If you dislike government making decisions then there is a problem with 'we' that you use as in "we have to do something". If you want to have a general application of some rules then usually you need to have to talk to gov. Unless the matter can be resolved by talking to one controlling body that is not government. Do we have such? So if your statement (about 90% of issues being fucked up by a gov) than there is a much bigger problem in your country and that is not net neutrality or few angry and uninformed people talking nonsense.

Other than that it is a very thoughtful post, thank you.

Is that so? So why the biggest democracy in the world India has higher poverty levels than the most populous country in the world which is not very democratic? One can take your sentence of course and say that for it to work you would have to have functioning government and during process of building one there is no way to have democracy but I think the old fart that allegedly said this thing was maybe drunk but surely did not mean all that much.

You should maybe read this before talking nonsense.

I suppose by "single click problem you mean "a problem that is solved by single click" or a problem that is caused in single click directly followed by 'oh shit" realization? Privacy, encryption, authentication and authorization are all quite difficult already without bad terminology being used.

we all made a conscious decision on that? I must have missed that somehow. Privacy is not dead. There is always something that can be done to ensure good enough level of privacy that also allows good enough chances to catch criminals. The current violations of privacy are not used to do even that but serve the powers that be. And that needs to change.

to have design flaws one would need design process in the first place. for number of years already I mostly see coding without design.

I do not want to split hairs but there is a significant difference between I am not eligible because US gov. did not allow me (Porto Rico, District of Columbia etc) and I am not eligible because I could not be bothered to migrate to the greatest country in the world.You are an insensitive clod!

The really interesting part is this: if all that in the study is true then one can imagine a device that determines your voting preferences automatically. I can even imagine making similar scans early in the childhood (as soon as that is technically possible - I would imagine early teens is already good enough). Make an implant or something not easilly removable and you do not even have to go trough all the trouble of visiting polling station anymore. Optimizing it further I can imagine that your preference can be noted in a voting register (together with some other preferences deduced from the scans) and use them whenever an election or some other silly routine is started. When technology is advanced enough we can even put some people (rated dangerous or not very useful for society) on the way trough the chimney with a single and simple database query although that may require some amendments to currently existing laws in some jurisdictions.

in my rational view your 'rational' view is just irrational. Your post as AC so I cannot be sure but most of people using similar arhuments (although not all) are irrational bigots.

ot as it is: your judgement of first language may be correct ut based on flawed argument of one badly used word which more likely than not was a typo and not conscious usage.

It was mujahedin in Afghanistan and it all well relatively well. At least Ruskis went back home. In Iraq it was a magnitude bigger fuckup than in Afghanistan and it looks like it will take a while to bring it back to the 'acceptable' level. It is also closer to the Western world. I am waiting in excitement where is the next place US is going to 'help'. I guess this may be Ukraine - it is again a bit closer to center of civilization and although the opponent lacks jihadist credentials it has a friend with nukes just across a border. I know that I am now a thankless bastard and apparent Putin's shill but I would prefer if US military tried to help Canada or Mexico. I am sure there are enough targets in these two countries to keep the boys and girls busy for a while.

I think it is Putin's dick out there and CIA says it is small. Now I know what all the quzillions of tallars or whatever they call the funny money of today are going into. I also know now that our dicks are bigger than Russian, whatever interpretation of this sentence you take it must be correct!

I think this is yet another proof how devious and barbaric Russian regime really is. We cannot allow Putin to do such things like putting (???) a satellites in orbit and doing maneuvering with them. Only one country on earth is allowed to do such things. If we allow Russia commit acts of such treachery all sorts of bad things may happen or even Klingons may materialize in orbit!!!!

You mean that Apple does not see any business benefit in selling customer data? I suppose you maybe true as considering its history the company prefers to use such data itself I suppose. So in some sense you have a point. I still consider the comment, that I was responding to, funny. Not because I dislike Apple in any special way but I dislike corporations. They may be necessary to support our wasteful way of life but I still dislike them all and trust them to do terrible things as long as the bosses think this brings them profit and they can get away with negative consequences if any.

why is parent not modded funny?