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Unless you are in sales or some other position where negotiation skills are part of your job performance, they should not affect your pay.

> it's ensuring the roads aren't congesting with a glut of taxis driving around looking for fares all day

Ever hear of this thing called supply and demand?

If by "legitimate" you mean "useful" or "good" (as opposed to the law not being passed through the established legislative process, because that criticism wouldn't make sense), then even then it was illegitimate. If the manufacturer can come in and undercut the dealer, they should. Unfortunately, the dealer was local and the manufacturer often wasn't. The same reason any protectionist measures are created.

Lobbying is expensive and time consuming. If you ignore regulations and do a good job, the population will lobby for you, for free.

Of course it does. Although you did miss quite a bit, you at least realize that they vote in elections. You don't see the value in knowing and influencing election results?

>In what definition of democracy?

In the definition that says the ultimate source of government power is the people. You seem to agree that this is a reasonable definition of democracy. This means that they are a legitimate target when it comes to espionage or terrorism, yes. If you don't like it, move to a dictatorship.

Signing software only proves that it came from you. It doesn't say anything about what the software does. That's what your reputation is for.

That's part and parcel of democracy. If you want to pretend that those politicians and officials are accountable to the people, then the people are a legitimate target for espionage, just like the king would be in a monarchy.

Probably fewer than the number of foreign backdoors in foreign-made AV software. The NSA can already get in through the window if they really need to.

What evidence do you have for such a ridiculous claim?

The same reason many of us use Windows. All other things being equal, open source is better than closed source, but all other things are not equal. In the end, getting shit done is more important than open source. Unless you are RMS.

Why is it underhanded to let out people whose government has locked them in cages? Sounds like freedom to me. Now where's the nearest maximum security prison...

>Why yes, the perfect IS the enemy of the good.

It's providing them a free service that is by your own words, "good enough" when they currently have nothing, and you are calling that a bad thing? Come on.

So your complaint is that this will encourage more ISPs to offer free internet packages? Funny, I would have called that the best possible outcome.

No, that's pretty much the only thing I find wrong with it. And if they are willing to share the name once other groups start their own similar programs, I would even withdraw that objection.

Thanks! I haven't had anything to eat for days, this is a real help!

You believe a carefully selected assortment of facts plus commentary can't be hyperbolic as long as the facts themselves are true? Police have been corrupt as long as they have existed. We just hear about it more now, so they are forced to come up with legal loopholes to justify their misbehavior.

Is there something intrinsically bad about executing illegal arms dealers?

Easy solution to the last problem - create all AI to be Jewish, presumably by having a Jewish woman program it. Then it has to observe shabbos in its own right without you worrying about comparing it to a servant or an animal.