What happens when the people no longer fear the regime?

They lose their power. It’s that simple. They’ll continue to break the government until we get them out of office, but their emails will be ignored because they can’t administrate properly

Apartment buildings have multiple circuits that connect to the grid. Sometimes my power partially goes out, so like these outlets work but those don’t, because there’s three circuits and one tends to break first

Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade

They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things

They’re house members. They’re generally not all that rich and powerful, they’re protected because they’re useful

They’ll be thrown in front of the mob the second a billionaire feels tight under the collar

I think it’s more that they see the writing on the wall… The people want consequences. There’s likely to be trials

If they wrapped that in the right spin it might just give Putin enough wiggle room to back down without losing his head

Yes?

Yeah. And what would be the best present to get each of them on a first date?

I mean, you can sue pretty much anyone for anything, but fair… It is technically a ruling

It’s still just a policy though, which means it’s easy to change or to do unofficially if the courts reject it (which seems unlikely right now, but I’d love to see it happen)

Fair. And it only goes our way if Linux devs take a stand in the first place…I think they will. I hope they will

The point is the writer is a midwit

And if everyone used E2E encryption for their private messaging like everyone who understands the topic has been pushing for decades, signal users wouldn’t stand out

The state cannot enforce this, it still relies on compliance in advance

It’s not a ruling, the FCC was ordered decided that they’re not going to certify any new foreign made home routing equipment. No certification means the radios won’t be legal for consumers to operate

This isn’t a law or judicial ruling, it’s policy

Technologically, yes, they could easily identify non-compliance with how much data is being collected these days

Logistically though? How are they going to enforce this? Sue every open source project that circumvents this? Block downloads of it with a great firewall? Fine end users? It’s just not feasible

Realistically, they’re going to go after the OSes with the biggest market share. Google, Microsoft, and Apple will be forced to comply on new devices, and maybe they’ll try to make an example or two to get compliance in advance

I don’t agree with this at all

The haves are making the world better for themselves at the cost of the have-nots.

I think the haves have become progressively more stupid as their wealth grew and have started ripping the copper out of the walls of their own factories

They’ve already pitched the idea of a 10% toll

Nah, like a couple weeks. They ship in a team along with the equipment and then they go to town

Something like deep water rigs can take years to build, but actually tapping a well is pretty quick. But then you can’t just seal it back up - or at least humanity has never bothered to learn how to do so. So companies will sit on them for years to keep production steady, if the cost of oil falls they might move it to a sacrificial shell company and leave it leaking for tax payers to eventually clean up

I’ve heard more than enough of it. They just repeat the same lies over and over

We have tons of untapped oil fields easier to drill in the US that oil companies are sitting on, and we already get something like 1/3 of Venezuelan oil as is

But we still need the oil from the middle east, we mix our heavier oil with theirs in the refining process. We’re draining our reserves to keep the price low domestically, that and the statements that the strait will be reopened imminently is keeping the price relatively low… For now. Our economy is all speculation after all.

repeated support from money that should have been smarter then that

Why would you think that? Look around, everything humanity does is absurd