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Google in 2023: “Before we pull the rug out from under you, we’ll throw some packing peanuts down.”
Well they disabled purchasing 3 years ago. Rather than a rug pull, it's more like a bar turning the lights on 3 years ago, and then they handed out to-go cups in case you didn't finish your drinks after all that time.
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> If you don't like "trumpism", you have to side with "radical left". If you don't like "radical left", you have to side with "trumpism" This strikes me as incorrect. There isn't really much "radical left" in the US, Biden himself is a centrist. I take your overall point regarding accuracy of information, and I think the comments re: "radical left" are an example of the inaccuracy we see in US media. "Radical centris…
I think the word "radical" or "far" as in "far right" are being perverted to deny the existence of both the "radical left" and deny the existence of a moderate right. I've noticed the language war (as in, changing the meaning of words) is more heavily employed by the "far left" (see what I did there?) than the right, but I'm happy to see evidence of the right using it. For instance, I think if the right fought the la…
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Well they disabled purchasing 3 years ago. Rather than a rug pull, it's more like a bar turning the lights on 3 years ago, and then they handed out to-go cups in case you didn't finish your drinks after all that time.
I was being snarky, but I am a little impressed they did more than the usual nothing. Kudos to whomever fought for that.
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Well they disabled purchasing 3 years ago. Rather than a rug pull, it's more like a bar turning the lights on 3 years ago, and then they handed out to-go cups in case you didn't finish your drinks after all that time.
I was being snarky, but I am a little impressed they did more than the usual nothing. Kudos to whomever fought for that.
Netflix doesn't refund my subscription for the last two months when a show I'm watching disappears.
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I think it's more that print magazines aren't really a thing anymore. Yes, they exist, but if you have a computer you're far more likely to consume publishers' content by going to their site and either generating advertising revenue for them as a free user or subscribing digitally, which gives you (and them) much more flexibility in the types of content you can consume and they can create & share. The same has been h…
This is likely the case. We have Apple News but we don’t open any of the magazines. We just read whatever the feed gives us. If Apple were to follow, it would help confirm our hunch.
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Piracy, of actual -tangible- goods, is theft. Piracy of digital content is -literal- copying. The original item is not modified or changed. Copying is not theft. The politicians, media journalists, and corporations spent enough monies to brainwash children into believing copying is theft. It isn't. Never was. Never is.
Digital content of songs and movies is exactly the same as the way you consume it. It is the tangible thing. It’s like having a perfect atom to atom reconstruction of the Mona Lisa you can put on your wall and stealing it. People’s jobs depend on the money made from selling digital media and making more digital media takes money. You can try to abstract it away but it doesn’t make sense. Maybe the prices or agreement…
However if I steal it the Louvre no longer has it and there would be a massive manhunt. Cloning is definitely not the same as stealing.
Not that I'd clone it because I think it was actually pretty unimpressive in real life.