...and the legacy financial system runs on unicorns and fairy dust, I take it?

Relevant LessWrong: "If Einstein had enough observational evidence to single out the correct equations of General Relativity in the first place, then he probably had enough evidence to be damn sure that General Relativity was true."

I don't intend to rent these things, or buy these things. If it's produced by a studio which uses DRM I don't want it to be in my life.

I feel it was the McDonald's inheritance fortune from years back that poisoned NPR. Republicans saw a chance to siphon some profits from the teat of a public institution and immediately did their damnedest to wrestle their own control into the foundations that manage that money. CPB was the first domino to really fall to them.

Open society naturally grows more liberal, and as a response, politics grows more conservative in its attempt to counteract change.

Thankfully in this cycle, looks like society is winning on the spin-of-the-wheel for cultural development.

Thats nonsense, of course the NSA backdoored bitlocker.

Stop fostering fear of an open source tool that actually worked, now you're doing to work of the NSA for them.

Sure it may be a comparative alternative to Android; but still, designed to help Adobe hurt the user, even if this hurt is minimized, rather than designed to let the user do what they need. I hear the Jolla is nice, any word on how it compares?

I feel like that would explain the Arma3 FPS lag issues.

My wife in the US got in by invite with a non-FB login, this was before any FB login integration was added. I'm stuck with a FB login b/c I was in the interim where they required it.

You cared enough to comment on it.

News is news, this has a connection with tech, moreso than some of the other bullshit that hits the front, let's just exhale a breath from our nose in amusment/annoyance/cynicism and move to the next submission.

I can't wait to see him throwing chairs onto the court mid-game. 'DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE'

Please tell us that the source code to your equalizer is online somewehre

So what you're saying is that I can fuck chrysler over for over 10,000$, after they took government bailout money? I've got the money, this is very tempting.

CocaCola has maintained a cocacola-labeled military force and has attacked villages with it. They can get away with it because they justify it by talking about the threat of unions.
There are mercenary armies (such as Xe) that are willing and able to do the bidding of whoever pays them, and there's plenty of money both flowing to them and available to continue to pay them.
Resource companies like Barrick Gold are just as dirty as the East India company ever was, but it's brown people far away from cameras and internet connections who get targeted by them so we don't tend to care or notice.

Voting with your wallet is not a choice, the University dictates it, and this will spread like a cancer.