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Which was really fucking stupid of them. Don't play fuck around and find out with the US government. Especially as a non-US entity. It very rarely goes well for you. The PRC is playing games and rapidly running out of runway for those games.

Canada isn't going to become part of the US. For all of Canada's (many, many) issues it is still a stable first world nation of forty million people. There is a far better chance of the US getting Greenland than Canada (or any portion of it) becoming part of the US. Even then, the most likely...

On paper, yes. In reality, no. The NSA doesn't make cases and NSA acquired information doesn't end up in any court of law. The extent to which the NSA gives a solitary damn about following the law is exactly as far as Congressional tolerance stretches vis a vi their budget. Note also that any...

You can buy a decent starter home (sufficient for a couple and a kid) for under 200k in a lot of the US. With 20% down and a fifteen year mortgage you are looking at monthly payments (including taxes and insurance) of less than $2000 per month. Most people in the US just have zero financial...

If you are making $300k a year and feel poor then you need to gain some financial literacy. 300k per year is $25,000 per month. Renting a three bedroom, two bath, 1500 square foot luxury apartment in NYC will cost around 5,000 per month. Spending $250 per day per person on food (fairly absurdly...

Fundamentally, this kind of action fails to have a meaningful impact because those taking this action are overwhelmingly lone actors who can't present a sustained threat. For terrorism to have any chance of working (and the use of illegal violence to achieve political ends is the very...

Osama was an outlaw in the truest description of the word. His own actions put him outside of the protection of the law. He chose to place himself outside of the community and society at large. He could not be arrested, he could not be served, he could not be sued, he explicitly repudiated...

That isn't what happened with Lavabit. The court ordered them to turn over their encryption keys and because of how the service was set up, having that key allowed one to read every message on the service. As a consequence of that court order, everyone doing secure communications switched to...

Signal is your best chance. It can be a drop in replacement for messaging apps and calls. 2FA will still go to SMS but at least it is something. Signal is far from perfect but on ease of use vs. security it beats everything else hands down.

No, all US made communications software doesn't have backdoors. And no, prison isn't the consequence of refusing to put in backdoors.

The government wants to be able to enforce wiretap warrants so they require corporations to create pathways to enforce those warrants. Someone (the PRC) hacked those pathways. Effectively, they had a court warrant for every cellphone message in the US. Basically, if a court order to the telecom...

Fingers crossed for Brandon Herrera as head of the ATF. It won't happen but then we did just get Gaetz of all people as AG so I guess anything is possible. Herrera as head of the ATF would be the most epic win for the Second Amendment ever.

Le sigh. If you are going to paywall content at least use Locals. It takes a smaller cut and is a lot easier for a creator to work with. Or, in Peters case, set up your own site. It's not like it is hard.

The very first thing to understand is what technologies are present. For example, a world with Stargates and STL ships is inherently going to end up with a very different political situation than one with commonly available galactic scale FTL (think Star Wars). In order of importance, you need...

You need to make a certain number of posts (25) before it becomes possible to PM someone. This is to cut down on random spam by accounts that make it past the filters.

His motivations may well have been irrational/insane but that doesn't change the fact that he came closer to assassinating someone under Secret Service protection than anyone in a very long time. That doesn't happen by accident. Would if have worked if Trump actually had Presidential level...

People do realize that from the shooter getting eyes on Trump to getting ventilated was under like 30 seconds, right? And that it was about the highest stress shot that one can take. The shooter went into this knowing that he wouldn't live out the day. A hundred and fifty yards at a relatively...

Ok, this (tentatively) appears to be an issue with the update conflicting with several addons. We are working to resolve it.

Yup. It lost power at exactly the wrong time and in exactly the wrong place. It theoretically could have been deliberate but almost certainly wasn't. The most likely explanation is that the fuel was bad as that has been a known problem in shipping for a while as the switch to low sulfur fuels...

The issue with that Q&A is that the people talking are industry experts who have internalized the standard/normal processes for doing things. Business as usual? You are looking at months to years to get things back up and running. But then you have the actual realities. This is a Presidential...