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reverendsteveii ,

I kick in your front door and kill two of your kids. I then plant mines at the entrances to your living room and kitchen, eat all the food from the refrigerator and shoot at you if you try to come downstairs. You need to end this aggression, it’s unseemly and it’s getting people hurt. Just cede the living room and the kitchen, you wouldn’t want to escalate things. Also I can’t help but notice that your basement and upstairs bathroom are looking pretty liberateable.

reverendsteveii ,

Take a look at everyone clutching their pearls over this painting and think about what doesn’t upset them

reverendsteveii ,

businessinsider.com/fbi-uses-instagram-etsy-linke….

It’s fucked that an authoritarian government would use social media to track and arrest protestors. I’d love to believe that this is a move toward transparency and protecting people but I think it’s a lot more likely to be a “nobody exploits social media to manipulate and repress my citizenry except me, and maybe the boy” situation.

reverendsteveii ,

If you can’t see that the issue is that the TOS could include anything the company wants and that disagreeing means the device I already paid for is intentionally bricked then I don’t know what to tell you.

reverendsteveii ,

but at this point it’s not like you can do shit about it *except not buy products that do it and tell other people about it so they can do the same just like we’re doing in this thread you defeatist weiner

reverendsteveii ,

I think it’s a rounding thing. Looking at an analog clock, you’ll see at a glance that the hand is about halfway around the circle but it takes an additional processing step to determine whether it’s 6:31 or 6:29. Looking at a digital clock, you’ll see that it’s 6:29 first and then it takes another step of processing to determine that 29 minutes is roughly halfway through the hour.

reverendsteveii ,

what do you know about Marshall McLuhan? I’m hoping it’s not very much, because you seem to be in a really good place to receive what he has to teach right now. Google the phrase “the medium is the message” if you’d like to know more.

If the order of events were different, what might we be calling smartphones?

I had this shower thought earlier and I actually wanted to post it in that community. The name I came up with was SmartWalkman, but later I realized that Walkman is Sony specific, so I doubt other companies would’ve gone for that name, but I didn’t want to let this shower thought slip so here I am now asking you guys.

reverendsteveii ,

I feel like palmtop, as derived from desktop and laptop, has a shot here

reverendsteveii ,

I’m currently playing through the ace attorney series, couch party w my fiancee. We’re having a blast, but there’s absolutely no doing this a second time. The nature of the games is such that you can’t really progress in any of the cases without having asked every question of every witness, gathered every piece of evidence and explored every relevant branch in cross-examination, so by the time you finish a case there’s just nothing left to go over a second time.

reverendsteveii ,

I get voting for harm reduction

Question for you: has any candidate for president, or even someone running in a party’s primary, ever been perfectly aligned with your beliefs on all things?

reverendsteveii ,

“Okay but the guy who goes the extra mile will get a promotion and do better in the long run.” —a guy who has always gone the extra mile, never gotten a promotion and is doing exactly the same as everyone else

reverendsteveii ,

it certainly hasn’t been tested in court yet, at least not that I’ve been able to find. These EULAs are often just corporate wishlists and until they go in front of a judge it’s difficult to know what provisions will actually stick. I hope that they don’t have the ability to bait and switch EULAs but this is America, some judge somewhere might take it upon himself to protect my freedom to have my TV remotely disabled after I pay for it.

reverendsteveii ,

and by the time the court throws it out the TV I paid for has been disabled for months and I’m out a ton of money and time. A lot of people will just agree because defending your rights in this country is very expensive and cumbersome. They’re counting on this idea.

reverendsteveii ,

The question isn’t whether arbitration clauses are legal the question is whether selling someone something and then, after the sale, presenting them with a take it or leave it EULA that disables the product if they dont agree, and also what recourse the consumer has if they don’t agree to a post-sale EULA. Brower v Gateway said that post-sale EULAs are binding but only because in that case the consumer had the option to return the product for a refund and didn’t. Klocek v Gateway ruled that any terms presented after a sale represent a separate contract beyond the one that was agreed to by both parties at the time of sale. It’s possible that either of these would apply to the OP. It’s also possible for courts to rule that the sale of the physical TV was a one-time agreement but that this EULA is separate and represents an ongoing agreement to allow access to Roku’s services.

