It's ironic that Google (a US company) is heavily censored (see Youtube) and US citizens have resorted to a Chinese platform to speak freely.
Try posting a video there about Tiananmen Square. One that accurately reports how the government ended it.
Let us know how that works out for you. If they let you have internet access in the prison library.
Games are mere toys freely adopted and freely abandoned. There is no "prison" and such hyperbole is absurd.
Of course your comment on Palladium is correct, but games are mere trifling amusement with no involuntary physical constraints like a prison cell.
I'm pretty sure someone was expecting that we were addicted to that $100B trade, and by throwing a 15-999% tariff on it, 15B-1.5T of fresh taxes were going to be generated. With a 40% drop in purchasing, that's going to translate to a lot lower tax intake than expected. The price for that will probably be more inflation, but the powers that be have shown very little concern over using other, more nuclear options (possibly even literal nuclear options), for handling budget shortfalls.
Exciting times!
The law does not agree with you. And most of the people who understand it think you're ridiculous.
Let's go for the low-hanging fruit:
* Living things are driven to exercise using an evolved feedback loop whereby exercise reward us with brain drugs - there's an inherent benefit to exercise leading to increased proliferation of genes with this feedback loop
* Sport is organised exercise so satisfies the drive to socialise - again likely an evolved feedback loop resulting in brain drugs (mmmmn
* Standing next to sport whilst it's happening gives some proportion of the same reward - of course there's no health benefits so really it's gaming the system to get (probably greatly reduced) brain drugs from the socializing aspect
* Watching a recording of someone else standing next to sport whilst it's happening let's you listen to other people experiencing brain drugs - recall the excited two-person teams of commentators clearly having a great time watching sport happen - again limited exercise benefits for commentators or second-level observers but some brain drugs and we've been psychologically conditioned that sport is good so watching sport must be good also, right? - even via a time-delayed intermediary
* Now there are likely conversations along the lines of: "OK, we've repurposed the feedback loops 'intended' by evolution to promote socialising and exercising - now they promote watching other people doing those things - <boxing mc voice>Leeeeeet's - seeeeell - spooooort </boxing mc voice>" happening. It's super-cynical.
What shocks me here is how long it took to become such a popular thing? Parking domains isn't that expensive, but certainly isn't free, especially in large numbers. The people doing the parking are basically squatting on property they speculate will have value down the road. They may as well collect a little "rent" on them while they squat?
I can remember when "domain tasting" first became a thing, I looked at it and thought, "This is a TERRIBLE idea, it's going to make it more expensive for people to start up their own web site and 'interesting' domains are going to be unobtainable by the average person just because some squatter thinks they're parked on gold." No random person is going to pay thousands of dollars for a domain name they fancy just for a hobby, so it's just going to stifle small private sites.
I don't know how it currently works, but back when it started you could "taste" a domain for months almost for free, and there was nothing stopping you from "tasting" it again the instant your current taste expired, So you could squat domains for an unlimited time almost for free. "gee, nobody would ever abuse that!"
Though now with the explosion of TLDs, it's widened the market so far that the squatters are finding it hard to cover all the bases. Raise their rent! (and make the price go up exponentially to KEEP it parked) Watch the squatters scurry away like the cockroaches they are!
I am personally very surprised that such a technically competent person would be "locked out of his professional and personal life without recourse"
He's not technically competent. He's a writer.
So you would be prepared to fly to Tasmania and take the donkey caravan to the remote village where their office is located to deal with this matter?
That's better than the current situation.
If being willing to work for peanuts is the main criteria, he is the best of the best.
But yeap, choice would be good. This fuck-up might just be great for Vizio and consumers. Thanks Stallman.
corrupt SCOTUS will fix everything in favor of republicans and large corporations.
This will self-correct once the campaign donations he requests become so onerous they're worse than the problem donors want fixed. Free market wooh yeah *fist pump*
ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS.
