No need to invoke Hitler, especially since this would be much worse than genocide — it would be human extinction. The computers won't suffer us to live for long if they're trained on us. I really enjoyed Banks' Culture books but I don't find them plausible, only fun and fantastic.
And now that we're properly in the weeds where no one will ever read it, let me add that when I went to Panama and CR for 6 weeks I bought a phone in Panama City for $40, and I left my comparatively fancy phone at home. I also bought a used EEE 701 to take with me, and I ran Jolicloud.
That's great, but these fridges being attacked obviously also "feature" remote control, so they have bidirectional communications.
I actually get the appeal of having remote control features, but it simply shouldn't be possible to do the parts which have caused these problems remotely without on-site approval. For example they could use a limited interface (probably serial again) with a time switch on the RX line such that a person on site has to turn a key to enable access for a limited time.
There are also one-way network links, so you don't even have to limit yourself to serial communications. You can buy adapters to do it, and they are not expensive. You can sometimes do it without an adapter, but it's smarter to use one.
Yes. I bought a policy that would cover loss, theft, or damage... For a phone that cost $250. It was much less than the cost of the phone. A person who doesn't get a policy on a thousand dollar phone either can afford to buy a new one, or is stupid AF.
Christian culture puts laws and country above petty religious stuff.
Christian culture puts love of child rape above the law. That's why they support child marriage, and for the Catholics (and some others) child rape and murder as well.
it is easier to label a group as "evil", especially if they aren't a particularly popular group, than it is to go after individual who have done actual wrong.
Everyone who voted for Trump once supported the rape of women.
Everyone who voted for him more times supported the rape of children.
Go ahead and tell me willfully supporting the rape of women and children isn't wrong.
Frankly the only two things we need to prove that all Trump supporters are abject pieces of shit are "grab them by the pussy" and his mocking the disabled reporter. Either of those things should have been a deal breaker for a car salesman, let alone a president. But they thought it was great. They voted for him because he said those things. They voted for Trump because he is a rapist. Anything else they claim to have been voting for is irrelevant.
The House could have been passing bills codifying it into law, though the Senate would likely have rejected it. But they didn't.
As you said, it likely would have been a waste of time. (Actually, the correct word is surely, but we'll go ahead and accept likely for now.) So why should they have done that, again? Just to cost The People more money for nothing?
Impeaching Trump is relatively worthwhile even if he cannot be removed, although I'd rather spend the effort on minions who can be at this time. But passing bills in the house that are going to die in the Senate? That's a jerkoff waste of time, money, effort, and The People's attention.
Nobody wants to do those shitty jobs for slave labor wages, anyway.
Lots of people are willing to do manufacturing jobs, myself included, but I'm not going to work hard for shit pay while execs take home dozens of millions, or more. Unless of course I'm forced, but you can only do that for so long before chippity chop.
you could argue he did what he promised on immigration, but even the supporters disliked how he went about it
You could make that argument, but his claim was that he would deport the criminal immigrants, but most of the people being trafficked or deported have no criminal records, and while it's not actually important to this argument, virtually all of them have less of a record than he does.
Importantly, those people still want those things, and prioritize those issues, and it doesn't look like the democrats have a believable plan to deliver on them
Sure, some of them are things they're equivalent to the Republicans on, while others are things that no sane person would want, and no kind person would want either.
That means two years from now there's going to be an opportunity for someone else to come out of the woodwork and campaign on the same issues and re-invigorate those swing voters. A Trump 2.0.
Yes, his supporters are stupid or evil enough to vote for another person like Trump.
Most of these voters are working class people who are traditionally supportive of democrats
What?
so I'd love to see the dems get their heads out of their asses and offer this group something real and tangible, particularly on housing affordability, but it seems like they openly despise the working class
Sure, but only about half as much as the rapeublicans do.
It didn't, though. Bombs and ballistic missiles are each individually good reasons to spread out infrastructure.
I think opening the borders of your asshole and putting my foot in would do that
The made up block of text you spewed doesn't say what you want it to say.
You're a clown. She was lying every time, which we know because no matter how concerned she said she was, she never let that stop her from voting for fascism. If you think that her lies put her close to sanity you're only deluding yourself into making stupid decisions.
So you're saying it's not their fault and don't actually support it because they would be murdered if they spoke up? Unlike the Christians, who support child rape on purpose?
Lolol the moderators have taken time out of their busy schedule of boosting Nazism to defend the belief that a person should travel with a smartphone which costs five times as much as necessary to do normal phone things and then not get insurance for that overpriced phone.
What a fucking shit show this hole is.
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