A lot of people hate subscription based models, but from the software company's perspective it's insane not to head that direction. You transform customers from less reliable yearly revenue to monthly. You can easily see where profits are headed because you don't have to yolo hope those same customers are upgrading later. You can drop the upfront costs of your product, run shortened sales, etc. It more than makes up in the 20% loss in customers leaving for non-sub based competitors.

That said, consumers should also be Federally protected. Laws like requiring all subscriptions be accessible and cancelable via the internet. All subscriptions clearly show the yearly cost during signup. All subscriptions should be clearly identifiable via their charge label on the credit card. All subscriptions should be required to alert customers after x months of no activity and stop charging customers after y. Subscriptions cannot auto-update their credit cards on file unless a user confirms they want it to. Partial refunds are required up to z months back for inactive customers.

Every listed reason here is garbage.

1. People want access to the same firmware that the techs have. Very few are asking for the source code, just access to run it themselves.

2. Liability has been solved years ago. Fairy tale lawsuits with astronomical fear mongering payouts that have never happened isn't helping your argument. Show me a single applicable lawsuit where this is true.

3. Oh no, we should definitely protect the poor farmers from hurting themselves. They certainly haven't been repairing their own equipment or using third party shops since the invention of the tractor itself. It's just too complicated and dangerous for anybody to learn how to work on things that can spark. People are simply asking for access to the same manuals, parts, and procedures that companies have already developed for their own techs.

4. We are all already paying the cost, today. Option 1, you prevent farmers from repairing their own equipment or using third party shops, which results in higher repair costs and lost crops, which results in more expensive food. Option 2, you allow farmers to repair their own equipment or use third party shops, which results in less repair income for manufactures and higher costs for providing the resources, which is passed to farmers and results in more expensive food. Either way there is an unavoidable price to be paid, but one leads to more freedom and choices while the other protects profit lines.

I would be fine if the law just said they have to be available for purchase at reasonable cost. I don't care if the parts are more or less integrated vs separated, but I should be able to buy the same parts and manuals that their own repair techs can access. If a dealership can access the firmware, then I should have access as well.

Given it's market share, yes. Also, once a coded-ui test is written, why not run it in all our supported browsers?

I'm just glad we finally dropped support for IE11.

The electoral college exists because the founding fathers had a very different idea about who should have the right to vote. We Americans have absolutely changed that perspective over time. Since the founding of our nation the president has only lost the popular vote 5 times.

We have more than enough precedence to establish the electoral college should just be abolished for the popular vote. Bonus points would be implementing ranked voting so power is no longer concentrated in just two parties.

> Taylor added. "Our overall salary investment is consistent with prior years," she also said.

Wait, isn’t that the exact problem?

SpaceX has a strong interest in keeping the LEO space clean. They already have a decommission plan in place to return their satellites to earth once they are phased out.

After taking over Verizon at my parents house, the previously consistent dsl internet just devolved into being lucky they could get 5mbps down.

After 6 different service technician visits by 3 different people, my parents just gave up and settled with what they had.

I'm not surprised people are running from them now that cell phone internet is so much cheaper.

Not top dollar, but a bunch like myself purchased 3 year subscriptions a few months back. There were offers going for 1/2 off.

Not that it matters though, launches usually don't reflect long term experiences.

A ton of people were almost horrified when they watched her force pull herself back into the ship. This would not have left the reaction they expected.

I listen to a lot of sped up music all the time. Take a song on youtube, bump it to 1.25x. Suddenly it's got a lot more energy. Doesn't work for everything, but it's crazy how effective it is for most music.

Yeah, it should definitely be a bunch of individual companies who answer to stockholders that should stand up against China, not the US government. That will surely work in the long run.

Activision did deal with China, by completely folding to their censorship demands, which is what every company will have to do if they hope to have any business in China, regardless of where in the the world those comments are made.

Suddenly your freedom of speech evaporates when the company you work for touches China.

If you're moving 1 billion dollars in bitcoin, you could care less about paying $700 vs $35 for transfer fees.

They're trying pretty hard to prevent that. The one I was considering purchasing had to be re-activated every 30 days or so otherwise it would stop working. Only the factory could reset it. If someone stole it they were essentially stealing a paper weight.

I assume Nintendo is preparing to release some online switch store where you can get a rotation of games for a membership like PSN and XBOX does or you can directly purchase access to old games.

As such, they are getting rid of any low hanging fruit before release now that these rom sites are possibly costing them money.