I wouldn't bank on it happening. If China has proven anything, it's that it's good at infrastructure programmes.

Oddly enough, the US population is expected to decline by about the same amount... If you exclude immigration, which is what they seem to have done for China.

https://www.census.gov/newsroo...

They are assuming that nothing much will change in China, but that seems unlikely. If the government was willing to have a one child policy, encouraging children should be no big deal.

they let the contracts expire. Nobody involved with these companies has a job. They're all "contractors". That's what happens when you're non-Union. It'll happen to you too if you live long enough.

because of it's negative connotations. The same way fascists and other anti-democracy elements have for centuries now. It's an argument used to strip voting rights from some segments of the population and with it the right to self govern.

I don't even know if you're aware you're doing it, but if not this is your signal to stop taking pot shots at Democracy.

good enough is always good enough. If that wasn't the case 90% of us wouldn't be typing out /. posts on a windows PC.

And good enough can be shockingly terrible, especially when we've had 40 years of non stop mega mergers and zero anti-trust law enforcement. They could care less what you, the customer think, because your options are to shop at one of the other companies they either own or own a controlling share in or go without.

And increasingly "go without" isn't an option because they're buying critical infrastructure.

Do they have a separate TikTok app in China because the law requires it, or because Western nations would be even more unhappy if the networks weren't separated?

Probably a bit of both.

to where ever labor was cheapest, but all anyone can remember about his books is that a few tinpot dictators borrowed them for speeches.

Companies with that attitude aren't good to work for I avoid them. If I worked for Google I'd have left once the early days were over and it went corporate.

So take your pick. Be ethical and address employee concerns, or have more staff turnover and the good people with options leaving.

I use both Windows and Linux. Linux is not some wonderful OS where everything just works. It's got plenty of its own problems and annoyances.

Okay, it doesn't spy on you out of the box, but if you can install Linux you can use Rufus and a few simple tools to disable all that crap on Windows too. With WSL you can run a lot of Linux stuff too.

Pick you poison.

Revenge porn too. Pornhub has already been in trouble for that, the result of which was deleting all user uploaded material and starting over.

It's not binary. The bigger the site the more responsibility. Sites that carry particularly risky material like porn have additional requirements, from the basic age checks in performers upwards.

The same right that all of us have under the Geneva Conventions. If we know that someone is committing war crimes &/or crimes against humanity, it's not just our right but out duty to do everything within our power to stop it.

Apart from the comparison with the atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto (for a sense of just how bad it is), all of the above were quotes from or information about the recent hearings at the ICJ & assessments by the relevant agencies directly & specifically on the ongoing slaughter inside Gaza.

If it's directly relevant enough for the ICJ & UN, it's relevant enough for you. It's your problem if you don't like the facts.

Try holding the power button down. You should get a menu, if not you can probably change it to the menu in the shortcut key settings.

One option is "lockdown" on most devices.

The Fourth Amendment is more relevant here and was part of the rulings I read about decades ago on these matters. Fingerprints were totally fair game before computers; no court order required and DNA shouldn't require one (but does if taken off your person while taking a fingerprint off your person is different.)