Yepp, as I said: The system is built first and foremost to defend itself.

Personally, I don't think that police should have any right whatsoever to enter your digital devices. Yes, including for terrorism and kiddie porn. And I am 100% for us nerds developing defenses against this overreach. This case is a lesson that teaches us distress PINs are a good thing, but we need to improve on them, make it less obvious they were used, etc.

It's not a question of "Germany for the Germans". It's a matter of allowing people who are openly opposed to your culture to become a sizeable minority, while at the same time putting pressure on society in every way in order to extract wealth for the "elites", while at the same time replacing everyone among the "elites" who is actually capable of something with incompetent, corrupt egomaniacs.

If one of these factors were absent, we might yet manage. Competent leaders might be able to keep things together. Not maximizing profit for the few while returning the populations' lives back to peasantry would give ordinary people breathing space to cope with everything and solve issues at the base. Not importing culture war would keep society more cohesive and able to fight back against the exploitation.

Yes, because we all know that criminals only attack things they are interested in, and would never perform theft-of-service on any old server they find a known exploit works on.

If you actually work somewhere professionally with this attitude, you need to be fired.

True, but that's because when you put the trash on the curb, you are implicitly transferring ownership of it to the refuse hauling company. And they have no problem being answerable to a legal subpoena for evidence - it's their property at that point, and not yours.

This, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with someone who still owns the phone, and owns the password to unlock it, and doesn't want to give up evidence against himself - which is their constitutional right.

So, nice red herring.

US Court of Appeals, in the proceedings about presidential immunity:

Note that Sauer is currently the Solicitor General. He maintains that if the President ordered a political assassination of a US citizen, on US soil, for merely political rivalry purposes it would require impeachment before criminal proceedings could occur.

Yes, this is the ridiculous shit the Roberts Court rubberstamped.

For clarity:
1. the DoJ isn't going to fuck over ongoing prosecutions and appeals by releasing evidence into the public and tainting jury pools, should something get remanded back to a trial court on appeal. This should be obvious if you know any damn thing about criminal procedure.
2. I'm not specifically interested in Trump and everything he has going on in these files - if he gets taken down that's life. I'm interested in ALL the guilty pedo fucksticks getting taken down. I don't give a fuck what party they are in, how rich they are, or any other damn thing - if they're a pedo, and there's probable cause that they diddled children, they need to be investigated, indicted, tried, and if found guilty, thrown into prison.

That clear enough for you? Stop dragging politics into a place it doesn't belong, other than it being obvious who is carrying water for pedos by blocking the legally mandated release of this information.

So your position is that some vote-buying campaign can occur today, with a smartphone in everyone's pocket and a live internet stream available to every person, with no evidence, no reporting, and absolutely no proof of it happening. Yeah, that sounds super plausible.

The entire west coast of the US has been vote-by-mail for decades now, and there is absolutely no proof of anything you are talking about actually happening in any measurable quantity. Either this is the best run conspiracy in the history of conspiracies, or it's not a problem to begin with until proven to be one.

So I will reiterate: don't answer questions nobody is asking. Don't solve problems that don't exist, until they are proven to be problems. We have enough shit to worry about that's real, without worrying about the make-believe that only is in the conversation because a massively insecure orange guy can't take the narcissistic injury of losing.

I don't know if his name is redacted or not, because I haven't seen the unredacted files.

However, members of Congress that have seen the unredacted files, as is their right under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, have said that files have been improperly and illegally redacted under that statute.

Are you saying they're wrong, without having seen the files yourself? Are you a member of Congress, or a DoJ attorney with access to those files?

Oh no! They expressed an opinion about an opposition political candidate! This has never happened in the history of politics!

Idiot.

So you don't understand that it's a bad idea to release evidence from ongoing prosecutions before the final disposition of those prosecutions?

Thanks for confirming that you don't know how this works - the Maxwell appeals and SCOTUS certiori was not done until Trump was in office. At any point before that, anything in the case could be remanded back to trial court, in which case releasing the files would have poisoned the jury pool.

Maybe stop with your ignorance and political claptrap. Stop with the whatabout bullshit - I think that Merrick Garland was a terrible AG as well, but a past terrible AG doesn't excuse a current AG from being terrible and violating new laws that didn't exist when the last AG was sitting in that chair.

Please stop being an idiot, everyone will be happier.

As a (small) shareholder of both companies, I'm against this move. Not that my opinion counts for much, but these are two companies that are strong each for their own reasons and a merger would muddle that. But maybe that's the point.

We thought the Megacorporations would emerge as vertically integrated all-consumer-products giants. Turns out that a tech bubble beats that.

The Japanese conglomerate model works because the brand itself is essentially a holding company for the sub-companies that are largely independently operated.

There's not a lot of crossover between electric razors, televisions, microwave ovens, and avionics; yet Panasonic does all of those today from the humble beginnings of a guy with a basement who made a battery powered lamp that you can bolt to your bicycle in early 20th century Japan

Those companies hardly ever talk to each other except at a company sponsored tech symposium in Osaka every year out of curiosity as to what other siblings in the family are doing. They have their own CEOs and executives. There is basically only a financial relationship to the parent holding company.

Musk consolidating everything and being a tyrant overlord of it all would be very different than that.

This isn't a new pattern for him.

Remember that he used the Tesla cash cow to bail out SolarCity. Now he's doing the same thing for SpaceX after the IPO, so he can run away with a swimming pool full of other people's money.

Apply:

sed 's/Tesla/TOPIC/g`

to your comment, and you have described 95% of Reddit.

That does not follow. Germany especially is an export-oriented economy that relies on cheap energy to be profitable. It competes directly with asian countries that have far lower costs. You might not grasp the magnitude: Gas was 2.5 cents per kWh a decade ago. It jumped to 30 and more after Ukraine, USA or a combination of both blew up North Stream 2. Granted, it came down again, but it's still over 6 cents today. (exact numbers depend on your market, location, yada yada )

Russia is suffering a slow-burning blow to its compound growth. I honestly don't think that the damage to Russia is worse than the damage to Europe.