I mean... at the peak of his malignancy the last time around, we were down to only about three dozen countries that would allow us to enter and visit. No one should be surprised that we are a pariah state again.

Oh, yeah... two sides of the same coin. It would have been perfect.

"Hindi accounts for 0.2% of the data despite being spoken by 7.5% of the global population...and 82.7% of scam call centre employees.".

Fixed that for ya! :)

I'm sure I remember... about a decade ago, I think... that at least one of the major browsers already tried implementing a do-not-track request header. I think two of the three did it, actually. But the websites... and the advertising and tracking companies... pretty much all ignored the setting; so the browser developers all just gave up on it. And we all just kept on using plugins to block ads and trackers.

I see no problem with putting a DNT switch or option back in the browsers. But it was never *THEM* doing the tracking in the first place. So what good does this law do, without a requirement that the visited web sites respect the setting? And, in that case, why add a new law versus just adding to the CCPA?

Whenever you put your data under somebody else's control, then pay them to look after it, you're one mistake away from losing it all, and the mistake doesn't even have to be yours. So you forget to update your credit card info with Company X, or a "time to renew" email gets caught in the spam filter, or PayPal decides it doesn't like your politics and suspends your account. Guess what: you just lost your data.

Basically, if you don't have all those family photos and business records and other stuff it would kill you to lose under your own direct control, you're asking for trouble. Sure, back it up elsewhere, but never count on somebody else to care about your stuff as much as you do.

Is the seizure warning skippable? If not, how long does it remain on the screen?

Now, take that number... however many seconds it is that someone decided it takes to read that warning that everyone MUST read EVERY TIME they play that game... and multiply it by the number of people who bought the game times the average number of times they will play the game during the time they own it, and calculate for hours. This is variable a. From there, you can use analytics to determine the typical user's social cohort, find that demographic's average annual income, and divide out to hours. This is variable b.

Multiply a by b, then add in the cost of the time of the copy writer who created the warning, the engineer who implemented it, the QA who tested it, the build & release engineer who made sure it went live, and however many pencil-pushers were involved in the decision. There is your cost.

> heroine

LOL, what? That dingbat thinks that marrying into money and prancing around on red carpets as if she were an actual Oscar winner makes her some kind of HERO???

Hell... she an assclown who deserves to lose just for the delusional conceit.

> but then it has quite literally 600 other trackers
> spread across the page

All of which I was perfectly capable of blocking, and did block, before GDPR; all of which I still block, regardless of those stupid GDPR popups; and all of which I will continue to block when the EU inevitably changes things up again and GDPR goes the way of Safe Harbor, Privacy Shield, probably others that I don't recall off the top of my head, and the dodo bird.

I've never needed a pack of pinheaded busybody bureaucrats to hold my hand on the internet from the other side of the ocean. I don't need them now. I won't need them in the future.

ROFL! Thanks for that!

From TFA: "It is a legal gray area with no clear path."

Translation: "When you do it, it's piracy. When we do it, it's research."

"Based on earlier predictions, the F-35C may not do the same for some years".

Given the F-35's "trailer queen" reputation, it would have been nice if at least US ships could chuck it at an enemy like a big, expensive metal rock.

There is a real, for-true Lord Sugar in England. He's got the Donald Trump role in their version of The Apprentice.

Drop off? What is this "drop off" of which you speak? Okay, I jest. And maybe I'm an old fart...

But has parenting really gotten so... helicopter... now, that they won't even let their kids ride the school bus? Is that common? I mean... I was taking the bus to school by 2nd grade. It's a perfectly normal rite of passage and an early step in learning independence and responsibility. Seriously... what the fuck? And what are these kids going to do when one day the parents aren't around to do everything for them?

You don't have to give a shit about farmers, one way or the other. DST is irrelevant to farming and I really can't fathom how that myth that it is and is kept for the farmers got started. Cows don't read clocks. Nor do pigs, chickens, or sheep. Crops don't operate on clock time either. So neither do farmers. They tend to the crops and animals when the crops and animals need tending to; no matter where the big hand and little hand point.

So really... you *SHOULD* care about farms and farmers. You *DO* have to eat, after all. But they are entirely irrelevant when it comes to daylight saving time.

For some people it's not the hour of sleep, it's suddenly waking up an hour early. I'm one of them. If I stay up an hour late and get up at my normal time, I'll be more groggy and tired than usual for a while. But I'll be functional and more or less normal by the time I get to the office. If I go to bed at my normal time and have to wake up an hour early though... Let's just say I'm not a pleasant person until I'm about three coffees into the day.

Plus, the daylight lasting an hour longer is a bummer in the evenings; causing a 1-hour delay in the beginning of the city's nightlife. That's bad enough on the weekends, when you can at least sleep in the next day. But when the day's fun time starts an hour later, but you still have the weekday alarm to go to work the next day, it puts a crimp in the social life, which is... also... a bummer.