It is not. Definitions matter in the tax code. Many countries treat crypto like currency and leave it untaxed. Some countries (like Germany) have dedicated laws carving out crypto.

Crypto has an undeserved special tax status as an investment vehicle.

Shares are nothing than paper value either. Bitcoin is a tradable investable asset. The way people treat something should be the way it is considered in law. There's no reason to not tax capital gains on crypto (looking to you Germany who think that any crypto currency held for more than 1 year should be tax exempt perpetuating this fucking stupid "investment" vehicle)

99% of the normal middle class have put more effort into everything in their lives including their basic profession than most rich arseholes who are either born rich or born lucky. There are pathetically few rich people out there who got rich through effort.

You make it sound dumb but the reality is this model has worked for many products and services before. It's why a lot of things start free. The entire free trial is based on it.

Heck the ubiquitous "Post-it" note was created with precisely this strategy after the team developing adhesives internal to 3M were asked to stop research on their "failed" adhesive. It ticks all the boxes you just asked "why" about. They made a case, it was rejected. They pretended it is something different. No one took their product seriously, and so internally they applied the adhesive to bits of paper and dropped them on every desk in the company at their own expense (like cramming CoPilot down people's throats). And then when people got addicted to it they cut off all supply and directed all complaints to the project approval department.

Say what you want about the turdburger that is AI, you're criticising a legitimate business strategy that has worked to the point that it is actively described in business textbooks.

It's called PATRIOTISM!

(Note: I'm not American, so definitely sarcasm :-) )

Just because your life is a shitshow of chaos that requires your focus doesn't mean others don't have the spare capacity to complain about these things.

Who said hording? Hording is the compulsion to accumulate things, especially things you don't use. Wanting to play a game and being unable to isn't hoarding. In fact it's the opposite, it's actively using the thing you bought for its intended purpose.

Speaking of opposites, people with ADHD typically aren't concerned about long term duration of an activity being available and are most likely to just go and do something else.

Like ... do you know what any of the words you used mean?

Because the rights to products exist for potential market re-entry. E.g. if I create the new latest and greatest thing, and remove it from market I retain the right to use said thing a year later. Just because it's not on sale doesn't give others the right to the creation.

Now that's purely copyright / licensing issue. There's further questions of what constitutes a product and what constitutes a temporary license. But the copyright argument is barking up the wrong tree. Copyright is given for a (way too long) duration, not for a product life.

Yes. Good examples can be found the world over: Media advertising standards, financial standards, heck the entire engineering profession is self regulated by its own industry. Many reporting standards are as well. As are quite a few product safety standards (the overall "don't kill people" is law, but how to achieve that is mostly driven by industry self-regulation in many parts of the world).

Now there's plenty of examples where it also didn't work, and those often get followed up with actual laws, but there are still plenty of examples in industry where industry codes self regulated. For example when America shat itself in 2008 Australia was largely insulated from the same problems due to the Australian Banking Association's (industry body) governance code that effectively banned the kind of sub-prime finance dumb-fuckery in the country years earlier.

Want another example? It's not legally required in most of Europe to label vegan products, yet industry has adopted ISO 23662 despite it not being required by any law to do so. And while we're talking about standards, the harmonisation of electrical standards in the EU was almost entirely industry driven, and except for subtleties of specific wiring rules for examples in houses, most electrical standards maintained by CENELEC are entirely voluntary yet followed throughout all industry.

When it's codified into the highest law of the land and doesn't work, and suggestions to do so voluntarily can't work to the point of being laughable, what options do we have left?

There's always Nancy Reagan's catchphrase: Just Say No.

Any particular game is expendable. You won't miss out on anything. Games don't even have the network effects and lockin that you get with other types of software; it's a part of the economy where Just Saying No is easiest of all.

Don't like the quality? Don't spend your money. They have no power over us except what we give them. Stop being so selflessly altruistic when it comes to actively supporting your own abuse.

It's so damn easy, and there's already hundreds of years worth of hassle-free game-playing available to spend the few remaining seconds of your life on.

Why do you think they would stop in their tracks every time there's a power or cell tower outage?

Yes, there have been some issues with widespread power outages causing the cars to get confused because things don't look right, but that's a bug, not expected behavior.

And although they won't have fares if they have no cell service, there's no reason to expect them to stop being able to drive. They will do whatever they normally do when they have no fare — find a place to park. Other than for learning about pickups and dropoffs, robotaxis use cellular networks only when they break down, to request remote driving assistance (i.e. relatively rarely).

I haven't seen that in years. The best you get these days is when you run Firefox an an update magically happened there's a tab that opens to let you know what's new.

I didn't write any bug reports, mainly because by the time I get to it someone else already has. And they still get treated like shit and marked WONTFIX. So yeah I may come across as a grump cunt at times, but it's not me Mozilla team is hating on.

The problem with morals is that they vary between people. Privacy just isn't a concern for many, myself included. Oh noes Google knows I am posting on Slashdot right now, whooop de do. It didn't actually affect me beyond targeted (blocked) advertising. On the flip side Firefox's UI hanging affects me. Pointlessly screwing with keyboard shortcuts that have been in place for 20 years affects me.

Morals don't me use my computer. Recalibrating the compass doesn't change anything.

Memory doesn't just leak from the act of having tabs, it leaks from specifics of what is being done in the tabs. Firefox sucks at for example releasing memory from expired DOM objects. You want to run a comparison, open up 1 tab, just one in Firefox and one in Chrome and go to reddit. Start scrolling. Scroll for a while the same distance on both and see which one is using what memory. I'll wager that one tab is using an order of magnitude more than your 372.

I've written it here in 3 separate replies already. I'm not writing it out again. https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

It's not always ignorance it's often just apathy. I know plenty of people who don't use adblockers not because they don't know they exist, but because they just don't give a shit.