Just tell him you need 2 weeks to think it over, but tell him you need 4 days to think it over 3 times, then you'll do it "tomorrow" and delay 2 more days.
He'll forget, and you can start over.
WTF do you think Putin is doing? He isn't in his face 24/7. Occasional dip in and out.
However, there is a learning curve. You realy shouldn't expect to become some crack shot virtuoso the first time.
Some people have a knack for it, some people don't. There's an entire universe in between. For example, I loooove a good rifle, but handguns can suck a fuck. It's also a perishable skill. If you don't practice, it's hard to keep up.
Go rent a gun at a range and give it a try 3 or 4 times and see how you like it.
Who would you sell it to? The same telecom company? The same company that installs it? Might as well steal the tires off the installation team truck and sell it back to them.
Ugh, anything posted on /r/lifehacks. 85% is just the intended but not primary use of a thing.
One of my favorites is a reposted to death infographic of how to open a can without a can opener: use a knife!
Bitch, canned food existed for 30 years before anyone bothered to invent a specific can opening tool. Before that everyone used knives. A ton of people in rural areas of the developing world, right now today, use knives to open cans.
Of course, easy to see how anyone stuck in an echo chamber gets to where they are on any belief. I'm not blaming anyone, just explaining how a sizable group of folks from a specific instance might end up so confidently incorrect.
That consenting adult same sex relationships are the "same" as pedophilia, which is a relationship in which one person can't consent to the relationship.
If you push on them hard enough, they always end up back at "Well, the Greeks did both, sooooo, it's all like this, forever." Which is utter BS, and the Greeks definitely didn't see pederasty the same as same-sex relationships, and pederasty was not nearly as widespread as Western religious folks make it seem. There's not a ton of evidence as to how tolerated it was in general, so it seems unlikely to have been the consistent, permitted, and generally culturally acceptable practice that same-sex relations were.
Famously not always. Apple has proved numerous times they have no access to iphones once the user encrypts them. It's also an added expense and increased attack surface anyway, at the hardware level which is constantly changing, so if there's no legal requirement to do it, why bother? No one gets a prize from the FBI for doing that, and its costs money and time and there would be designers at every individual company who would be able to point directly to the back door. There's no incentive - and there's no evidence of it ever happening. No criminal case has ever shown someone using with Lineage or Graphine on an Adroid phone had their phone hacked by any government for the sole purpose of accessing data on an individual.
It's kind of a moot point though - at this point commercially available spyware can get in at the software level. It's more so a question of if you think you'll be a target, and targeted by whom? The only 100% sure thing through is that the CCP does have access, with any OS, to any device made and sold by a Chinese company.
I think it's sort of confirmed as conceptually possible. But that was also 10 years ago, and they're also in telco infrastructure, so they likely don't need more than a typical spyware no-click entry point.
Personally, I would never bother. It's not like the trade off is better equipment.
Just tell him you need 2 weeks to think it over, but tell him you need 4 days to think it over 3 times, then you'll do it "tomorrow" and delay 2 more days.
He'll forget, and you can start over.
WTF do you think Putin is doing? He isn't in his face 24/7. Occasional dip in and out.