This move makes it seem like Epic had other reasons for filing its lawsuits.

"Epic's technology is used by many companies in the space Google is operating in to train their products, so the ability for Google to use the Unreal Engine more fullsome..."

Epic's tech is used to make videogames. What training is Google doing?

Yeah, but you're still betting. Bookmakers are pretty accurate in their predictions too.

You can try and add as many layers of obfuscation as you like, but it is still just gambling. Everything you just described is an element of or factor in gambling. Overestimating the viability of a libertarian candidate? Chasing an inside straight.

A grass can be made of wood, and bamboo is largely comprised of xylem - aka, wood. And it is decidedly woody, unlike grasses such as corn, wheat, or rice.

Let's review the film: https://youtu.be/gC4zJSY1ylw?s...

"you can't realistically change operating systems without changing hardware." Thank you. That is the solution, buy a phone that lets you do what you like. You can, because Apple does not have a monopoly on the market. They have a monopoly on the tiny market they created for their phones and that they own. If they had the same control over the Play store, then I'd agree with you, but they don't.

And it doesn't look like Apple's customers care. People who want to sell them things care, but I'm not as interested in them. I sure don't care. I'm not being harmed. Someone who wants to make money off me the way they want, not the manner prescribed by the manufacturer I chose, faces lower profits.

Oh. There's a thought.

Is it actually that the complaint is that Apple has a monopoly on iPhone users? Just think about that one for a bit. Epic and whoever else aren't complaining that Apple controls the cell phone market. They aren't complaining that Apple controls "app stores". They're complaining that Apple won't let them get to their customers without taking a cut. Are the anti-trust laws for consumer protection or profit protection?

Yeah, because that's what you expect and what you want. You know, your tastes. I share them, but that's all they are. Tastes and opinions. And I'm just not comfortable with having them enforced by a judge, even though I share them.

Oh, I know. Though for the most part it just looked like building things out of wood that we used to build out of wood or still do build out of wood.

Aren't you compartmentalizing your concerns so that you aren't worrying about some other municipality's resource management? Look how distracted you have become by things you have no influence over. While the things you do have influence over are being disassembled while you worry about someone else's problems.

Like, millions of people in one place drink a lot of water.

This is the sort of garbage that is supposed to be taken as an indicator that the outlet publishing it is not worth your time. I just wish msmash and BeauHD had the sense to recognize that.

Nah, they're gambling-only, but with a BS excuse as to why it isn't just a place for degenerate addicts to piss away their kid's college fund.

Oh, that thing bookies figured out a long time ago? .Why not just ask people what they think will happen without the betting? There is exactly no difference between this and a bookie taking bets on whatever. It's just a way to suck money out of addicts. Or, as bookies call them, f-ing degerates. Why? Because that's how you have to look at people when you run a gambling outfit.

I saw the point as "a rose by any other name..." Calling gambling a "prediction market" doesn't mean it isn't just gambling. What's a roulette table except a small prediction market? Those guys on the corner wearing track suits aren't just playing craps, they're interacting with a predictions market.

That degenerate with the recently broken knees? Market player.

Oh please, you'll probably start talking about how suspicious it is that you now have to go through sports betting apps to watch sports.

Hold on a sec, that is suspicious. Never mind.

All gambling is a "prediction market". Renaming things doesn't make them something else. I think we are in general agreement again.

Oh, that must be why there are no scam listings anywhere anymore.

Wait a sec... there are scam listings and they're everywhere. Does that mean there aren't any decent algorithms, or...?

I just don't trust a computer to spend my money. Especially one that might hallucinate an offer or not be able to recognize a scam.