For legal purposes, using your Visa card will be consent.

>Everyone pretends like the US doesn't do the same thing,

Oh god no. The US has a filthy, bloody history of treating other countries like playthings. I don't doubt there are cybercrimes to add to the list.

I've retired phones because apps I have to have working for my job had mandatory updates and weren't compatible with the phone OS.

Of course, they probably were, but it's not like I had an "ignore the warning and install anyway" option.

We know Russia's been doing this since hacking was a thing. Presumably we're now past the point of being concerned with the diplomatic issues that may result from openly acknowledging it.

With regards to the first part, Canada has the same rule - as long as one of your parents still has citizenship at the time of your birth, Canada will consider you Canadian. This doesn't seem particularly strange to me. I assume you spend the rest of your life convincing passport agents of your nationality when they note your place of birth though.

With regards to the second part, at least officially that is not true. Chinese citizens who have moved abroad can renounce citizenship and if they gain foreign citizenship their Chinese citizenship is revoked. Unofficially, the CCP does still seem to believe it owns people who used to be Chinese citizens.

Nope, you're obtuse. You and the point seem to be on different continents.

Those are the most effective Google searches I do these days - using it as a dictionary, thesaurus, and calculator.

Anything else and I have to get past the ads and dig through the crap and even then may not find what I'm looking for.

> the aerosol injection does not remove Carbon Dioxide or methane, it masks it.

Yep. Normally I bang on about that for a while when the topic comes up. I actually do not support albedo modification for that reason... The only thing that we can currently have confidence in is green energy instead of hydrocarbons, and making sure we have excess power for sequestration once we've stopped burning oil and gas.

It's American spyware subject to control by American agencies. That might not matter to most individuals, but at the national level it is a big difference.

You want wings for more efficient flight, you want forward-facing rotors at speed for better performance.

Seems to me they want a quad copter with above-cabin tilt rotors (bonus points if they don't just tilt but lower as they're aimed forward, to align center of thrust with center of mass). Add some folding or telescoping wings.

It won't be the best plane or the best helicopter, but for a fast response emergency VTOL craft it might be worth the engineering effort.

Given that China is known to strong-arm its expats, having these people relocate outside China should not be considered sufficient to alleviate national security concerns unless the company is ready to spy on them on an ongoing basis to ensure they're not compromised by Chinese security services.

I hate crypto, it's fundamentally fatally flawed and incredibly inefficient. Which of course is why its primary use cases are extortion, fraud, money laundering, and gambling.

Having said that, running out of coins isn't really an issue. So long as there is even a single controllable ledger entry, the community can decide to move the decimal place over as many places as required to have enough units to move around. If 99% of bitcoin coins are thought to be lost (you can never really know, after all), then you can start using centibitcoins as your new base unit and have just as many base units in active circulation as before.

This is not a GOOD solution, since someone could always suddenly move bitcoin previously thought lost and crash the market, but that's what you get for using a fucking stupid system.

"More trustworthy" in that you're less likely to be served up malicious code from an in-house ad server farm than some unmonitored third party.

Yep, salt's a chemical. A substance related to chemistry. I think the term is a bit too broad to be useful scientifically. And politically a chemical is whatever someone has a NIMBY fit over.

Given that sea spray often blows well inland, somehow I doubt having a mist of it reach further is going to end the world, but sure, why not review it first.

I wouldn't pay to be data mined and be served ads but if they're going to it, in house is far more trustworthy.