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Completely disagree. Instead, we make it illegal to record people in public spaces without warning and consent. Make it a criminal offence with strong penalties, especially for the publication of people-identifying records. It should be illegal to set up a camera on one's fence along a highway and publish the license plates and times of cars passing by.

Seedlings need _light_ when they pop out or they get all spindly. The sun does something like 1 kW/m3, so if you're using artificial light, you will need plenty of (preferably LED/CFL) lighting. Source: the generations of spindly tomato plants who went before the thick-stalked purple-green-leaved ones.

According to official logs, Google lobbyists were at the Obama White House more than once a week on average. Donations to Democrats over Republicans was something like a 95-5 ratio from Google staff. Multiple former and future Google employees were top election campaign staff. That kind of near-perfect integration between the world's most powerful information corporation and the world's most powerful government was never going to be undermined by something as nebulous as "monopolistic business practices."

Google's dominance is so complete that for years even their top browser competitor, Firefox, came preset to use an omnibox with Google as the default search engine, meaning that everything one typed into the browser was sent to Google, even if not actually a Google search.

This integration with Google is pervasive in Firefox; there are dozens of settings built into the browser that send information to various Google services. Yes, it's possible to change all of them, but probably less than 0.001% of users will do that. This is why it's not possible to take Firefox's claim that they are pro-privacy seriously.