The reason why Maduro is in power is the US. Plain and simple.

Hadn’t the US propped puppet right wing governments in Venezuela, there wouldn’t have been a need for a Chavez mesias.

The US doesn’t care about drugs. They care about Venezuelan oil and continue tal hegemony. That’s it.

So, it’s not only Trump. It’s every single government before him.

Show of hands: who expected high ethical standards by Nestle’s CEOs?

Are you kidding me? They would have renamed all the “St” streets and neighborhoods and removed religious symbols from schools and other public buildings.

But I live in “Ville Marie”, Mount royal has a prominent cross, streets have names like Saint Antoine. Near my house there is a public school with a huge religious statue.

Bill 21 is not pro laicity if the state. For that I’d be in favour. But anything Catholic is “tradition” so it gets a pass.

You really think they’ll understand?

They are incapable to read facts and statistics on how vaccines eliminated or reduced terrible illnesses.

They won’t understand what you are saying.

Yep, we don’t get to study the Nanjing masacre, for example unless we go out of our way to learn about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

“Usually”

Sure.

But there are custoner managed keys which do exactly what I think it does.

Wow. I used to be a lead Enterprise architect for a large corporation. We had some clients who explicitly required, by contract, that the data should be hosted in Canada and only accessed by people in Canada. This included the department of National defense.

Microsoft complied by hosting instances in Canada and we went through hoops to ensure data remained in Canada.

This seems to uppend the game. However, all this information should already be encrypted. Whenever it isn’t, I’m sure corporations are scrambling to fully encrypt (or de-host) data.

I mean, data (at rest and in transit) encryption has been available for other risk vectors. This seems to be no different. If Microsoft/Amazon/Oracle, etc had a backdoor to unencrypt the data, it would create a higher backslash.

For individual users, I don’t think 99% of them care where their data is hosted.

I don’t think it’s just you. Like it wasn’t just one person thinking computers would make us dumb or the automobile making us lazy. I’m betting that someone somewhere thought that cooking food on the fire would make us weaker.

Technology has that ability to generate opposition from status quo.

And as with any technology, there are good uses, bad uses and frivolous uses.

Remember the awful nonsense web pages of the early 90’s?

I think AI will make the life’s of some of us easier. But I also think it will continue widening the digital divide.

The biggest concern is that, by nature, AI needs massive amounts of power which can only be paid by people with big resources and those people are training it. AI has the trainer’s bias.

However, end consumer AI is the tip of the iceberg. AI will succeed when we don’t even realize it’s there.