Moderated wrong post; replying to remove.

A company has to (theoretically) follow the laws of any country in which is does business, for business done in that country, at least. If Youtube is showing ads to Canadian viewers, they are doing business in that country. Just because a company puts their HQ in Ireland for tax purposes, it does not mean they only have to obey Irish laws when dealing with American consumers.

It's oddly coincidental that I just finished reading that again a couple days ago. The goal was to create a single replacement part for a stranded alien's space ship, but I find both similarly amusing..

If you think Joe Biden is representative of the "extreme left", you have lost all perspective.

The fact is that the best general streaming service is YouTube.

Uses a lot of bandwidth if you just want the music.

NOT if you use youtube-dl with the -f m4a option...

Or the MusicPiped or NetMBuddy Android apps.
Found on: https://f-droid.org/

Streaming is a form of DRM and tracking, which unnecessarily consumes extra resources. You should do it as little as possible.

You can download all the public domain movies on archive.org, you can easily download any youtube videos there's any chance you'd like to watch more than once. You can easily record TV shows broadcast over the air. You can quickly copy to disk any movies you've purchased on physical media, for convenient viewing. etc.

Streaming is a ball and chain, restricting your selection, limiting your options, etc. Never once has a single video, TV show or movie in my collection been taken away from me when the copyright owner decided they could make larger profits by doing so.

And why not? $50 for an iView CyberBox (Android) that includes an ATSC tuner and USB port, and another $60 for a 2TB USB hard drive.

You can quickly and easily build a huge collection of media that actually BELONGS to you, and is at the mercy of nothing but a good electrical supply. In any other kind of major natural (or man-made) disaster, would you really assume you will have uninterrupted internet access? Radio is a nice change, for a little while... but when things are falling apart around you, having your familiar entertainment choices at hand can be a great comfort in unplesant and uncertain times.

I still can't believe they don't have a real competitor.

They do, Intel. You can get REAL, fan-less quad-core Atom mini-PCs that run on 5W of power for under $100, including the case, power supply, eMMC storage, hdmi cables, dual video outputs, 3 real USB ports, everything (those are all extra cost with a Pi).

You can get this box for $110 on Amazon (non-affiliate link) with 4GB RAM, 64GB 100MB/s eMMC, dual output (vga & hdmi) 4K graphics. That'll do almost everything people want a Pi for, and more. Lacking in GPIO pins admittedly, but $2 for a USB gpio dongle on eBay will solve that one, too, or spend a bit more and get even more GPIO than the Pis have.

To the technologically illiterate, a router is probably the most high-tech thing in their house (as far as they know) and protects them from tha net hakkerzz.

You seem to overlook the idea that the physically-weak may offer something else to the species that makes them "fit". Evolutionary fitness is not always just brute strength.

Since I am not an expert I am not going to state any opinion on tax rate numbers, but there is more to that prosperity than just corporate tax rates. The damage done by WWII left the US in a great position to use the manufacturing infrastructure advantage we had built up for the war effort.

My kingdom for a mod point!

Not liking something that is happening in your own country does not mean you think other countries would automatically be better.

I believe one problem with this is that South Korea is somewhat dependent on the US, and if SK sidesteps US sanctions against NK it would adversely affect them much more than any gains from working with NK... economically, at least.

It's possible one phone could be in the DB multiple times for multiple crimes committed by one person.