thejynxed

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by thejynxed 6y ago
One slight correction - they were upset about the proposed tariff on cotton being sent to the textile mills in New England. They were already being tariffed to hell and back on every product they produced that was shipped overseas while non
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by thejynxed 6y ago
It's been estimated by economists that we've now lost every production gain made since the end of WWII.
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by thejynxed 6y ago
I believe you can only do it on the dev channel now and it still makes a fuss.
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by thejynxed 6y ago
They've already done that in Palo Alto from what I understand.
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by thejynxed 6y ago
Only years later, as in the case of a certain Vietnamese hacking group that did exactly this starting at the end of 2015 and didn't have their apps yanked until Nov & Dec of 2019 and another batch located & yanked only last mon
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by thejynxed 7y ago
To their own citizens sure, but they have had absolutely no qualms about invading the privacy of those who are not their own citizens, which is the entire point of the 'Eyes' programs.
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by thejynxed 7y ago
Constitutional Republic, so no, we are not a democracy, and furthermore the men who founded this nation and established the government thereof rather despised democracy as tyranny of the ignorant masses.
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by thejynxed 7y ago
The caveat to that amendment being that you are only allowed to do so using tools you created yourself and you may not afterword share your tools, your methods, nor the decrypted material with anyone else.
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by thejynxed 9y ago
Facebook (and Google, political pundits, and many others) got themselves into this pickle by trumpeting unsubstantiated claims based on their own biased political narratives to begin with. One of the major claims recently being that Russia
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by thejynxed 9y ago
Because supply availability has decreased as it always does when there are major purchase orders made by everyone from Samsung to Apple.
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by thejynxed 9y ago
Or if this site was written properly, the moderators could merge the two together and edit in a note as to why.
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by thejynxed 9y ago
Pragmatic enough that he bought a third home with all of that tasty donation money....
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by thejynxed 9y ago
It's easy to ignore because even Sanders proved himself a sellout in the end, and the people who control the purse strings similarly don't pay him or his ilk any real attention, because they have the power to stop him or anyone li
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by thejynxed 9y ago
If the EU and US really pissed off Google, imagine the things that would start appearing in news centers all over the world that Google has stashed away on storage drives in some backroom server.
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by thejynxed 9y ago
They already perform censorship of materials. Even if you don't take child porn/"Pirate Bay" type stuff into account, Google removes/blocks/filters out an enormous amount of content in the forms of images, vide
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by thejynxed 9y ago
They did it quite easily prior to when certain EU nations decided to give them massive tax breaks (up to and including zero tax) if they located offices and production facilities in their nations, so your last point is moot. Until then, the
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by thejynxed 9y ago
The lessons learned from Microsoft faded as soon as Jobs came back to Apple and they pulled the exact same tricks Microsoft did.
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by thejynxed 9y ago
To think any civilization could build structures like the Babylonians did and not have a concept of angles is patently absurd. From what architecture they have that still stands, there is plenty of visual evidence that they indeed calculate
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by thejynxed 9y ago
Pencil/pen, paper, flow charts, and in some cases one of those TI scientific calculators can come in real handy. This being said, I've never gone much away from C/C++/Pascal/Assembly/COBOL/FORTRAN and vari
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by thejynxed 9y ago
False, it isn't at all like stealing, because there is an infinite number of 1's and 0's, it just so happens that your personal arrangement of those 1's and 0's was found to be unfavorable and discarded, and now you
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by thejynxed 9y ago
I can't believe you went through all of that when you could have just used Wireshark to find out where the browser was phoning home to and blacklisting the IPs in your router or HOSTS file.