> There is no USSR anymore.
Tell that to Putin.
> Also the UN is only so-so at best, since they can't seem to actually do anything.
The UN is a discussion forum. By design. Complaining they can't do anything is like complaining Slashdot can't do anything.
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Nobody will want to watch video on an iPod.
Nobody will need native apps on an iPhone.
Nobody will need a stylus.
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Ditto for a VPN. Your bean-counting department may have a record of a rental agreement. If it's "metered", it may also have a count of hours logged-in, or MB transferred. That count re-set each month as the invoices are generated, and the logs re-set when the invoice is paid. If you're on an unmetered connection, they don't even ened to keep that - for billing purposes. Possibly the date/time of the first log-in/ log-out pair for the month, to demonstrate that you used their service during that month. What other need does the company have of keeping additional data?
Mullvad allows you to purchase time via cards sold through Amazon. Mullvad has no idea what real person presented the card (user ids are simply strings of digits with no identifying features related to your actual identity). The only direct link to you is your source IP address, but they have no reason to maintain that for billing purposes.
Whether or not an indirect association between the top-up card and you can be traced through Amazon would depend on whether Amazon kept any records of the serial number of the card, and whether Mullvad had any record associating that card with your user ID and your user ID with your IP address.
My local grocery store promotes their house brand and CVS promotes their house brand. Both do so at the expense of competitors’ products. Is that now an antitrust violation??
What happened to consumer choice? There is a phone OS that provides all of this things — Android. Who wants this? Competitors, hackers, advertisers, and developers who don't want to pay for access to the platform Apple has created. I don't hear demands for this from the average Apple user, and when people ask me what device they should buy, I explain the differences between open and a walled garden, and explain why I chose the walled garden.
The problem with allowing sideloading is that if it can be done legitimately, it can be done illegitimately. If sandboxing can be ignored, and not enforced by the OS, then nothing prevents a malicious app/add/message from compromising your device. Making sideloading possible decreases security. Having to allow apps that don't follow the sandboxing rules put the entire phone at risk.
If Android didn't exist, there might be an argument. It does, so those who don't like Apple can use it. That's choice.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking - Sir Joshua Reynolds
So they have discussed this exact thing previously. As well as why they didn't include a mechanical system to clean or blow off the panels. And it all comes down to weight: The weight and added complexity of any of these systems is greater than just making the solar panels bigger so that it takes longer for dust accumulation to put them out of commission.
The quote you're responding to literally says *want*. It made the distinction. To get everything they *wanted* they had to subscribe to both services.
You were in such a rush to shit on other people you didn't even read your own quote.
Interesting.
Personally I changed purchasing habits because of Amazon Prime's return guarantees. I became much more willing to take a risk on a product... And honestly I still don't make many returns, unless the product is literally defective or (in one case) they only sent one of the two welding foot protectors we ordered...
If free, guaranteed returns go away I imagine I'll go back to buying a lot less.
Man, I am sorry for how you've suffered. But thank you for sharing.
I don't know that it will be any help, but here's an article about the thing I was referring to, the 'Russian Flu' and its long-haulers: https://www.thelancet.com/arti...
Your last two sentences there are an eerie echo of the 1890s...
In the 1890s, a marked feature of the psychoses of influenza was a profound sense of dread accompanied by feelings of alienation, both from oneself and from others. Disembodiment or the mutiny of one's own facilities was a common description: "My powers of enduranceâ have been shaken by âoea recent attack of influenza and its consequences", wrote Speaker Peel to Henry Lucy in 1894.
COVID kills young people. But more importantly, COVID maims young people at a significantly higher rate than it kills them. And we don't know when, if ever, they get over the long-term symptoms. The medical history of similarly afflicted people after the 'Russian Flu' at the end of the 19th century doesn't bode well.
From a detached perspective: For society, kIlling young people might be less bad than permanently disabling them.
You cannot ban pen and paper to suppress freedom of speech.
That’s true, but nobody is required to be in the business of selling pens and paper, either. Your liberties do not create a requirement that anyone provide the means for you to exercise them.
They have ownership of that particular NFT, in the same way that you can own a baseball card.
No, buddy. Either you're completely deluded or you really don't understand what you're saying. That baseball card I found in my old closet in my parents' house two weeks ago while visiting? I own that. It's a real, physical thing. I could sell it, I could keep it, I could set it on fire. My ownership of that card in no way requires a group of people to get together and collectively agree I own it. My access to that card only requires me to physically walk over and pick it up. If you were to try and take my baseball card, the law would punish you. None of that is true about NFTs.
With NFTs, the company can give up some ownership but allow resales (which most don't these days), which is another revenue base.
Except they don't. They might tell you they do, but they don't. Because when they shut down their servers, it's all gone. You don't own anything. You just have a receipt. Same as I do for my ships in Star Citizen. Which I can totally "sell" and transfer to another player. And my ships will be just as gone if CIG decides to shut down the servers or just ban me because they didn't appreciate my Chris Roberts/Elon Musk slashfic. You are deluding yourself by thinking any of this is different or real. You are being swindled, and you've swallowed the bait hook-line-and-sinker.
A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.
