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Otherwise you're demanding that we accept every ridiculous idea that comes up... literally demanding people take suggestions of "Jewish space lasers causing fires in BC" and "the earth isnt real its just a TV show stage for aliens and the catholic church are thier partners" as legitimate possibilities rather than the highlt improbable, if not impossible, insanity they are....
That argument is essentially: Workers should suffer so those who already were of means can profit more.
You can't open a restaurant unless you're already doing well, with large amounts of capital etc.
Drivers are generally living oatcheck to paycheck with zero available capital.
You do see why I feel zero sympathy, right?
And that's ignoring you're actually arguing for drivers to do more work for the same or even less pay....
So often someone will spout off on a topic as though they know a great deal but when I start actually trying to have discourse on it I discover they actually know very little.
Dunning-Krueger type thi g I'm sure, but it's just so common as to be mentionable.
Prottip: they don't exist
Delivery drivers always got paid jack and made the majority of thier income from tips. It was always a bad industry and Uber etc just make it worse by taking an additional cut and causing businesses to outsource to fewer total workers across the industry than would be employed/were employed under the traditional model where any business that wanted to do delivery had to do so by directly employing someone.
I know I have never ordered from either because I was immediately aghast at the massive markup over the regular price for the products...
Frankly I'm a little saddened so few who consider themselves "in the know" about these things didn't at least know of the doc...
You could see how any author would find such an assertion absurd, right?
Just because it's legal doesn't change what it is. We have plenty of types of "theft" in the _colloquial_ sense that are not theft under law.
Really....
The issue here is very clearly with how Google et al are operating, effectively intentionally favoring blog spam over real content producers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP
It's a thing that's been messing me up for ages and only just got suggested as the cause/trigger for some remaining allergy like symptoms after my allergies went away (lots of issues besides it, it's just a trigger).
From this most instances of infringement do not justify legal action as the parties in violation have little to no money (fan fictions etc. Can't get blood from a stone) and in many cases the pursuit of legal action would "harm the brand" in a fashion that would far exceed the value (a 1% reduction in consumer engagement is hundreds of thousands if not millions in value).
Copyright is not the same as trademarks, you don't have to pursue every single violation in order to maintain protections.
They know at release about many of these bugs but between incentivizing upgrades and selling the resultant bugs as backdoor to 'three letter agencies' there's simply too much money to be made by not disclosing/patching the problems before third parties release discovery of the problems.
Ecosystem fracture and uncertainty of LTS are _The_ reasons I don't have a Foss phone. Full stop.
A coordinated drive behind a few hardware designs and an independent central org (think GNU/FSF) that effectively guarantees at least one OS option exists for the device lifetime are the keys to the goal.
Having that allows others to build thier variants.
We can't have a Foss phone built using phones which are explicitly built for a specific OS (android) and without having the drivers for components open source (to ensure anyone can patch it etc).
And look at the drive to "dumb" phones currently occurring specifically because people are tired of the "this device doesn't support the current version of android" bs... there are far more people in the potential customer pool than ever existed with PCs (where you have historically been able to upgrade for a decade+ before hardware was simply unable to support the software).
It doesn't.
A semi-niche device that is also a reliable "Don't need to upgrade hardware for a decade" option definitely has its place in the market, it just won't ever exceed 5% of the market... which would place it exactly where Linux desktop is.
Why do we keep acting like we need more than that?
A phone that won't be unusable due to vendor refusal to upgrade is a big thing for many users isn't it? Given widespread sentiments snd the fact most don't need to play high spec games, I could actually see it potentially exceeding Linux desktop share... but that presumes we don't see hardware fracture that destroys any market potential, which is what I've seen with the few projects for Linux phones - too many dogs eating each others lunches.
You could offer me a million dollars and I wouldn't hesitate sith my "no", and I'm far from wealthy.
The exceptions are part of that data set
Really...
Really, you just engaged in deception and promulgation of propaganda intended to push people toward neofascist ideology.
Shame on you.
2 k is a lot for even those at the 50th percentile and extremely significant for those below it.
Min wage earners make about 30k, so that 2k is 6.6% of thier income....
Elves were not tall folk, that came from an interpretation of icelandic folklore where he lumped that variant in with Giants... in almost all traditional lore elves were either diminutive like Gnomes or were at most the dame size as humans. Many other features are also from specific variants that he amalgamated in but most would not consider to be in the "main" folklore.
I had a longer response but accidentally refreshed the page and have no interest in typing that much again on my phone.
As for cases, DnD changed thier "races" in response to violations raised in court iirc. They pushed right to the line as close as possible and that was long before we reached modern IP law which is exceedingly more stringent than back in the 80s, right?
For those old enough, just think back to all the times your "navigator" wouldn't just tell you the street name or even "turn at the third intersection after this one " and instead waited until just moments before you reached it and said "Here" like a jack hole.
I was literally on the same block as a restaurant and it wouldn't show in maps at all, though the other 3 restaurants on the block were, and the only way to get it to show up was to Google it then click on the maps link. As soon as I took focus off the restaurant it disappeared again.
I can only presume it's because they hadn't paid Google or were being punished for some reason. It lead to me looking for more examples and found many places, including some major ones in the city I'm visiting, were excluded for no apparent reason, even ones with 4.9 ratings, and the only correlation between them was that they either were inherently more "indy" than the rest and thus likely to avoid engaging in certain aspects of Google or were close to a more powerful competitor.
This was particularly shocking when Wendy's wasn't being shown at a strip mall but the Burger King was....
The form is explicitly that defined by tolkien, with so many elements not found in the traditional forms and elements missing that are found in the traditional forms to be viewed as explicitly copied from Tolkien.
Your position is like saying that it wouldn't be any form of IP theft to use all the elements of Diablo IP including names, culture, historical features and other aspects so long as it wasn't actually in the world of Diablo... and I'm pretty sure the IP law is settled on that matter, isn't it?
I've come to hazard a guess they prefer the TD folks because the have higher engagement rates and are more prone to fall for the shady ads that reddit seems to be rife with
I don't think profit is the key issue is it?
Not a lawyer so I'm not sure, just seems like the issue has always been an individuals "right to privacy" and "right of publicity" and whether or not the work is journalistic, for private use, etc.