Most yes, not all of them.
For example logind. Is there any reason why this should be coupled with systemd?
Apparently not as has been proved by elogind project.
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Thus has been showcased that it is possible and there's no reason why this shouldn't be a separate library in first place according to all those great UNIX and programming philosophical motto out there.
There is absolutely no technical reason why different worlds cannot coexist, at least in our case.
It has mostly been a way (among others) to raise, at least virtually, the purchasing power of smaller european countries and make this closed system work.
There is an 80s greek short film in form of documentary that shows how they used to discard all that production, subsidized by the EU, because there was simply no demand for it.
Sadly it's all greek and no subtitles around but pictures will tell the story: https://youtu.be/o25DPfZeFxI
"During 2018, the refugee population in Germany continued to increase, numbering 1,063,800 at the end of the year. More than half were from Syria (532,100), while other countries of origin included iraq (136,500), Afghanistan (126,000), eritrea (55,300), the islamic Republic of iran (41,200), Turkey (24,000), Somalia (23,600), Serbia and Kosovo (S/ReS/1244 (1999)) (9,200), the Russian Federation (8,100), Pakistan (7,500) and nigeria (6,400)."
Do you see anything weird in those data? 24.000 turkish people have been granted asylum by Germany. The same country that EU acknowledge as a safe place for refugees to return them back. I think that speaks a lot about EU's totally despicable deal with Turkey that has been criticized again and again by so many organizations. [2] [3]
Sadly, we always return back to Smullyan. Whatever i show or tell you won't change your mind about how the little way of life of natives must be protected over human rights of others.
I only hope that pro-europeans, left or right, stop ridicule themselves by criticizing Trump's ICE while they are responsible for far worse atrocities.
Same pig, different color.
[1] https://www.unhcr.org/5d08d7ee7.pdf
[2] https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/20/eu-dont-send-syrians-bac...
[3] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/03/eu-turkey-ref...
Do you by any chance have any wikipedia link explaining that?
>> Greece can't manage its own unemployment let alone train, educate and integrate migrants.
It's funny you saying that because Greece is a good example of open borders back to 90s and the influx of hundreds thousand of migrants from Albania. Was there any plan? Absolutely nothing. There were tensions and racist attacks but in perspective they did have a positive effect to the greek economy that wasn't back then any better than it is now. And they did integrate to society.
>>I would even say this open border policy is the reason why migration from Africa through mediterranean sea intensified and we see so many drowned now.
That's exactly what right wingers are saying. And makes absolutely no sense. Offer to those people safe and guaranteed passage and they will not be drowned, won't be killed, won't be raped on their way to wherever they want to go. Why do people have to make this complicated?
"As mood sours, Syrians report forced deportations from Turkey" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-syrians/as-mood-so...
"Greek Coast Guard caught on video pushing a boat full of refugees back to Turkey" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k2THtF9h6M
"EU border force Frontex implicated in migrant abuse" https://www.dw.com/en/eu-border-force-frontex-implicated-in-...
Anyway, i'm mostly referring to the people of the left when i'm saying that they have nothing to gain out of this reactionary silence about the massive human rights violations in EU.
It's obvious that the parties chose by the majority are drowning people in Mediterranean sea.
Now of course there was a plan about distributing some migrants BUT let me remind you that those quota NEVER achieved, most european countries never received the amount of refugees they were "obligated" to.
The distribution plan wasn't because refugees gathered for example here in Greece and they wanted to stay here, not at all, most of them wanted to leave the country. It was only a passage for them to other countries. Many people had family waiting for them. What happened? Walls were raised. Borders were closed and Greece almost kicked out of schengen (informally it was suspended). Obviously the government was forced to accept the EU plan about keeping the migrants in concentration camps and distribute some people around the europe (that again never really happened other than a small extend). Later on the EU-Turkey deal happened.
Nowdays that xenophobic, anti-immigration feelings are in rise you can hear that plain and simple even by moderate politicians that when syrian war is over refugees are out of here.
In other words, there never was an open borders and integration policy that failed. It is the same fascist policy by EU that getting people killed or rot in prison.
As for the rest of it how sensible closed borders policies are i will rephrase old Smullyan, it's only sensible to your satisfaction and to the satisfaction of those who share the same right-wing values, but without hearing the argument of why this is a sensible policy i can assure you that it carries not the slightest conviction to the people of the left.
Open borders and free, safe passage.
The EU has financed walls (yes the same EU that makes fun of Trump) like the one at Evros river at greek-turkish borders, a place that could be used as a safe passage, away from risky sea smuggling.
While supposedly it's illegal to return migrants back to countries that could risk their life, still the EU made a deal with Turkey to do exactly that.
Same wise they paying the Libya to keep refugees and migrants in awful concentration camps away from the EU, yes the same Libya that is under civil war is considered by EU a safe country. In fact a few days ago such a concentration camp was bombed and many lost their lives.
EU's Frontex and local forces keep pushing back the boats with refugees, something that's totally and universally illegal.
It is high time to stop this immunity that EU enjoys to the public talk, childhood's end has arrived long ago for that particular organization.
Now, there are few cases that could be useful like evading those pesky private CYBER detectives that companies hire to track torrents. Also it could be used to bypass region restrictions. That's just that, i would never trust a single byte of private info to go through a VPN.
There are few services who do not try to evade the (big) question of trust and they tell you that you could use Tor through their VPN, but at that point we have already taken a first class sit to the "security theater".
The plain fact is that you don't know what they are doing, it's impossible to know.
If they ever find a way for an introspective verification/validation of configurations coupled with the connection itself (or whatever mumbo jumbo), then we can talk again about middle-men's trust.
But for example Greece, that "cheat" they did to get in eurozone couple years earlier, wasn't a cheat back then and EU was totally informed, also the debt that swapped was insignificant compared with the amount of debt created due to systemic problems of eurozone and EU.
Too bad there are fake news only for the stronger, the weaker and smaller countries can do nothing but get crashed under the propaganda.
Users trusted PureVPN claims for protecting their privacy but all it took was an FBI investigation and through court documents to find out that they actually were keeping logs, despite all their claims.
Well, i guess could be worse though. For example, over a decade Yale's professor (now moved to Oxford) Stathis Kalyvas has even tried to whitewash the greek military dictatorship.
Anyway, it's only a healthy sign that young people don't stay silent to racism.
"The term "White Terror" in its broadest meaning refers to the entire period from 1947 to 1987.[4] Around 140,000 Taiwanese were imprisoned during this period, of which from about 3,000 to 4,000 were executed for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang (KMT, Chinese Nationalist Party) government led by Chiang Kai-shek." (wikipedia)
So those guys evidently don't hold in high esteem domestic or foreign oppression.
But somehow Detention was a great game for the mainland chinese and a historic remark for taiwan's atrocities to its own people (a true statement) but now they have become angry because of a pixel poster with a reference to a meme about their little dictator? I think they should change the poster with the tank man and be done with it. Too bad they can brute force their way through capitalistic ways of buying power and reviews.