There are many things that should be public: laws, standards, political donations.
Some things are beneficial when public, but are considered acceptable to be private: source code, recipes, political opinions, criminal history.
Some things can cause significant harm if not kept private: passwords, home address, government issued id, Jewish heritage during WW2.
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”
I’ve heard of Australian bushfires traveling close to 100km/h (60mph) with a strong wind.
What’s even worse is if the flame front is diagonal to your path of travel. The flames might be going 50km/h, but if they’re coming at you at 60%, then you have to be going at least 100km/h to outrun them.
Fires don’t need to follow roads. If a fire is traveling perpendicular to the only road you have, you can’t drive away from it.
How many do you have?
If talking about relativity, the distance to destination is further compressed only for your perspective, not the train’s, and not the earth’s. The amount compressed is imperceptible.
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”
It might help.
I spent 20 minutes (I timed it) on the phone diagnosing a tech support issue and instructing the user on how to fix it. It took about 10 seconds for me to realise that number lock was turned off.
The rest of the 20 minutes was trying to get the user to find and press “Num lock” on the keyboard.
About 10 minutes in, they actually found and pressed it. Apon noticing that nothing had appeared on the screen, they tried pressing it again, then announced it didn’t work.
Somehow, just getting them to press the button one more time was not simple, as they now had to begin their logical left-to-right scan of the keyboard again to find this mysterious new “Num lock” button they’d never heard of before.
This person (on another call) would say the name of each key as they pressed it. They would say “Caps lock, A, Caps lock, Enter” when typing a single “A” on a line, but didn’t know what “Caps lock” was and couldn’t find it on the keyboard when asked to press it immediately after having said and pressed it.
Are you suggesting that all countries on earth will adopt this law, or that all developers in all countries will comply with the law of one country?
Will all previous versions of all OSs be deleted? Will all OSs become closed source so you can’t just remove the age verification part?
Will you be the only person on earth who is willing to break an unethical law to have basic privacy?
If yes to all the above, then you may need to start learning how to program.
Take back control of your OS. Use a different OS if you need to.
Stand it up on one end?
It depends on where you live, but in most places, even the most expensive rapid charger is still cheaper than fuel. That’s not even including the lower maintenance costs of EVs.
You do miss out on the convenience of home charging, and that is a pretty big deal for most people. The best part about an EV is waking up to a full charge every day and never having to stop to fill up.
If you have enough money for the upfront cost, electric cars are cheaper over their lifetime.
Not starting a war is both cheaper upfront and ongoing.
Gambling destroys lives. Making gambling illegal may be controversial, but I can’t see any reason to allow gambling ads.
If you want to gamble, then it’s your own life to ruin. If you advertise gambling, then you are ruining other people’s lives.
Ban gambling ads.
A lion and prejudice.
Multiple independent braking systems and adequate maintenance.
A single failure may cause the escalator to stop working, but it takes 3 failures in a row to make it catastrophic. Regular maintenance catches this failures before 3 in a row can occur.
If any of the stairs are damaged and cannot stay attached correctly, there is a chance of falling into the machinery below, which will not stop just because a human is in the way.
If the failure is in the braking system, it can quickly turn into rapidly moving stairs, which can be very lethal.
Most escalators have multiple independent braking systems so that this doesn’t happen, but some poorly maintained escalators have been discovered with 2 or even all 3 systems disabled.
Ich bin ein deutsch, offensichtlich.
With complete transparency, a corrupt government can execute any group they want (disabled, homosexual, black, immigrant, etc).
If everyone was completely transparent about everything, a corrupt government would not be able to form. Unfortunately there are people without empathy who will hide their actions, and use other people’s information against them.
I can’t force a government to be completely transparent, but I can save my own life by not disclosing certain information about myself to them.
I don’t hide my bank account and password because I’ve done something wrong or I’m afraid that people will see what I’ve spent money on. I hide my bank account and password because I’m afraid that someone will take all of my money, then I’ll starve to death.