New Zealand?

How do laws that are blantently unconstitutional make their way into the law books?

Belief in an afterlife doesn't mean there is an afterlife. People who cannot imagine not existing haven't thought hard enough about it. What was if like before your birth?

I think that belief in an afterlife as a way to make us feel better is intellectually dishonest. It's also an extremely dangerous belief as is evident from history and current events.

Sure, but I have my own phone and only I decide what gets installed on it.

Surely she should have left the phone at home. The employer didn't force her to tack this tracking device with her everywhere she goes.

She should have bought her own phone for after hours and left the work phone at home. No employer can force you to carry their phone when you are not working.

Thanks for telling me what the market for my particular kind of app is.

Not for those apps developed using browser technology. Unless you can point me to evidence that shows Apple vetting what website you can and cannot view.

The most cross platform platform is the browser. You pointed to a framework that does not run on Linux (which is a viable market for certain kinds of apps) and is not cross platform on iOS (without forcing you to go through their review process which many legitimate types of apps would not pass).

All of the pages to do with organised religion are hoaxes. Religion is a con.

The internet has no geography. There is no way the technology of the internet can tell where a person is physically located. IP addresses sure can't do that.

The issue in this case is people lying to Netflix about their physical address. That's more of a contractural civil issue, not a criminal one.

Doesn't look cross platform to me. For example: it appears as if there is no Linux support. The iOS support is a native app which put you at the whim of the Apple approval process. I don't consider that to be cross platform. Web apps aren't subject to that process.

Your first objection isn't always the case. I am aware of development teams who have never developed for the web before and are now starting to because it's a viable platform for rich applications.

As for writing "real code"? How condescending and patently untrue. Downloading an application is not the same thing as developing once and running on multiple platforms.

Personally I think that web technologies are the bastard child of some good ideas and some bad ones. Having said that, it's still the only way to get as cross platform as possible with a single build effort.

That's why I said "good enough" and not "perfect". Security flaws aren't limited to web browsers, though because of the nature of them serving data from other computers it's a natural vector. Bloat is fixed with more hardware :-)

You seem to have inferred that I live in the US, I don't. Data is data, and the routing on the internet is designed to be flexible - the data can be routed through any servers. Legislating against this is to break the way the internet works.

The issue is that content providers are sending data to people when they ask for it. That makes this he content provideds fault - they should stop sending data to people they are not allowed to.

For many categories of apps this isn't a possibility. You want an app that works on both a desktop with 3 large monitors and on a phone. They are two incongruent device types. You won't convince the former that what they really need is a little phone to run your app.

(Perhaps you were being sarcastic, I couldn't tell).

For many types of applications a browser is "good enough". The power of browsers is always increasing and features like this are a good thing (so long as they are overtly opt-in for the user).