> That made sense when it was just businesses defending their own operations from criminals, akin to banks having to use armed guards to move cash and bullion around.
That's a rather crude analogy which misses the major dangers of vigilante hacking. A better analogy is allowing private guards to shoot you on suspicion of you having stolen their money based only on a claim that the money found in your wallet might be theirs.
To understand the problem, think of vigilante justice where some person/group assumes the roles of police, judge and executioner, circumventing due process which is due for a reason.
What happens if a corp doesn't like what you have on your website, spoofs some logs as if coming from it and then hacks the site to disable your ability to communicate?
Well, in that case you're toast. You may go to the judge, pay lawyers and waste your life on lawsuits fighting against a corp with a lawful reason to hack you because if this becomes law, you will be guilty until proven innocent - that's very costly and hard to do. Your chances of successful will be virtually zero meaning the corps get a license to silence you with impunity.
Nationalism in action. Today to a psychologist, tomorrow to the insemination farm... the sky is the limit.
Why do they expect women to want children? To be snatched by the government and sent to die in a nationalist war against their own brothers and sisters?
Some people do need to see a shrink there but I don't think Russian women are among them.
Many things are private but some of them are more private than others, the details can be quite intriguing.
Plenty of gas pumps to go around, more of them aren't going to provide anybody private with more of what they crave the most which data centers do provide. That's the reason for the push to abandon EVs and reduce their competing demand for scarce electricity.
New electric capacity, paid for by the ratepayers, would benefit those same ratepayers if used for EV charging but big biz isn't in the game for them.
That's good only for inflation, nothing else. Renewables are included, after inflation and tariffs they won't become more attractive compared to carbohydrates.
In the worst there will be some people dying, a lot of people get poor and maybe democracies will be replaced by feudal structures. It's still far away from the end of civilization.
> Relax, go outside, touch grass. The sun will rise again.
Yeah, and don't forget, this is all about helping the environment and the Iranian people, freeing them from that pesky and unnecessary for life energy by releasing some much needed smoke. /
> If my house burns down, the value of my house changed.
If your house burns down, it's only your loss and possibly lower profits for your insurance company.
> Why is it a danger for the value of money to be correlated with major things happening in the real physical world.
If the financial system burns down it will be everyone's loss and there's no insurance. It's like you have to pay a steep price because some rich dudes have burned down half of the houses in your neighborhood, they get to privatize profits and socialize losses - the dudes like that but the rest don't.
> If a bank gambles it's deposits on snake oil like Tesla or Ai Companies... the worth of that bank rightfully collapses.
"it's deposits" aren't bank's deposits, they are depositor's - like yours and your neighbor's. In a sane world, nobody would care about "the worth of that bank" but the disappearance of depositors money is such a humongous failure of the system that the too big to fail will be immediately bailed out - I've already explained who'd be paying for it.
This outcome is a natural consequence of the repeal of Glass-Steagall and the rest of the New Deal, that process was completed by the end of 1999.
German politicians know what they are doing, they deserve praise for standing their ground, especially in these times of nationalist propaganda coming from the two richest and most heavily armed countries in the world... which would love to see nationalism take hold in Germany and proceed to ruin it together with all of Europe all over again.
The meme in question will be seen as a praise of Putin by those who admire Hitler and love to see his mad face in the media.
That's a rather crude analogy which misses the major dangers of vigilante hacking. A better analogy is allowing private guards to shoot you on suspicion of you having stolen their money based only on a claim that the money found in your wallet might be theirs.
To understand the problem, think of vigilante justice where some person/group assumes the roles of police, judge and executioner, circumventing due process which is due for a reason.
What happens if a corp doesn't like what you have on your website, spoofs some logs as if coming from it and then hacks the site to disable your ability to communicate?
Well, in that case you're toast. You may go to the judge, pay lawyers and waste your life on lawsuits fighting against a corp with a lawful reason to hack you because if this becomes law, you will be guilty until proven innocent - that's very costly and hard to do. Your chances of successful will be virtually zero meaning the corps get a license to silence you with impunity.
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