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Yeah, as noted above .. people read stuff like this like it's his money. It'd be nice if they taught how screwed up this level of wealth disparity is in schools.

At his wealth, you can put tons of others people's money where ever you damn well want, for any reason, just because you have a hunch (or for vested other interests)

You dummies buy the sockpuppets hook line and sinker.

Reading is difficult.

I mean, what would it be?

"that only a sufficiently educated and credentialled person could possibly overlook."

that's a funny self-own if I've ever read one

Wow man, so you're like saying .. there's some kind of ... cost/benefit analysis that can be done? Whoa dude. You should write some kind of like, business book, or something.

why don't you take the 2 seconds it would take to find out

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

Uhoh, I hope Meta doesn't lose track of which site is full of posts by bots and which site is ... oops, full of posts by bots.

Neither side apparently said anything about the agreement in court on Friday, which Judge Arun Subramanian said today was âoeabsolutely unacceptable.â âoeIt shows absolute disrespect for the court, the jury and this entire process,â he said.

With this admin, nobody should be surprised. Corruption is standard operating procedure.

So chances are there are photos of your home out there

It doesn't bother me at all. The camera comes out, it's obvious that the camera is there, and is being used. I can ask people not to use it, if I so choose. (I don't because I honestly don't care that much if there are photos of my home "out there".)

What bothers me is a platform that enables video recording covertly. I'm not bothered by the fact that people can bring phones into my house, and elect to take pictures or record video. I *would* be bothered if somebody came in and dropped a secret camera sending video wirelessly in traffic that doesn't go over my network. Glasses with videocameras in them commoditize that capability. Just because covertly recording video inside my house is *technically* possible today doesn't mean it's stupid to object to the proliferation and normalization of a commodity device that makes it easier to do.

Any of these can be activated without your knowledge.

They can't get traffic out of the house without my knowledge, which amounts to the same thing. These platforms tend to be widely scrutinized. What they are *not* are devices other people are bringing in to my home, and then recording me without my knowledge. At least a phone camera needs to have the phone out, generally facing in my direction

some people will even get out the phones while sitting on the toilet

Again, it's much more difficult to record me without me noticing. The whole "but there are cameras everywhere" argument treats every camera as the same thing. They are not, the differences int he platforms and formfactors that contain them matter.