1) Create competitor to widely used social media network
2) Create app that makes said network toxic
3) See users defect to your network in droves
4) PROFIT!!!
"Russian government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries." - and if you think the US is free then I'm afraid you've swallowed the poison cool-aid.
First they started with the pedos, cos' that's a no-brainer, right? Then they made "extreme" pr0n and cartoons illegal. Now it's "terrorist content" (With the government deciding what qualifies). What next? Attempting to educate yourself in an "non-sanctioned manner"?
It's kind of a shame nobody said anything about "The thin end of the wedge" years go huh...?
Riiight. Cos' the air that leaks in is all going to stay in one place like a pile of sand... Please learn some basic fluid dynamics before commenting next time.
"Contempt of court" - ie a jail cell till you comply with the court's orders. Even if that lasts longer than the maximum sentence for the supposed crime.
If you ran a program that encrypted a portion of your computer's hard drive without giving you the unlock code there is no way you could know the code to give to the police. But under UK law you can be held in Contempt of Court and jailed indefinitely for not handing over when asked the code you don't know. And in these days of crypto ransomware running wild that's an even more scary concept.
Assuming men and women's brains are indeed no different then surely diversity makes total sense. Rather than recruiting the top 10 men for your job you can have the top 10 people - it only makes sense to limit the recruitment to a specific group if #10 in your chosen group is better than #1 in the excluded group.
So... when do you want to start paying insurance for, say cancer? Or Aids? Or being hit by a truck?
Pay too soon and you contravene what you said above. Getting insurance after diagnosis might be a little tricky...
Erm... if 1 in 3100 civilians killed someone each year it would be called a Crime Epidemic and people would be demanding that government Did Something about it. Based on current US population that would be roughly 100,000 murders A YEAR rather than the 16,000 it currently is.
Every single one of those things you mentioned has a purpose of keeping the user of the car safe. Tell me how mandating that you give your local police station a spare set of keys so they can go through your glove box any time they like is going to keep you safe?