msiyer

Trying to effect large-scale changes without rectifying fundamental issues is futile. We all want to change the system, but the system is only a large-scale reflection of individuals constituting the system.

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> Passphrases are optional. Your synced data is always protected by encryption when it's in transit.

Data is protected when in transit and passphrase is optional. How is this a good feature?

Spare time is important, money not all. Homeless people (homeless due to circumstances or by choice) can have extremely well-behaved dogs. Gypsy groups, tribal people and wandering monks in India are examples I have seen.

There are evil forces. We need to protect ourselves. We need military. However, it is naive to think that we, as citizens in a democracy, have any say in the wars we engage in. If we have no say, who does? If we have no say, is the one who does accountable to us? If we have no say and the one who does is not accountable to us, then is this a democracy? Too much power in the hands of too few. We sacrifice our hard earned money, our kith and kin... so that a few psychopaths can stroke their egos.

>> Eating meat is a manly-man activity

This is something that baffles me. The biggest, strongest mammals are herbivorous - elephant, bull, bison... Even the best carnivorous animals meditate for a few hours and seek divine help before messing with these guys.

Why is eating grass, not a manly-man activity?

Look at "leaders" all around the world. Past and present. And look at condition of the world around you.

It is people's fault that they become our "leaders". It is a crime that we let them remain in position.

If we look closely, we will soon realize that everything favors tyranny. Religious institutions, political institutions, educational institutions...

The problem is humanity has a tendency to pick or gravitate to morally weak specimens for leadership. We also have a tendency to "believe" authority which often leads us astray. Would a wolf pack pick a weak leader? Would a wolf pack let a weak leader remain in position once weaknesses are exposed?

Very well said. Too much dry thought and almost no fertile community-oriented emotions.

A very few powerful men have been abusing other men for generations too. Women in such powerful families were no less abusive. Why are we ignoring the suffering of men?

That is a myopic view of history.

We are centuries behind because we do not embrace the beauty of dimorphism. One sex complements the other. This is not a war for supremacy.

This world is built upon the dead bodies of men. Men who fought wars to protect their kin, men who fell from the top of buildings they were constructing, men who suffocated to death deep in the tunnels, or drowned in the ocean...

Let us not forget them. Let us not belittle their sacrifices.

If that is your argument, I would say men have done a commendable job. They supported women for centuries while building a society that would eventually let women not be dependent on men.

Vision without wisdom is always myopic. People have a tendency to mistake smartness for wisdom. A grave error. Why is it that everything we touch gets ruined?

What you say makes complete sense. It is correct as per my observations. However, one big issue is that sociopaths (manipulators, idea\effort-appropriators...) have an edge. Also, such people accumulate and ruin workplace.

Agree.

What bothers me most is the price David has to pay to slay the ToS of the Goliath. It is prohibitive, to say the least. Thus, there is nothing to stop this trend of ridiculous ToSs.

Such violation of human rights should attract swift and exemplary punishment. Also, the small guy should not pay for this community service he is performing.

The logic that substantiated slavery, genocides, wars... had the same soul your logic has - greed. Greed is never good for the society. Do not forget that we are social animals.

Cost is the most important concern. Various factors add to it. Time taken to deliver justice, if it ever can be, is the major factor. The justice system is set up like a religion. Even a group of victims with a common influential adversary would find it difficult to carry on for decades with unwavering intensity.

> Sadly, even if this is unenforceable, the potential legal battle to have it declared so would be scary enough to quash some criticism.

I have seen this happen in so many cases all over the world. Supreme Court orders can be ignored by the government agencies and even private parties as long as no one drags them to court. Spending a 100 million dollars is nothing for the government or influential private parties as big as Intel. The small guy, however, will be bankrupted.

Be it the government or the big corporate, it is effectively the public money being used against the public. How absurd.

This shows that money is necessary for justice. This is dangerous.

Why can we not have systems that detect such frauds and automatically discipline such entities? It is not like such violations are happening behind closed doors of a small house in an inaccessible jungle. These violations are public.

Can total data consumed be more than (31 x 24 x 60 x 60)s x 50 Mbps in any month of the year?

Let us stop pretending that the lawyers who approve corporate literature are innocent and just misinterpreted the meaning of the word "unlimited".

These malpractices need to stop. Precise language needs to be made legally necessary for such literature. This is no "Kublai Khan" where the writer is allowed liberties normally unavailable.

The audit is a joke. Just hogwash. What exactly happens if wrongdoings are unearthed? What happens when taxpayers' money is found lost? Nothing.

Pentagon eats up trillions and no one has a clue. Trillions paid out in bank bailouts and no one questions. Billionaires take loans and declare bankruptcy...

Audits performed by those who are involved in the crime is hogwash.

Central banks can never be held accountable for anything. In most cases, they cannot even be audited.

Yes. These negative forces feed on our negative reaction. My rottweiler is barked upon rather aggressively by the street dogs whenever we go for walks. He does not care; does not even look at them. He has a happy family and he is happy. I learn a lot from him.

If it is a physical assault we need to engage the legal system.

If not, treat these as mind games. The opponent expects you to behave in a predictable manner. If you react violently or weakly, they win. Censorship is a weak move. It is very much possible that your opponent (possibly, a front for some government agency or a political party) expects you to want more censorship (you can guess the reasons).

Words cannot ruin our religion\race. If they can, our religion\race does not deserve to exist. A religion\race that needs the crutches of censorship is a weak religion\race.

This is in no way a deep problem. We make it deep by using psychological mumbo-jumbo, being too politically correct, getting triggered too easily, destroying the family support system...

Start taking these less seriously. Start building better functional families. You will see these problems will slowly vanish. Happy kids from happy families have extraordinary bullshit avoiding capabilities.

Stop hating hate speech and start hating censorship. Hate speech is bad only if we let it affect us. Censorship is bad because someone else decides what we need to think and how we need to react.

"breaking a few eggs": We can surely afford to lose a few cars. I hope that is what you meant.

Democracy is a function of many variables. "An average high intelligence of population" and "high tolerance for seemingly outrageous ideas" are important ones. Humans have rigid belief-systems (comfort zone) and show very little capacity to step out of it.

In the current form of democracy, freedom of expression exists only when it is convenient for masses or when the elites need to push an agenda.

If you extrapolate a bit you can see that we can get rid of governments and have private companies run our lives completely.

Public money should be spent on making FOSS better rather than making private companies richer thereby helping them kill FOSS.

I totally agree.

I have come to realize that capitalism is a narrow-minded approach towards progress. It does not work in the long run.

Capitalism and democracy are incompatible.

Humans cannot perceive a lot of things. However, given the right conditions (post-apocalyptic world?), it would not take a lot of time before humans become perceptive again. A lot many will be wiped out, but as a species we will find a way.

I have a couple of dogs and I know what you mean. With the level of intelligence we possess, we should have achieved more. Technological achievements mean nothing when 70+% human population of the world struggles to survive. I think we use too much of our left brain and too little of the right. A balance is what is needed. Understanding this needs intelligence.