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Nah, HR, Receptionists, Secretaries etc. and other fluff need to be fired or their division be optimized. Tech and engineering companies need to be lean and focused with less layers.

Datacenters aren't categorized for warcrimes. Desalination plants, water treatment plants, power plants, etc. would be highly significant for millions of the population.

No, it's Africans killing Africans themselves. Most Emiratis don't give a crap what's happening around the world either. They have their own. Thousands of companies have their headquarters in Dubai like Halliburton etc. UAE doesn't manufacture weapons or sell them. There are many foreign weapons manufacturers based there. China, USA, Europe, Israel are probably some of the world's largest arms dealers and they distribute to everyone. The US sent almost $25 billion of weapons to Israel in the past 3 years. If stuff is passing through UAE ports, then that's another thing. And no one gives a crap about Sudan's gold either. UAE has had a huge gold market for a long time and some of the largest gold sellers are Indian companies based there.

No ones paying me anything. I've lived there for almost 3 decades there and travelled around the world too including western countries. I know how the country has transitioned in these last 30 years from the clutches of religious extremists and into a more comfortable country for its young generation of citizens. Saudi Arabia has always been a traditional country with Bedouin customs. Before, all families had personal drivers and chauffeurs to help the women travel around. In the last few years, Saudi Arabia has fired millions of foreigners and encouraged more women to get in the work force. Hence, the government decided to let them drive. Companies that hire women in Saudi Arabia get more benefits from the government. Women get all their travel expenses refunded to them by the government for the first few years. There are so many universities and programs for universities for women. Regarding the crime rate, yes it's low compared to western countries. Crime does occur both in families and around the country, but the government helps takes care of all these issues. The streets are still safer in the Gulf countries than compared to western countries. You won't find african/asian junkies, drunks, muggers roaming around the streets stealing or threatening people. The government does an amazing job of maintaining order and arresting and deporting thousands of illegals and criminals each month.

He doesn't need to. Saudi Arabia doesn't give citizenship to foreigners. We don't want permanent foreigner migration like Japan and South Korea and other countries. 99% of the population is already Muslim. All foreigners are temporary workers on 1 year visas. They're just in KSA for doing their jobs. Their views never mattered in the past, now and will never matter in the future. They do their job contract and they leave. Lol what's so amazing about democracy. Look at America. Democracy means income taxes, giving citizenship to foreigners, bringing third world shithole refugee criminals, junkies and crap, having your government policies change way too much often, giving precedence to foreigners for jobs. No thanks! Saudi Arabia has a good small growing population of 20 million Saudi citizens. It's close knit, homogeneous, same religion, culture etc. Monarchy provides us all the benefits we need. Look at Kuwait, it tried having a partial democracy and fails miserably.

Saud Arabia's first priority is just for Saudi citizens only. No laborer is a slave or forced at gunpoint to come work in our country. They pay themselves thousands of dollars in their foreign countries to come work in Saudi Arabia. Nobody forces them. Their work visa is either only for 3 months or 6 months or 12 months. Then, they need to leave once the visa has expired. No one is forced to work in the country as a slave. You can choose to stay living in your own country. Lol political dissidents are turd implants from the Western countries designed to instigate anarchy in the country. It's never going to work anymore because the Gulf citizens themselves know how pathetic the Americans and the west are nowadays. Stop & STF trying to teach about human rights. The US and Europeans are responsible for the genocide of 100,000 in Palestine right now along with the millions in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, and so many more. No one needs to whitewash anything. We are spending trillions for our country and the future of our citizens. All the big multi billion projects provide millions of jobs for Saudi citizens and foreigners. And they will continue to provide jobs and revenue for the country for generations to come. The US and the West isn't the bastion of amazing human rights after its support and financing of the current genocide in Palestine.

Saudi citizens are doing just fine and are being greatly supported and have a bright future with the Vision 2030 work happening so far. You worry about your shitty healthcare, gun violence, homelessness, high income taxes, crappy infrastructure, illegal drunks & junkies roaming the streets and other stuff. No one gives a crap about your lame accusations of human rights. You've historically been the biggest mass murders and genocides from killing off the natives in North America and Aborigines in Australia and the recent wars in the middle east. No one gives a crap about some fat old attention whore journalist here anymore. 70% of the Saudi citizen population is under 35 years old and we support the government to keeps the country and us safe from all outside terrorists and other threats.

Yes, all foreign workers get to keep their passports while working there. There were issues 20 years ago with certain companies and sponsors keeping the passports of their employees. It's always been illegal to do that and doesn't happen. The foreign worker comes on their temporary work visa and should leave before their work visa expires. Thousands of foreign skilled engineers, doctors, nurses, accountants, scientists, teachers etc. work in Saudi Arabia. Everyone keeps their passports and it's the company that hires them and renews their visa yearly if they want to keep them in their employment.

