Okay. Let's think larger. All religions are fiction.
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No private or public entity will grant access to valuable proprietary hardware, as unacceptable risks will not only come from building owners, but also from anyone entering premises.
Also, managing remote nodes evenly spreaded across all areas will be costly. Think of armies of techs on the road permanently, with access problem, dogs or pest barriers, and so on.
A way to solve this would be the allocation of a planned space per block everywhere, which would be safely secured - then available and accessible to all utility organizations: electric, isp, water, phone, data, etc. Heat, power, mini data centers, and such could serve all buildings on a block.
Then other problems emerges: having utilities plan and use these together. Would only work if all services belong to the same entity.
A way around, of course, would be for individuals to setup servers they would own, and rent to data brokers, like Holo project once planned for.
Complaining about ads appearing on adwares will only lead you so far.
AI and robots are owned, not by users, but by owners, VCs, LLCs and corporations.
If anyone has paid attention, someone would have realized these owning entities aren't contributing anything to our general wellbeing anymore. It's the other way around. It has been for a very long time. It will stay that way, and worsen, until we revolt.
UBI will only happen when most users (say 90% of actual World population) are gone (as in permanently turned into dust). And yes, the clock is ticking.
Firstly, you need lots of oil so you can have tourism. No oil no tourism.
Second, yes, tourism is a fragile industry with low productivity. This is because tourism will mostly happen during times of peace, without pandemics. Then, most tourism services are personal, so yes, benefits aren't purely economic, they intersect with human values.
The truth is we are all moving toward a most walled and protectionist world economic system, where tourism tend to be associated with liberal values like immigration and free trade, and the U.S. is rethinking its ties with the outer multilateral world.
Not even looking at the numbers you throw out, I can tell you France wins, of course, for being #1 tourist spot of the whole world. Why? Partly because of Americans.
But worry do not! By the time current US administration ends up its charade, only emigration should concern you, not the prospect of tourism. And believe me, there are places far more welcoming to emigrate to than France!
For me, it always was a voluntarily long and sinuous and silly and lonely path. It had to be.
An uncertain path as well, and one that was totally worth all the trouble it brought my way.
And as seducing as it is, the reality of crossing path with fellow free thinking/doing individuals always felt like falling for some other tribe.
Because in the end, that's what we do. While not following, we often become leaders of followers. How could it be otherwise is the only question left to answer.
Main working copies I keep on 4 to 8TB NTFS SSDs (mix of sata and nvme), plugged into a PC I'm using regularly, but intermittently.
Because it's not an option if you're McKinsey, a data broker, a private security firm, or anyone contracting them. Data collection is an obligation, a requirement. They need to know about what's everyones up to, even if it's only through real time metadata.
Face recognition cameras everywhere, automatic photo radars, license plate readers at busy corners, everything going through apps in potentially always operating and recording pocket pcs we call smartphones, with potential trojans everywhere, in potentially everything. TV's are just one evocation of the disease, mainly directed at old folks, because nobody else cares about TVs and cable subscriptions anymore.
Anyone with just an once of understanding about how computer networking actually operates will actively put up all sorts of firewalls and air gaps around anything they own, because why not.
Anyone else, who shrugs at geek talk, is nothing but fair game, and will remain until someone suddenly pulls the rug from under them. Think massive actionable intelligence used against large parts of a population in a war, or a conscription, or a coup, or a full scale invasion, or whatever. Anything less will only be laughed at and dismissed.
You're offering a comprehensive law against that? That's not enough, far from it. Pass anything, I guaranty you the hydra will still be well and thriving anyway.
About the fear of being awake (as in woke), it sure reveals just how some are mostly afraid of being afraid. I'll gladly take a trans woke AI I can reason with over anything else, because I can't stand the opposite, aggression, at intimate level (as I believe AI is a potentially very intimate tech): BWTB (better woke than bigot).
As for flawed economics policies, well, every country has its share. Some more than others. Immigration flow wouldn't be the same without them.
Try that say, in the US. One time 2.5% on 350M population bring 9M new immigrants. Real US number for 2022: 1M immigrants [0] - so same as Canada.
99% actual problems in Canada (housing prices and healthcare) are direct consequence to immigration policies and flow. As for tech job low pay, blame distance from valley bubble.
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2022/12/30/us-imm...
Of course, seeing one getting all worked up upon reading about _censor_ or _censorship_ is understandable given the context was left out, mostly because the National Post audience is local, and the editing line is flirting with propaganda, as this particular piece's purpose was to deliberatebly stain actual government's image.