Comment Re:The Rubber Hits The Road NOW. (Score 1) 62
But, will capital flight strike California like so many have claimed.
Fleeing with hoarded money isn't likely to hurt the state.
But, will capital flight strike California like so many have claimed.
Fleeing with hoarded money isn't likely to hurt the state.
IIRC, moderately high wages are taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.
Zero new taxes. Period.
Actually, we need to roll back decades of tax cuts so we can afford our civilization.
Billionares are a more productive allocation of resources than the state
Can you support that claim?
Also, more productive for whom?
Orbital Factories are unlikely to employ very many human workers.
For used cars, at least, I would like to test-drive the actual one I am buying. It is not clear from the description whether this is possible though.
This is small government, they wouldn't meddle in the private sector!
And if they did, the Party of Personal Responsibility would just blame it on Biden.
well once they crossed 2 billion the signed integer representation made losses into profits
and quite another to spend more money on it.
And that's the core of the issue.
If it were profitable the companies wouldn't be shutting it down.
If it meaningfully impacted customer sentiment or business goals, they'd open up or release servers, or make that last-minute change to the game as a final update.
As games are, so much time has passed. The original dev team has moved on two titles, three titles, maybe even more since the initial development, especially for long-running games. The maintenance teams have also come and gone. The last teams who are there when the games are 'turning out the lights' are skeleton crews or some IT guys who reboot the machines when needed. The institutional knowledge has moved on, the teams have moved on, build farms have been repurposed, etc.
A few promised to keep source code and servers in escrow to be sure they were distributed when the product eventually ended, and that made approximately zero difference to the industry.
I'd argue for most people, it's not the servers they way, it's the nostalgia. It's the remembering the good times with guild members, the anticipation of new worlds opening up and the novelty of seeing them when they're new. It's remembering the overfilled lobbies, active auction houses with all the powerful items, the peak excitement of crowded, vibrant communities. There is no joy that comes with opening a server and seeing the player count: 0/1500 - open for join, or a quest that needs 5 participants while knowing the servers are empty.
Blocks email? You need email and that has nothing to do with doomscrolling. Spam is pretty under control at this point. Scammers will directly call and text you so just having a phone is an issue. I also need mapping apps and I need my browser for things like banking and such.
I could see giving this phone to someone who can't control themselves online like romance scam victims.
Define crypto as share trading, and tax it accordingly.
Been on Firefox since Quantum and got rid of Chrome when they blocked ublock origin a year ago when they forced you to turn on the flag.
Edge still supports it and it's sunset status is still TBD. If they're smart they'll keep it that way, since they can gain some share from this debacle.
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