I've played WoW pservers. And every so often Blizzard shuts them down. The pserver operators will take a few months of needed vacation and once things cool down they'll just put them back up.
The pserver players will have to live without their WoW fix, but I think they'll survive. (Though some just wander around in a daze.)
The number of Old World countries employing this method of tax collection make me think it's been tried and tested and will work in America, and probably the only thing standing in it's way is the U.S. government's long standing favor of industry over the populace.
Whether living in some Mexican barrio, or the U.S. suburbs, when the people with guns break into your house how you manage that situation can be you, or your family member's life. And death isn't the only punishment powerful people can use to make sure you comply.
Society as a whole wants to be protected from all harm, and so they empower a police force with a mandate to remove all possibility of harm. Given this mandate it's easy to justify lethal force on those who deviate from the norm.
Some of these people are made of sterner stuff than others, 'cause it isn't hard to justify making big bucks selling flaws to a market willing to pay for this information.
The informed, the activists, and the politically motivated have an opinion about this, but the majority are happy to ignore this topic altogether as the regale their Tinder date about the latest trends while sipping on an IPA at trendiest microbrewery.
Gates is pro-Gates and that means anything that harms Microsoft's competitors benefits him.
Apple's phone market share in the U.S. is significant, but it isn't as significant in BRIC countries. The same BRIC countries where Android (Microsoft's $2billion royalties pocket book exists). The same BRIC countries that are eyeing U.S. tech companies as pawns of the U.S. intelligence agencies.
If I was Apple I'd change citizenship to a country that was more favorable to my bottom line.
In fact the irony of the U.S. pushing Apple so hard that it was forced to do this would be extremely funny to me.
Rating of Country's Abuse of its Citizen's Privacy
"will be used by countries with much less regard for the privacy of its citizenry."
Compared to other countries on Earth how far does the U.S. have to go down the list before they can find countries abusing privacy worse than the U.S. government?
Well if you find any now, just give it time, because they are racing as fast as they can to the bottom of that list.
The FBI NOW seems to be concerned about preserving the evidence on the phone. Why weren't they concerned about preserving the life of the owner of the phone?
And since enhanced interrogation seems to be OK in the U.S. I'm sure (not really, but some think it works) they could have extracted the password in time.
Some will say the terrorists were heavily armed and maybe had explosives with them, and so force begets force. But I think if you think more tactically and with the a bit of logic the SUV could have easily have been trapped and the police could have hid inside their armored vehicles and easily have wait out the terrorists if they thought about this before they "Bonnie and Clyde" the crap of them.
And maybe they would have martyred themselves anyway, but at least try to use non-lethal means in a situation. What is the real cost of a little bit time and and a little bit of non-lethal persuasion?
Brennan is acting like every other megalomaniac that I've worked with in government. On the whole this group of public "servants" view themselves as above the law and jurisdiction of the society in which they live in.
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Typical
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Obviously Patraeus is Above the America's Laws
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Cars Also Use Software
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Typical Behavior by the Government
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This Happens From Time to Time
The pserver players will have to live without their WoW fix, but I think they'll survive. (Though some just wander around in a daze.)
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Second Article I've Seen on this Subject
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This Level of Threat
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This is the Mandate
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Moral Fortitutude
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The Majority of U.S. Culture, "Meh"
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Gates Understands Perfectly
Apple's phone market share in the U.S. is significant, but it isn't as significant in BRIC countries. The same BRIC countries where Android (Microsoft's $2billion royalties pocket book exists). The same BRIC countries that are eyeing U.S. tech companies as pawns of the U.S. intelligence agencies.
If I was Apple I'd change citizenship to a country that was more favorable to my bottom line.
In fact the irony of the U.S. pushing Apple so hard that it was forced to do this would be extremely funny to me.
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Rating of Country's Abuse of its Citizen's Privacy
Compared to other countries on Earth how far does the U.S. have to go down the list before they can find countries abusing privacy worse than the U.S. government?
Well if you find any now, just give it time, because they are racing as fast as they can to the bottom of that list.
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If the Rest of World Thinks the US is Evil
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U.S. Backdoors Are a Great Marketing Tool
And I'm sure Apple wants to lose the BRIC market place. A great plan for growing a company.
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It's All About the Attitude Here
And since enhanced interrogation seems to be OK in the U.S. I'm sure (not really, but some think it works) they could have extracted the password in time.
Some will say the terrorists were heavily armed and maybe had explosives with them, and so force begets force. But I think if you think more tactically and with the a bit of logic the SUV could have easily have been trapped and the police could have hid inside their armored vehicles and easily have wait out the terrorists if they thought about this before they "Bonnie and Clyde" the crap of them.
And maybe they would have martyred themselves anyway, but at least try to use non-lethal means in a situation. What is the real cost of a little bit time and and a little bit of non-lethal persuasion?
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Another Sign of the Times
Who's country do we live in?
Obviously the US population is the chattel of the 1% who feed off their productivity.
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Typical...
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Look What Happens
Super strange, that is.
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Re: Disruption Has A Short Life Expectancy
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Disruption Has A Short Life Expectancy
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