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China

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

China <2>is pushing hard to eliminate manufacturing jobs.

Perhaps there will be plenty of employment for working-age Chinese people taking care of retired and ill Chinese people. If so, it will work out well.

Sesame Street

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

Sesame Street, conceived to boost the education of children in poverty, is now primarily available on a cable channel that they can't afford.

Thugs

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

US courts allow thugs to use drug-sniffing dogs to create probable cause for a search, which detect drugs whenever the handlers tell them to.

Corrupt scientists

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

A company pays scientists to cite the company in their papers.

This is a form of corruption.

Oracle

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

Oracle demanded that its customers stop reverse engineering to look for security flaws in the code they are running. A day later, it got so embarrassed that deleted the threat.

Reverse engineering of software is a sign of injustice : nonfree software that doesn't come with source code you can compile for yourself.