an jedem Eck steht ein Zigarettenautomat.

Na Mensch, wenn es doch bloß eine Gruppe von Menschen geben würde, die sowas verbieten könnte. Menschen, mit einer gemeinsamen Mission, quasi eine Ko-Mission.

Alles, was du als Problem anführst, kann legislativ bekämpft werden. Dafür musst du auch keinen Schwarzmarkt haben, sondern es einfach sehr unattraktiv machen, zu rauchen. Preis ist da nur eine Schraube. Andere wären zB Verfügbarkeit und Nutzbarkeit.

Alleine so ein schwedisches Modell mit staatlichen Läden, die das Monopol auf Drogen haben, würdest du schon sehr viel Menschen vom Konsum abhalten.

There was a very simple phone from Samsung a few years back that had a solar cell on the back.

Since the battery lasted over a week anyway, you could easily double the battery life by just having it in indirect light.

Modern phones are guzzling so much power that it's hardly useful there.

I feel like there's a very fine balance for the effort required to publish a package.

Too easy and you get npm.

Too hard and you get an empty repo.

I feel like Java is actually doing a relatively good job here. Most packages are at least documented a bit, though obviously many are outdated.

The leadership on both sides would not only lose power, but likely end up in prison or dead, if there's ever peace.

They won't do anything towards a peaceful solution.

I don't need your location.

Pager transmissions contain a sender and a receiver. That's all the information you need. If a known Hisbollah sender sends to a receiver, that receiver obviously has some ties to Hisbollah.

Of course that's emotional.

Reducing suffering is based on the idea that I don't like suffering, therefore I don't want others to suffer. That's emotional.

And what exactly is a logical reasoning?

Pretty much all political reasoning is emotional, but for some reason, only the "other side" gets emotional.

Wanting equality is an emotional reason. Wanting absolute freedom is emotional. Freedom of speech, aristocracy, fascism, anarchism, progressive income tax are all, if you keep asking "why?" emotional choices.

If, at any point, someone says something is good or bad, well, that's emotional, simply because these are purely human categories that are not rational.

Because that way they avoid any competition.

Thing is, businesses like Google's ads are not linear. If you can track 90% of people 90% of the time, your ads are much much more valuable to advertisers than a company that only tracks 70% of the people 90% of the time. So it makes sense to create a moat by literally shitting money on everyone around you.

Think about the opposite: if Apple would switch to DDG by default, most people would leave it at that. And that would mean, a significant chunk of the US search traffic is gone. Europe and the rest of the world are not that apple-heavy, but Apple users are rich power users (on average), these are extremely valuable.

By tracking who sent what to whom?

If you know the phone number of a Hisbollah member and they send messages to a set of pagers, these are likely Hisbollah pagers. If you do that to several phone numbers, you get a pretty comprehensive list of members. You don't need to know, where exactly they are. That's simply not relevant.

And again: if it's a supply chain attack, you don't even need these contacts. Just a single entry point into the supply chain of the organization.

No.

Google pays to keep its monopoly on search.

Chrome, Android, etc. all are just tools to funnel views on their ads.

If Mozilla would fold, Google would have a monopoly on browsers, which could cause problems for them. So they finance fake competition.

No other company could pay even close to that amount of money.

Ich frag mich immer wieder, was die Politik sich von solchen Maßnahmen erhofft, wenn gleichzeitig die reguläre Arbeit der Sicherheitsbehörden aufgrund von Personalmangel nicht erledigt werden kann.

So, what exactly do you think would be a proper reaction here?

Hisbollah is de facto a state actor in Lebanon. Lebanon is doing nothing against a group whose declared goal is the destruction of Israel, including shooting unguided rockets into civilian areas.

Now, how would you address that? Unless you have any idea how else to solve this, you're simply talking out of your ass.

Maybe the guys shooting rockets at Israel?

Don't play dumber than you are.

No, they are not.

As I wrote, you can track which pager got paged when. And you can identify who uses that pager. The pager itself does not need to transmit anything for that.

You obviously don't know how tracking works.

...and you know which telephone numbers send data to the pager and at which time. That is sufficient to track or identify individuals.

