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> ...and Golden box that usually takes years to develop.

If we're talking about the Gold Box series; were those long development times?

7-ish games in 4ish years doesn't seem too bad, and the the engine evolved with each game.

*OTP isn't much of a barrier. SMS would've increased the cost a little more. Both easily automated. I know retailers are trying to fight the tide, but they're going to need more than teacups.

While ignoring the operators/carriers in between you and your target?

> Purchasing within the country is more secure unless you assume all devices sold within the country are compromised and monitored in real-time which seems unfeasible.

One preinstalled mitm cert, or sketch CA, is within the realm of feasibility.

> An irrefutable cryptographic timestamp is just that, irrefutable.

In math, sure, but he specifically asked about a court of law. Irrefutable in math doesn't mean admissible in court. Then there's the 1, 6, 12, or however many random people that decide the case; they likely need the math explained to them, and two sides get turns convincing them the other is wrong.

Ahh, the Culligan/Water treatment/softener business model.

> (Personally, I don’t watch videos, and prefer to simply read books from the library, which somehow exists without the “support” of advertisers...)

Depending on what kind of library you're referencing: those books were purchased, and sometimes/often at more than consumer retail.

> You're going to lose this cat-and-mouse game...

History is full of sentiments like that, from power structures that were never able to stop subversion. The game itself is perpetual, so there's always another turn coming.

> If they can build Dyson spheres, wouldn't they already be all over the place?

I figure they'd have to be.

They'd need more than a solar system's worth of raw resources to build the sphere. They may need more than a solar system's worth of resources just to build the tools and craft to be able to build the sphere. They're going to need an insane amount of production facilities for various components, and that's going to take a massive amount of resources. That's going to require exploring quite a bit of a galaxy.

What protocols stop a person from removing the drive from your machine, and imaging the drive?

I think the point you responded to was talking about copying the encrypted data before attempting to unlock it.

> The implication is "To hold oneself to a better standard, make actionable and/or substantiated statements, especially when making critical statements."

Ok, but defining the implications of 1st party statements to 3rd parties is tricksy business.

> People seem to shit on Mozilla/Firefox often, and often without any evidence or useful data to work with. And they often say they use Chrome instead, run by an organization that those same people would probably say is user-hostile.

Except ravenstine didn't do any of that, so you're applying your issues with other people to the wrong conversation. They responded with depth before you posted this.

> It's like seeing people criticize corruption in Western democratic governments and declaring they're avoiding that mess by moving to Moscow.

You sure you're in the same conversation as everyone else?

Block Element is the goto where reader view fails.

For a great many sites, I remove headers, footers, sidebars, etc.

No, you don't get to hide in the back of the train when you wrecked the front.

You asked cpsns a bait question. Your "rational argument" was a setup, and it's dishonest in conversation. You had no intention of engaging in conversation, you wanted to prove your point no matter what was said.

Even knowing it was bait I forced myself to respond with the little good faith I could muster with "seems like".

You ignored the entire context of what I said, focused on the sentence that you seem to have misunderstood, and tried to snap that trap shut with a weird response where you repeated my own abstraction point back to me for some reason. You then ignored the last line, which was a list of actions that are in no way inherently political. You started off disingenuous, and continued to be.

No, the physical action that I was intentionally clear on, is not political. Tipping the glass, and swallowing the fucking water is not political. Nor is laughing, tying my shoes, pulling my socks up, seeing a bird fly by, etc.

All things make up everything, afterall.

My water came from the well I had dug in a rural area, that I had tested to make sure it was safe for my own consumption. There was no governmental involvement; not local, nor state, nor federal.

Outliers are included in everything.

At least we're lucky that the government keeps the moon in orbit and the sun burning.

As I said, be right, enjoy it, that seems to be important to you. I find your approach to conversation in this subthread dishonest and myopic. Do your thing, but miss me entirely with all of that sketch.