I think they see a clear attack point. Big enough to make it worth trying it. It also helps that these computers are incredibly cheap to build not just because the leftover parts but because it's literally just a phone SOC.

The radars are not that bad. They are simply lying.

Actually file cabinets typically stored the papers themselves sideways. So this would most be like the existing tab bar being turned 90 degrees and put on the side of the screen. Which does not match the proposed or old design either.

Litigating each individual infringer is impossibly expensive for them. That's why they tried to go through the utility company.

For now what they will probably do is pick off a few people here and there to use as examples and use the full weight of the legal system to ruin their lives. Of course if you know anything about criminal justice harsh punishments are not effective deterrence.

So far the only reliable way to stop piracy has been to make a product that is better and have consumers that can actually afford to consume.

No, they said Google tells the truth 90% of the time, not 10%.

I mean based on the president of the United states? Those are rookie numbers. Come on Google you can do better!

Correct, Google AI was mistaken by sticking that word "Domestic" in there along with "USDA". Only 94.2 million cattle In the USA, which the maximum number of Bison was somewhere around 30 million. This matches the 3x to 4x increase that I expected. I am surprised that the USA has such a small portion of the world total however, but the 1.5 billion number was backed by multiple sources.

I have also heard that both Bison and grass-fed cattle emit less greenhouse gasses than most farmed cattle, not sure what the factor is.

Because he was the poster child for austerity politics and right wing economics in Argentina.

Argentina went a little crazy on the rent control without building public housing. Those two things aren't compatible. If you are going to do rent control you have to back it up with subsidies or direct public housing or you're going to have supplies shortages. Which they did.

On top of that droughts have absolutely wrecked Argentina's economy because it's mostly agrarian. It's a modern agrarian economy mind you but it's still in agrarian economy and basically the entire planet is in some stage of droughts thanks to that which shall not be named least I trigger somebody here.

So this means money was getting tight and it's easy to sell people on austerity politics when that happens. Basically slash government programs and services and promise big tax cuts and the miracle of trickle down economics. It's the same playbook we've been hearing since Reagan / Thatcher. Didn't work then doesn't work now but for some reason voters are always willing to try it again...

And for a brief period Of time it looked good. Cutting the rent control got some people back into the market that had pulled inventory off the market. And it takes a little while for the cuts to government services to show up in the economy meanwhile the tax cuts made everything look good and short-term deregulation brought in some capital investment and a little tiny micro bubble.

It didn't take long though for the bubble to burst and for the shit to hit the fan and when that happened as usual the right wing tried to hold down the power anyway they could. If I remember correctly they first tried to overthrow the courts and when that didn't work I think he was plotting an actual coup.

Oh God is stupid as he is I can't imagine he doesn't know that. If anything it would have been very very carefully explained to him by the other lawyers.

he's just corrupt. The Republican party has put a shitload of corrupt judges on the bench so that they could get them to rule in favor of large businesses and corporations against consumers and employees. Justice beer bro and that one girl that couldn't answer high School civics questions during her Senate hearing are probably the most famous examples but people don't like to think about how staggeringly incompetent they are. Clarence Thomas is another great example, George Bush was angry he was going to have to nominate a black man because he was as you might imagine kind of racist so he picked the most incompetent and corrupt black man he could find and rammed him through the Senate.

You are regulating them. That's why we have Las vegas. Dumbass young men can travel to Las Vegas and lose their short once or twice and then they have that barrier between themselves and their addiction. It also means it's much easier to regulate, serious addicts for example used to be able to contact all the casinos in Vegas and get put on a list and they would not be allowed to gamble anymore.

The problem with gambling is that it is legitimately and clinically addictive. Prostitution is a problem but again it needs regulation.

Basically you don't completely criminalize something because yeah it doesn't go away what you do is heavily heavily and systematically regulate it. You control access to it in a positive way that prevents the worst damage.

Problem you're having is you are stuck in black and white thinking. Everything has to be either on or off, all or nothing. Gray area suck and their unpleasant to think about so I don't blame you but still.

The fact that we invaded Iran because the senile old man didn't understand that they would and could close the strait of Hormuz is huge.

Unless Trump backs down in the next week or so we are going to have massive food shortages. That will drive up the cost of everything everywhere as everyone competes for a shrinking food supply. This is because so much of the fertilizer goes through the straight and we are in the planting season and we need to get going and we can't.

One of the problems with this country is people aren't very bright. They can't extrapolate even simple things. The majority of Americans seem to think at about the level of a 12-year-old. So they can't figure out the difference between news and propaganda and they can't understand that just because they could afford to eat this week doesn't mean they can afford to eat next week.

On top of that you've got a good chunk of people who are over that edge already and when you are struggling for your next meal it's hard to think clearly. So even if you somehow made it over the hump of thinking like a 12-year-old a few years of poverty and the stress that comes with it will knock you right back down.

Which is exactly why the Epstein class keeps so many people in that state. Idle hands are The devil's plaything after all...

It is what the Epstein class is actively trying to do. They may not achieve everything and all of their goals but they will achieve a lot of them and significantly reduce their dependency on your labor and therefore your quality of life.

Not everything has to be black and white 100%. You're thinking is too constrained and limited. Members of the ruling class think generationally not moment-to-moment. They aren't trying to survive until the next year like you and I are so they can think in ways you and I can't

If you talk to an actual farmer you're going to find out that there is literally nothing that robots can't Farm. The problem is cost. But remember when all of human history and civilization exists to glorify and uplift 500 people out of 8 billion money is not an object.

The Earth is a resort for 500 billionaires and we are all just staff. We are about to get replaced.

How does any of what you said matter? Even if you think making $140K isn't upper middle class, the research still shows more people are going from $90k to $140k than those who are going from $90k to $40k. It still shows that more people in the middle class, however you define it, are going up in income than are going down.

These categories are just arbitrary lines used to make it easier for people to identify and understand the insights analysts are able to pull from the data. And however you slice it, the data shows a story of improvement. Not as much improvement as I'd like to say, but improvement overall. We have been seeing the same trend for 30+ years.

What this story doesn't show is the dark side of an otherwise good development. Most people don't really notice day-to-day how much better off the 1% are because there are so few of them (by definition). But when a growing number of people see 30%+ of people around them living much better lives, they begin to notice.

Did you do it on an app? If so then yeah, you are an innovator disrupting a space and a technology company so it's all good.