Your comment actually circles around the issue at hand when you say that EULAs are enforceable if “…you have been granted sufficient notice to accept or decline…”. The thrust of the argument is that adding conditions after the sale of an object that, if not agreed to, render the object inoperable feels an awful lot like not being given sufficient notice and is essentially a backdoor by which the contract can be unilaterally amended after agreement.

reverendsteveii ,

There are some regulations. A contract can be ruled unconscionable by a court, which is basically saying “no one in their right mind would ever agree to this so we’re not gonna enforce it”. Contracts have to give both sides duties (things they have to do) and consideration (things they get for performing the duties), so no court will enforce a contract that doesn’t materially benefit both sides in some way.

But I agree with you that there should be some sort of blowback to putting together purposely overreaching contracts and then counting on people not knowing their rights or not having the resources to enforce them in order to profit from an illegitimate contract.

reverendsteveii ,

“This is the type of shit I be talking about” —dmx

Iirc wasn’t that one on the box of a fridge, but the people who installed it deboxed it first and then Samsung tried to argue that the customer was still bound by a EULA they never knew existed?

reverendsteveii OP ,

still some steam in these jeans after all

well of course there is. how do you think I got such sharp creases in them?

reverendsteveii ,

the fact that this is a story is a better criticism of our media than anything anyone could make up

reverendsteveii ,

First month is free

where do I sign up?

reverendsteveii ,

sounds like every business in california is gonna start making and selling 1 loaf of bread every day because of blatant corruption

reverendsteveii ,

puts me in mind of the old guru meditation error messages that popped up in the stone knives and bearskins era of computing.

reverendsteveii ,

I’m not sure why this harmful drug is different

work in the smoking section of a restaurant for a bit and the phlegm ball you cough up every morning will be your proof that smoking isn’t just an individual’s choice.

reverendsteveii ,

Here’s another question along the same lines - my friend when I was a kid developed gynecomastia, commonly known as “breast knots” when he was 14. They’re completely harmless, but they made it look like he had boobs. Cute little A cups on this otherwise very boy-presenting person. For some reason, no one thought it was “against God’s plan” or “mutilating his body” or “part of the gender agenda” when this 14 year old boy had a purely cosmetic double mastectomy. I wonder why no one batted an eye at a child receiving gender-affirming cosmetic surgery just because he wanted to in this particular case.

reverendsteveii ,

circumcising me was 100% the right choice

if you weren’t circumcised as a child you would go get it done today?

reverendsteveii ,

to avoid putting men in that dilemma

There’s no dilemma at all. Every consenting person who wants cosmetic surgery should be allowed to have it, and no one who can’t consent to cosmetic surgery should have it forced upon them.

reverendsteveii ,

how does cosmetic surgery make your child’s life easier/better?

reverendsteveii ,

you know that the entire rest of the world is full of baby boys with foreskins and parents who clean them, right? is your argument really gonna be “it’s inconvenient for parents to clean their kids so lets just cut off a part of their body”?

reverendsteveii ,

there’s no sensory input that can’t be faked, simulation theory is undisprovable, the only thing you can prove is that a simulation as accurate and consistent as this would have to be is indistinguishable from a basis reality and therefore the question is irrelevant.

but for thought experiment purposes I like to think that simulating a computer must always require more processing power than the computer being simulated has, and therefore as we develop computing technology and proliferate computers the likelihood that it’s all just an emulation layer on one big universe-computer diminishes rapidly.

reverendsteveii ,

also fish and bread dup, which didn’t prove terribly popular and was quietly patched out

Man who intentionally drove his truck into a Muslim family, killing 4, gets life sentence in Canada (apnews.com)

