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Not excusing Vanguard, but if you’re running Windows then your entire kernel is a blob. If you’re running most linux distros, then your kernel contains blobs for drivers.
Not excusing Vanguard, but if you’re running Windows then your entire kernel is a blob. If you’re running most linux distros, then your kernel contains blobs for drivers.
There really isn’t a complicated discussion to be had unless you needlessly complicate things. There’s a big difference between having, say, better monitor or headphones in terms of resolution or sound quality vs having a monitor or headphones that add extra features.
It’s like saying that AR glasses that visualize a ball’s trajectory should be allowed in tennis or football because players can already invest in better rackets or shoes.
The detection problem is not unsolvable. First, you can forbid people that are using that monitor from matchmaking. You can find your monitor’s model number using software so that would be trivial. For a more nuanced approach, you can examine players’ reaction times and ban people that got too good too fast.
not on my machine! every time someone posts a screenshot with a handwritten font it’s less readable and looks bad
And at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it’s infinite
The fact that big companies collect and sell your data is common knowledge now, definitely not something esoteric that only people in privacy-conscious bubbles know of. However, “normal” people refuse to not follow every trend or get inconvenienced.
If 95% of ford owners were satisfied with their black cars, vs 40% for another manufacturer that provides cars in multiple colors, then ford would be the better manufacturer.
Enough for them to believe that they live in a democracy, it seems (and I don’t say that sarcastically).
It’s not like people in liberal democracies have more influence. We can’t choose who runs, and each individual’s vote is negligible. I don’t know the specifics of China’s government, but I suspect they value being able to influence local policy and higher official elections via the Communist Party more than a direct vote on its leader – I would too, honestly.
I’d say that it has confidence in that, but their elections and government are structured in a different way.
The CCP has higher approval rates than western governments and the vast majority of Chinese believe they are living in a democracy. This is confirmed by western studies; latest one I’ve seen was from Harvard.
Not really, since bits and bytes represent the same dimension of data.
Your argument is like saying “why say a car can do km/h when it is really m/s”
He is coming from a country that suffered terrorist attacks organized by the US (Operation Mongoose), being ready to fire his country’s deterrent weapons if they don’t stop receiving such attacks makes sense to me.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cuba-trafficking-idUSKBN1WC00X
I wouldn’t trust the country that tried to assassinate Cuba’s leader, overthrow their government and organized terrorist attacks in its land to have valid criticisms for Cuba.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/23/cuba-repressive-rules-doctors-working-abroad
Health workers may also face criminal penalties if they “abandon” their jobs.
This sounds bad, but then again they’re on a foreign mission, with their country’s reputation on the line. A considerable amount of health workers abandoning their jobs might make the mission infeasible, which could create diplomatic issues for Cuba. Also, I wonder if that’s the case on soldiers (American or otherwise) on foreign missions. I would expect that they can’t abandon their jobs without penalty, and I don’t see how this is that different.
it is considered a “disciplinary offense” to have “relationships” with anyone whose “actions are not consistent with the principles and values of the Cuban society,” as well as to be “friends or establish any other links” with Cuban dissidents, people who have “hostile or contrary views to the Cuban revolution,” or who are “promoters of a way of life contrary to the principles that a Cuban collaborator abroad must represent.”
Again, these seem restrictions that would apply on soldiers on foreign missions, so it doesn’t seem weird to me that they apply to Cuba’s medical missions.
Under Resolution 168, doctors need “authorization and instructions” to “express opinions” to the media about “internal situations in the workplace” or that “put the Cuban collaboration at risk.” It is also an offense to “disseminate or propagate opinions or rumors that undermine the morals or prestige of the group or any of its members.”
I believe Cuba wouldn’t need to enforce this if they weren’t under -economic- siege by the US and their allies. What the doctors do or say on the missions could be the start of a diplomatic incident.
Others said they joined in the hope of leaving the country or of obtaining access to food, such as meat, which they cannot buy with their salaries in Cuba.
I can’t help but wonder if meat would be cheaper in Cuba without the embargo against them.
Are you implying that you don’t remember that experience, or that salvia caused you memory issues?