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But it's the cenzorships by teh ebil libby lib lib ivorty tower tech l337's! Whatever. Unless you want the gubbermint to take over the facebookz, they can do what they want as a business. Kind of like the people who concealed carry whine about business owners exercising their property rights to...

I have a couple hundred BD movies. I rarely go to theaters, do stream stuff, but some movies are just too good to lose when X streaming service loses the rights. Not only that but some movies really did benefit from going to DVD, and later to Blu-ray. Compare a good VHS copy of Bladerunner to...

The law of averages isn't favorable to everyone. Even I would be dinged here, as I usually only drive about 7500-9000 (at most) miles per year, but that allows for a good middle ground. Most states have been jacking registration fees to cover road funding shortfalls for a while now. You just...

To be fair to state agencies here: Classic car collectors in many states pay a one time registration for a "Collector" plate (yes it is more expensive) but never have to pay to register them again. The vehicles do have to be a certain number of years old (usually 20+ years old) to qualify.

Actually they've had to move onto other funding because gas taxes tend to be static. Want to raise the gas tax, expect to hear a howl no politician likes. This is like the fuel taxes for aircraft: they don't change very often because various interests howl. So what do they do next? They change...

As to point 1, there is no guarantee of that anymore than there is a guarantee of running out in X years. Always plan for the worst... ALWAYS. There is a reason the US military sees fossil fuels as trouble. Often necessary trouble, but still trouble, and a strategic problem. As to point 2: I've...

I actually support a fuel tax because it's still typical that the heavier vehicles do consume the most fuel and cause the most road wear on average. However I think we should probably be logical and just flat fee the darn thing for vehicles in tiers. Your vehicle runs on petrol/diesel? You pay...

My problem with DUI "checkpoints" is they tie up however many cops that could be out actively doing something else instead of stopping everyone in the hopes of finding a drunk. Let's not fool ourselves, this is really just a money grab. This will also get worse because as people get better (at...

I've subsidized old fossil fuel vehicles (and their attendant infrastructure, pipelines and such, not roads) for decades so quit making a fool of yourself. What? You didn't think the fossil fuel industry got massive subsidy breaks? How about the big vehicle manufacturers? You remind me of the...

It's a useful distraction from people weaponizing DMCA takedowns to steal revenue from mid-sized channels. Besides the downvote thing will please the SJW crowd who insist that it must be organized campaigns of people downvoting some crappy video, e.g. the Ghostbusters reboot, they like.

So what you're telling me is: that (TfB / Paul / Fred) sued Atari prior to the bankruptcy sale for their money (according to my lawyer friend, it is not showing up in L-N) to be listed as a creditor? that (TfB / Paul / Fred) filed for a contract addendum (according to my lawyer friend, it is...

"Ghosts of the Precursors" will be released at the same time as the Infinium Phantom. They are only "creating it" because they needed something, anything, to provide a publicly acceptable reason for their rent-seeking behavior. They know they waited too long to sue for the royalties they didn't...

HR will not be happy about this, it undercuts one reason for their existence.

This is actually a valid question. We all know how little the Chinese pay attention to patents, so given that tendency it is highly likely there would be long (possibly successful) patent challenges. Unfortunately collecting is another story, but they could get the car barred from importation...

^This^ Right here is why copyright should be returned to what it was originally intended to be: very limited. Copyright was never intended to provide a revenue stream, in perpetuity, to the content creator. No, the idea of copyright was to provide a means to compensate the creator as an...

She didn't say anything initially so depending on when it was erased it might not qualify. Speaking to someone that knows the refurbishment business, good luck. They pick up "new stock" weekly and it's in lots not tracked by serial number. Broken screen and mic? Not going to go for a quick...

I'm simply amazed they made the firmware updates "opt-in" at this point.

My uncle and cousin (both electricians) both install these type of systems, flying all over the country. In fact they've been installing them (and similar systems) for about the last 4 years. Quite interesting to look at from a production monitoring standpoint, even if they are dirt simple from...

Copyright should be a flat 14 years, with an option to extend for another 14 years, as originally conceived. Copyright was not intended to provide a perpetual revenue stream to the creator but simply: 1) Provide an incentive (via temporary exclusivity) to create new works, and 2) A way for the...