Lol Saudi Arabia is for Saudi citizens. All foreigners are on temporary 3/6/12 month work visas that are renewed each year. We don't give citizenships to foreigners. We don't need and don't want permanent immigration from foreigners in the country. Look at how Japan and South Korea are thriving. And we certainly don't need advice about human rights from genocide supporting western countries. The same America that has given Israel $30 billion in the last few years to flatten Palestine and kill almost a 100,000 people. You keep talking about dissidents. The government keeps the country safe from terrorism, gun violence, criminals, religious extremists etc. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries are some of the safest places to live along with Japan, Singapore and South Korea. No one can cares about Western comments on dissidents. Saudi Arabia is still very tribal and family oriented. Saudi Aramco is 98% Saudi Citizens and we extract all the oil ourselves. The Americans left long ago. Focus on your own backyard with your crap healthcare, poverty, homelessness, racial violence, gun violence, etc. There's no Saudi citizen living on the streets. Every single Saudi citizen have to pay no income taxes and gets free healthcare, free education, free university education, free scholarships abroad (tuition, travel, housing, person expenses covered), interest free mortgages, first priority in all jobs, and so many other benefits. The richest country in the world (America) spent trillions of dollars in wars across the Atlantic but has thousands of its citizens homeless on the streets.

Saudi Arabia has 20 million Saudi citizens and they're the only priority and future of the country that has surpassed a GDP of $1 trillion.

The last thing anyone needs advice about human rights is from the west. The invasions and mass murders in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iran, Libya. Still remember that pr*ck Colin Powell showing that vial to justify that invasion of Iraq. The world's worst murderers have been the British, Dutch, Belgian, French, Spanish and American empires throughout history. The worst genocide in history was committed by Belgium in Congo where they killed millions.

Lol no one gets their head cut off for gay sex or wrong religion. Capital punishment is only for murder, terrorism, rape and drug smugglers. The Saudi Government is quite liberal there. It's your own Saudi families that will ostracize you based on their own decisions.

You keep talking about dissidents. I still remember Obama and his Arab spring and how thousands died because of him. The west like to implant people to create internal conflicts inside countries. It's not going to work in the Gulf countries as all the citizens know how the Americans thrive on instigating conflict. That journalist just wanted to create anarchy. I still remember the terrorist attacks at my American school and other cities in Saudi Arabia during 2004 - 2005. I trust the police and government to eradicate all the extremist and outside threats to the country and keep everyone safe. They've basically cleaned out all the extremism in these past 20 years from the country. The Americans also enjoyed keeping the Saudis and Iranians fighting until the Chinese stepped in and created peace between these two countries.

Americans need to worry about their own backyard with their crap healthcare, poverty, homelessness, illegals, gun violence etc. Saudi Arabia isn't perfect, but Saudi citizens have to pay no income taxes, get free universal healthcare, free education, free university education, all government paid scholarships for universities abroad (tuition, travel & living), first priority in all jobs, social security support for low income citizens, interest free mortgages, etc. Plus Saudi Arabia long with the other Gulf countries like UAE & Qatar are some of the safest countries. All illegals arrested and deported every month, low crime rates, no African/Asian Refugee illegal drunk junkies roaming the streets (like Europe/America), no homeless tents, no gun violence etc.

The Gulf countries along with Japan, South Korea, Singapore and China know how to keep their countries safe, clean and well. Look at Europe & Scandinavia now with all the illegals running around.

He isn't a volatile monarch. The western media likes to exaggerate everything that comes out of the GCC Arab Regions. Tiny past issues are irrelevant. The pandemic changed a lot of the mindset in the middle east. Saudi Arabia nowadays has good relations with 99% of all nations including Russia and China. There's currently peace talks happening with Iran mediated by Iraq. Qatar and Turkey are at peace with KSA too. Yemen's original government is at peace with KSA too. After the pandemic, Saudi Arabia is moving on focusing more on the future of its Saudi citizens and development of its country including signing good beneficial trade deals in manufacturing, science, tourism etc.

Joe Biden is irrelevant in the Middle East. Presidents come and go every 4 or 8 years. Kings stay for more than 50 years. None of the GCC countries really give a damn about Biden. There are so many Saturday Night Live sketches making fun of Biden's dementia and decision making. Joe Biden thought he could bully KSA around, but on the contrary he was disrespected so much when he came to KSA recently. The United States needs to focus on the welfare and future of its citizens. Millions living in poverty, while Biden is giving billions to Ukraine for war. Millions in the USA having to worry about student loans, housing, food etc, while Biden focuses on wasting it on useless matters. The United States is world's largest and richest economy, but many of its citizens live in poverty, despair worrying about healthcare, education, security etc.

I really don't understand why foreigners tend to interfere in our matters. 99% of Saudi citizens don't really care what's happening around the world nor do they interfere in their matters. Saudi Arabia doesn't give Saudi citizenships or permanent residencies to foreigners. All expat workers here are on temporary yearly work visas who come and go Regarding the crown price, he's the best leader suited for this generation of Saudi citizens who are on average in the age group of 25 to 35 years old. The crown prince has done tons of great things for the country in the past 5 years of so. Increased all women's rights, increased women's employment, given them driving licenses, autonomy on movements. Furthermore, the best thing the government has done during the Covid pandemic was fire all unnecessary foreigners and increase Saudi employment by many folds. All companies and sectors are forced to increase employment and training of Saudi citizens. Many sectors require the firing and removal of foreigners. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia is earning billions each day from oil and gas. All of this money is being used for the development of infrastructure, education, healthcare, and future of Saudi Citizens. All Saudi Citizens get free healthcare and education. Many even get university education for free. Unemployed or poorer Saudi Citizens get social security allowances every month and can be on waiting list for government free housing. Saudi Citizens don't have to pay any income taxes or anything. During the pandemic, the government paid for all Saudi citizens who were stranded in countries abroad. They paid for the accommodation, fees, food, and direct flight tickets to come back to Saudi Arabia. All Saudi wealth is only for the 23 million Saudi Citizens and their future.

