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22july2013 said:

How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.

Fear mongering about Hamas potentially having iPhones without a back door is ridiculous. There are news stories from 10 years ago about Hamas in particular avoiding cellphones to prevent Israeli assignation attempts. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2014/02/gaza-israel-islamic-jihad-hamas-mobile-war.html

This is why the Israeli government is using exploding pagers to attack Hezbollah and civilians in Lebanon.

While presidents currently do not have the constitutional authority to create laws, a large part of the platform that he campaigned on is consolidating powers into the executive branch. All he would need to enact those changes is a supportive house, senate, and judiciary… and a removal of the filibuster.

I am one of the dumb people that bought it just because it comes in the new colour way. Granted I am upgrading from a regular Ultra Watch

ilarynx said:

Where is the SE? Discontinued? 

Just not updated, will still be available to purchase.

The main technology issue has always been the placement of the limited number of cameras and the perspective they can capture. Currently VAR uses 42 cameras so if they are replacing those with just 28 cameras that seems less than ideal.

In the 22WC they used 12 (I believe additional) tracking cameras along with sensors in the ball to help determine the exact time the ball was actually kicked to help with the automated offside decisions but even with that there was still controversy and wrong calls from either human error or a lack of consistent training and standards for the human referees.

godofbiscuitssf said:

FIFA is nothing but greedy. They called their $1 Billion stash a “rainy day fund”.   They sold out to human rights violators Qatar. LGBTQ athletes and fans were at physical peril just being there and they knew it, but still, $$$ matter most.  

Or FIFAs lack of concern that host countries use forced/slave labour practices. Deceptive recruitment practices that often result in migrant labour’s passports/paperwork being held and large hidden fees so that labours often can’t leave and are subjected to horrible working and living conditions.