Is there anyone here who has served in the military (not you, certainly, they wouldn't have you) in a combat zone (where you'd piss yourself to death in fear) that doesn't understand that leaks to (or by) the press kill people?

But I suppose you approve of killing US soldiers.

As opposed to the left's belief that Trump is literally Hitler? Both sides are insanely stupid, including you.

NPR is 100% pure leftist propaganda. It always has been. Their current line of bullshit is expressing disapproval of people who literally celebrate politically motivated assassinations is hate speech and censorship. Yes, really.

We're already in a second civil war. It was started by the left years ago. The rest of the country has finally realized it, and isn't having it.

Maybe there's a missing comma between them?

From what I've seen, those 6-12 episodes tended to be longer than the 42 minutes the average hour show is in the US (on top of no commercials).

But yeah, there was a different attitude about the work.

Yeah, that couldn't possibly be misused, ever, under any circumstances, by anyone.

According to a friend with a PE license, his signature now also carries and unlimited civil liability. But yeah, the potential prison time is the bigger deterrent.

No doubt future models that nobody will buy will include that. They won't be installing shit on the current model, especially in a state with a home defense law.

That's why you start with the CEO. The plea bargain is, "Either a) you made this decision, and we assume you did since you're the CEO, and therefore get the longest prison sentence, at least a year for every person ripped off (and we know there were millions of people ripped off), and no concurrent sentences, or you testify against whoever did make the decision, and you get a lesser sentence." The second time you do that, the patsy will have extensive documentation to back up their testimony. If there is a second time.

At which point they simply cancel the higher service tiers, after a protracted legal fight over exactly how to define "highest possible service tier." After all, if it's the most expensive tier, it must be the highest, even though the service it provides is tangibly worse than the lowest, free level. "For $1,000.00/year, you pay three times the shipping cost on all orders. And we are now required by court order to put you in this tier - but for free!"

They didn't say whose value it strengthened. And I'm sure this strengthens the (monetary) value for them of you owning their shitty refrigerator.

But I supposed one could, if one was stuck with one of these shitty devices, spray paint over the screen, and cut the wires to the speaker. Or dump the whole piece of crap into a river somewhere and buy a real refrigerator.

There are multiple opportunities to sign up for it during checkout, some of which are . . . subtle.

"No thanks", followed by "FREE SHIPPIN" (in big letters) "with Amazon Prime" (in tiny letters in a font color with poor contrast to the background), for instance.

(The difficulty in cancelling, IMO, should be a prosecutable criminal offense with automatic prison time, starting with the CEO of the company.)

And before that, there were even more. Man From U.N.C.L.E., for instance, ran 30 episodes per season. I Love Lucy ran 35.

TV has changed a lot, many times.

Why would it bother to try? It will hallucinate the answer that is most profitable to the advertisers.

You know, like it does now.

4. Stupidity.

Except, of course, for people who have old equipment that a) costs a hell of a lot to replace, and b) is durable enough that even at 15-20 years old, still works fine, even though the computer that controls it has been replaced several times.

But, hey, that's not you, so fuck them, eh?