Having corporations do basic functions is a mistake of neoliberalism, which literally cannot conceive of anything without a profit motive.
I do agree that government ownership is tricky because they have to act as both regulator and vendor, but it can be done.
Different societies consider it an important part of one’s identify.
Some countries have religion on the passport.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Military secrets are useful in battle. WW2 has endless examples of this, and you can read advice about it in The Art of War.
Secrets are terrible for a democracy, though. I guess the USA is done with democracy, so the tension between secrets and transparency is now gone…
I mean, there wasn’t a Jewish state for hundreds of years before Islam was founded, so I don’t think it is really comparable.
Jews were alternately accepted or oppressed (up to and including torture and what we now call genocide) basically forever, basically everywhere. But the idea that Jews and Muslims have been at each other’s throats for thousands of years is not really true, IMHO.
The Israeli/Palestinean issue isn’t even 100 years old, although your point is still valid!
While the mural does not reference a particular cause or incident, its appearance comes two days after almost 900 people were arrested at a London protest against the ban on Palestine Action.
This seems nonsensical to me.
I got one in the late 1990s. I wore it on a few trips from the US to Europe and was happily never jailed.
America has amazing nature. A pity that it is being sold off for mineral and logging rights, and the park service being refunded, but still…
OP referred to a difference in quality, not quantity.
I enjoy Organic Maps.
In a society where women are often harassed, many women use bathrooms to escape men, even if just for a few moments of peace.
Netanyahu is a terrible human being but an amazing politician.
In Israel all governments are coalition governments, and as Netanyahu got less and less mainstream support he tacked further and further to the right, joining with crazy religious fundamentalists because that was the only way to stay in power.
My understanding is that very shortly after losing power he will end up in court on corruption charges, and maybe die in prison. Not because of crimes against humanity, but for crimes against Israel.
There are more Jews in the USA than in Israel?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country
Nixon was a potty mouth.
A TCP session is a unique combination of client IP, client port, server IP, and server port.
So you can use the same IP and port as long as the destination is a different IP or port.
This means that in principle you could use the same IP and port to connect to every IP address on the Internet using 65536 concurrent sessions. 😆
This wouldn’t help going to popular destinations, since they have a lot of people going to the same IP address and port, but for many (most?) of them you probably have some sort of CDN servers in your data centers anyway.
I switched like 25 years ago. For a long time I had a Windows partition for booting up games, until Microsoft stopped accepting my old licenses. Luckily I really didn’t care at that point.
A DuckDuckGo search says that since 1924 native Americans living on reservations also get birthright citizenship. I suppose there may be a handful of native Americans born before then who are still alive, but I doubt many.
I mean, it sounds like you’re spending 12 hours a day in a polluted city so…
What do you mean? Which children born on US soil since 1868 were not granted birthright citizenship?
That video is a work of art.