"Something which does not enter your body cannot be addictive."

Yet men are addicted to sex quite often, yet nothing enters their body (unless they're gay.)

Moron.

How about that 1.6M against an old lady because her kid downloaded music online? Was that reasonable? Fuck no it was not.

So shut the fuck up, judge, and deal with it.

We already knew Thomas was deep in the hands of telecoms - this shows how deep.

reminds me of that old movie, where the government basically had a "time machine" of surveillance technology and could stalk you for hours days ago with no oversight.

it seems they're trying to make that sound like "really soon", but wow that's a long time as far as people are concerned....

that's well over a million generations of humans

Anyone that plays starcraft or similar, or that plays a healer in any MMORPG, should have NO trouble juggling planes.

Only 1.25 Trillion compared to the nearly 20 trillion in debt Trump put on the country.

Go fuck yourself.

#1 in homelessness? Wouldn't be that way if lying ass red states weren't one-way busing people over here. Yea we're picking up YOUR fucking slack, loser.

#1 in Poverty? Uh you mean Puerto Rico, followed by Louisiana and then Mississippi.

#1 in highest taxes? On $100,000 income, Alaska ranks #1 with the lowest total tax while Oregon has the highest. California ranks #41.

#1 in lowest literacy rates? Nope! Most people can READ THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE. They are not illiterate. Language is the primary driver of NOT KNOWING ENGLISH versus schooling.

Lying ass Republican fucks.

the OP is referring to the "please call us back at xyz", not the caller-id. Faking the callback number would mean nobody would be able to call you back. And then what's the point of leaving a callback number?

Anyone that calls a scammer back is their golden ticket, they've already bought into the scam. They'll never give you a fake number to call back.

or I'm taking my ball and going home!

This is why we have bad laws and sweetheart deals on the books, politicians cave to these stunts way too often.

I hope CA stands their ground. The jobs they're threatening to leave with will be worth a lot less anyway if CA caves and the jobs stay. That's the whole reason they're being sued.

I don't understand why they aren't legally required to keep police officers as a link in the process?

For example, if a flock camera says a stolen vehicle was spotted, it should forward that image to an actual officer that LOOKS at the image, that's given some options that INCLUDE "image quality too low for reliable identification".

And then the officer is REQUIRED to verify the validity of the warrant, and sign-off on both the identification and the warrant before action is taken. Make an officer take responsibility before sending cars after them.

Then if the plate was read wrong, or the warrant had been withdrawn or was expired somehow, they can't just waive their hand and say "too bad you got arrested at gunpoint, the camera told us to do it, it's not our fault, you'll have to try to sue the camera."

Forcing a person to make the final determination and take responsibility for the response just seems like common sense?

But I suppose it's just too easy and convenient to sit around and wait for a camera to "hit" on a car and then charge blindly at it, if you know you can just waive responsibility if something goes wrong.

Your freebie was the RTX release

"we all know damn well why we limit gambling to one city in one state of the union."

Except we do not. Most states allow social casinos and many have a state lottery.

Google has been slowly fucking Google Earth desktop so they can push you to the less-featured web and mobile versions where you pay to have your dataset hosted online instead of on your device and have AI incorrectly interpret shit you're doing.

Google's investors and C-suite need to get placed in an octagon with a pride of lions.

The used-game market isn't nearly as important to new gamers as it is to older gamers. They're used to change, and for the majority of ALL gamers, it's not a big deal.

This decision was almost certainly backed by market studies and accounting projections. They realize there will be "resistance", but like the Borg, resistance is futile. There won't be enough of it to get anywhere NEAR break-even with the revenue increase this move is going to create.

In the end, it's all about the Benjamines. They're confident that when the dust settles, it's going to be a net-positive for their stock price. And at the end of the day, that's all that matters to them.

We need some new laws on the books though, enshrining strong consumer protection for digital assets.