There is absolutely a connection between how shitty corporations are treating their customers with how likely those customers are likely to stop paying and start sailing.

Netflix in its prime was the GOAT, showing a very significant decrease in piracy. We’re only seeing a rise now because of the proliferation of streaming companies. No one wants to pay for 4+ streaming services.

Could the term be something specific to Vietnam? Like is it a trade term?

These people are willing consumers of targeted propaganda.

Ftfy

Best Buy will accept most electronics for recycling.

Yippie kayak other buckets!

I worked with someone who was working on his second PhD in computer science and the guy did not know how to print.

Literally couldn’t figure out how to click the print button.

In computer science.

PhD.

Computers.

Even remembering IP addresses isn’t a great because services can change IP addresses at any point.

As others have mentioned DNS, by its design, is decentralized…to a point. If you run your own DNS, you can’t be an authority to .com addresses for example. Even that sentence has caveats.

Generally speaking you can run your own DNS that uses root DNS servers. MPAA and others have attempted to get those servers to stop pirate domains from being resolvable but they’ve essentially said “fuck off”.

IMO, that’s going to be the last battleground, at which point pirating will have no choice but to move to tor and/or to I2P.

Just normal late stage capitalism

My understanding is that 1-800-gambler is how casinos were able to be legalized in Maryland. Instead of paying taxes, casinos have to pay some fixed cost to fund anti-gambling programs.

I’m gonna take a stab in the dark that this billboard is just as effective as any program that is funded by the casino industry.

The US military for all their many, many faults, is real good at war, and marching like a toy soldier doesn’t help you do war.

The point of a uniformed service is to show your enemy that you have control and command over people who will follow your orders. Demonstrating this lowers your enemy’s will to fight back. It gets soldiers on the other side to think “If these guys are so organized that they march in unison, we don’t stand a chance.”

These military parades are no longer valuable except to authoritarians. Normal functioning democracies don’t use national military forces to project power. They do so using diplomacy and other political methods.

But Trump, Kim Jung Un, Modi, and Putin all use it to flex their authority to their base.

It will not surprise me if in the next year, a new division in the army is created for parade duty for the president’s birthday where next year their marching will be perfect.

All so that Trump can get his dick hard.

Additionally, cities that want physically fit officers have unions that demand that they are paid to work out. Cities don’t want to pay for that.

So, usually the fitness requirements are only used when applying but aren’t used when you are in the force.

From my very limited experience, it comes down to two things:

• who owns the buses
• who makes money off the buses

My experience in taking public transit generally is that there is often very little advertising about them and as a result people don’t know about them unless you have to use them. Not only that but bus route maps are so damn hard to read. The best innovation I’ve seen is Google maps allowing you to use public transit as an option to get somewhere.

The second is who is profiting. We all know conservatives don’t like paying for services they don’t use, especially when it benefits the poor. Schemes like Uber are a way to get people to pay for their buses so that the municipality can pay less into their public transit system and ideally pay into theirs.

It’s similar in terms of detail to Last Week Tonight but not as funny.

The opposite of nominative determinism.

I implicitly trust FOSS more than closed source but because that trust has been earned through millions of FOSS projects.

On occasion, I will dive deep into a codebase especially if I have a bug and I think I can fix it.

You can’t do this with closed source or even source available code because there is no guarantee that the code you have is the code that’s been compiled.

“We have changed the terms. Pray that we don’t change them further.”

Good news: there’s been talk to having python be part of the DOM.

I believe chromium has been working on it but no real thought on when this will happen.

Yeah as much as I love Jake and Amy and Captain Holt, B99 is copaganda. Once I saw it that way, I couldn’t watch it anymore.

I’m sick of talking about a “living wage”. I want a thriving wage.

It’s illegal if the company is coercing you to spend money at their “preferred” stores.

That said, so many states have business friendly laws that it’s likely a civil tort and not a criminal one.

OP, call your attorney general or department of labor (depending on the state). You may want to even call your state’s taxation board and you know for fuck sure they are doing something scammy with their taxes if they are watching you this closely.