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721.
by ionised 8y ago
If it doesn't even support Android apps then what does it support?
722.
by ionised 8y ago
If you're a PC gamer (and there are millions of them) you are almost certainly playing on Windows, because you kind of have to. And most business that are not big-tech (as in, most of the world's businesses) are still utterly inve
723.
by ionised 8y ago
And the EU.
724.
by ionised 8y ago
This isn't even close to as bad as some of the shit they've pulled.
725.
by ionised 8y ago
As a Brit, I don't have a single lick of trust in the UK intelligence services. They don't exist to protect people like me, they exist to preserve the status quo.
726.
by ionised 8y ago
While ignoring whether it's a positive or negative impact?
727.
by ionised 8y ago
That's a lazy argument and one I personally find morally repugnant. It's no different than the justification some use when we talk about the ethical ramifications of selling arms to middle eastern states in conflict. "They a
728.
by ionised 8y ago
The idea that you can change the system from within is incredibly naive and usually put forward as a justification for wanting to exploit that system.
729.
by ionised 8y ago
Sports team politics. They bad. We good. Even when facts suggest you're both different shades of bad.
730.
by ionised 8y ago
An oversight that rubber stamps 99% of surveillance requests from the NSA and allows it to use information sharing agreements with its allies to skirt around rules preventing surveillance of its own citizens. That is not oversight to me.
731.
by ionised 8y ago
European here. Anecdotally, I don't know anyone personally who thinks this is a good thing. I do however know many that are in great approval of GDPR (as I am).
732.
by ionised 8y ago
The people who cheat in one online game tend to do it in every one they play.
733.
by ionised 8y ago
> In that way not only Eastern and Central Europe countries would experience the fun communism brings: poverty, inequality, secret police murdering opposition members and priests, lack of freedom. You say that like fascism didn't ex
734.
by ionised 8y ago
I mean, if you look throughout history, even at the last century, you see civil rights actions that were vehemently opposed by conservatives and traditionalists. Votes for women, emancipation of slaves, equal rights for women, for blacks, f
735.
by ionised 8y ago
The same tired bullshit that publishers trot out every time they push copyright enforcement responsibilities onto companies, governments and the tax payer: "Won't somebody think of the creators!" And they have pushed this kin
736.
by ionised 8y ago
No, western societies get spied on by their own governments because terrorists hate our freedom, or some other such nonsense.
737.
by ionised 8y ago
Nothing proves that it was targeted at them either. This opinion only ever seems voiced by Americans offended that their darling tech megacorps be subjected to any law or regulation that isn't American.
738.
by ionised 8y ago
What's atheism got to do with any of this?
739.
by ionised 8y ago
I believe the poster you are replying to is referring to the brain continuing to develop until your mid-to-late twenties.
740.
by ionised 8y ago
> Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition). Because not everyone thinks the free market is a solution to all our problems.
741.
by ionised 8y ago
Not quite as brazenly corrupt as it is in the US but it is still a huge problem.
742.
by ionised 8y ago
Is moving to Trumpland really the solution?
743.
by ionised 8y ago
Yeah it's this. Just another in a long list of efforts by the copyright cartels to restrict access to information and culture.
744.
by ionised 8y ago
Google is not a race.
745.
by ionised 8y ago
> I work 80+ hours a week Why?
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by ionised 8y ago
> We know that regulation protects the big players at the expense of their would be competition and drives up profits. You're describing poorly thought out or outright captured regulation. Regulation is not defacto bad. There are pl
747.
by ionised 8y ago
What I mean is, I would expect it to be given the wealth of the country. The fact that it isn't is damning.
748.
by ionised 8y ago
The US is among the worst of the developed nations for social mobility.
749.
by ionised 8y ago
Learning costs money, especially as an adult. You still need to cover your basic expenses, homeless or not.
750.
by ionised 8y ago
I would expect US minimums to be far greater than developing countries.

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