Well, how about spending tax money for public schools? Because it matters a lot less if you don't have to cope with tuition fees and other oligarch bullshit.

And while we're at it, how about enacting a decent social and healthcare system, where you don't have to drown in debts just because somebody in your family needed a cure or lost its job?

"Liberal" Bias? No. They're just more centrist.

It's like calling Hillary Clinton "Liberal", where she is clearly Authoritarian: https://www.politicalcompass.o...

If you want backdoors, you undermine your security. And this is asymmetric. Because the security of your hospitals, power plants, electrical grid, communications infrastructure, emergency response, water treatment plants, military(!) and so on, will also be subverted. In contrast, any adversaries probably don't care about infrastructure because they don't run any.

Basically what these morons are saying is "we want to open our whole infrastructure to abuse by criminals, terrorists and other adversaries".

Oh yeah? Is that some kind of traditional wisdom handed down from your forefathers in the USA?

Because that's not what's expected in the rest of the world.

Printed plastic guns fall under the precisely the same legislation as other guns (depending on their type): Illegal to print and own unless you have a license for the type of gun.

The files on how to make them are perfectly legal.

Where people hacking your voting machines within 90 minutes is apparently only a conspiracy theory:
http://fortune.com/2017/07/31/...

I guess you believe in the easter bunny and the security of E-Voting?

Coming from a country with a high percentage of guns per capita, but with a very low homicide rate, I can give you a hint: We have rifles, not handguns. And that is true for most of the countries with similar profiles: Canada, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Iceland, Germany, New Zealand, Finland.

This might not be the reason for less homicides, but there is probably some underlying factor influencing both, homicides and handgun proliferation.

So you might really want to start looking into that: Why do your people want to have handguns?

This is exactly using technology for something it is completely unsuited.

Facial recognition is useful as second or third-factor authentication of a small and clearly defined user base. Like checking the face of a person wanting to pass a security door whilst the same person is in possession of a RFID badge. Not only do you match against a smallish set of people who "shall pass", but against the very small set of people who may pass with that specific RFID badge, exactly one, that is. And in this case, security is immensely increased by facial recognition.

You want one, you got one. It's not a problem to found or even to buy a US company who can do it.

Microsoft already proved it with their racist AI that they're able, but now they've gotten better, their bots can now insult everyone!

In fact, I was running such a bot a few years back, modeled after Captain haddock

Everyone who claims Linux is an alternative doesn't use their PC for gaming. Or, is part of the extremely tiny minority of gamers that is happy with the limited subset of games run on Linux.

That subset is about one third of the games that run on Windows. That's around 4000.games. More than you can play through in your life anyway.

This sort of thing doesn't scale.
[citation needed]

Around 24% of all games on Steam are available on Linux. So, yes.

On a related note, Linux gamers seem to make up somewhere around 1.5%. So maybe Doom would be on Place 12 if it hadn't released Windows only.

I think you're pretty much right in regards of the analysis what is happening, but you've subscribed to some propaganda on who is doing what. Because the forces at play in the US are first and foremost authoritarian and to the right (the latter of which doesn't really matter in the scheme of things).

I think this here shows this neatly:
https://www.politicalcompass.o...

"left" and "right" are solely economic points of view. You could also call them "socialist" and "capitalist". There's nothing in there about "liberty".

If you think there is some great conflict between "authoritarian" and "libertarian" at play there (or even "the Left" or "the Right" are on the side of "liberty"), you've just become the playball of propaganda. Because the only side here that's even playing is authoritarian, and it has won, it sets the policies, and orchestrates the propaganda. Of course it's nice to be able to constantly blame "the other side" for the shit you're doing. Which is what happens. Even if the other side happens to be firmly in your own camp.

Yes, there are people in the US fighting for liberty, but they're not "the Left" or "the Right", they're the ones that don't run your country. At all.

...medieval punctuation marks of course.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charl...