If this is a supply chain attack, the attacker already knows, which pagers are part of the organization they want to target.

What this thread here shows really well, is that the general population vastly underestimates the abilities of intelligence agencies and technology in general.

Not that I think the Israel is the good guy in this conflict, but your argument is pretty weak.

Pager are designed to be trackable. If you have such deep access to these devices, you know exactly who got called by whom and when.

Yes, there will be collateral damage, but that's almost a given in any armed conflict.

Eine Menge der Kommentare hier, inklusive deinem, sind perfekte Beispiele von #NotAllMen.

Und was ist daran falsch?

Im Ernst, überleg doch mal, was du hier verlangst. Mir wird ausschließlich aufgrund einer Zugehörigkeit, die ich mir nicht ausgesucht habe, etwas vorgeworfen. Und wenn ich nicht Täter bin, soll ich doch wenigstens was machen. Ja was denn? Soll ich beim Nachbarn klingeln und fragen, ob er seine Frau schlägt?

Reflektier dich mal selber: Ich kann deinen Forderungen nicht nachkommen. Das ist nicht möglich. Ich kann der beste Mann der Welt sein und trotzdem wird man mir aufgrund meines Geschlechts das vorwerfen was hier steht. Egal wie toll ich persönlich bin, egal wie sehr ich mich gegen Gewalt einsetze. Denn der nächsten Frau gegenüber bin ich nur ein Mann damit böse.

Nochmal als Vergleich: nimm deinen Text und übertrag ihn auf zB Muslime. Natürlich sind nicht alle Muslime Terroristen, aber distanzieren sollten sie sich schon! Klingt weird, oder?

Deine gesamte Einlassung hier strotzt nur so vor inhaltslosen Phrasen, die letzte nur den immer gleichen Inhalt reproduzieren: Mann=böse. Und das ist extrem gefährlich und du siehst es nicht mal.

Vielleicht missverstehst du aber auch massiv die Zahlen dahinter.

Artikel wie der hier sind massive Verallgemeinerungen. Im Prinzip wird allen Männern vorgeworfen, dass sie gefährlich sind, was faktisch nicht korrekt ist. Sonst wären Frauen schon ausgestorben (und 5 Jahre später die Männer).

Wenn du dir die Zahlen mal anguckst, dann gehen sehr sehr sehr viele der angeblich typisch männlichen Probleme auf eine relativ kleine Gruppe zurück.

Die allermeisten Männer schlagen ihre Frauen nicht. Die allermeisten vergewaltigen auch nicht.

Genauso wenig, wie es okay ist, Frauen pauschal vorzuwerfen, dass sie ihre Vergewaltigung erfunden haben, ist es auch nicht okay, Männern vorzuwerfen, dass sie alle vergewaltigen.

Nur, weil eine *istische Aussage gegen eine Gruppe gerichtet ist, die als "mächtiger" gilt, ist es noch lange nicht in Ordnung.

Mal auf die Meta-Ebene gezogen: diese Art des Diskurses ist genau der Müll, der und die Culture War Kacke der AFD bringt. Wenn sich Leute zu unrecht angeklagt fühlen, werden sie sauer. Es werden hier also keine Probleme gelöst, sondern nur neue geschaffen, damit sich ein paar Möchtegern-Intellektuelle und Aktivisten gegenseitig auf die Schultern klopfen können, während die Gesellschaft brennt.

If the vast majority of people are affected, is it really "extreme" anymore?

Ja.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

Nope, 65th place, slightly behind the US and the country of old men: Albania.

And a whole lot of content that I frankly would have preferred not to have seen.

When you're 12 and your parents have no idea what you're doing, you'll end up in very dark corners.

It's the same in China.

"Meine Ehre heißt Schande" wäre eigentlich eine gute Satire.

Wissen viele nicht, aber menschliche Lippen haben Schubvektorsteuerung.

The best argument against Rand is just listening to her for 5min.

Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.

Naja, das aber unironisch.

Ich meine das nicht als "hurr durr high performer", sondern einfach nicht Teil des Aufgabengebiets.

