Hmm, that was supposed to be ejected, but you know, fucking Google. Autocorrect always picks the dumbest option.

They can, mining equipment can do that. And it's big enough too

That's what they've done. Or rather they've bought the politicians who create the regulatory frameworks. But if people woke up and realized they've been frog-boiled into giving away their privacy, then that would be prohibitively expensive.

You mean we will be left in mass graves? They are absolutely not planning to give us any basic income.

Given the requirements to be featured on such a coin, I certainly hope so.

FTFY, see subject. EOM.

It's weird that the reason wasn't that Quark was shit. Quark's interface has always been pathetically inscrutable while Pagemaker's (and subsequently, InDesign's) were immediately approachable and logical. You didn't have to do hard work of memorizing counterintuitive locations to find functionality, because everything was (and is) laid out logically.

I go back to fairly olden times with Pagemaker (back to Aldus in fact) and continued to take a peek at Quark every once in a while, only to find out that it was always terribly fucking irritating. I have never understood how anyone preferred Quark. It had one feature which Pagemaker didn't, arbitary text rotation which you had to do with Illustrator. This seems like a big deal, but it wasn't, because practically all of those people had Illustrator anyway. Obviously Adobe implemented this eventually.

Nice, an AC comment worth reading for once. This is exactly the right answer. Fucking nail that connection, just keep it using the maximum transfer 24/7, however you do it. If they force you to have their service, then use it... use it hard.

For some of them that's true. For most titles, either there is no DRM, or the DRM has been or will be defeated.

It was always arbitrary to claim they couldn't do a more secure OS without those specific features, since most of their security features do not require the not-that-Pixel-specific features they claimed were necessary. Since their OS is not 100% secure since none are, they were always able to achieve their goal of increasing security without those features.

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Thanks for proving you know how nothing works, as if we didn't already know that.

In a world without nations, and without hostile governments, your comment would make sense.

In the real world where we live, it's pathetic cuckery.

Yeah, sure, it only has ten times as many pixels as machines I was doing work on decades ago.

A larger screen and keyboard can be attached to any non-crippled phone.

A lot of people are doing everything on phones and tablets now. And many of those phones have nearly tablet-sized displays.

I essentially made the argument that if we want capitalism to work the way we were taught in civics class it is supposed to, companies must be forced by regulation not to undermine the basic assumptions that lead to efficient operation of the free market.

I am neither here nor there on a basic income. I think it depends on circumstances, which of course are changing as more and more labor -- including routine mental labor -- is being automated. We are eventually headed to a world of unprecedented productive capacity and yet very little need for labor, but we aren't there yet.

Anybody who is pushing AI services, particularly *free* AI services, is hoping to mine your data, use it to target you for marketing, and use the service to steer you towards opaque business relationships they will profit from and you will find it complicated and inconvenient to extricate yourself from.