Civilized countries have citizens. The US have consumers.

If I had modpoints I'd upvote you.

I guess the content is encrypted but the metadata is still free-for-all to use ...

Are you sure $700 won't buy you a $900 home in 7 years ?

Nobody did that. France just wanted facebook to stop displaying that thing in France. Sounds legit to me.

This is a marketing stunt from AWS. They still are an U.S. based company and are still subject to U.S. law. E.U. data isn't safe there.

Sure, but the US health system is utterly broken. It's way more expensive (because it's full of predators) and doesn't work well except for very rich people.

Count me out, I pretty much like Gnome as it is.

Can't find your favorite flavor of sugary water in the third world ? Ooh man where is civilization going ? Life must suck for you.

This. Ten times this.

Ah elected government invents some way to make society better. Why would you want people to be outraged about that ? Oh I see. You want people to be outraged at each others. I know who you voted for.

MAGAs are stupid

You've got it backwards. Stupid people are MAGAs.

Corporate systems are a mess of different websites cobbled together with varying URL schemes and not always unified authentication processes (SSO most of the time, not always). How do you want to train people for that ?

The talks are deadlocked because the petrol countries (north Africa and U.S.A.) are hellbent on continuing to produce oil derivatives.

Same same. I can access it via the web app or via the mobile app. Perfect setup if you ask me.