No you don't. You own a limited use license to those games. The fact that the licensor hasn't implement a revocation system is technical, not legal, nothing to do with sale, nothing to do with purchasing vs renting. In fact you may very well be illegally breaching the terms of the license agreement if you install it today (most license agreements explicitly stated it was limited to use on a single PC).

You're a pirate. Piracy still works today by the way.

Yes. They haven't exercised their right for withdrawal nor is it clear they implemented a technical ability to do so, but the license very much did only give the things you said. Even in the 90s the standard licenses were very clear that the publisher retains all rights.

Wait... you installed it willy-nilly like that? Most license agreements only permit the installation on a single machine. You clearly haven't read it and you sound like you breached the license terms. Bad boy.

What you *did* and what you were permitted to do wasn't the same thing in the 90s. Go dust off your old disc and actually read the EULA when you install it.

What you expect and what is in the license agreement isn't the same thing. It also never was.

No one has ever owned a copy of the game. Okay maybe it was different in the Atari days, but certainly no one has ever owned a copy of a game on a PC or an xbox, Playstation, Sega or Nintendo.

Must be incredibly relevant. You went out of you way to post how it doesn't affect you.

Well teeeeeeeeechnially it is, when the reality is that a bunch of FOMO crazies drive up stocks of key companies in the hope to getting rich.

But that's not "the stock market". That's just a couple of edge case. "The Stock Market" itself is honest and based on reality and there's 10s of thousands of legitimate ways to invest when you're not touching NVIDIA, Elon Musk Ltd, or Gamestop.

No they aren't. "Remote control" is used only in disengage scenarios. This always results in the ride pausing while a person takes over. Go look up how often that happens, and maybe read that transcript again.

The centre in the Philippines has zero access to drive the car. Zero. None. No remote control function what so ever. That is done from either Arizona or Michigan. Maybe read that transcript again.

I don't want idiots on Slashdot, but we can't always get what we want. Case in point: your post.

Except all those self-driving vehicules [sic] drive far better than the average human. They may not drive as well as the *best* human, but that's just you colossally missing the point.

Your school bus example is a good one. There's a reason why those signs exist: humans zooming past those signs have a tendency to turn kids into a red streak smooshed into the bitumen, whereas Waymos have yet to hit a person in any condition.

Rather than dreaming of a future of self driving cars, maybe reflect on a past where you didn't pay attention in statistics class.

*time. Hard time. Not has hard as posting on Slashdot before the coffee has kicked in.

Since when is a felony associated with hard crime? I mean I know one guy who has 34 felony convictions and has never seen the inside of a jail cell.

It's not even a case of "software working this way" as much as it is a case of "Buying" or "Purchasing" isn't limited in any way to the act of getting goods. Historically the term has very much been used for both services and IP. And goods, services, and IP have always had contractual components.

Some lawyer convinced their stupid client to part with some money I guess.

IIRC, a "recall" is a notification of a defect in a car that needs addressing. If that can be done OTA, it's still a recall.

In Chernobyl all three of those groups were fine and trustworthy. They weren't the source of the problem. Bureaucrats in the soviet union were.

You're relying on a very loose interpretation there. France is not energy independent. They have a lot of local storage to ride them through troubles but they are 100% dependent on other countries even in their nuclear energy sector. Most of France's uranium for example comes from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Namibia which represent 50% of total uranium supplies.

They did. And that industry exists today due entirely to a massive government bail out of the sector which went bankrupt years ago. It's easy to say you have employment when it's socialised.

I agree with you on waste though - the concerns there are stupidly overblown. I'd just wish that nuclear was financially viable instead of being the single most expensive way to produce energy (yes even in China, this is not a western problem).

In the world of dynamically assigned resourcing there's always an ability to shutdown everything everywhere at once. Not one major tech company has to date not had a major global outage (typically short) caused by some configuration snafu which replicated across the globe.

Because American tech giants keep coming in and buying out any European tech initiative and shutting it down to eliminate competition.

Why aren't you a member of the billionaire ruling class yet? Hint: it's because they are stacking the deck against you, just like any tech giant does to a not giant regardless of where they are from.

Posted from my Finish made OS,

What has an update broken for you recently? What "workflow" do you have on your phone that is breaking? I'm genuinely curious here, because 99% of the time I apply an update and can't even figure out if anything has changed at all (mainly because I hit the skip button when the popup asks if I would like a tour of new features).