that they can sell to advertisers???

The criminal economy will simply find a new way of paying each other. When the ordinary citizen has a legitimate reason to use cash, what can that citizen do?

That would be ironic if the security scanner ended up blowing up the entire checkpoint.
Not exactly the best solution, for other reasons also, but at least it probably works better than our current TSA detectors.

They probably want the U.S. to "notice" them or something, but it probably wouldn't be that easy for the U.S. to send a strongly worded cease-and-desist message that actually would make China stop their activities, at least not very soon, especially when the U.S. just lost a considerable portion of its own credibility a while ago. If the U.S. ceased exploiting our own systems, then they may just be able to pound China from a higher standpoint.

Only one that sure loves to protect "national security". Of course, there's also some part about a secret court and mass-surveillance, but hey, at least your, well, kind of safe! Right?

So, instead of "selfies" now, devices can automatically take pictures of every second of life, whenever one feels like it, to show to the world.

At least now the excuse "the thought just slipped from me" can take on a whole new meaning!

There is the issue of properly trained drivers for these services, but of course, surely these companies will come up with a legitimate way to fix this. These private companies can also be thought of as a way to encourage the public taxi systems to improve to remain competitive.