That's not exactly true, California places all kinds of restrictions on porn. For example, it's illegal to film bareback porn here.

But the collie fucker has a point. I don't know that age restrictions count as censorship, though in general I'm opposed to them on privacy grounds. While I don't agree with his stance on collie porn, I will defend his right to make his stance known.

My take on this is that the internet ate our punctuation.

In half a year the price will increase, then randomly after that. In a few years it will either be at least $30 a month or full of Advertisements while losing the majority of content. We've all seen this before.

It's a shame the parents had to lose a child, it's a bigger shame they need to slap his picture onto a bot created to push an agenda.

The original version of the phrase is "eat their cake and have it too." Anyone can have their cake and then eat it. But once it is eaten, it is no longer had. So the original formulation actually makes sense.

Robots.txt is to ask politely to keep out not just web crawlers, but any automated processes that potentially put undue load on your server. Once again it's about being 'civil'; which is almost completely dead when it comes to the 'internet.'

Any automated assistant is still automated regardless of the intention. It's the whole reason robots.txt exists.

Also, anyone expecting robots.txt to hide content from public view or public use is just an idiot.

Cloudflare is big and has plenty of resources to make automated travel through content covered by robots.txt to be more hassle than it's worth. Once again anything on a networked computer becomes a battle of resources. Security is losing the battle, many forums lost the battle long ago, now AI is flooding anything left with both unending traffic and unending gibberish content. We lost, we now stand in shit.

No, you can set the terms of your product with regard to redistribution or display - but there is still 'fair use' though, if you use it privately and never distribute any results to anyone.

Yes it's a stretch, but Copyright's purpose is not to control how people consume your content, but to protect that content from being 'redistributed or disseminated' without the holder's consent. Private use is still a thing, well, until they make it legal for content holders to proactively search your private property. But at that point civilized society is already dead.

Wouldn't this be the same as a toilet manufacturer pricing their product below cost to get a government contract while causing competitors to go out of business since no one can compete with what is essentially free?

(sorry run on sentence a bit)

This is the state of journalism.

If the Earth identifies as a cool planet, who are we to say otherwise?

If he's close to retirement then he absolutely should get the degree.

Do you know how social security payments work? If he hasn't maxed out his payments then a degree could do that.

If he doesn't have a zillion dollars socked away for retirement then a degree could get him a few extra $10k before he retires.

Also, depending on where he goes, he might get other benefits for his kids or their kids as an alum.

A degree might do him a lot depending on his circumstances, which neither of us is certain of.

Unlike those assholes who posted before me, I have actual possibly beneficial advice for you.

Talk to your boss about getting a degree. They might help pay for it, give you time off or shorter hours to get it, and give you a raise/promotion once you get it.

Some places still value their employees and provide training / education budgets and encourage self improvement. You might have to agree to stick around for X many years after to keep the money they spent on your education but if you like where you're at that's no big deal anyway.

Not exactly. Wine, you see, is not an emulator. It is just a compatibility layer. So it doesn't fully implement everything that windows does. If you want that, you would have to run a virtual machine (like using VirtualBox). So using wine does not equate to "you might as well be running windows".

But if you demand complete equivalence to windows for your every use case, and absolute perfection, then yes Linux is not for you.

But if you were motivated to use Linux, you might find that you can adapt and find workable solutions, setting your soul free from the tyranny of Microsoft (as I and many others have).

Oh and honorable mention goes to Apple, too. They are evil in their own ways, but differently-evil than Microsoft, so that might be good enough in some cases.

Every perspective employer will look at your experience and they will agree that you're valuable and capable of doing good work and profitable work for them but they will also fully expect you to hang around just long enough to get a little bit of experience and then leave.

What this implies is that as soon as someone gains valuable experience, every other employer in the area is willing to offer them more money. Which says very loudly they want to pay below-market rates for labor, and they don't give raises, ever. If I could take a year of experience and make more money anywhere else, nobody at the company is paid for more than a year of experience. Your kid trained for a career with no future.

Like most, I didn't go to college for four years to get a career that didn't pay raises past the first year. I suspect your kid made a bad choice of career field, because apparently - as you describe it - none of the employers in the field want to pay for more than a year of experience. This is precisely the attitude (and employers) graduates are hoping to avoid by getting a degree. Nobody puts in four years of effort with the expectation that they'll be treated like unskilled labor. Yet this is exactly the employer attitude you describe. People have started to realize that the problem all along wasn't a matter of skilled/unskilled labor, but that employers viewed employees as disposable, and rather than train them, made unreasonable demands in the first place.

The problem isn't whether or where you got your degree, but the attitude toward employees imparted by the CEO's alma mater.

Unless it's a delivery to my residence, I don't want it within my airspace. Keep above the public transportation routes until they reach the destination, whether that's at 50ft or 400ft or even 1000ft don't buzz over personal residences.

I'm basically saying that while their efficiency use case is 'as the crow flies', don't let them do that as it trespasses too close to personal property and airspace. It's another nuisance I simply don't want, the planes every minute overhead are bad enough.

And I haven't even got into privacy, you just know they will be recording everything permanently as they fly over everyone's house and backyard.