Michael Crichton was way ahead of his time. Take a look at Looker (1981).
Scan models after they get plastic surgery to become perfect.
Have the models license their images so you can make movies and TV shows and commercials with their likenesses.

In the movie they killled the models so they couldn't compete with the licensed versions.
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Linux is only free if your time has no value. Windows is only free if you threaten to use Linux.

Facebook has about 3 billion active users. They won. They are one of the most successful things ever. This is just Mark Zuckerbergs way of saying

I SPENT 2 BILLION DOLLARS ON OCCULUS! ! ! WTF was I thinking?

Take Occulus and shoehorn it into EVERYTHING.

from the article
  A handful of conservative employees have been accused of using internal systems to harass co-workers they deem too liberal.

To liberal?
For years now employees have been complaining about *conservative* voices getting the witch hunt treatment. If you don't go along with all of the intersexual feminism BS you're treated like you're a nazi-pedofile. The funny thing about this is that is has nothing to do with keeping politics out of an environment that doesn't need it. It's about Googles employees getting upset at Googles AI helping the police state or the Chinese police state.

At google, if your politics are the right kind of politics, it's fine to be an asshole to people who disagree. But if you interfere with Googles supply of money, you're out of line.

This is traditionally referred to as the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Yea.. but this time they're competing with someone who is as fast and as nimble as they are.

Google will say

"Hey! Thanks for the suggestion" it'll be in the next update for chrome.

Where is the Reddit post?

I smoked when I was a teenager, quit in my twenties and went back to it a few years ago. I hung out with a few people that smoked cigars and thought I would never go back to cigarettes. After a few weeks my brain said "HELLO OLD FRIEND" to the nicotine.

I just quit 5 weeks ago and I can tell you it isn't just nicotine that keeps you smoking. I used nicotine lozenges to quit this time, but there was still a lot of willpower needed. I ate those lozenges like they were candy but I still felt a lot of withdrawal symptoms. Something besides nicotine keeps you smoking cigarettes.

I feel vaping, while a stupid fad, might get people to stop smoking. I don't trust the vape product people but if you need some cool new thing to quit maybe it's OK. You might go from vaping to smoking, but you might also keep using the gum or lozenges. I doubt it. I only know one person who used nicotine gum to quit and kept chewing the gum.

If you watch the video on that page you'll see that the developers will have an Android Go configuration for every new version of Android.

She's pretty, talented, and rich.

But F^@& her if she doesn't want us stealing her music!!!!

If being bought by AOL for 4.5 billion dollars is being destroyed then sign me up! AOL on the other hand, did nothing with Netscape. They could have rolled it into the AOL software giving it a big boost in market share. They could have made the Netscape home page the most valuable page in the world.

"AOL decided to create the open-source Mozilla project in 1998"

I don't think AOL would have created an open source browser. AOL never did anything with Netscape.

If a woman is treating you differently, because you are a woman, then it is sexism.

Oops

But Supertrain is funny for other reasons.

The Big Bus is great. But Supertrain is funny for other reasons.

2% - the same market share as Windows Phone 7/8

Yes 2% share in a few weeks VS a gigantic company that has thrown billions into advertising.

Probably that whole "shall not be infringed" thing

  as the AC said you forgot the whole "Well Regulated" part.