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Comment Re:Do as I say, not as I do (Score 2) 91

I don't see ads because I run adblock.
But I'm not deluded enough to believe ads don't have a legitimate use.

Slapping a sponsored link to adobe at the top of my search for "pdf editor" is vastly different than overwriting the links and sending me to a hack job website trying to sell me genuine counterfit handbags, black magic love slavery spells, and adobe pro licenses for 1/10th what they normally cost.

Comment Re:What about the law (Score 4, Informative) 114

This stuff is perfectly legal to own in the blocked areas. The content owners just want to make sure someone viewing their content in Germany must pay the German price for it, instead of say the French price. Even if the customer is French, already bought the content in France, and is visiting Germany temporarily.

The Nazi stuff, on the other hand, is not legal in Germany.

Comment Re:intentional (Score 4, Funny) 416

Dunno, but possibly huge like dark matter interaction.
It's like with radioactive elements a hundred years ago. They didn't know what the stuff could actually do, so they painted it on clock faces to make them visible in the dark.
Here they could have the key to warping space/time, and the first use is to putter along in orbit cheaply.

Comment Re:Microsoft Edge? (Score 4, Funny) 153

Nah, just E.
It will be introduced to the public via incredibly annoying commercials featuring stereotypical frat guys telling each other "Duuuude! She so wants the E!" "Ya man, I showed her my E last night and she was all over it!" and so on. Ending with them in uncomfortable silence after one of them (probably the token uncool guy) makes a homoerotic comment about another guy's E.

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