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Comment Re: They should go fuck themselves (Score 1) 108

But still, I applaud these lawmakers for taking a very different approach from most other lawmakers

I'll applaud when they take their approach and stick it up their ass.

At no point will I applaud anything about this idea. Make parents take responsibility for parenting again.

Comment Re:They should go fuck themselves (Score 2) 108

Honestly, I applaud them. These are non-technical people who are doing their best to find a solution to a real-world problem that still satisfies the concerns of more technical people.

Mark my words now, what you're applauding is snitchware. It will wind up with a specific legal requirement to a specific standard which can only be met by assholes whether that's in the bill now or not. The state will interpret its legislation through the courts in a way that produces odious requirements. The only reasonable thing to do when the state is requiring that your operating system collect information about you is fight against it.

Comment Re:Self-Attestation? (Score 1) 108

If there really is no ID check, then it's a self-attestation of age by whoever set up the device.

I'm not gonna go read the law right now because I only have to worry about California's version, but I would be stunned if they didn't require that you do it in some effective fashion, and then the question will be, what fashion is going to be effective? And it's going to come down to government ID verification, and if the OS vendor doesn't want to do it themselves, then it will be handed off to an approved vendor. And that's going to boil down to, you guessed it, id.me.

Comment Re:Wrong metric (Score 1) 119

I want tasty food at a decent price.

But then you wouldn't go to Burger King, which is awful and expensive. As another poster noted upthread, you can get a pub burger for that kind of money. Or as I will note, a diner burger. I just got a "western" burger (double cheese, with grilled onions) from the nearest one to me the other day. It was fucking gargantuan, I have really big hands and they were more than full, andit came with better fries than BK has ever had — let alone the trash they sling now.

People go to BK because it is fast and foodlike. The whopper hasn't been worth eating for decades, since they started putting fake smoke flavor on it.

Comment Re:People still put up with this? (Score 1) 20

Subscriptions actually went up. Imagine the power of consumers if they actually protested with their wallets instead of just rolling over every single goddamn time.

Imagine being surprised that people who would have purchased a service if they couldn't get it for free purchased it when they could no longer get it for free.

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