Bullshit and you're making excuses for billionaires and corporations. This is once again unelected judges legislating from the bench.

Like I asked the other guy are you being contrarian or do you just love mega corporations that much?

I suspect you have a bit of that right wing bias towards authority and supporting it because they bring order to a chaotic world. But otherwise I don't understand why guys like you go out of their way to defend large corporations screwing yourself and everyone over.

Dude these aren't businesses these are consumers. Consumers already overwhelming majority of impacted users not businesses. Businesses don't have a problem canceling services like consumers do.

You're making excuses for mega corporations. Why? Is it just to be a contrarian or do you really drink the kool-aid?

It is so weird to watch people defend mega corporations and billionaires. It's like how back in the day us Americans all watched 25 minute toy commercials masquerading as cartoons and loved it. But creepier and weirder because we are grown ass adults now and should know better.

I don't know about the rest of the world but in America it takes over a hundred years for music to go into the public domain. You might be able to find little tiny Indies but the production values are going to be the relatively low and so the music isn't going to sound right when played over restaurants speakers. If you had a punk bar that might work but for anybody else they're stuck and that's why the music industry can crank up prices.

Big data and a complete lack of antitrust law enforcement means large corporations can screw everybody over and you just have to suck it down.

People always like to appeal to the free market but we fired the referee so the market isn't free. What do you think would happen to the NFL if it didn't have a referee?

If the music industry actually paid people for their work. But that's so rare I find your comment disingenuous.

The licenseers have a practical Monopoly because of how music gets out to the public. Radio stations are owned by a handful of billionaires and Spotify is a de facto Monopoly with a laundry list of anti-competitive practices that prevent anyone from competing with them.

Restaurants need music for multiple reasons. Music contributes to an atmosphere of fun and parties which makes it much more likely that people are going to come to your establishment. For a lot of restaurants it's really not optional and that's why music companies can soak them.

If we had proper antitrust law enforcement to reign in the music industry this wouldn't be an issue but if I started listing off the number of things in your life that would improve with proper antitrust law enforcement we'd be here all year.

Frankly I'm surprised they haven't already. I mean it's already basically just background noise to almost everybody. There's not a hell of a lot of people that listen to music for the sake of listening to music. Yeah elevator music doesn't work but AI can make extremely convincing renditions.

Better still, my credit card company can generate a new "virtual card" on demand for me with a new number, plus an expiration date that I specify and a spending limit.

Furthermore, never use a debit card if you can use a credit card. The protections on debit cards are all at the discretion of the bank, while credit cards have protections defined by law.

.. venues still need to pay PROs for live performances: the songwriters still need to be paid. And, even if the artist claims to perform only self-written music, the PROs will attempt to find a bar or two that can be heard in some commercially licensed music.

The FTC followed every rule. The judge ignored the ftc's ruling even though the FTC made the ruling and just said that arbitrarily the amount is larger and therefore the judge gets to strike down the law.

These are fucking Democrats dude. If it's one thing I know about my political party and its people they follow every fucking rule and Dot every fucking eye and every t gets crossed. To the point where it's infuriating because they refuse to actually wield power and do their damn jobs to stop fascism.

And I get that this is a relatively minor thing. But there is so much worse going on that the Democrats are ignoring because they were so obsessed with proprietary and procedure. To the point where when they have the power they won't use it.

They absolutely did follow their own procedures. The judge is altering the math the FTC did in order to invalidate this ruling. This is a judge doing whatever the fuck they want because they want to do it.

I bet he gets a nice RV and some great vacations out of it. Heck if he keeps this up he might get a supreme court seat.

The FTC side it with consumers right up until Donald Trump became president and replaced a few of them.

Elections have consequences.

That's where this valuation is coming from. It's the possibility that Nvidia gpus will replace half of all white collar workers within the next 10 years.

Personally I think it's a good Gamble. At least based on what basically everybody is saying and doing. Not that I can afford to invest.

I get Intel getting out of some lines of business but they should just sell those lines of business rather than slash staff and then hold on to a completely dead product.

And you can't keep cutting. You won't be able to compete with AMD. They're already getting their asses kicked in the data center. If this keeps up the oems will be next. And the enthusiast market isn't big enough to sustain a company like Intel.

Never mind that there are gpus are supposed to be pretty good now but you can't get one for less than $400 unless you're buying it from a weird Chinese brand and even then you're paying $50 to $70 over MSRP. But I'm hesitant to buy one even an MSRP because I don't know if I'm going to have driver support in a year.

Historically, any given nation's level of interest in the former has been strongly correlated with their desire to develop the latter. It's been means to an end.

JSON is an improvement over XML and easier to transmit than YAML.

I've got mixed feelings about the high price point. On the one hand I know that these companies make plenty of money without the high price point and are just soaking their fans.

On the other hand if you have a game people are going to be playing for years to come then it's not like $80 is a lot of money. If I'm going to put 50 or 60 hours into your game and enjoy it without it feeling like it's padded then I'm probably coming out okay. Although I still would be feeling a lot better if the game was $60. Once you get over about a dollar an hour of solid gameplay it's starts to rub me the wrong way.

It doesn't help it like most modern gamers I have a large backlog of less expensive games to play.