Geralt
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OH yes, opium. I wrote that post late in the night. Thanks.
Qatar 'requires' World Cup visitors to install state-sponsored 'spyware' on their phones
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Plutoisaplanet
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Is this an attempt at Qatari spyware?
I'm 30 years old.
Probably the best thing if you wanted to stay connected and had to go would be to bring two phones. A crap phone for the apps, and keep your actual phone connected to VPN the whole time without the mandatory apps.
That said, I wonder why Apple would allow an app on their store if it could really access all your phone's data. I don't even think that's possible the iOS's SDK. I have a feeling that part is an exaggeration taken out of the TOU or something.
Notably, when I went to China 5 years ago, nothing was mandated of me beyond obtaining a obtaining a visa. I was even able to connect to my own VPN I set up at home so we could use Snapchat, YouTube, etc. Qatar is a small, rich country who treats anyone but its citizens as second class, so doing this isn't out of reach for them unlike much of the world.
ThrakazogZ
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......yeah, because the UK has never visited other countries and tried to make it their home......or a part of their empire. =)
soulsassassin
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not sure on which scale you consider rugby as real man's sport, statistics show that rugby is one of the safest sports and is not considered a dangerous sport I would argue football is more dangerous when it comes to injuries
Watch them all get drunk and rowdy and then thrown in jail for an outrageous sentence. Heaven forbid in their anger they say something derrogatory about the king/sheik or whatever their rules are called. Then they will cry to their home country to "save them". Folks JUST DONT travel to these backwards dictatorship countries. No soccer game is worth it.
Avro Arrow
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Avro Arrow
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BadThad
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What would you prefer? Communism? Capitalism is the most successful system in HISTORY, maybe you should read some.
PEnnn
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So, your problem is with soccer but not with surveillance apps??
Bamda
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I see a Brittney Griner problem occurring in Qatar. I will pass on this World Cup.
Avro Arrow
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I would but I can't. For once, Canada is in! The last time we were in, I was ten years old and had no idea because the Habs won the cup that year with a rookie goalie named Patrick Roy. You may have heard of him...
Nothing else in sport existed to me that year.
Avro Arrow
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Someone would have to be a REALLY stupid American to make that mistake when the title of the article has "World Cup" in it.
Geralt
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Brainlessness is the root cause. If it is not soccer, people will invent something else to lose their brains. They love to be idi0ts.
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Geralt
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I like the imperial system. It is easier to use than the metric one. I like to use yards, feet, etc. to measure distances, for example.Come on, man, the rest of the planet calls it football/futbol. The football/soccer thing is worse than the matter with the metric/imperial system
Imperial system is a pain in the a$s, really.
Athlonite
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I'd take my old windows phone
Qatar Border guards:: you must install these apps
Me: Oh ok are they on the Microsoft Store?
Qatar Border Guards:: WTF!!! You must have and Android or iOS phone to enter this country!
Me: Since when is that the law here and if it is then show it to me!
Qatar Border guards:: you must install these apps
Me: Oh ok are they on the Microsoft Store?
Qatar Border Guards:: WTF!!! You must have and Android or iOS phone to enter this country!
Me: Since when is that the law here and if it is then show it to me!
Avro Arrow
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And thus were hockey, tennis, boxing, gridiron football, MMA, rugby, baseball and basketball born!
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The best sleeping pill I ever had was in Rostov-on-Don in 2018.
It was called the World Cup. But I was a guest, so I couldn't take advantage of its effects until I got back to my suite.
In fact, Soccer doesn't even deserve to be called football.
What I never understood is why our friends even called it football.
Should have named it 1-0...... Or maybe "Scoreless Tie".
Ok, maybe 1-1 if you wanted to insinuate an action packed barn burner.
It was called the World Cup. But I was a guest, so I couldn't take advantage of its effects until I got back to my suite.
In fact, Soccer doesn't even deserve to be called football.
What I never understood is why our friends even called it football.
Should have named it 1-0...... Or maybe "Scoreless Tie".
Ok, maybe 1-1 if you wanted to insinuate an action packed barn burner.
TempleOrion
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Sorry, which countries only have one sport? Oh that's right, none of them.
But you extol the virtues of the game that consists of throwing a ball at someone and hitting it with a bat; pre-teen girls sometimes play that in the rest of the world before they grow up and become embarrassed by how pathetic it is. Hockey is also a young girl's game too everywhere else (nothing wrong with that of course but bizarre that fully grown men can follow something so anodyne). And then there's the great bouncing a ball and throwing into a basket game. And you actually watch that. For hours on end. When it's exactly the same thing happening, over and over and over. FFS LOL
And to cap it all, you think it's a *good* thing that thousands of your fellow citizens think a great way to spend their life (and money) is watching the dullest throwing ball competition ever invented.
Hilarious.
MasterMace
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Really tempting that Staff member who mentioned earlier to drop the Kickball vs football stuff.
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People here acting shocked that Qatar could be so intrusive when CBP can warrantlessly search 2/3rds of Americans, including every last home in Florida, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Michigan.
BuckarooBonzaii
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Qatar's land their law and Virtual Borders are alive and well.
m3tavision
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Really...?
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Suckah Fans Spied On-
And Prohibited From:
Bacon, Booze, MaryJane, Sleeping & Anti-Anxiety Pills, Smoking Tobacco in Public
Hugging \ Kissing, Revealing Attire, Unmarried Sharing Room,
Snapping Photos \ Pron & Racy Pics,
Bi \ Trans \ ETC.
truly...I like the imperial system. It is easier to use than the metric one. I like to use yards, feet, etc. to measure distances, for example.
also, my previous post (the one you answer/quote) was deleted for not following some warning?!?
what warning!?
See post #41
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