Or just smear vasoline over it. It will still have an image, just a blurry one and maybe poison their data just a bit.

There are some services out there that will help with just this sort of thing too. The one we're looking (Frontline) at tries to be a bit more intelligent too, and will prime itself once it knows fires are close (We're checking to see if it is fail safe, where it primes itself once it stops hearing an 'all ok' message, rather than waiting for a 'danger' message, which may never arrive if cell coverage or our network connection fails). Frontline only seems to want to work with their own installations, not custom installs. We're looking to find ones that will also use local heat sensors, to start firing water and fire foam onto the roof and eves and around the properly only when the fire is right there, saving water until it's needed. Some will even tap into a pool as well. Our pool guy was concerned about that, saying we should make sure it knows to turn the circulation pump off so it wont burn out.., but we pointed out that if we lose a $1200 pump but save the house and all our stuff, we'll gladly take that....

If the agreement is via a URL that takes you to some web page, what's to stop someone from opening the page, opening up the web browser debugging and tweaking the HTML source code to take out the offending terms (or add new more fun ones), and submitting that, with a few screenshots/photos for evidence? I seem to recall it's ok to modify a contract before signing it, the other party can always reject the changes, because, they obviosuly will read them before accepting, won't they?

I did enjoy this game for a while and still poke at it some once in a while. I just wish newgrfs were not so hard to write, but I haven't checked in a while to see if something better came along. The only problem I had with it is I kept saying I wish there was something between OpenTTD (which is a fairly high level, low detail of what goes on, you just focus on moving goods), and Minecraft (which is a very zoomed in, fine detail needed to implement stuff but at a smaller scale). If I found something in the middle, I'd be hooked. Needless to say, I was in trouble when I found Factorio.. :) That's the main thing that pulled me away from openttd.

Yeah, encouraging people to leave always seems to be a bad idea. The people that are good are the ones that can find work anywhere, and can ask and get WfH opportunities. When companies say they insist on returning to the office for no good reason, I'm starting to assume the workers they have will just be crap ones, and their products will be going downhill as well. I'm shifting to mostly full time WfH since things are too expensive near the office, and our company is good about that, since we've all demonstarated we can be just as or more productive that way, often for a lot of the reasons listed in other posts. And I'm close enough that I can come in once in a while for good reasons, like when other teammates are in town (most are in other parts of the world anyhow, so I'd still have to do zoom calls to talk to them even if I was onsite...)

... not Constantinople

I thought Christine's number was CQB 241

I think I have to agree there.. it seems like our culture just doesn't support being a smart engineer. Smart in grade school/high school? Constantly bullied and under social pressure to not be different and fit in. Trying to go to a good college? Prepare for some financial rape. Good paying jobs once you're done so you can pay back all that debt and actually affort a lifestyle that keeps you happy? Good luck. On the other hand.. be a jock that gets good at sportsball and there's a chance you'll be set for life. At least, the first half of it. We're rewarding the people that are leading us into making Idiocracy reality.

And if some official complains that its measured by the amount of data, not the number of files, just include a link or two to /dev/zero. Since that will give the viewer an infinite amount of data, and the real data is less than infinite, the site legally will have 0% porn, won't it? It'd even be safe for kids then.

Not the buildings, but the underground tanks. A lot of stations had to be torn up to get those tanks replaced to meet new requirements.

Oh, I'm fine with teaching children right and wrong and morality, they need it. I just find it hard to believe the church is the right way to do that.

Can we keep those kids out of churches too until their old enough to make their own choices and opinions of what is right and wrong?

You didn't read the article.. the cameras are on the streets, not CEO offices, board rooms, stock trade floors, congresscritter/mayor/governors offices, etc. You'd need them there to catch the real crime. This is just to embarrass people for fun and profit.

I remember that from when I was a kid, there were commercials saying 'If you get it in the mail but didn't order it, it's yours free!'... all I recall is an eskimo getting an AC unit or some other somewhat goofy set up. From a little web searching, that law still is in effect (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products#unordered), but it is a USA thing. And this case involved crypto, not postal mail, to further muddy the waters...

I thought they were lawyers?