Tomorrow, after your meds, read what you wrote and you will see that you are arguing against yourself. I'm only responding to you so that others here can see how insane you are.

Tomorrow if you wish to continue this debate we can do so in person with Roberts rules of debate, the loser with their head between their knees.

You only have to look at the consequences of the Snowden revelations. Nothing has really changed - some meaningless legislation was passed that moves the phone metadata recording to the phone companies from the NSA, but even then it's not clear that its stopped - the NSA data center in Utah where those conversations were recorded doesn't seem to be shutting down. I would bet the phone conversation, skype conversation, etc recording is still going on since it was never explicitly addressed anywhere in legislation.

And my comment about Americans being Authoritarian is nothing new - they've long considered to be Authoritarian.

Before discovery of that room everyone knew that there was close cooperation between the telecoms and the government, but we had no idea it was this close and we were shocked at especially the recording of all phone conversations in the u.s.

The snowden releases cost u.s. tech companies $100B+, including a 10% drop in Cisco quarterly revenues. Hopefully this continues as multinationals continue to move their business outside the u.s.

Let the u.s. government spy on Americans all they want since Americans seem to like being spied on, while the rest of us move on. I know that mindset doesn't match many of the people here on HN, but Americans are mostly Authoritarian and seem to like the comfort they feel from programs like this.

Further, these long codes switch companies frequently as they get reused when they're no longer in use, and SMS user numbers have been spammed with sms messages as a result.

There is a population of radicals in India - separists, communists, but they are separate from the western tied Indians. They are separate because they never were in the group that has close ties to the west, and they are a loud but weak minority.

Most of the c-level Indians I know are from Hyderabad, including the former ceo of Microsoft India, the Eco of Adobe... Hyderabad is like Texas in India.

Something that is disturbing long-term is the low number of Chinese nationals in corporate roles in the u.s. China is arguably ahead of India socially and economically. They have 500M in the middle class. But we don't have strong ties with mainland China like we do with India. We run the risk of continuing to diverge.

http://www.rt.com/usa/majority-americans-racist-poll-378/ http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-h...

Sure, there are always individuals that buck the trend but overall the u.s. Is an embarrassment and getting worse.

Anecdotally, I am in the Midwest twice per year and have to listen to people complaining about the Jews and the niggers, and about various conspiracies about global warming, and how there's no way we're descended from monkeys.

I don't hear any of at shit where I live in Europe, except for some of the racist stuff but in a more nuanced manner.