Yeah? What's that; 14 seconds of their profits?
RFBurns
joined 1 year ago
The 'hostage-taker' will never be able to duplicate my family's grammar and sentence structure quirks, so I won't care how it "sounds"...
They're also easily disconnected in case you don't want to be in a statistic like:
Air bags were previously blamed for the deaths of 31 children and 20 adults--mostly smaller women--in low-speed crashes they otherwise could have survived.
My wife (a 'smaller woman') will not sit behind one.
...Behaviors and lifestyle choices. They do not rise to the immutable characteristics that qualify for civil-rights protection.
And yes; I've seen the sleazy Wiki edit that attaches "perceived" to the definition of "immutable". 'I just have to believe...' belongs in a child's fairytale book.
"Just don't you worry yore purty little haid, darlin'; Big Brother™, in partership with the Manufacturer's Cartel will keep you safe from the nasty States-Righters who want you raped and red-lined."
-- The Big Guy, on the way to deposit his latest "campaign-contribution"
"Leak, or leak not: There is no '...will leak'."
-- Yoda
Claiming that "you're gonna..." accomplishes nothing, and paints a target on your chest. Also it tips off your adversary and allows them time to:
- Dig up dirt on you
- Publish 'mitigating data' to soften the blow of your activity.
Good points, but we must not relax under the comfortable blanket of "standards", because the Big Boys™ are busily unraveling them.
A prime example is Google's "Chrome" browser, that's weaponized 'web-standards' in the most anti-competitive manner possible. Worse is their bullying of "web standards bodies". This is specifically aimed at neutering Mozilla and independent browser-extension developers who throw up obstacles to their dominance.
Google wants to eliminate the possibility of users avoiding their data-vacuuming, ad- spamming and universal tracking. That's what's behind their endless propaganda about 'speeding up your web experience'.
Once they "succeed", all 'unapproved' extensions, 'users' and browsers will just be "unable to connect" with what used to be the greatest communication and data-sharing system in human history.
Concerned users should become familiar with the politics of "international standards bodies" that affect our ability to use the internet.
Then force the companies to accept convenience-store gift cards....
Paste it at the bottom of your "my filters" section. Be sure to "Apply" when done.
One of the few areas where I favor a "One-world" standard.
I wonder if it was done on purpose after it came out that the Pentagon had typo'd ".ml" instead of '.mil' and exposed a lot of sensitive emails...