"It says EU laws -- which have sought to make it easier for smaller firms to compete with big tech -- have resulted in some Apple features and enhancements being delayed for European users"
Restrictions are not features for users, despite many hostages' Stockholm syndromes to the contrary.
"So unless your sport involve ZERO upper and lower body strength, it makes sense to separate sports by sex"
Per your own logic this is based on the importance of strength only. Therefore this assertion only makes sense if it's a sport where dexterity cannot make up for strength.
You don't know what Ad Hominem is.
It is NOT insulting people.
It is where you say an idea is wrong because someone said it. It may also be accompanied by an insult to attempt to support the argument.
When someone says only an idiot would believe something and then explains why, that is not Ad Hominem. It's just an argument with an insult next to it.
Feel free to object to the insult, but don't make shit up.
You never got the chance to drink a real Belgian gueuze or lambic then?
I've had lambic, no clue on whether it was authentic or not, I didn't enjoy it though. But I still don't think it's bad, it's just not for me.
>"Just because you save a file to OneDrive by default doesn't mean it isn't synced to your local computer"
1) The summary says nothing about it ALSO being saved to local
2) Neither does what I replied to
3) I have zero experience with OneDrive
So I replied with the assumption that saving "to the cloud" meant only that. Yes, if it is being saved in both places, that changes things.
The evidence was deleted
It is and always has been insane that all these governments run mostly on Windows.
A lot of them use to use a lot of IBM mainframe stuff behind the scenes, and there's still a fair bit of it around underpinning things, but pretty much all of the new projects are Windows-based.
>what about not buying this sort of crap in the first place?"
Well, they put these new requirements and restrictions AFTER people bought the equipment. Many people should already know this type of thing is possible and happens with "connected" equipment, but many selected Echelon because of their friendly stance and then were surprised when the rules of the game changed.
And you can bet every user signed "OK" on the fine print that probably said the company was free to change the way it connects and shares or doesn't share data at any time. But almost nobody reads it, or if they do read it they don't understand it, or feel like they have no choice (other than to return the equipment if it is still in the return window).
It's also naive to think that Israel is only facing murderous terrorists in Gaza, the entire arab world has wanted them destroyed for decades.
They've wanted to conquer the whole Arab world since forever, and they are now attacking pieces of it outside of Gaza. They wrote themselves a book that said it was all theirs, and now they're trying to make it come true. The evangelicals are helping them try because they believe it will bring about the end times. As it happens, there's several of the foretold signs around right now, so they naturally think it's working and are doubling down. In the bargain, we have the tools and equipment to make it happen, and long since furnished the technology to Israel to try to make it happen sooner. But they kicked out Netanyahu and things were looking relatively sane for a while (though the Israeli settlers never stopped stealing more land or murdering more Palestinians) and we're all supposed to believe that none of it is their fault. This would be funny if it weren't actually terrifying that people can believe that.
If the roles were switched, there wouldn't be a single Jew left alive in Israel right now
Soon there won't be any Palestinians alive in Gaza.
Netanyahu is just as bad as Hamas, both of them need to go. Hamas is going, and Netanyahu won't be in power forever
It won't take him forever to finish his genocide.
>"vs...
- increases risk of disclosure in a cloud breach or phishing attack"
Really? That's all you could think of as the cons? How about:
- increases the risk of centralized backdoor access
- increases risk of data being used for AI training or other mining
- increases risk of being shut out of access to your data (due to licensing issues, payment, government order, whatever)
- increases risk of not being able access data due to an ISP or other network issue
- increases risk of not being able to access data due to an authentication issue
I am sure there is a lot more. I am not saying cloud storage is crap. It is an option that carries both positives and negatives and its utility greatly depends on the needs and perceptions of the organization and users. And its need also depends on what the user or organization is already doing (or not doing) for security, reliability, backups, etc.
I'm very liberal but I do not in any way excuse what happened on Oct 7th, quite the opposite. But choosing to back Palestine is a moral decision isn't the same as the willful ignorance and lies told by the right.
Is it even "backing Palestine" to oppose genocide of Palestinians? I can't stand either religion whose followers lay claim to Gaza, but I don't think that disliking someone's religion is sufficient justification for genocide. Israel was founded on the British partition of Palestine by the USA through the UN and it immediately began literal and self-described colonization of as much land as it could get its hands on, whether or not it was included in the lands which were handed to it.
Hamas is terrible, but it was founded in the eighties and in response to Israeli terrorist organizations which were murdering Palestinians, and Netanyahu has repeatedly and publicly told us that he makes sure Hamas receives funding which is sent to it as part of his Gaza strategy — so not only does history not start October 7, but Netanyahu deliberately made sure that something like the October 7 attack would happen, and then proceeded to go from semi-genocidal behavior to fully genocidal behavior. Therefore it's clear that his goal was always genocide. What did the world expect Palestinians to do, roll over?
To me, both Hamas and Israel's terrorist organizations are the enemies of not just all people who even believe in morality, but also the future of humanity because this conflict increases the chance of nuclear war day by day. We are closer to it today than we have ever been because the US-Russia cold war was between two nations with some things to lose. But Hamas was also inevitable and the blame for their successes falls on Netanyahu's willful insurance of their funding. And We The People of these United States of America have in turn enabled both him and Israel to do what they are doing in the region.
On that basis, we've already picked sides, and we've chosen the side of genocide.
You antinuclear scumbags always have to lie don't you!
HahaHAHAHAHhAHAHAhAhAHAHAHAHA
Nuclear can only be sold with lies. And here you are trying to sell it even though you never get paid, what a simpering clown.
My "ranting and rambling" makes sense in the case that I reject your intimation that there is any relevance whatsoever to the cost
What kind of cost are you babbling about? You never were smart enough to communicate clearly, and you still aren't.
Ad Hominem is not a white rapper.
Deforestation contributes to AGW contributes to food insecurity.
Your argument depends on not considering sustainability.
"Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing." -- Karl Lehenbauer, as amended by Jeff Daiell, a Libertarian
