Posts by Brian 3 215 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Oct 2010
So.... they downloaded a trial version... and that gave huntress the right to monitor their pc? I'm not sure I understand how that is ethical - they are checking their trial customer's PCs for what exactly that when found, gives them permission to assume they are bad actors?
I hardly think so. From a strategic standpoint, the EU has currently lost NOTHING and gained just about as much time as they care to play for since this has to be voted on by 27 different countries, which will take time and maybe they want to call a referendum to the people for it and that'll take however long it may do. The exact wording etc all have to be dialed in before that or there's nothing for anyone to vote on except perhaps a 'memorandum of understanding' - concepts of a plan if you will.
How many times have numbers been thrown around like this, "THE DEAL IS MADE!" and there is no deal at all.
Don't forget that day 2 consisted of attempting to nullify part of the constitution. Not that it was in effect before the election either apparently, or he'd not have made it on any ballot. Also don't forget it's a country that has never acknowledged it's civil war. Congress only mentions "the troubles in the south". A country that does it's level best to not hold those responsible to accounts. Even after WW2 they allowed the nuremburg defense and hid it from the public so they could not be held accountable. I've never voted, because there is no democracy here.
whoa whoa whoa! They absolutely should not get out of the fine simply by becoming compliant with the law! The fine is for the infractions. Maybe they should get out of being barred from selling products in the EU by becoming compliant and paying for third party oversight? Why are you so forgiving of corporate malfeasance? The execs should each get a kick in the junk, too, preferably by an angry kickboxer..
Ubisoft are evil, they will never get my money again. When I paid for AC: unity, logging into the steam acct I purchased with was good enough. My dual core CPU however, was not enough. So a year later when I dropped in a 4-core chip, now they required my to make a "uplay" account AND install the uplay client spyware in order to start the game... as long as I was online and their servers graced me with permission. So I looked for a crack... nope, nothing (at least at the time). Even the scene release of the original version refused to run without updating....
morally, how can you give them money? patreon are such pieces of shit. last time I doled out to them, was for plain text and it took a full minute to load each page. even the post listings took that kind of time! the only thing they can have from me is scorn. they took my money, and couldn't even puke up text in a timely fashion? it doesn't matter if it was 2010 or 2015, that's a complete crock of shit and they should be torn cable from cable for it. also they take like 20% of the total. for doing, well, basically nothing. even geoshitties wasn't that slow for plain text pages... even on dialup
it's amazing the kind of thing people think is worth rewarding these days
Right? and if you want to just wantonly blow them up.. I bet the second one you do is full of the worst toxic waste and maybe even radioactive waste. That will be next anyways I assume; not only do you ditch the more expensive to scrap than build ship.. you can get rid of some bad shit and really snowball that cost for the scandinavians.
we need to sunset every person who voted for them as well, and every person who kept approving them
we need it to be a criminal act to abrogate the constitution as well as criminalizing attempting to pass unconstitutional legislation - retroactive
it would take the unachieved yet petition method to do so, IMO
Yeah if the bullet fragmented when it bone then she might be SOL. My friend got shot by a .25 here in winnipeg, guy came up to him walking down the sidewalk, held up his piece and said 'gimme a dollar' which my friend had no cash on him. So he got shot in the shoulder, where a bunch of shrapnel remains. Police never even looked for the assailant.
It's more like they seem to ENFORCE them for the fun of it. As in, when it's convenient for them to do so, or when the target is a plebian. Same like the FBI, ATF and the rest of the federal agencies, including the FTC. Look at how the country has become utterly lawless for corporations - they just do as they please and settle years after for a % of the profits, no admission of guilt! And when shit hits the fan, golden parachutes for all the villains while the large mutual funds of our money are gutted of value.
I remember intel spending most of the 90s playing stupid monopolist games and giving huge discounts to shops that would exclusively sell intel chips. Like 20-40% off wholesale, when margins on tech were 10-15%! They were literally given a new lease on life with the "core" aka revamped pentium 3 architecture after the P4's cosmetics finally wore off and you could see what a pig it was.
Price fixing CAN result in (temporary) lower prices - say if several smaller players want to take out the big dog in the industry, for instance in a situation where the dominant company has taken some sort of financial hit or disaster. Hit em while they're down and feast on the bones.
I'm pretty sure the waiver is only valid if the restrictions are followed ANYWAYS, this is another, "don't let them do it b/c maybe it won't work and might affect us" as if the waiver is a license to do whatever the hell without consequences. Also, a negative can't be strictly proven like you suggest but I can imagine at least some testing has already occurred. The proof is in the pudding anyways, I should think AT&T et al would have to prove the harmful interference / excessive emissions in practice. As well as proving the SOURCE of the emissions is from the spacex SCS
What, you don't want to take out a 10 year loan to buy a new car that will only last 5-7 years before it needs a new engine, transmission, headlight computer or maybe taillight computer, whatever? Some of the tail lights come with the 'module' for the rear park assist or radar units attached, only sold as one piece, married to the vehicle when installed, good thing they are only like $1300 each right?
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