Half of advertising money is wasted. The trouble is figuring out which half.

Sure, I'm not disagreeing with that. I just meant that at least some of the cards have an option that's less scammy than the list of random reward crap.

Who here is acting surprised?

If I remember correctly, merchants could always give a discount for paying in cash, but they couldn't charge extra for paying with a card. They may be effectively the same thing, but what the credit card companies didn't want was people being unhappy that they were being charged more than the advertised price. Obviously the credit card companies did it for their own benefit, but it was also good for the customers.

The rewards program for my credit union's credit card has a bunch of that random reward crap, but they also have a nice "Just give me 1% in cash" option. Whenever I've skimmed the list of random crap, the cost in reward points was almost always higher than if I took the 1% cash and just bought the item in a store.

Spectacle does all of that. It's the built-in screenshot tool for KDE.

From what I've read, that baby is not a US citizen. There are long-established exceptions to birthright citizenship. The most obvious is a baby of a diplomat, since they are generally not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. I believe that a baby born to parents on a temporary visa is also not granted birthright citizenship, since there is an explicit intention for the child to not be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States when they return home.

Yes, copyright infringement is also different from theft. The point is that saying "It isn't theft if you don't take an object from someone" is not legally correct.

Theft of Services is a specifically-defined crime in some jurisdictions.

That was my immediate reaction too. $80 now would have been about $35 in the early 1990s, which is probably pretty close to what good third-party controllers cost back then.

It depends on what brand/model of SSD. Looking at Microcenter, I see some 512 GB SSDs for around $100 and some higher-end 2 TB SSDs for $350-400.

Couple of options:

1) The data should be controlled and accessed by the courts instead of the police. The police can submit a query to the court, effectively making it the same as a warrant application.

2) All data queries require an identifier/password/key that is included with a warrant issued by a court. Any query that doesn't include a valid identifier results in immediate dismissal of the officer. Probably easier to implement than 1, though maybe not as effective.

Clearly you don't have much experience with the USPTO.

It's still pretty stupid, because pulling from someone else's repository doesn't accomplish anything on its own.

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I don't really blame you for being confused. "Pull Request" was always a somewhat stupid term for it. GitLab uses the much more obvious term "Merge Request" instead.