Comment Re:A little over the top there (Score 1) 298
Ha ha, there have ever been deleterious consequences to immigration!
Ha ha, there have ever been deleterious consequences to immigration!
You're using plastic right now, you greedy selfish asshole
That's always been the reason used to censor. Every. Fucking. Time.
This isn't new; it's the same old bullshit.
I thought this was news for nerds, not Google sycophants. Is slashdot going to report the launch of all phones from all manufacturers now? Get off Google's cock!
You sound incredibly naïve.
Wake me when it's decriminalized, until then this is a lame attempt to save the midterms.
You answered your own question: to "waste" billions
Considering the death of 3G means I can't get service in a lot of places, I might have to pony up for this and drop Verizon
Why would we want someone to risk another person's capital? Talk about a moral hazard.
Yeah except middle managers only care about initial cost (which is how we all got saddled with UNIX in the first place)
Subsidies don't typically result in a glut of good product. Instead we get shit like Solyndra. Those subsidies are going to be used to prop up companies who can't otherwise compete, like Intel, presently.
As for saving money, which sap paid for the subsidies?
I'd rather have APIs instead of file formats
That's OK, Congress & Biden just gave them a massive subsidy (the Chips and Science Act)
You can't patent an API. There was a license for AMD to insert Intel's DRM blob
Dude, I'm stuck on Yosemite due to lack of El Cap drivers
El Cap broke a lot of drivers including most verizon phones/mifi devices. Some apps like CS1 won't work, either.
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.