A man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim family was sentenced Thursday to life in prison as a Canadian judge ruled that the actions of the admitted white nationalist amounted to terrorism....

reverendsteveii ,

I’ve taken psilocybin mushrooms several times and never murdered a muslim family because I’m not a racist terrorist.

reverendsteveii ,

if one shipment has 6 tons of coke in it the manufacturing and smuggling apparatus has to be huge. that’s half a billion dollars on one roll of the dice. how many multi-ton shipments got through? at what point do we admit that drug prohibition has never prevented anyone who wanted drugs from getting them and just give up?

reverendsteveii ,

well now it is. thanks, i guess…

reverendsteveii ,

If you hop jobs, I’m not hiring you*

That’s okay, someone will and for more than you’re offering

reverendsteveii ,

Companies: “You are nothing but a cog in a machine. You will be placed in the machine if and only if you help the machine generate maximum profit. If your presence ever causes the machine to generate less than maximum profit you will be summarily discarded.”

Employees: “Okay, so you try to get the maximum profit for you and I try to get the maximum profit for me.”

Companies: surprisePikachu.jpg

reverendsteveii ,

I like to cook, and I like big cooks. My favorite thing to do on a Sunday is wake up and immediately start dinner. Fresh bread, slow roasted meats, things that take time in the kitchen. It’s not weird for me to spend hours in there, and a kitchen needs a hard floor because carpet will just absorb spills and become disgusting really quickly. My old ass gets really sore after 5 hours standing barefoot on hard tile, so I have some house shoes that never go outside and help me stay comfortable.

reverendsteveii ,

Come thru, we’ll make you a plate.

reverendsteveii ,

off the market as of about two weeks ago. sorry chuck!

reverendsteveii ,

skill issue. being funny is 1% the bit and 99% how you deliver it.

reverendsteveii ,

how did SSG CarbonizedMiddleEasternToddler even get this kid’s number? Like, are schools colluding with recruiters to just ship underperforming kids off to die?

reverendsteveii ,

intentionally misreading as wholesome - the idea is to subvert the concept of gender.

“You’ll never be a real woman!”

“Neither will the chair I’m sitting in but you keep calling it ‘her’ so maybe stfu.”

reverendsteveii ,

wifman = male

are you sure you’re not thinking of wǣpnedmann? everything I can find about wifman tells me that it means “woman” and the root derivation is “wife person”.

reverendsteveii ,

wer and wife

TIL the etymology of how we talk about shapeshifters in folk myth. Dope, thank you!

“Working late one night in the lab, Guy Fellows was bitten by a radioactive human being. Now he seems like an ordinary person, but under the full moon he undergoes a transformation and become a wereman! All the powers of an adult male human, trapped inside the frail shell of an adult male human, he is Wereman!”

reverendsteveii ,

the lesson Israel is gonna learn from this is how to separate the “most moral army in the world/we have a right to defend ourselves” propaganda intended for the global audience from the “we children of light shall bathe in the blood of the animals/no palestinian is innocent every man, woman and child must be tortured to death” propaganda that, until now, was kept internal.

reverendsteveii ,

we teach their army how to torture, their army teaches our police how to murder, one hand washes the blood off the other

reverendsteveii ,

In Sicily turn of the century Sicily at least the mafia did all of that. They were the de facto government and provided services. It was much less like it was in the new world where organized crime developed under a functioning democratic government and operated in secret and much more like an informal feudal state persisting past the unification of Italy that really did have (and require) popular support.

reverendsteveii ,

okay but land ownership and rent seeking are inherent, inevitable parts of capitalism. Even Smith talked about how rent-seeking is an unavoidable outcome of a system where one person can own what another needs, and about how in order to succeed capitalism will require some way of discouraging or taxing rent-seeking. “As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” This isn’t a new phenomenon and it’s not a return to pre-capitalism, it’s capitalism doing what we all new it was going to do from the beginning.

reverendsteveii ,

Precisely this. The few rights that feudal peasants did have are being ferreted out as “inefficiencies”

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