Regarding the future, Saudi Arabia is preparing well. We're already onto renewable energy production such as Solar Energy and Green Hydrogen. We were one of top producers of fossil fuels and now will be one of the top producers of renewable energy in the future. There's already a giant pipeline in the initial stages of construction that will supply Saudi Green Hydrogen through Greece to Europe. We're also building one of the biggest Solar PV plants in the world. Eventually it would cover a majority of our energy needs and will supply to excess to abroad. In addition, Saudi Arabia has trillions of dollars of untapped rare earth minerals and other valuable things like Bauxite, Uranium, Gold, Lithium, etc. We've just started to increase the mining of these resources. Finally, Saudi Arabia is already in the Electric Car phase. Almost all new infrastructure requires the installation of electric car charging outlets. Saudi Arabia also has a majority share in Lucid Motors and is opening two electric vehicle manufacturing plants very soon.

Regarding life in Saudi Arabia, the government under him is more relaxed. The government allows all sects of the citizens to live here peacefully. The religious police is more restrained and can't interfere in political, scientific, security, healthcare etc. matters anymore. Saudi Arabia is also not indulging itself in religious issues of other countries. Also no more free money to neighboring countries or anymore. Just huge loans with late penalty fees. This is better because petty national of issues of other countries/regions (like Lebanon, Palestine, Africa, Pakistan, Srilanka etc) has dragged KSA and caused a lot of trouble in the past. Saudi Arabia also doesn't want to get dragged into matters with Ukraine/Russia/Europe/USA. We have good decent relations with all nations.

Thankfully I live in a country where I've never had to pay income taxes in my entire life :)

Anything to hurt Nick Denton and shutdown Gawker is awesome no matter how absurd the case.

Well, that is if you study something useless like art history, sociology, media, communications or english literature. I laugh whenever I come across someone who's spent thousands of dollars going to university to study english.

Well, if you studied engineering, science, medicine, accounting or law. You'll eventually probably make good money. If you can't land a job in the US, you can go abroad and your American degree will be valuable in other countries just for the fact that you studied in the US.

THe problem is that Apple is being asked to build a modified iOS to extract that information from that phone. Should that software get into the wrong hands or if the FBI decides to keep that software for future use, then Apple's credibility about security will be at stake.

almost read that as exotic hardons... lol

Ideas are cheap. It's execution that matters.

use goread.io

Code is on https://github.com/mjibson/goread

Looks just like the old google reader and works really well! ;)

Hope it works well for you!

That's good for them! These engineers deserve it much more than some disposable turd in a suit!

Seriously? :( this sucks.

I've been using the Hipster News chrome extension to make it look different and it's been quite good so far. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc... It looks similar to the DesignerNews website,

It probably isn't just like Instagram wasn't but companies like WhatsApp like to play hard ball and negotiate higher bids because they know they're in demand and Google would rather overpay to gain an advantage then starting from scratch. Google talk isn't used much!

Yes, they patched this loophole a few days ago! And the url-bar trick doesn't work anymore!

I think the $1 billion is in regards to how much advertising money that Apple's cut earns from google's ads on iOS devices. I doubt this is just about default inclusion of the google search engine.

I think only 83 gb of it is usable space after the os is installed with the other applications.

You do realize that eventually China will become a huge market for Apple! If Google and Apple spend money outside of the US, it is for tapping into international talent! And if the money was earned outside of US soil, then there's no need for it to come into the US and run through taxes.

It's almost as stupid as the recent new wave of rules the French government wants to impose taxes on Facebook, Google and other big social media companies for invasion of privacy. Honestly, I think these websites should either block french users or start subscriptions for users in this specific country. Even with the high rate of taxes in France, the french government is still greedy to get a slice of everything!

Podio.com is great too! You just need to configure it properly and it can become quite powerful! and best of all it's even free!

I think there might be a similar issue with illegal ports of iOS apps too!

http://crackberry.com/developer-gets-ios-apps-running-blackb...

I think android devs should be careful! It’s deperate to the point that people are illegally converting android apps to the blackberry format without the orignal dev’s permission.I wonder how many of the so called 10,000 submissions were converted with the permission of the original devs.

There’s probably lots! Here is one of many apps being ported illegally. Some of these pirates are selling free apps under their name! This app is a stolen port! http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/20081493/?mo...

of this original android app which goes for free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgam...

It’s one thing to port apps without permission, but then selling the free apps too and earning the profits! If you see the app world right now, there’s many apps like these in similar situations!