When you buy a game as a digital download, you are buying a non-transferable license. So you cannot sell it as a used game. The option to resell requires buying the game as a physical disk, and that is precisely what Sony is taking away.
Incidentally, you also cannot burn the download to disk. In the modern day, the disk is primarily just a physical license key. The game still runs from the playstation's internal drive.
Those who put information on the internet do so on their own dime. They must pay for the hosting, not to mention whatever it took to come up with the content. They can't do that for free.
The ad model is a bad one and it is right in the middle of a continuing arms race. People hate the ads so they use ad blockers, and sites try to use ad-blocker-blockers, and people try to mentally train themselves to ignore the ads, and sites throw obnoxious ads right on top of the content you are reading (not to mention more and more of them as the money they can get from advertisers continues to drop). And now we have AI scraping the screen to bypass ads entirely, with various AI-blocking attempts being made to counter that.
If the bottom falls out of the web page advertising economy, many content-providing sites will vanish. That could pose a problem for everyone, since we want reliable information. So, it will be interesting to see how the need winds up being met in the long term.
> How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?
Some medium number of H1B's?
No, the jobs are not going to the citizens of the county where the citizens are subsidizing for all this for their own enslavement.
Who would ever believe such a thing after the Covid lies?
I know someone who really wants to be an electrician's apprentice but the same three slots that have existed in this metro area for the past decade are the same three slots that exist today.
Ah, well, there are pointless wars to fund and Surveillance Bros to enrich.
> Electrical Workers
Damn, son, good catch.
Some of them do metal stud framing. "Framers" might be more accurate?
> I could have done myself if the government didn't require a licensed install?
Are you going to call the cops on yourself?
Nobody pays attention to cartels where I live.
Their War on Energy has to be about depopulation at this point. They've destroyed 20% of world oil, sulfur, helium, fertilizer, natgas, and now they're going after the building blocks of home solar installs that could help people cope.
At the same time the RFP for Draft Management Software closed today.
Even Alex Jones is calling for impeachment. They've gone totally off the deep end.
Power Inverter means:
A bi-directional power device or system that converts direct current electricity to alternating current electricity, or converts alternating current electricity to direct current electricity, to include microinverters, string inverters, central inverters, and hybrid (battery-based) inverters; and Contains components that enable remote communication, control, sensing, data-collection, or monitoring through Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, or other similar connections.
Everything useful has Bluetooth in it now. That's how you hook it up to Home Assistant. Somebody should tell the FCC that Bluetooth doesn't reach to China.
Imagine all the crime the Bell System was used to perpetrate!
So many Russians use Telegram, including front-line soldiers.
There's more to this story that we don't know.
...reflects good old-fashioned human values.
The incentives to collude and backstab predictably result in such behaviors whenever the disincentives are absent or weak. Inasmuch as AI mimics humans, this seems equally predictable.
and he answered, "Yes" and that was the end of it.
Which is why you never answer "yes" to anything a prosecutor asks you. It's always a trap. In this case, asking if this is your account and not asking if you sent those messages is the trap.
Hard disagree.
There are mistakes that can happen - getting a phone number wrong, knocking on the wrong street number, stuff like that, sure.
But all of those mistakes need to be found and fixed DURING the investigation. This is the duty of the police officiers.
Not finding any evidence and STILL going to trial - that's on the prosecution. But I doubt that there would have been a conviction if police had not omitted things or outright lied in court. I doubt any courd would hand down a guilty verdict if all the police involved said that they found no evidence of anything.
Can we intuit that the casefile and evidence were handled in proportional typefaces?
I remember some old court documents where everything was done in Courier. Times New Roman seems to be a standard now.
Notice how the "free press" keeps talking about this as a "law enforcement problem" but hasn't once talked about any time somebody was threatened by a mugger to unlock and this safety feature saved their bacon?
#include <obligatory.xkcd>
Most common criminals will run when there is nothing further to be gained.
Big organized crime gangs, such as people at the border threatening travelers under color of law, are the exception rather than the rule. They got embarrassed that their dominance play didn't work, so now they're lashing out and they have thousands of people and billions of dollars at their disposal. "How DARE you not bow before me!?!?"
Convenience of fake cops doesn't override the rights and safety of citizens. Exact same issue as Flock.
The "pattern" is called police doing their work
You can call a piece of coal "off-white, tending towards darkish", or you can call it "black". Both are technically not incorrect. Only one of them is not intentionally misleading.
The whole shit is obviously intended to chill critique. If you are seriously offended by someone calling you an incompetent ass, then politics isn't for you, go get a real job.
And the police really have more important things to do than scaring pensioners who got a bit emotional online. (one of the most famous raids was in 2024 against a 64-year old guy who had called a minister "Schwachkopf" (english: dimwit).
Tell me you think that justifies sending the police to someone's home. Seriously, these people need to get a grip. You can call me dimwit all day and I wouldn't dream of sending the police after you.
But calling them "raids" is completely dishonest
What else would you call it when police arrives at your home at 6 am to search it because you posted something online? (like they would find a reddit posting in your sock drawer, I mean come on, seriously?)
During the ""Aktionstage gegen Hasspostings" (Action Days Against Hate Speech), around a hundred or so such raids are conducted on the same day, and a substantial portion of those is for insulting politicians.
You do not have mail.
