Might I suggest you have your head stuck in your pet echo chamber. I believe, based on decades of OBSERVATION, that as practiced for the last 60 years unions are not in the workers' best interest and in fact often act at cross purposes to the workers' best interests and wishes. Obviously our opinions differ. I wish I could be there when you visit reality.

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Life's a bitch and then you die. They lost their jobs instead of losing a portion of their pay. Their union "advisers" suggested their jobs were assured because the cost of transport was too high for non-union shops in other states. Generally speaking, SOME income is better than none. May be they saw it coming and figured lowered wages were not worth it? Well, they lost their jobs. And the wages they'd have had to accept were living wages, just not as high living as they were. The brothers that owned the shop took a bath, too. So nobody local "won". Real economics work like that.

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Perhaps labor has priced itself out of the market, this time, perhaps, permanently. Their replacement has a very low wage. That is how my former father-in-law's pattern making shop in Detroit died. The union was not willing to accept wage cuts that could have saved their jobs if they could undercut the jobs in West Virginia that replaced them. Now they have a nasty problem, "How do I support my family?" Perhaps they should assign some of the blame to the union organizers who sold them the idea they could raise their wages indefinitely without any danger.

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While it exists it is a powerful tool to expose the dirty cop minority. I figure that fact alone would put the dirties firmly against the cameras that have too little security applied to prevent a dirty from stalking somebody. (Trust me. That ain't fun based on personal experience.) You and I and, indeed, everybody else must answer for themselves whether solving a kidnap and murder even an inept cop could solve with cameras is more of a problem than our worries that some behavior we take part in is likely to put our situponparts in a sling. Life is a continuing tradeoff that has gone VASTLY awry of late with the release of violent murderers while folks like (presumably) you and I would be in durance vile indefinitely with little access to even lawyers. We're bassakwards in that regard in most large cities.

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And they probably respect privacy in more traditional ways. (And, yes, they probably still gossip about it in some circles. But that selected out the people you did not want to get close to.)

Back in the 50s I was a VERY free range child. Now that's a guaranteed call to the parent from the child protection pricks.

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In law, indeed the privacy was not there. In practice it is only relatively recent nearly everybody carries around cameras. The density of people was enough smaller that the illusion of more privacy than legally existed persisted. The practical privacy we had was significantly greater in most regards and, yes, less in others. Today one must actively assert privacy rights. Back then most people were not Nosy Nellies. Whether that was a good thing or not is still debatable. But, *I* liked it.
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Since the assertion is that crooked cops keep getting flushed out for using Flock camera footage for illegal and even evil purposes. Seems to me if that assertion holds we have here in our hands a really good if slightly dangerous tool to deploy for finding crooked cops. As for personal privacy, that ship has sailed, repeatedly. Privacy today is nothing like what I grew up with in the 1950s'.

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In the US only companies with government contracts are required to supply data to the US government beyond filing tax returns. Virtually any other data requires a court order. In China EVERY company must supply data of any kind that is requested to the government on request. I presume you can see the difference here.

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Minor change to the wording: How many American companies are required by US Government to routinely supply said Government with all the information it wants without even involving the courts? In China if the Chinese government asks for a company's or individual's private data the companies must immediately comply with courts being irrelevant.

At least in the US we have legitimate courts between corporations and the government.

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Almost all telephone spam comes from two sources, India and Real Estate "agents" who often have strong Hindu accents. How in (heavily censored profanity) does the FCC think IT'S rules about burner phones will affect this?

At the worst it will kill one of my most effective telephone spam filters by removing a key signature.

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Who is the family member installing a Linux distro containing systemd? Junior has admin rights, sets the age data, and Bob's his uncle. This is the basic problem with all possible systems that are not beyond belief privacy invasions.

As for me, I figure I can set two accounts, one that shows me as a late 18 year old, if I want to snoop on 'em, and the other that shows a random age between 21 and 121 when I want to make as close a run on honesty despite unconstitutional levels of privacy invasion.

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How appropriate can a cookie be? This one came up at the bottom of the page just below this article: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saftey deserve neither liberty not saftey." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
(The misspelling in the cookie is not mine.)

This is no more about "the children" than it is about the number of craters on the Moon on July 17th 1897 at 12:37 CET. It is about grabbing personal identifying material - in violation of minor things like HIPPA.

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I suspect the most effective means of preventing construction of a data center in some locality is for that locality to legislate that it had to show four 40' US flags on the four corners of the building and have one flag ever 1000 square feet inside.
{O.O} But, even *I* am not vile enough to suggest that....

It amazes me to realize how many people, especially with the mental skills expected here, are furious if the US snoops into your lives or plots to nuke somebody are shrugging off or not even thinking of the consequences of some other less benign country (Russia, Iran, China) doing the same thing. It's gonna happen. How you gonna like it?
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I drily note that CPB seems to have ignored Biden's decrepitude and inability to do his job asserting the opposite. If that doesn't tell you CPB is er was the DNC's "Pravda".

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