Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Real Bev Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: DOJ is correct that Apple iPhone is far less secure than Android when RCS messaging is involved Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:27:56 -0700 Organization: None, as usual Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:27:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="72a7ef20c5b5c684bf87ab066c583a3f"; logging-data="2556844"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19a+ug37EmzONWLB7CEWbNe5VPlb4uImdI=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:138hVIDXP2+PK+DH7NQJjGqgs8Q= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3918 On 4/18/24 6:23 AM, Andrew wrote: > The Real Bev wrote on Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:20:37 -0700 : > >>> You still haven't explained why the US has so many more deaths than >>> other countries similar to it. >> >> I have no idea why. Do you? Perhaps we are just violent people. Or self-sufficient. Trust in government is not in our nature. > Whoever said that the US is "more violent" is an idiot as many countries > have far more violence but even so, the purpose of guns being in the > constitution is a fundamental right based on keeping the government honest. > >> Given that this is true, how do we best protect ourselves when law >> enforcement is too far away to be protective? > > Very few countries, and perhaps almost none to none, have the demographic > mix of peoples and cultures that the USA has. Even fewer have the size. The us-vs-them thing is universal. The USA has a lot more and different uses and thems than most (perhaps all other) countries. I really envy the Japanese thing about sending toddlers on errands alone -- a consequence of nearly everybody being an us. > Comparing straight numbers to those of puny places like New Zealand, > Australia, Canada or England, for example, to the USA is ridiculous, where > the sizes and demographics are completely different (unless normalized). > >> A few nights ago a guy pulled a knife on a woman, forced her to drive to >> a different location and raped her. This happened a few blocks away. >> What should she have done? > > The fundamental right of a gun in the USA is not related to protection from > individuals, but to the fundamental nature of a government of the people. Yes. Certainly good enough, even though we might actually need tanks and nukes to once again even the balance. Still practical for use against individuals, though. -- Cheers, Bev "People are too stupid to realize they are." --JoHn DoH KeLm