> Leap-hours seem to me to be moral equivalent to the "fuck it, let's just give up" option. Sometimes, doing nothing is the right option. Sometimes, giving up is the right option. I believe this is one of those times.…
I agree. The difference in how much we're out of sync with the sun is tiny and also completely inconsequential in the vast majority of cases, especially compared to the trouble of the alternatives. By the time the…
I don't care about being seen as a good person. I do care about being a good person (at least to the extent I am able). I don't see how copyright relates to my (or anyone's) character. You can be a good or bad person…
> Like imagine how much harm is caused by the luxury fashion industry manipulating people to spend $20,000 on ugly leather bags? The EU is actually working on that, at least from the environmental angle.[1] Beyond that,…
I have very little faith that it will be very possible to rewind to that point. Not because the technology of today is different, or even the legal landscape, but simply due to the cultural landscape being different.…
> I’m not sure what limiting principle you can apply to limit the ability of businesses to show users other things the user might be interested in that wouldn’t also basically ban advertising too. That's a baby I'm…
We should do something about that too, yes.
> I mean we deal with daylight saving time all the time And I wish we didn't every year!
> As someone who also has two family names, I always dread questions for my "last name". I feel the same about anything that doesn't ask about my middle name. I end up constantly see emails with 'Hi/Dear First-Name…
I want to like the EU. In many ways I do. They're making it really easy to not like them. All for a safe and secure society.
I'm so happy I managed to transfer everything important over to my own domain before anything like that happened. I still have my old Hotmail and Gmail, and while nothing important shows up there, there's still a…
GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony is listed as silver on protondb, meaning 'works with tweaks', so that sounds about right. Things obviously aren't perfect. That last 10% of games is a massive pain, since every game is…
I can't see this happening without either Windows getting in the way, negating much of the advantage of a console (have a look at the Windows handhelds and how they're not selling and how they're not a great…
> Xbox is the value proposition for people that want to play on Console + {PC/Handheld} Okay. Then who is that? Most of the people who play games who I know are either A.) Console gamers who only use PCs for work, 2.)…
A part of me wants to be generous in interpreting that and say, OK, maybe it's the first time she's playing games semi-seriously in order to understand the capital G Gamer. Surely she's played games before, like say,…
Can't say I'm surprised. I can't see a reasonable path for Xbox to do anything but just stay alive other than as MS's overarching gaming brand. Xbox is on the losing side of the consoles, with no distinguishing features…
Heck, even 60 years ago, you could still buy that arcade cabinet! Sure, it costs a fortune, but it was at least possible.
Heck, I'd pay to explicitly not get the new features and only get the security and bug fixes in several cases. The "new" features is in some cases just a reshuffling of the UI and removal of features I actually do use.
Correct, but I don't expect Sony to keep those servers up for long when people can't even buy anything there. It's nothing but a cost centre for Sony at this point.
People agree to fraud all the time. That doesn't mean people shouldn't get their money back.
> so what are arguing for is to welch on the deal you accepted? I'm arguing unfair terms shouldn't be upheld, or really in the agreement in the first place. This is on paper how it should work in Europe, but we…
> Most books are lost in time. And that's a bad thing. > Only obscure titles get truly lost. We can do better.
> but they have form for disallowing redownloads of old ebook purchases. If you dared to buy ebooks from them pre-Kindle, you can't access them anymore. Well that's bad and also shouldn't happen. They should not be able…
I would if I had money.
With renewal comes repayment, and there's still a set date when you renew. WoW is a service that works like that. The vast majority of games don't use evergreen licences, nor should they, since they usually aren't a…
> Leap-hours seem to me to be moral equivalent to the "fuck it, let's just give up" option. Sometimes, doing nothing is the right option. Sometimes, giving up is the right option. I believe this is one of those times.…
I agree. The difference in how much we're out of sync with the sun is tiny and also completely inconsequential in the vast majority of cases, especially compared to the trouble of the alternatives. By the time the…
I don't care about being seen as a good person. I do care about being a good person (at least to the extent I am able). I don't see how copyright relates to my (or anyone's) character. You can be a good or bad person…
> Like imagine how much harm is caused by the luxury fashion industry manipulating people to spend $20,000 on ugly leather bags? The EU is actually working on that, at least from the environmental angle.[1] Beyond that,…
I have very little faith that it will be very possible to rewind to that point. Not because the technology of today is different, or even the legal landscape, but simply due to the cultural landscape being different.…
> I’m not sure what limiting principle you can apply to limit the ability of businesses to show users other things the user might be interested in that wouldn’t also basically ban advertising too. That's a baby I'm…
We should do something about that too, yes.
> I mean we deal with daylight saving time all the time And I wish we didn't every year!
> As someone who also has two family names, I always dread questions for my "last name". I feel the same about anything that doesn't ask about my middle name. I end up constantly see emails with 'Hi/Dear First-Name…
I want to like the EU. In many ways I do. They're making it really easy to not like them. All for a safe and secure society.
I'm so happy I managed to transfer everything important over to my own domain before anything like that happened. I still have my old Hotmail and Gmail, and while nothing important shows up there, there's still a…
GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony is listed as silver on protondb, meaning 'works with tweaks', so that sounds about right. Things obviously aren't perfect. That last 10% of games is a massive pain, since every game is…
I can't see this happening without either Windows getting in the way, negating much of the advantage of a console (have a look at the Windows handhelds and how they're not selling and how they're not a great…
> Xbox is the value proposition for people that want to play on Console + {PC/Handheld} Okay. Then who is that? Most of the people who play games who I know are either A.) Console gamers who only use PCs for work, 2.)…
A part of me wants to be generous in interpreting that and say, OK, maybe it's the first time she's playing games semi-seriously in order to understand the capital G Gamer. Surely she's played games before, like say,…
Can't say I'm surprised. I can't see a reasonable path for Xbox to do anything but just stay alive other than as MS's overarching gaming brand. Xbox is on the losing side of the consoles, with no distinguishing features…
Heck, even 60 years ago, you could still buy that arcade cabinet! Sure, it costs a fortune, but it was at least possible.
Heck, I'd pay to explicitly not get the new features and only get the security and bug fixes in several cases. The "new" features is in some cases just a reshuffling of the UI and removal of features I actually do use.
Correct, but I don't expect Sony to keep those servers up for long when people can't even buy anything there. It's nothing but a cost centre for Sony at this point.
People agree to fraud all the time. That doesn't mean people shouldn't get their money back.
> so what are arguing for is to welch on the deal you accepted? I'm arguing unfair terms shouldn't be upheld, or really in the agreement in the first place. This is on paper how it should work in Europe, but we…
> Most books are lost in time. And that's a bad thing. > Only obscure titles get truly lost. We can do better.
> but they have form for disallowing redownloads of old ebook purchases. If you dared to buy ebooks from them pre-Kindle, you can't access them anymore. Well that's bad and also shouldn't happen. They should not be able…
I would if I had money.
With renewal comes repayment, and there's still a set date when you renew. WoW is a service that works like that. The vast majority of games don't use evergreen licences, nor should they, since they usually aren't a…