in the free market businesses form and compete for consumer money with other businesses, it is the competition that is pro consumer. Unions, like any other political formation, exists to protect special interests, preventing businesses from competing to the best of their ability and pushing prices up - anti consumer.

Businesses are pro-consumer by definition, unless they are government subsidized. Being anti-union (as I am) is being as pro-consumer as possible. Unions push prices up, consumers want lower prices, unions are anti-consumer.

That mistake led to the development of the most successful version control system in history. I wish my mistakes were 10% as productive as that.

Are you asking if Linus was right about something outside of the kernel

Until they release systemd-kernel. You can say I'm being ridiculous but they already have their own bootloader (systemd-boot). At this point, the kernel is just about the only thing left for systemd to consume.

And if Sony handled it like you say Audible did, there'd probably be fewer complaints.

So far as I see it, it shouldn't matter whether or not Sony retains the rights to sell licenses for some content, unless they explicitly stated that at the point of sale. I never had a PlayStation account, so I don't know how that process works. I know that on Amazon, it says RENT or BUY. If Amazon told me it couldn't play something in my library of purchased things because of licensing, I would pitch a fit and take it to... hmmm... the FTC I think. False advertising for renting me something and calling it a purchase.

I'm rarely in favor of government intervention in the markets, but this would be a legitimate place. This is an issue that needs to be cleared up. It creates too much uncertainty. People may need to sue Sony to get it going. Or, a federal legislator seeing that their copy of their favorite movie is gone.

Your sig reminds me of the term "circumgyrating". It's what Jeremey Bentham called jogging, before it was called jogging. Possibly inventing it, he began his day with 6am circumgyrations.

I'm not sure about the legality. If you illegally download a copy of windows but activate it with a legit key, MS won't call you a pirate. If I download a DVD rip of some Red Dwarf episodes because I don't feel like looking for my DVD or hooking up a player, have I violated my license? Certainly not in spirit, but I don't know what the law might think. If I have a Netflix account and download a copy of One Piece for whatever reason, does Netflix care or have a cause to care? I don't know. (Don't care much either, I'm still going to do it)

And if it's all just licenses, then what's wrong with me downloading a BDRip of something I bought on VHS? I have little doubt that MPAA lawyers would take issue, but that doesn't mean much to me. I care what other people think, and lawyers gave up the right to be people when they joined the bar.

How?

Oh! Well, that's a pretty good reason. You can get a hairless cat, but they're creepy instead of cute. I wouldn't advise it.

Also, dogs are much better at playing fetch.

Here we are talking about building chip fabs, and he chimed in from left field to vent his feelings about Trump. Want to tell me how that was appropriate or even remotely associated with the topic at hand? Note that "I share his rage" doesn't make it appropriate.

And also, yes, the entire scrawl was just the venting of hyper-emotional partisan rage. All opinion, zero fact.

The infamous rolling brownouts were due to the State closing power plants and refusing to license new ones. Governor Davis lost his job because of it. They import power from other States that do build power plants, and it costs residents considerably more because of it. All due to the regulatory environment's hostility to power generation and large-scale construction.

None of this is new or even relatively unknown. It has been a problem in California for decades, ever since they started closing power plants without allowing new ones to be built.

We were talking about Canada, not the EU. The US has about 10x the population of Canada.

Could very well be. Or, it could have spent too much time feral instead of with people.

Hope it works out for you and the cat. Cats are great. Except when they're being dicks but even then, at least they're cute and fuzzy.

I don't use mobile firefox, but the surplus javascript here has been giving me fits for months now. It seems like someone is working overtime to circumvent ad blockers, when I've already checked the "I'm a logged in user, stop showing me ads" box.

How do we get this legit complaint in front of more eyes?

Since when does it mean giving competitors your product so they don't have to make their own? Besides never.