Let’s just put the stochastic hacking programs online and let them run, see what they do.

Oh, more venture capital money? Don’t mind if I do!

Funny how every major innovation that’s sweeping the world and gonna make all the money ever still needs public subsidies.

Oh are they finally finding a wage approach profitability? I got to say, literally just scamming shoppers was…not at the bottom of my list.

I do happen to agree that one should not buy a Kindle. There are alternatives, and good ones.

But also a Kindle, a locked down computer that is illegal to make work properly, shouldn’t exist.

The problem is that in so many of these specialized computers, every major device available is rights violating, or under powered. It is damn hard too “choose” your way out of an economy as an individual.

I was hating on him when he was just a monopolist.

When I say something like “^” and they type “caret”. Why…

Also putting drinks in the freezer to get them cold faster. Even if you remember 99% of the time: A. No you don’t. 2. That’s still at least 2 exploded drinks in the freezer every year.

Call center work sucks, but dealing with people who are upset is in the job description.

If the organization is fucking up, of course you should give them grief in whatever manner available to you. Temper your anger at the lowliest of pawns, sure, but not so much that you don’t leave an impression.

“Talk things out?” What, like with a person?

That’s why Americans lean on chargebacks.

In the past it didn’t matter, because you had the whole file structure for the application when you purchased it. You either downloaded it in whole as an install file or archive, or you had it on the physical media that you purchased it on. Maybe there was a license you had to input or some other rudimentary DRM system, but you had that too. No remote access from the company, no forced additional downloads or internet connectivity, no phone home. So they could say whatever they wanted, but you actually had the product.

Now with media files that only play with proprietary tools that phone home, or applications that phone home, your computers are backdoored. And if you have a system that’s backdoored, it’s not really yours, it’s just something you can access for now. That’s what your Kindle is: a backdoored computer with an e-ink screen and proprietary software that can open proprietary files that other software isn’t supposed to be able to open. Which is why no one should buy one.

Um… So by further embarassing ourselves on the international stage, showing ourselves to be erratic and irrational, we discourage international brain drain and future “free trade” agreements, reducing our outsized influence on the world, and thereby encouraging multipolarity, which in the the long term will probably benefit all of humanity, of which we are a part.

What were the 4 horsmen of suppression of online speach? Child Safety, Trrsm, Hate, and Porn? These are the pretexts for everything else. Maybe copyright is supposed to be in there too. Five horsemen then.

Imagine how well digital games would sell if they showed up in your cart like: 1 x Revokable License for God of War $69 See Terms and Conditions* [Confirm Payment]

• Terms: we will do whatever the fuck we want. Conditions: whenever we want.

There’s a reason they say “Buy” instead of “Pay”.

It’s been going on for generations, but it’s no less dishonest for all that. Software sellers write complex EULAs for which the only valid answer is “Agree” because the store won’t take an open box back and the software won’t install unless we pretend to agree, so even us legitimate software enjoyers are pirates in our hearts. Meanwhile normies don’t even think about it that much. Fuck this whole system, but double fuck an online service that says “purchase” but will steal it back later. Fuck that.

If it comes to a point where they’re unable to take care of themselves, and you need to share a roof in order to see that they are taken care of, they should move in with you.

That aside, hire out help if it’s more than you can do, but be careful. The edges of life are where people are exploited the most.

Lots of information about people is online.

…Does he have something to hide?

By the plain text reading, yes. Would be nice to see PS streams fall to 0, but people ignore the terms and Sony doesn’t enforce them until they want to. Doesn’t matter what any of this BS says until they drag you in front of a judge… I mean private arbitrator… and say “look, plain as day, subsection 18.XXVI.xix D(13a) on page 47 where it clearly says we get to move our VP into his spare bedroom and shoot his dog”

We seriously are overdue for putting limits on so-called consumer contracts.

They are recording and publicly publishing their unsympathetic crimes. Arrest them.

I mean, okay.

Step 0: Company secretly abuses you. Step 1: New regulation requires that the abuse be disclosed.

More than I expected out of this administration. Honestly thought they’d say “Do it more! Abuse of customers is innovation or something!”

Obviously the solution is actually to make this practice illegal and aggressively persue violators like they’re Ecuadorian fishermen and a new batch of Epstein emails dropped with incomplete redactions, but the bar for this administration is so low it’s somewhere at the bottom of the river Styx, so gg I guess.

What if we punished crimes instead of monetizing them? We’ve had a multimedia Internet for a generation now, we could do this.

Teen Boys Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in Very Public and Easily Tracable Ways and Still No One is Stopping Them

I mean, you often need people with direct knowledge of obvious things to say them in court under oath.