She didn't get her cut.

Apparently, the head of a company that produces Canadian TV is butthurt about the fact that Canadians will go to extra inconvenience to avoid being stuck with her product and gain access to the US market. Intellectually dishonest and largely nonsensical argument; but the motives are clear enough.

She is going to need a downright brilliant propaganda team to convince anyone that paying for netflix is 'stealing'; just because she doesn't like it.

There's really not much difference between using a VPN to gain access to US electronic markets and using a car to gain access to US malls. Is it 'stealing' when a Canadian drives across the border and buys something in the US? Even by the standards of self-interested bullshit from incumbent monopolist assholes, this is unimpressive work.

The average American has very little to any interaction with anyone outside the US at all

(not counting tech support calls)

And that's what hobbles US products in the rest of the world.

I know, right? Nobody buys American products in the rest of the world.

Hell, last year, the US only shipped $1.623 trillion worth of goods around the globe, including over $219billion in machines, engines and pumps and $172billion in electronic equipment. And $135billion in vehicles. And $125billion in aircraft and spacecraft.

If we'd only adopt the metric system, we might sell some stuff.

The US is already metric. It was the second country after France to adopt the metric system in the 19th century

Of course it is. Just try to buy a 400mm lens by calling it a "15.748 inch lens" and see what the guy at the camera store says.

Personally, I don't understand why people have browser history turned on at all. I build a lot of computers for people (by happenstance it's a hobby) I build a dozen or so per year. The FIRST thing I do after the first boot is install Firefox (my preference), permanently turn off browsing history, install AdBlock+, install HTTPS Anywhere, then launch Windows update and go watch a movie.

I've never seen history help anyone. But I've seen it cause all sorts of embarrassing accidents, fights with spouses, legal trouble, etc... Is there actually a use for it?

Just like most of the inhabitants of Europe don't understand that the USA is mind-boggingly huge and is only bordered by two countries.

And that football is played with helmets.

So is this the "Change we can believe in"?

And no, I'm not making fun on democrats. I'm making fun of anyone that thinks their party cares about them or their country at all.

Basically the definition of every word in your statement is ambiguous so I find that hard to answer.
What is a "Friend"
What do you mean by "Point"
and "Social media"?!?! Does anyone know what that means?

It's on the internet, there's text, he clicks buttons, it makes him smile. More power to him.

I used to read BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal editorial page so I know what they'll say:

We are geniuses, we have MBAs, we can manage anything, we don't have to know what the business does, or how it works, we just have to cut costs, give incentives and fire people, the free market is God.

I could expand on that but I'd have to charge you $200 an hour.

Make that $400 an hour. I learned from them how to pull a number out of the air.

Those 'quality assurance' requirements, and various other kissing of Google's pinkie ring, only apply if you want a shot at Google Play Services and the official Google app store. It is pretty grim and spartan; but you can do whatever you want with AOSP(subject to GPL2 for the linux kernel stuff, Apache for most of the rest, some proprietary blobs in a lot of BSPs).

Google's pressure (probably sensible, some low-end Android devices are utterly goddamn awful and you wouldn't want your name within a mile of them) would prevent "Android-Google Blessed" from making it into the cheap seats; but it would not, necessarily, prevent the annihilation of various historical 'featurephone'/'quasi-smart' phone OSes, and the assorted cut-down JVMs; in favor of firmware that is android underneath with a skin and preinstalled apps suited to whatever dreadful screen the phone has.

I'd second that question. Genuine 'dumbphones' are still way too cheap(and very easy on the battery) for Android to be relevant; but 'featurephone' BoM and specs start to head toward the land of Allwinner, Mediatek, and other somewhat downmarket but adequately punchy Android-oriented SoCs.

I imagine that one barrier to reasonably stock android is screen: all the default Android UI/UX very strongly assumes that you have a screen of decent resolution, typically multiple point touch is expected unless it's a set top box setup. Dumbphones, by contrast, frequently still have smaller, lousier, screens, non-touch, and a UI that depends on buttons only(or a blackberry-style little touch area).

As long as you don't care about Google's blessing, there's no reason you couldn't build your horrible little ecosystem of crap on top of Android, rather than BREW(and whatever its analogs are in GSM land) and one of the dinky JVMs, so I have to imagine that licensing costs for those components are something that vendors don't try their luck on, so maybe that keeps them in the market?

Is this serious? Did you just say "justified ethnic cleansing"? Or is my sarcasm meter borked?

The Free Market doesn't exist, but thanks for playing. Markets are defined by governments (laws, regulations, contract enforcement, redress of grievances, etc.).