If I see you for defamation because you claimed I was a thief, that is indeed retaliation.

Yeah, agreed, with one exception. EA. The EA guys are not all there, IMHO. They abandon all short term goals in pursuit of longer term goals that may not happen. You have to plan for short, medium, and long term outcomes that all align with your ethics. Bad things happen when you only focus on the long term regardless of how good your intentions.

Maybe Republicans really like dick picks

Thanks Yuri. How's the weather in St. Petersburg?

Maybe if Israel hadn't been politically and financially backing Hamas, it might have been different. But hey, all that counts is "Palestinians bad, Israelis good". Simple is so much easier to cope with than reality.

You'd need to bundle that law with a law that would make the tickets refundable until a certain point too close to the event.

It's legitimate, in my mind, to resell tickets for some event you wanted to go to but now cannot because life circumstances got in the way. It's less legitimate to scrape a website, buy a zillion tickets, and resell them at a huge markup.

Economic populism is more in vogue on both the left and right today than it was in the 90s.

Ban TicketMaster/Live Nation from the lucrative resale market and watch how quickly they conjure up an effective solution to solve the problem of bots snatching up all the tickets.

We purchased tickets for Alanis Morissette's tour this summer, within 60 seconds of sales opening, and magically all the first sale tickets were gone and we had to go to the resale market. From nosebleed to "if you have to ask, you can't afford it", literally, every single seat in a ~20k person arena sold within a minute? Who knew she was still that popular....

TM gets to collect their bullshit fees on every single sale, so what incentive do they have to do a damn thing about bots?

Why would your friends that don't use ad blockers leave exactly? Because of your scintillating comments?

How is Youtube Premium not reasonably priced? You get youtube + streaming music service. This confuses the heck out of me.

For those too lazy to read the article its a perfectly understandable tactic he used. Create a bunch of accounts with bogus information, try to get elevated instances on each one, run crypto mining on them launder the crypto. As each instance gets shut off for non payment, create a new one with different bogus info. makes 100% sense how he did it, and how the caught him. Kind of dumb to try, did he really think he wasn't going to be caught once the totals got into the millions? I'm sure it was pretty easy to figure out which accounts he created at the end. His flaw was not stopping before he got caught and staying somewhere where US agencies have jurisdiction.

You know that definition, full of racist, msygonistic, anti-Semitic dog whistles is coopting the of the term defined by and for African Americans and other minorities when they suddenly recognized that racism, mysogyny,etc wasn't just personal interactions but systemic encoded into our laws, streets, schools and other institutions that caused the harm to be generational.

I mean , it was always terrible. In the sense that it was meant to be and is enjoyable on a disposable basis. A nickel paper back from the 50s.

I'd love to criticize all starwars fans in this post, but the reality is, that its not unique to start wars. All obsessive fandoms are terrible. Disney's not going to move on. Obsessive fandoms are their profit center.

The very first episode of Star Trek I ever saw was Duet. Have you seen it? It was Season One and by the end of the episode we're pretty far removed from "Terrorist Kira." It did not take seven years for her to view the Cardassians as people or to think that a political solution was possible.