or something like a massive release of all the naked kiddo-photos parents seem too stupid to not-take getting dumped for pedos to enjoy.
or all the secret documents for your biggest corporations causing all sorts of financial damages. yeah. fucking corpos over is probably the one that gets it yeeted into non-existence.
True. But there’s a difference.
While hallmark certainly didn’t create the holiday, a large part of how we celebrate it today was shaped by hallmark and other companies using it to drum up business.
lol, even mother nature is like “fuck this corporate holiday!”
never, hopefully.
But eh… I do have to wonder how much that would piss off trump? I mean, they gave Kissinger of all fuckfaces one.
basically a direct successor, yes.
Netanyahu is Benin’s successor.
Among- the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization In Palestine.
The current visit of Menachen Begin, leader of this .party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States.
It goes on, but I think you get the gist. And I’ll just add, it’s a most disturbing political phenomena of our time, that this has been allowed to progress to something that rather looks like death camps.
I wouldn’t really trust Ubuntu to not retain confidential information.
They’re not nearly as bad as MS or Mac. But they still collect private data.
Except that’s not what happened in the pi and that’s not what is happening in the cars.
You’re paying for that hardware whether or not you also pay for the keys. You own that hardware. You would be offended if you bought a house and the previous owner said “oh and if you want to use the rooms, you’ll need to buy room keys”.
You should be offended at BMW. And Broadcom.
You get that, right?
R pi paid Broadcom for the chips. Then you paid r pi for the pi. Broadcom didn’t give anyone a discount there.
And you’re ignoring decades of scummy lawyering and lobbying to make the proprietary codec bullshit legal.
So, like. Proprietary codecs are also pretty disgusting.
But what you’re not being told- I assume this didn’t occur to you rather than you’re being dishonest- is that you didn’t necessarily need those keys- the chip wasn’t a dedicated decoder chip- it was the GPU.
And you have no idea how much I despised Broadcom for pulling that shit. (And I’m not alone. Most of us pirated the keys out of sheer irritation.)
It’s not that it’s cheaper.
It’s that they’re getting away with extortion and make more money that way.
Heated seats, for example, are not “software”.
It’s some form of heating element. You flip a switch and it runs electricity through some fairly resistive wires (iirc it’s carbon fiber; maybe NiChrome)
The most firmware you see is some kind of thermal monitoring to keep from getting too hot. It’s not a complicated system.
All this is, is a whole bunch of claptrap to sell you fully functional car, but charge you to unlock that functionality. You wouldn’t buy a house and then buy keys to use every room in the house.
You can call it what you want. I call it extortion. It should be illegal, and it’s certainly scummy.
No.
absolutely not.
you already paid for the hardware. it already has the firmware installed. All that they’re doing is flipping a software switch that tells the system to let the firmware/hardware be functional.
it being a one-time payment isn’t the problem. The problem is that you already paid for the heated seats or whatever else. I shouldn’t have to pay to have features that are already in the car.
“Illicit” is definitely the wrong word.
I don’t have and don’t ever care to have one, so I’m not sure on that
Same, really. Even just getting in one is a bad idea.
That’s not what is being banned- though the newer style could still be electric and problematic, the style they’re really going after seems motorized pop out handles that look like this:
The normal pocket handles do create a not insignificant amount of drag.
The pop out mechanism is stupid, don’t get me wrong, but it does have an appreciable effect on range.
A.2, overpriced!
So, the flush handles actually save a lot.
The thing is, there’s purely mechanical ways of solving the problem. Including a hinge set somewhere towards the middle- so you push one side in, and the other angled out so you can open it.
Not the most convenient, but it’s less inconvenient than an over engineered piece of shit that breaks every winter.
Trump doesn’t get to make the final call.
Not that anyone in congress is going to stop him.