The situation isn't simple though.

The telcos also promised to bring last mile internet to the same POTS customers they are trying to abandon now. Remember Pacific Bell? They claimed they would have "lightspeed DSL" provided to ALL CUSTOMERS BY THE YEAR 2000. They took billions in taxpayer funds for this purpose and it never happened.

Then SBC bought them and took tens of billions more and it still never happened.

Then ATT bought them and took HUNDREDS of billions more and it STILL never happened.

There's no way to retroactively charge them for that, but anything less would be unfair.

You're confused about me mentioning what Americans wanted in a discussion about what Americans wanted? You must just be confused all the time.

The actual action was not entering WWII even though we knew the holocaust was occurring because we didn't want to. I see you're confused again. It's exhausting wasting time on anyone who's that confused.

Ok, child.

And now he isn't.

You are ignoring the entire historical background, assuming you're at all familiar with it. Americans didn't want to get into the war because they didn't give two fucks about Europe.

FDR was one guy. Also, what we're talking about here is actual actions, not fancy fine words.

For the local cops, true.

For the feds, NSL incoming!

On one hand, the only way society should accept surveillance is if it's applied to the elites first.

On the other hand, there's no way we can trust that it's being applied to the elites at all.

Therefore, there's no way we can trust surveillance at all.

Israel was proposed to get Jews out of Europe, but then the UK decided it didn't want to run that ball in because (among other reasons) T.E. Lawrence convinced them it would lead to atrocity. The US is ok with atrocities (being founded on top of them) and went ahead and completed the touchdown and has been busy spiking the ball directly into Iran ever since. If you still think the US gives two shits about Europe after refusing to enter WWII until after Pearl Harbor, I really have no idea what to say to you about that.

And you were right. I read a few of their threads and they all eventually led to crying about "woke". If the "problem" with Fark is that they now don't tolerate n-slurs, then perhaps I will give it another chance.

Kind of but not really. The IMEI number can be changed on most (all?) devices but this has gotten harder over time, and your provider has to know what it is to provide you with phone service anyway.

Yes, it's America.

Israel was founded by the US specifically for fucking up the middle east, mission accomplished.

Wondering how to get more ROI, we used it to conduct research the taxpayer wouldn't pay for here, but accepted "foreign aid" for Israel. Then we import the technology.

Yes and no. Starbucks seems dominant and they over-roast their coffee. It works well for the super sugary espresso drinks but terrible for anything else. We have every imaginable variety of coffee just like anyone else. I am drinking a perfectly normal espresso roast right now, in a cappuccino.

They also to an incident (and not almost) didn't smear shit on the walls or kill cops. Your false equivalence here is obvious support for the same child raping president you claim to not support. No one is stupid enough to buy your bullshit here.

Unless those servers are owned by Microsoft, and then they've had multiple breakins where there are no logs so they don't know what happened

Wait, that's backwards. Coming from Microsoft means we know it's malware.

Nonsense. You can ask the user to approve whole classes of action, that is still consent