Also, in the USA, truth is an absolute defense to a defamation claim. The burden of proof is on the plaintiff to prove that the speaker was wrong, and further, in most cases, that the speaker should have known that it was wrong.
People like to talk about "defamation", but in America the bar is so high that it's only rarely applicable.
Blending of conflicting ideologies implies compromise or trade-off, which would be a popular front.
In a united front, the groups do not merge or compromise. Ideologies and ultimate intentions remain pure, and the groups only collaborate in the name of overlapping interests.
>”the very same people that are now complaining about these measures were the same that enabled it in the first place”
Wage workers? No. That’s just false. I don’t know what exactly you’re trying to say but it’s wrong. This is just another appearance of the same class warfare that drives slavery. Working people didn’t ask for this any more than slaves asked for slavery.
You're not seeing the full picture. People chose to use products and/or services which collect behavioural information for advertising purposes (or put it simply $ for data). This wanting to install tracking software on a personal device is a side-effect of this data collection mentality.
Maybe it'll come crashing down - this whole concept of $ for data - some day, but until then you'll see all of these abuses. And again it's sad how conspiracy theorists were mocked at for this exact hellish scenario.
Either people start demanding for something different or the abuse will not stop.
Wage workers? No. That’s just false. I don’t know what exactly you’re trying to say but it’s wrong. This is just another appearance of the same class warfare that drives slavery. Working people didn’t ask for this any more than slaves asked for slavery.
I remember, because it was only a few years ago, companies would allocate anyone who needed one a BlackBerry. Any work calls would come to that device, you would use it for emails on the go etc, it was managed by the corporate IT department and when you weren't on call you could leave it in a drawer. It was very clearly "theirs" and could be treated as such.
It actually was ordinary workers who said, hey, I would much prefer to have the company take over my own personal device for this, which I have paid for and pay all the bills for too, it would be soooo convenient not to carry two phones, and of course companies gleefully said yes.
And nowadays if you want a "burner phone" for use at work, you pay for that yourself too! Congratulations everyone, we played ourselves. Well not me, I miss the BlackBerry days, and I said all this when BYOD was becoming fashionable too. But they still took my BlackBerry away and made it all but impossible to stay employed and not install their MDM crap on my own phone.
Judging from the media coverage, it looks like the app was recently updated. The source code for the current version has not yet been released, but I hope that it will be soon.
Not the parent commenter, but I use that pattern all the time, mainly to match CLI flags/args/options to an action.
Say you have a program like "docker-compose". It has multiple subcommands. Each subcommand is a dict string key and the appropriate action to take is its value, a callable. This also plays well with argparse's parser "choices" argument.
The by far biggest downside is then that all callables mustn't take arguments, or take all the same ones. You cannot dispatch to a callable and dynamically assign what arguments to call it with without losing the prior benefits. Then it gets awkward (like having to throw around args and kwargs all over the place). But up to that point, I find the pattern useful in this case.
> Also from all the documents we've seen it would appear Amazon leaks like a sieve so I would also expect way more damning evidence to have appeared by now.
This is some the most impressive circular logic I’ve seen in my day.
When you can barely even pay each month’s rent, just moving to a new apartment locally can require a year or two of savings. And thats assuming you don’t have children or any other unexpected (car broke down, medical bills).
