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cannonedhamster
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The law is a sham that's routinely changed in favor of those who make the most money. Just because something's legal doesn't mean it's right. The law also applies differently based on who you are and how much justice one
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Actually, yeah you can. Happened in WW2. People can be drafted and stop lossed. Entire factories were taken over, wages were frozen, and product shortages happened due to military need. If people can't make a profit building military u
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The problem fundamentally is yes it's your data. It's what makes you, you. The reason this is important is because if you can't control this data it can be used against you. At some point in the near future if not already you
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Between Drive and Photos. Also it's only one way now, up, you can no longer sync photos between computers. It was major news for Photos users when it happened. I'll provide a link for more info. There was a large amount of functi
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Steam automatically updates your games. Windows 10 automatically installs updates for your system. Chocolatey automatically updates your apps. And your driver software automatically updates your drivers if you choose. Everything on my compu
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Just recently lost a major syncing ability and became less useful.
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Their support is non-existent not just bad. They shouldn't be in any consumer market.
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But you won't be playing the games on high settings. You'll be playing them on the equivalent of a mid tier computer with extra lag. The article goes into this in depth about how degraded the quality of play is. You have to pay fo
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It's going to be used to allow homeschooling to accept answers that are purely based on religion. It's just going to harm Ohio as their schools lose accreditation due to religion replacing science, after all you can't penaliz
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Netflix creates caching boxes inside the local ISP which reduces both latency and bandwidth requirements for top content. These only store the most popular content.
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That really leaves out that both left and right wing ideologies have found a way to use the technology effectively for their own means. The platform itself isn't some niche platform.
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It may be technically easy but you still have to deal with network effect, bandwidth costs, and a multitude of the legal issues before we even get to political issues. There already exist alternatives to Youtube that solve various aspects o
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Former general counsel for the firm claimed that there was financial wrongdoing. Attempted to resolve internally and externally veggie going to the Feds. She is suing the company for back pay off $30 million plus $30 million more. Person wh
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It's Dunkin now. They too hip and trendy for donuts, you pleb. Forget that Dunkin got started by providing working class people garbage coffee with warm donuts. It's all upscale now and they don't need no donuts, or Onion bag
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He's saying these feel good stories only exist because of terrible situations to begin with. The company C&Ded him but after public backlash changed that heart. The hospital gave a patient an $800k medical bill after the insurance
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They do have grenade launchers though. Much cheaper than the robot.
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VA Beach for me. I paid to park. The meter was broken do it didn't properly register the amount paid. Still got a ticket even after explaining. They told me my only recompense was to spend more than the ticket to fight it, in person on
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HOAs also enforce environmental requirements, legal requirements, etc. These are not voluntary payments and require payments to the HOA. Otherwise what happens it that it gets dumped on the city and everyone's taxes go up, another invo
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You missed something in the article. He bought a property in a depressed area. The property rose in value to where it's now over $125000. The city foreclosed on the house and sold for $25k and kept the profits above $8.41 of back taxes
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Literally every other first world country sends a receipt with how much the government took, how much you're owed or how much you owe and the ability to amend. Ours is intentionally made more painful because of anti-tax zealots that wa
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Amazingly you can get cheaper cell plans including more data than these unlimited plans in the socialist bastion of Europe. I don't think the bandwidth is the problem it's the company and the regulatory capture. It's only thi
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It translates to nothing for the party who was damaged. Literally they will get nothing. And if they don't like that deal the government can make it hurt more. Your life here ruined over an ounce of weed, but rob multiple people access
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Who cares? The market will adapt.
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Situation normal. Corps run America including all the means of justice. I'm sure they were involuntary forced into an arbitration agreement by having the oil fall on their land and not putting it back into the pipe.
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Yes, I'm sure this will be different than every other time Nintendo has shut down competition. This is Nintendo's MO. They are notorious for going after fans and even legitimate resale. Edit: Just to be clear I'm not against
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It would be trivial to replace servers, but there's an initial cost investment most restaurants can't afford. The obvious transition is those screens you see popping up everywhere. It's going to be the next step are conveyer
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They used 40mm and tear gas grenades, shaped charges, and APCs. The police did their job, but the city should be paying for this. The city is the one at fault for not providing appropriate recompense.
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Let's see off the top of my head. Sending in an armed drone. Performing a breach of the house with multiple teams and eliminating the threat. Using optics to figure out where he was and then sniping him. All of these were options that
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My argument is that it was the police firing 40mm rounds blindly into the house, using shaped charges, using battering rams for a single suspect with limited ammunition is completely unreasonable. I've seen police safely breach in more
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If you and your family were being held hostage the actions by the police would have put them in far more danger if they didn't know where you were since they were blind firing launchers throughout the house. The police can shut off the
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