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by beerandt 5y ago
Maybe the blank CD-R "tax"/ contribution-to-the-riaa didn't have to be paid if it couldn't host media files covered by that agreement? But I have no idea if they would've even had to pay that in the first place
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by beerandt 5y ago
>I especially read the faded comments and upvote This seems to happen a lot more frequently here than anywhere else. I'm not really sure what that says, other than people still read comments that are faded. Also that people shouldn&
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by beerandt 5y ago
I actually had a similar case with AT&T, except they went back and listened to their recording of the call and confirmed the promise. No need to sue.
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by beerandt 5y ago
The gross sum of time spent tracing the origins of scrap will be greater than money lost due to theft. The answer is mitigated risk via insurance and prevention, not a preemptive policing of all privately owned items of value.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Reminder that Pokemon Go's creater was a US intelligence official who made the "Google Earth" for spy satellite photos, before getting acquired by Google and making not-classified Google Earth and Google Maps. No need to pay
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by beerandt 5y ago
I'd be surprised if they somehow limited side-loading apks on a PC.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Microsoft pivoting business model to being an Amazon referrer?
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by beerandt 5y ago
The commercial use aspect also came into play- if you were hired to use the drone to do something (like take pictures), or were a company using a drone as part of a product/service, it would arguably fall under a different set of rules
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by beerandt 5y ago
Plus the number of moderators is irrelevant if they're trained to only remove posts from non-advertisers, or base their decisions on biased "fact-checker" articles.
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by beerandt 5y ago
This is the thinking that got us: 1) the mess that is DRM, whether for software or media, and 2) to the point of 10-step windows activation (including phone calls and having to reinstall because one version only takes retail keys and anothe
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by beerandt 5y ago
Cajun-French almost went extinct, and it was illegal for a long time to speak it. Immigrants from all over were forced in school to use English and punished for speaking their ancestors' languages. And physical punishment was pretty st
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by beerandt 5y ago
Starlink has lateral uplink/downlink lasers, but yes that would be a complicated solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yeah- that's what keyhole is: a codename for a series of nro/ nga spy sats. Edit: and Hubble was built from a surplus skeleton of one, through a government transfer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Hole
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by beerandt 5y ago
Lots of 30/40 year old hardware is still classified, especially spy technology.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Idk about the payload computer, but I've got to think guidance and operation controls would have at least some remnants of legacy keyhole technology, or would expose hardware details that might still be sensitive information, even if t
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by beerandt 5y ago
>"The rule of thumb is when something is working you don't change it," Hertz said. "We'd like to change as few things as possible when we bring Hubble back into service."
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by beerandt 5y ago
Their are plenty non ridiculous examples, but no clear place to draw the line. What if I asked to be addressed as "Sir"? Would it matter if I were nobility, or a nobody just trying to assert dominance? Or if you hated me and thoug
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by beerandt 5y ago
Is it too much if they responded by asking you to use the pronouns real-her, xx-hers, & born-she for her? Or would it be an implicit acceptance of the presumptions implied? Would that not matter since it's their identity?
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by beerandt 5y ago
I just assumed they never intended to kill him, at least not there or right away, but that their "handling" or torture triggered some health condition, and cutting him and bailing were just plan B. Which if true, isn't a ring
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by beerandt 5y ago
You already can see companies, eg Shell and Exxon investing heavily in their "chemical complex" refineries, and selling off refineries that only process fuel.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I think it was described as being similar to polarization, and when they're aligned properly (I'm not sure it's N/S) with the magnetic field, everything looks "clearer."
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by beerandt 5y ago
Well yes, but they usually at least wait until they've organized. Without existing skin in the game at Amazon, this just seems much closer to actual extortion.
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by beerandt 5y ago
My point is that if something is "different" , forcing others to label that thing as "not-different" isn't a productive battle. Others will just now need a new way to describe it, because to them, the original labe
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by beerandt 5y ago
1) There's no reason you can't look for a job before quitting your current one. In fact, you should always be looking for better opportunities, no matter how much you like your current job. 2) Is it harder for parents, single or
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by beerandt 5y ago
It doesn't help that any student can get a loan to study whatever they want, often without any regard for future income potential. Most STEM majors don't have problems finding jobs. The days of an Art History degree being enough t
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by beerandt 5y ago
>leverage the power of the government Because people get paid to do those jobs, and the government mandating that they do it for free, or for some reduced price is theft of labor. We've already fought that war.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Don't conflate the desired political goal with the political source. There's no reason states couldn't implement it if they wanted to. And some did. Which is part of why it's such a power grab. The "universal"
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by beerandt 5y ago
Then the do-ing in this case would be quit working the dead-end job and finding another one. If what you're doing now hasn't presented an opportunity for advancing, don't keep doing the same thing and expect different results
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by beerandt 5y ago
No- but you do see a similar restriction with pro athletes not being able to play as an amateur, partially due to the experience of competing at a higher level. This isn't that different.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Have you considered that forcing the abnormal to be included with the normal renders both terms meaningless?

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