The world is much better for him as he wanders off with hundreds of millions of profits gained primarily through treating customers like the dumbest dipshits on the planet. CEOs of megacorporations don't care about other people, if they did, they wouldn't have what it takes to become CEOs of megacorporations.

He's worried that people who support him might notice how he's fucking up, so he's employing a distraction. He's not very smart so this is the best he can do, but his followers are even less so, so this works.

Google Maps displays incorrect names for geographical locations.

And then you still have to force it to stop after disabling it, because disable doesn't mean disable to Google. If they don't actually quit the app, how will they continue to steal your location data?

Oh yeah, from play services.

We've gotten to the point where phone makers shouldn't be allowed to bundle any apps with the phone. Gross.

The kernel is not the operating system, only part of it. As long as Google is keeping parts of their system closed it makes legal sense to subject them to the requirement. As long as they are putting a lot into play services...

Using passport as national ID is common and you could have just googled it to find out like I did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The passport is more than sufficient as an actual ID. It is sufficient for ID in all situations. The Driver's License verifies the right to drive, and the ID at the state level. It's the driver's license which is insufficient as an ID, not the passport. The passport always verifies identity.

Welcome to capitalism.

The USA has national ID, it's called a passport. (Real ID was supposed to be a national ID, but it's been watered down so that it effectively isn't one.) The passport or passport card is the gold standard of ID because it verifies both nationality and citizenship.

The USA also has national online ID verification, it's called ID.me. It's shit, but it exists.

Google pulls out of China rather than help China crack down on dissidents and then... they do this kind of shit.

All they showed is that the only kind of fascist regime they want to cooperate with is home grown and white supremacist.

That and the price per op, which was alone enough to make it a flop.

Redhat will be subject to this requirement because their license places additional restrictions on the GPL and they are therefore in violation and have no right to use the code covered by that license

Girl scout cookies are made with child slave labor palm oil and chocolate. Nothing makes more sense than that they get funding from the baby killing industry.

The strength of the US governmental system never rested on the Constitution. It rests purely on the willingness of the people to behave in proper ways.

I believe that's universally true. It doesn't matter how well written a set of rules is, it can't cover every eventuality and for the ones it does cover, it can be creatively reinterpreted with sufficient motivation to mean almost anything, no matter how obviously absurd.

The constitution is clear.

The constitution is just a piece of paper and a pretty flimsy one when the judges meant to rule on it can be bribed with an RV.

Obviously unless your a whale like Kerry Packer who is bigger than the casino and knows how to tip - however I digress.

I know there is charitable gaming however I've never understood, beyond organized crime, why all casinos profits aren't regulated into charitable causes and institutions to put people's desire for a non-lethal adrenaline rush to some good use.