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Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency

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On 2023-01-31, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 30/01/2023 21:52, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
>>      That is an argument frequently advanced by Criminal syndicalists 
>> against the Government.  In the War on Some Drug Users we saw very bad
>> behavior againt private citizens who had no interest in drugs.  But
>> if you find your government is behaving badly vote for the people
>> who will fix it.  Support organization that will support your causes.
>> Government by the people is only real if the people take part.
> 
> There is not and never has been 'government by the people' and that is 
> neither the aim nor the achievement of a democracy.
>
> Democracies are there purely for one purpose and one purpose alone, to 
> remove a corrupt authoritarian regime without bloodshed, and replace it 
> with another.
>
> Sadly you dont get to choose from a very wide (s)election, and if both 
> parties have been largely corrupted subverted bribed and blackmailed it 
> makes very little difference.
>
> Remember, Marketing is cheaper than good product design, and bribing a 
> politician to make your product de jure, is even more cost effective.

Agreed.  It's a pleasant but naive hope that you can vote for the best;
usually you're just trying to vote against the worst.  You have to choose
not the one who will help you the most, but the one that will hurt you
the least.  In extreme cases, you just have to hold your nose and vote
for someone who you really don't like, but who is most likely to stop
the one who could _really_ hurt you.

I wish it weren't that way, but I also wish I could jump on a unicorn
and go riding off over a rainbow.  Meanwhile, back here in the real
world, I try to live the best life I can despite the bastards.
I think of it as an act of defiance.

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
      -- The Who

-- 
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  Apple is a cult.
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  Linux is anarchy.
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |  Pick your poison.

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Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency "Internetado" <internetado@bbs.alt119.net> - 2023-01-25 23:59 -0300
  Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-01-26 02:27 -0500
    Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-01-26 09:42 +0100
      Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-01-26 15:32 -0500
      Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2023-01-30 00:17 +0000
        Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-30 11:37 +0000
          Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-01-30 17:44 +0000
            Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-01-30 13:52 -0800
              Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-31 09:58 +0000
                Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-01-31 19:32 +0000
                OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-01-31 11:52 -0800
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-01 10:27 +0000
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency "26C.Z968" <26C.Z968@noaada.net> - 2023-02-01 23:27 -0500
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-02-02 18:06 +0000
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-02 20:06 +0000
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-02-02 22:48 +0000
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency "26C.Z968" <26C.Z968@noaada.net> - 2023-02-03 01:13 -0500
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-03 08:46 +0000
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency "26C.Z968" <26C.Z968@noaada.net> - 2023-02-03 01:11 -0500
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2023-02-05 11:11 -0500
                Re: OT:Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-05 16:13 +0000
    Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2023-01-26 10:36 +0100
    Re: Linux Malware Rates Rise to Record Levels Amid Hacker Inconsistency Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2023-01-26 10:38 +0100

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