I have a friend who coaches all kinds of postgrads through their theses/treatises (masters all the way to postdoc) - the number one thing that keeps her in business is shitty supervisors and the soul crushing grind of academia. PhDs (and masters theses) are primarily about project management, with time, money and morale being the primary resources dealt with. Almost invariably, morale runs out first, and then time, because the work isn't being done. Managing morale is as important as managing your time and money, and supervisors almost never impart that skill.
At the nexus of defense contractors, arms brokers, intelligence and private military contractors, there exist the kind of men who have spent many years doing dirty deeds for various masters, and have no scruples if the pay is right. They have access to the resources, knowledge and connections required to kill someone and not get caught. They operate in a deniable manner, free of the paper trails and accountability of any government entity, but still operate at the same level. These men would be eminently accessible with only one or two degrees of separation for an executive of a defense contractor
Utterly unenforceable in cases of fair use or fair dealing. Maybe Belgium doesn't have legal equivalents for those, but this text is all but useless outside of commercial contexts in most territories.
GDPR is about far more than some browser pop-ups - it severely limits the extent to which companies can harvest and share your information, even if you blindly click through those consent boxes. It confers a bunch of rights to citizens for discovering and controlling who has their data. Most importantly, it creates a disincentive for companies to be lax in securing the data they do have.
If you don't sign with a larger record label, it's harder to get good marketing, gigs and distribution (although some people make a decent go at it by grassrooting via social media). All the big labels operate in the same way, more or less like a cartel.
It may be worth sending them a lawyer's letter threatening to sue for costs and damages (or whatever the lawyer says) unless they fix the issue. It's faster and easier and cheaper for them to placate you than to even send a lawyer's letter back. You don't have to follow through, necessarily - just poke them in the face rather than the ass.
Addiction is not magically fixed by prison and/or rehab. Even with a holistic approach of social support, medical treatment and mental healthcare, addiction has such a hold that rehabilitation hovers around 15% effectiveness. There's no easy fix, and it's almost impossible to stem the flow from the supply side. Your proposed solution would result in a very expensive revolving door, imo.
I imagine having critical-industry capacity may take a front seat, rather than labour concerns - those can be sorted out later when the need to be able to scale to wartime production levels is less dire
I don't think most of these top-level commenters get it. The issue isn't just that they don't allow external clients, it's that they privilege iMessage with special API access that other messaging clients don't have, prevent interoperability with other phones by explicitly not supporting RCS, and forcibly bundle the iMessage service, pre-empting consumer choice and suppressing healthy competition by abusing a oligopolistic market position. This is anti-trust 101.
You could also disable internet explorer - the antitrust comes in when you pre-empt any competitive consumer choice by forcibly bundling the application, iirc.
People are remarkably more hesitant to destroy physical records than digital ones, in my experience. Also, you have to go to a place and find the thing to destroy it - with digital records, you can press a button from across the world.
Au contraire, you very much can embed bitmaps into SVGs - it's often the only way to export gradient meshes in a manner supported by all renderers. This can be done via the plain ol' `image` tag with an external file, or a data URI to directly embed the encoded bitmap file.
The Uber app is a well-dressed, well-cached thin web client. It's doubtful as to whether this would be linked to local app state, but also I'd imagine reinstalling would be one of the first things tried by support.
Very few school systems implemented any actual critical race theory in their syllabi. Your other points may still stand, but CRT has been misrepresented in the media at best, and at worst has become a dog whistle (for certain groups) for anything in the education system that challenges a white supremacy narrative. Certain media outlets coughFOXcough have latched on to CRT and misapplied it to topics which already were in the syllabi, such as civil rights history, the leadup to the civil war, race riots and lynchings, voter suppression, institutional racism, etc.