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You do know the seeders on BitTorrent don’t have a license though. Just admit you don’t care about pirating from a major company. You don’t have to lie to yourself to concoct a mor…

I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on—not that Netflix cares. If an unpaid user falls in a forest and nobody is arou…

>>I doubt that it's very often not the case In my UMC area that was formerly MC there are a lot of tear-down rebuilds that trade one single family home for another. They barely inc…

>I have not heard any arguments in favor of this system that hold water in my entire life One defense is that the old AT&T system was really expensive and slowed progress. Deregula…

I'm skeptical too.

When were you in high school? Blockbuster cut prices near the end as it was dying to try to compete with Netflix and Redbox.

There really isn’t any reasonable defense for these examples or the lack of the speedy hearing. But I’m not against civil forfeiture if practiced better with better safe guards. Ev…

What evidence exists that Tesla FSD is actually safer than an average driver?

I find menus on phones harder to read. And it just feels annoying to have everyone’s face in their phones at a meal. I have no issue with it being default, but since covid ended, t…

Apple TV, google play, Amazon, and all the other video stores are no harder to use than Spotify. You don’t use them because it costs 6 bucks a pop. That’s a price motive not a serv…

That was never sustainable. Netflix got that content for cheap because streaming was the last stop on the value chain. All cost of production was paid by the tv network that commis…

Most states have a maximum dollar value for verbal agreements for sale of goods.

Not complying with DMCA doesn’t directly get into legal trouble. It’s not a crime and doesn’t create (itself) any civil liability. What it does do is forfeit a safe harbor defense …

The person you are replying to used it in the classic sense. It was commonly mis-used to mean “eh that just a minor exception that you should ignore.” But it’s been mis-used so muc…

Maybe I’m out of touch in the UMC bubble, but aren’t AirPods pretty so common they they are no longer really a status symbol? iPhones aren’t anymore either. You seen poor people wi…

Business class tickets often cost more than 3500 above than coach ticket for a single round trip.

The restaurants in Mauston, WI seem cleaner/better. That’s where I always stopped between Chicago and Hayward.

I can’t speak to Toys R Us specifically, but if the underlying business was solid, it would reemerge under chapter 11.

How do you do that? Is there a tutorial?

The so called Alli-oops.

The article explains the problems. AI proponents want to use these systems to censor. And it leads to major companies like Microsoft slandering people. Microsoft should be afraid a…

The standard is very hard to meet. These mentally ill drug addicts homeless people usually don’t qualify.

There is some truth to weather. But also those areas are less likely to get queasy about cracking down on vagabonds. Police will hassle beggars in nice areas to keep respectable fo…

Calling a trade embargo baiting someone into war is Japanese colonialism apologism.

> Nobody expected the United States to specifically target tens of thousands of innocent civilians instead of military targets in a single sweep. Yea they did. The US had already b…