Doesn't matter.

Oh I'm absolutely aware and vividly remember it. While some work was absolutely necessary, the problems and fallout that could have happened really was never going to be as bad as anyone really made it out to be.

Oh no. So catastrophic. /s

Y2K was completely overblown and exaggerated.

Well, JS isn't any better, but the rest are superior to PHP. PHP is hot garbage.

another version of Chrome that no one needs, asked for, or wants while offering nothing unique.

I mean, I wasn't solely referring to monetary investment, but yeah.

Why would EA actually invest in anything good when they can keep shoveling generic shit?

Wrong. I'm just too lazy to look it up again to accurately detail all of them for you. That was the one that I believe most closely would apply and that lawyers might be able to latch onto. There might be something else more niche and specific that I'm unaware of, or not.

Right. Because "border".

Mostly yes, but not entirely. Either way, they do still have too much leeway and freedom without real repercussions.

Off the top of my head, I cannot do it fully accurately. But one of things they cannot lie about is the written contents of a warrant. They aren't allowed to say that are looking for X, when they are in fact looking for Y (though if X is also something illegal, they can also tack that on if they see it). Granted there was no warrant in the case, just the alert for the active investigation. I don't know for sure if a lawyer could argue that it would be similarly illegal.

No, because police are not able to just lie about anything they want whenever they want.

Yes, they are, to certain extents. But what is silly about this is that there was no need to lie in the first place. It's not like saying they're looking for CSAM instead of terrorism would have a different result than just being honest, other than perhaps a feeling of extreme urgency to prove he didn't have any CSAM - which could be argued is illegal. Even though there are no warrants involved in this, it sounds like this would be on the same level as actually having the warrant but lying about what it says which is 100% illegal.

A device that costs a minimum 2x more than my phone, looks to be roughly 2x the size of my phone, runs the same software as my phone, but isn't a phone... all for a negligible increase in audio quality over my phone? Zero increase if using Bluetooth?

...yeah. Not even a little bit worth the money. Take your extremely overpriced, overrated products and go fuck yourself Sony.

Great. However, most average people don't think that like. Especially for those that have never been a part of a union or a strike.

Never said it was. It just is what it is.

You are focusing too much on personal experience and a part that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you do, or do not, consider it rude. Most of society sees it as a rude (again, with exceptions) or potentially dangerous (if they turn volatile and violent, but that hasn't really happened in a while).

Sure. Why not? We already do that for things that are just plain bad (Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).