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Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:23PM (#42513096)
Some people in a general sense just defend companies fleecing us for money because if it was the government who stopped it that makes it bad, which is, imo, very silly.
Re:AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:39PM (#34656834)
NEW RESTAURANT
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:44PM (#34043074)
I don't see how you even pretend to rationalize this thinking as anything other than "I'm banning specific things I don't like and cutting some rule that sorta fits that" afterwards
Re:Soli on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:02AM (#21280131)
It almost seems like cheating to draw on Douglas Adams, of course he'd be the one to draw out futuristic truths in his droll way.
If I were more cynical, I would say that the antitrust concerns are being focused on in big tech in part due to the perception of anti-conservative bias or de-platforming, and the telecoms, other than in the case of owning CNN, have no such perception associated with them.
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page on Thursday May 16, 2019 @12:54AM (#19926236)
Eventually you become a Veblen good. Or you finally get to work less hours.
Re:Microsimulation of Traffic Flow on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:51PM (#19675234)
We have variable speed signs in the US, but where I live, they aren't followed, to the point that it seems unsafe to obey them and go 30mph when the flow of traffic is 60mph
There are those who give a lot of a shit, and who are deeply disturbed and troubled, knowing families and innocents and children being maimed and killed are on our collective hands, and who do not know how the US can and should escalate, finish or withdraw from these conflicts without empowering butchers and terrorists to replace them, as well as killing or leaving even more friends and allies to die.
As I understand it, white supremacists and fellow travelers organize in looser groups than ISIS as an entity.

The term Scripted Violence, or Stochastic Terrorism are the terms I've heard, for messaging and ideology that repeatedly creates "lone wolves" with similar views and goals.

Agreed, but I think they're saying they start with more innocuous symbols and messaging at the beginning of their ideological radicalization.
Alt right is a political term coined by a white supremacist, and encapsulates reactionary ideologies and intolerant, hateful and violent attitudes towards certain races, faiths and nationalities. Those who identify with the term or act accordingly can be accurately grouped with their ethos of violence, and have their ethics and politics more accurately summed than entire nationalities and/or world religions can.
Re:Graying Out on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:43AM (#19376058)
Fairly, but the OSCAR protocol was reverse engineered pretty well, and so you could get on AIM through Pidgin, or Adium, or Meebo, etc etc etc
Re:Habits of Highly Miserable People on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:01PM (#17295268)
How would you recommend expressing support, not minimizing these experiences while also not assuming victimization?
Uber seems very actively hostile to its employees, drivers, and riders.

It's kind of impressive in a bad way.

Re:Pricing low-touch SaaS on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:27AM (#16483560)
Was the outlier Amazon?
Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:14PM (#16320423)
Such are the better-safe-than-sorry business policies of a litigious society.
LineageOS provides the root flashable zip for any of their ROMs.

I will read more into the security claims and concerns, and may be persuaded, but at first blush I support not spoofing application signatures, as this is the same sort of chain of trust that package managers and app stores are built on.

As a consumer, I appreciate that LineageOS with Google services passes most to all of the CTS/Safetynet checks, and doesn't make me choose between having an updated, streamlined version of Android, and using my bank app, or playing Pokemon Go.

I think merging these changes could easily jeopardize that and maintaining it as a fork makes sense to me.

Re:Freelancer.com has ruined my life on Saturday November 04, 2017 @02:36PM (#15626291)
Thanks for this domain, very helpful.
Thank you for providing sources with your statements.

I agree with your premise but still want to recognize you backing it up with data.

It makes for good drama. Like House of Cards. Or Fallout. We enjoy thinking our way through doomsday scenarios.
Not only providing support, but unilaterally disabling the product they purchased after the fact. That should be incredibly explicit. And even then.

Just look at Ham Radio Deluxe.