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  1. Sweden?

    It's the right government in the US that's going for extreme nationalism - not the left. Seen a football game lately?

  2. Re: Rebound due? on Bitcoin Sinks Below $6,000 as Almost Everything Crypto Tumbles (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't sell off your BTC if no sucker is around to buy it.

  3. Re: Rebound due? on Bitcoin Sinks Below $6,000 as Almost Everything Crypto Tumbles (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is still valued higher than its worth as a currency. That could change, but most of its current value is tied to the gamblers' bubble on it.

  4. Re:I'd like men to live as long as women on California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Toxic is not a label for masculinity in general. The combined term toxic masculinity is a type of masculinity that is reinforced by some unhealthy cultural norms.

  5. Re:One more reason to let california burn on California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What you see more of is just more human decency without resorting to name-calling. This was just some rare exception. Being good at insults and name-calling is great in 3rd-grade. Not so great if you want to be taken seriously as an intellectual.

  6. I think many people both republican and democrat misrepresent themselves in politics.

    You're more or less forced to. Have you seen the vitriol given to people who refused to vote for Hillary and voted 3rd-party? There are only two parties and they are the only right choices. There is no spectrum, least of all more than 1-dimensional.

  7. I don't think you could call North Korea left unless you force a 1-dimensional scale on them. They have extreme far-left economic ideas. But socially and governmentally, they are far-right in every other respect. Xenophobia, ultra-nationalism, and suppression of free speech and thought definitely line up more with Western far-right.

  8. Re:Caught in the middle with you on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Time marches on, and their haven't been any 32 bit Intel (or Apple) CPUs sold for nearly a DECADE. Add to that the fact that supporting "cruft" does nothing good to overall stability and complexity of an OS, and in the end, adds significantly to time/cost of regression-testing of said OSes.

    64-bit CPUs run 32-bit code natively. Recompiling software whose source code may be long gone just to have higher memory requirements doesn't make a lot of sense.

    And, to be fair, even when Apple wishes to sunset a particular Framework or protocol, they give Devs. ample notice, Deprecating (but still supporting) said Framework or Protocol for several major revisions of whatever OS(es) are affected.

    And yet in the last couple revisions of macOS, Final Cut Studio (pre-X) has been completely broken with almost no notice. Motion was broken with Sierra, and High Sierra wipes out the rest. No warning on upgrade that they're no longer supported, even though they made both. The Windows 10 upgrade tool at least warns you of incompatible software pre-upgrade, including 3rd-party software.

  9. Re: Diversity, but not for all on California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a latin prefix and it's been in use in biology, chemistry, and geography for a very long time. If you're going to get angry at something, pick something else. It's a technical term.

  10. Re:If it's now taking this to get bugs fixed on Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with the last bit. Left-right swiping is bad for one-handed operation.

  11. Re:$717 billion on Trump Signs Defense Bill With Watered-Down ZTE Sanctions (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Republicans do what it takes to protect this nation.

    By spending more than the Navy themselves said that they need?

    unlimited money for welfare queens

    You mean like defense contractors?

  12. Re:Caught in the middle with you on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No. I just don't use iPhones and I have good success. Windows and Android don't really have these problems (extremely rare - especially for things like small utilities like I mentioned), while iOS and macOS both cut legacy support out constantly even in point releases.

  13. Re:Fuck subscriptions...but... on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's too bad Photoshop was $699.99 when it was standalone. Photoshop Elements is $119. However, I am a sometimes graphic artist / photo editor and I think that at least half of pros would agree that buying the suite or individual software once every 4 or 5 years is sufficient at most. I have one computer with a 7 year old suite (CS5.5) and the version I bought before that was 4 years older (CS3). The only reason for the shorter gap was knowing they were going to go subscription only.

  14. Re:Great writeup on Facebook Bans the Sale of All Kodi Boxes (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worse.

  15. Re:It makes sense, it's like scalping on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    That would still leave money on the table. People who miss the auction window and buy late would still have to buy from a scalper in that scenario. Just with less profit for the scalper.

  16. Re:Are their lawyers just bored or something? on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not everything would, but that was their specific legal claim in the C&D.

  17. Re:It makes sense, it's like scalping on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice story, but the C&D was sent from Bethesda directly to the 3rd-party seller and the seller complied without Amazon getting involved. No reason to bring Amazon or their policies into this case.

  18. Re:It makes sense, it's like scalping on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    zero standing. You can sue. You just won't win. Anti-SLAPP lawsuit is your next move rather than waiting for bankruptcy.

  19. $0 is not a fair price. I see loony in your username and will stop at that. The restrictions are real and neither artificial nor arbitrary. That's like saying wages are an artificial restriction to slavery - it's not, it's real.

  20. Re:Fuck subscriptions...but... on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. This means no Office 365, no Adobe Creative Cloud, and I may be a few versions behind for now. Later, if they keep it up I'm moving on.

  21. There is no economic mechanism to ensure that compensation is adequate to effort.

    Fair price or don't buy. That's an economic mechanism that does all that.

  22. Re:Caught in the middle with you on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    It's sort of like that with routers. Except they don't offer the upgrades and they just remain insecure. It's also sort of like that with some smart TV's. Again, they want you to buy a new TV to fix it rather than offer any sort of firmware update.

  23. Re:Caught in the middle with you on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have never used a program where I thought this program is done, absolutely perfect I will never need to upgrade it again.

    Well I absolutely have. There are plenty of small utilities especially where I don't need anything new for the foreseeable future - so long as some OS update doesn't come in and sabotage/break it.

  24. Re:Caught in the middle with you on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Apple is constantly rewriting APIs and breaking apps that are even only a few years old. The only reason you don't see apps breaking more often is because developers are still getting new buyers and fixing the apps to earn those sales. Older abandoned apps just quit working forever.

  25. Eye health is already too competitive