I have never been to India and have no intention to travel there. My imagination is that it is overcrowded, the people there are mostly polite, hard working but not especially skilled. It is definitely a relatively poor country with a lot of inequality and crime.
I meant not all criminal offenses necessarily cause an exclusion from voting rights. If I recall correctly there is a list of specific ones for which people can be sentenced to loss of voting rights.
ahhh i remember being a bored teenager spending his life customizing his desktop too...
Nowadays I just want a working system where I can get things done, haven't touched my desktop environment settings in a while and certainly don't use things like cubes or wobbly windows anymore.
as someone whose only escape from real-life horribleness when he was a preteen and early teen was the Internet: how about you stop wanting to control other people's lives and mind your own business and trust others (yes, even young people) to know what's good for them and what's not
How do you want to do that "through some third world country" if the registration documents are in the US and only anonymously published anymore? Not following your logic there.
Something like that already exists, look up Freedom Phone
Out of all the occupying Israel is doing, I find that of former East Jerusalem most harmless. To my understanding, the Palestinians there are entitled to Israeli citizenship, there is no apartheid system like in the remaining West Bank, there is no blockade like in Gaza. If Gaza or the remaining West Bank were ruled like former East Jerusalem, I would find Israel a lot easier to defend.
Which Adobe product doesn't have a good FOSS replacement?
Debian is the most stable and usable distro I have ever used on a desktop. I have tried many distros in my life, Debian is the one that's been satisfying me the most so far.
Micro Four Thirds was an attempt to do that. It didn't work out so well.
Lots of countries vote on Sundays which solves that problem