While I’d have no real problem with meta being banned for those under 18, or just their business model somehow made illegal

They weren’t selling drugs. They weren’t killing opponents. Making a product so good that people find themselves addicted to it isn’t something you get fined $1.4 trillion for.

Quick google says Tolkien co. allows fanfiction, but not if the authors are trying to sell it at a profit. That a fanfiction author did self-publish his fanfiction book, then sued Amazon and Tolkien for ripping off his plot, and lost the suit because he didn't have rights to publish in the first place.

Isn't that what you'd expect? Is there more going on?

...the charge for the Magic Number code to make the new parts work? You know, they way HP doesn't want to print if it's not an Origianl HP Ink?

The guy, the other month, on hte DC Metro, who was sitting with his..three? four? year old, and got the kid onto a play phone, and he got on his, ignoring the kid?

You're so brainwashed you think a monopoly is a great thing, and no one should be allowed to compete with it.

Go move to Russia.

Fuck you forever and ever.

1. Stop hyperscale data center construction
2. FORCE the power companies to do the maintenance and upgrades they've gotten rates raised and NOT DONE for 25 years.

That if that's happening, perhaps the companies involved should be nationalized.

(And their execs paid GS salaries, not millions)>

YOU aren't. You're just a fat fuck sitting in front of your TV and treating was like a sportsball game, and would *die* if it ever hit yuo.

Thanks for telling us you're a MAGAt, who slavishly follows whatever your deity says. (And unlike Faux Noise, the Guardian didn't KNOWINGLY LIE about the 2020 election, which is what Faux was CONVICTED OF, and paid nearly $1B for LYING).

And... they're a *used* EV dealer. They would be out of business if they didn't know what was saleable and what wasn't.

is *any* of them that have Brief emulation mode.

For you kids out there, Brief was *the* text editor everyone used from the mid/late eighties through late in the nineties.

I miss column copy (yes, I know you can do it in emacs, if you can remember all the special key combinations: Brief did it with a function key and an arros)

that right-wingers were all about freedom. Are you now defending surveillance by the government as "good"?

When the headilnes were that CEOs kept downsizing - never mind if the company would crater - as long as Wall St. kept rewarding them.

Now there are some people who are freaking out over the companies actual revenues, and having to hire/rehire people to do the work that chatbots CAN'T.

People can't ignore their mobiles for 10 min to talk to anyone in person, and they *certainly* don't want to party.

Even without PlayStation doing this, nobody is buying disks anymore and the 2nd hand market for games made recently barely exists.

And digital downloads / disk isn’t the deciding factor. I can still play KOTOR on a modern Xbox whether I have the original disk from 23 years ago or the $5 download, but my jet set radio future disk won’t run on a modern machine.

That was quite a rant. You put quite a bit of time into defending your brand. U mad that a phone with .5% market share doesn’t get more recognition?