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Comment Unethical but was it illegal? (Score 0) 32

Someone tells me that he wants a particular car.

Knowing someone else who has that car for sale for $500, I tell the first person that I can get him the car for $5000.

The guy hands me $5000, I go to the seller and hand him $500 and bring the car back to the purchaser and say, "Here you go."

While that may be unethical, is it illegal?

What if the guy who wants the car says he'll pay $5000 for it and I take his money and buy one for $4999?

The difference being just the amount of profit?

I genuinely don't know the answer.

Comment Re:Wait a second (Score 2) 152

There's also something that could be called a "poverty tax".

People who have very little generally end up paying more for it than someone else.

For example, if you need toilet paper you might be able to scrape up enough money to buy a package of two rolls for $4.99. Even if the package of sixteen rolls is on sale for $9.99, you don't have $9.99 and therefore can't buy it.

Also, consider what happens if you are in a position where you have nowhere to store food and prepare it. You have to buy pre-made food in small quantities (individual servings) and can't even boil a package of ramen noodles. So you end up buying a taco from the truck on the corner at a higher price than you would pay if you could just make one yourself, but you can't.

The "poor tax" is real. It's really expensive to be poor.

Comment Their site, their rules (Score 0) 27

It's their website and their property. They invite you to store some of your data on their webservers, and they provide the terms under which you can do that.

If you don't like the terms they are offering, you can not store data on their webservers.

Facebook isn't life-and-death.

I don't have a facebook account, I've never had a facebook account, and I'm still here. You can do it too, if you choose.

Comment Re:Early 80s is a poor comparison (Score 1) 71

Price-wise it's not significantly different, since $200 in 1984 is about $650 in today's dollars so it's about the same price as today's consoles.

However, when the Commodore 64 was released in 1982, it was $595, which is roughly $2000 today.

The main difference is that a Commodore 64 is a general purpose computer in addition to being a "gaming console" so you got more for your money in that regard than you get with a simple console today.

Comment Wrong. (Score 5, Informative) 13

These figures are never indexed to inflation, because that would take away from the hype value.

Avengers Endgame has taken in 2.925 billion worldwide.

However, Gone With the Wind, released in 1939, took in 43.4 billion, if you index the ticket prices to inflation. The average price for an adult movie ticket in 1939 was 25 cents, which is equivalent to $6 today.

So Gone With the Wind is still the all-time champion.

Avengers Endgame is actually number 2.

Comment Termux (Score 1) 39

If you install Termux on your Android phone or tablet you get a pretty functional terminal/command line.

I use it for for vim and ssh and mutt (email client) and rsync and so on. Even sc-im, which is a very nice spreadsheet.

There's also a way to use Termux to run X11 programs but I've never tried that myself since the phone screen is too damn small.

Comment Re:will the former OSS employee be protected from (Score 4, Informative) 67

They're suppose to pay what they would otherwise have paid to OSS to store their data. So I think the only extra money they're out will be the legal fees. Which isn't nothing but I guess that's the cost of not doing proper and accessible backups.

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