Wenn ich etwas seit Jahren nicht gemacht habe, struggle ich erstmal. Und gerade bei Druckern: wie oft braucht man die denn privat? Ich bin Softwareentwickler und theoretisch könnte ich wahrscheinlich einen Drucker bedienen, aber ich glaube seit über 10 Jahren besitze ich keinen mehr. Immer alles in der Firma gedruckt.

Was hier gezeigt wird, ist leider diese fast schon performative Überheblichkeit der "unteren", weil sie endlich mal zeigen können, wie doof die da oben doch sind.

Kritisiert die Leute gerne, aber nicht wegen so einem kleinscheiss.

Well, actually you're kind of wrong, at least in some contexts.

So I'm not sure, how that works in other countries, but here in Germany, a large bid for some public contact has to parrot the requirements. The process includes a bloke essentially ticking all of the boxes in their request, and if you say (just for example) "we will deploy that in our k8s cluster" but they require a cloud ready solution, the bloke will not tick the box. Yes, that's incredibly stupid.

Apart from that, who reads the bid texts? Not technical people, but bean counters and MBAs. The technical people on the other side are only asked for comment, they have no say.

I wish you would be right, but in a world full of people desperately trying to justify their existence, fluff is essential.

Most "professional" writing is just a bunch of phrases interspersed with a few chunks of information.

I'm involved with bidding and grant proposal stuff for software and it's 90% empty words. I draw two diagrams and a page of text, sales deletes 60% of the text, misinterprets the rest and then puffs it up to 30 pages.

Why exactly does MS gaming employ over 20.000 people?

And when people started writing books instead of memorizing epic poems.

Most people are used to devices being at least somewhat safe. They don't expect devices they buy from a large online retailer to be that bad. A flaw here and there, sure, but basically a 100% chance of death? Yeah, that's not exactly to expect.

It's usually not a question of legality, but efficiency.

It's easy and efficient to bust someone for seeding, but busting hundreds for the odd file you can prove they downloaded is expensive and takes forever.

Vielleicht sollten wir Tee in ein Hafenbecken werfen oder so.

Die passen kulturell einfach nicht zu uns.

There's no hope anymore. Simple as that.

For a pretty long time, probably starting even before WW2 in some countries, there was this hope "tomorrow will be better, my children can have a better life". And that hope was at least somewhat true.

But it's gone now, and the children understand that. What is the positive narrative for a 16 year old child now? They know exactly that they'll have a worse life than their parents in many regards.

And you didn't even mention climate change.

I'm in my early 30s, so I experienced cooler summers, but also the crises in 2007 and the following years (where basically every Eurozone country south of the Alps almost collapsed).

I also experienced the refugee "crisis" in Germany and obviously covid.

What I learned is, that the only thing our governments can do is throwing money at rich people. Literally nothing else. Every single crisis, conflict, bad situation was met with utter incompetence, corruption, and often enough some new way to blame poor people.

I can't speak for other countries, but ask yourself, what actually changed for the better in the last 20 years thanks to any government action? Rents? Still high. Education? Educate yourself. Healthcare? Here's aspirin, good luck.

The young people of today see that our entire society is moving in an extremely dangerous direction of collapse, and they feel like they can do nothing against it. They feel powerless against a system that ostensibly is super open and democratic. That's why so many (not only young people) are voting for extremists. They want to see everything burn.

But they are not getting worse. People just don't understand economics. They just see a number or headline that happens to align with their beliefs and then barf their ignorance into comments.

And that's factually not true, because - again - no understanding of economics.

What counts are the real wages. If inflation is 2% and wages rise by 2%, nothing changed.

Real wages dropped due to the high inflation over the last years, but that also turned into higher raises. And over the longer run, 10-20 years, it's not that bad.

So you're saying, things getting less bad is not good news?

Cancer in remission is actually bad news, because it's just shrinking, and not gone yet?

Inflation is supposed to be at about 2%. That's the goal of the ecb. And if you look at a longer scale, that was met, because the decade preceding covid had hardly any inflation.

You just want to be pessimistic about everything.