Would harm the ability to easily re-use the package. Same for using any kind of skunk spray or something like deer urine.

Hmm, I'm thinking of some fun that could be had with their wanton desire to pull traffic overseas. Mostly it involves them getting a lot of redirected specialty porn traffic. The next fun thing might be to setup a series of machines to generate a lot of bogus traffic to send over their nodes...

Listen, I like Elon much of the time. Tesla cars are a wonderful application of current technology into a nicer package. He didn't really make anything "new" per se in a revolutionary sense - technologically speaking - but like Apple he had the right people put technologies together into a...

I have a friend who volunteers with a group that helps get prostitutes that want out of the business, out and (typically) into rehab. The sheer amount of these gals in Texas alone would probably cause most people to wince. Even scarier, the number of drug addicted prostitutes in medium/smaller...

No, he's going to get into a fight with a female rebel, who will completely humiliate him in the end. /I keed Odds are they will do a terrible job. They turned what could've been the one redeeming act of TLJ (Finn's sacrifice) and totaled it. That would've redeemed much of that disaster...

I don't like a lot of people. I don't like John McCain, Dubya, H.W. Bush, Al Gore, and many (many) others. I didn't even necessarily agree with TotalBiscuit all the time. You know what? Cancer sucks. Dying slowly/painfully really -expletive- sucks. I can respect other humans enough to say: "My...

Yes, and my (former, unfortunately) Senator was the only person in government with the big brass ones to vote against it from when it was introduced - every single time: Russ Feingold. Unfortunately, there's enough pants-wetting cowards who listen to Super PAC advertising that accused him of...

I'll go with that, if we repeal their "Common Carrier" status. That will open them up to multi-billion dollar lawsuits, buy hey, they can charge extra to access Netflix so surely that will make up the difference. You seem to be forgetting that part of the Network Neutrality deal was to give the...

Since ISP's will no longer be carrying content in a neutral manner, we need to repeal their Common Carrier protections. Let them get sued for billions by the content industry when they're responsible for the traffic on their controlled networks.

This is my surprised face -_-

You can see the earth start to curve at 5k’, and easily see for hundreds of miles. Get past 10k’ and the curve starts to become more pronounced. I don’t know how anyone who flies on a passenger jet can still be a flat earther without a massive amount of willful blindness.

I can make it easy and take him up higher than 1800’ agl. Even in a Cessna, assuming he isn’t a blimp, I can take him up to 10k’ agl. He’ll still claim it’s a conspiracy, and that I must be lying about our altitude.

Net Neutrality in 10 seconds (for slow learners) I pay my ISP X dollars per month for Y speed. Google (or other intarwebs company) pays their ISP x dollars per month for Y speed. My ISP shouldn’t be able to fark with what sites I choose to use. What ISP’s fighting net neutrality want I pay my...

I think the fiscal bureau said 25 or so years, but I still think it's a cagey deal. Foxconn isn't exactly a reputable company in this regard, they've broken plenty of promises. Then add in the fact that WEDC has an abysmal track record when it comes to holding businesses to task for their tax...

Or livestreaming the whole event with any service. Axon is just desperately trying to come up with a new product to protect the bottom line.

I'll agree with the cesspool portion, I wouldn't want to live there either. For the true freeloaders though you need to go to the rural areas where (as but on example) those farking entitled hypocrites expect my cousin (who paid good money, to live in a good neighborhood, with good schools...

Well, yes and no. It is a huge giveaway, because that tax money would go into developing the infrastructure and services necessary to support the facility at a local (and state) level. Let's look at this logically for a moment, or a slightly granular level. The first is that employing 3,000...

Anyone who thinks they're going to just get text times and other banal items is fooling themselves. This will be a wholesale copy of whatever they can grab. Have some pics of your girl in sultry lingerie? Nude? Yourself nude? Use a specialty website? How about Tinder or Grindr? Your emails.

I have no issues with it, as long as people keep them under 300' AGL - away from departure / landing runways. /pretty much not an issue for anyone with an IQ above room temperature

My work is seriously considering quarantining externally sent files by the policy on the email server for a few hours.

If you have enough to get a prenup, you have enough for the lawyers to get it tossed out for some reason.