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  1. Re:I'd like to call this regulatory capture on Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except this is regulation, specifically federal regulation preempting state regulation in a cross-border service. What's more, I can pretty much guarantee that this bit of regulation came about because the phone service companies lobbied for it since they didn't want the competition in a government protected space.

  2. Re: Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't subsidizing the art, this is taxing the platforms themselves instead of the populace in an attempt to force consumption of that art. Basically the EU legislature are being a bunch of cowardly cuntweasels and rather than a straight tax that then goes to said art creation which people can complain about, they are instead just having the corporations do it in which case the people won't care cause it doesn't come out of their wallets directly.

  3. It's not patents that stop people from making the same stuff, it's the fact that no one else is willing to build to spec. Lego are ridiculously durable and precisely engineered.

  4. Re: compulsory wikipedia marker on Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online (thehugoawards.org) · · Score: 1

    The Hugos up to the mid nineties were a pretty good indicator of quality. The fall in quality vastly accelerated around 2008ish. The final nail in the coffin was when a mediocre piece of fanfic won best novel in 2013.

  5. No, the 3/5ths compromise was the slavery bit. The electoral college is there so that a few major population centers can't fuck over everyone else. The biggest problem with the Electoral college doesn't even originate within the college itself, but instead in the House of Representatives. Namely, they need to triple or quadruple the number of people in the House.

  6. Re: That's funny... on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That should be clinging and bastion, respectively.

  7. Re: That's funny... on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tradpub is desperately vlinhing to the physical book market as ther last badtion of relevancy, and thus price their Ebooks do as not to cannibalize their book sales.

  8. Re: Millennial murder spree! on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Selection at the library is limited due to budget and the gatekeeping of the librarians. The amount of literature on the imternet is much greater.

  9. Re: Third pary sellers are scums on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Gcr has been shuttered since 2016.

  10. Re: Yet another reason to avoid Bethesda on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    *sniff sniff*
    I smell a shill. Bethesda are a bunch of cheap asshole shysters. This has been patently obvious since their complete lack of QA on Fallout:New Vegas and probable subsequent manipulation of the Metacritic score.

  11. Re: Look at all these jobs... on PC Case Maker CaseLabs Closes Permanently (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, they state tariffs and shortages have raised prices of components by 80%. which is pretty good evidence that they that they have a single source supplier which is having troubles of its own separate from the tariffs. Combined with a large account defaulting they were screwed, not by the tariffs but by an extremely weak and conditional business model.

  12. Re: No favorites here on FCC Sides With Google Fiber Over Comcast With New Pro-Competition Rule (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides the obvious fact that the utility poles are public property?

  13. Re: bittorrent on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they're crap last ditch weapons at best. The only reason to currently make one is for the novelty factor.

  14. Well no shit. on Zuckerberg 'Sold More Stock Than Usual', Faces Lawsuit From Angry Investors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's almost like access to all the metrics and paying attention to the fact that he was going to have to go in front of fucking Congress was obviously going to see a stock drop relatively soon. To be frank, anyone who had stock in Facebook should have sold in and then shorted a bunch more the day after his Congressional testimony.

  15. Re:With the exception of the LA Times on Twitter Stock Plunges 21 Percent After Earnings Show Effects of Fake-Account Purge (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    During the primaries all the left wing msm went easy on him and treated him with kid gloves. The moment he won the primaries the MSM barring Fox news completely flipped the script.

  16. Re: It's not the content, it's how you say it on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    The timing of the payment is only a concern if the Nat. Enq. had been sitting on the story for years and Trump knew about it.

  17. Re: It's not the content, it's how you say it on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    GIGO you supercilous twatwaffle. The people designing and tweaking the algorithm are hard left silicon valley drones. Surprise surprise, the resulting black box shows the same bias.

  18. Looks like PS4 is set to dominate the high end con on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Have these idiots not seen the steaming pile of laggy shit that is PSNow? It will work properly in New York and that's about it

  19. Is it clearly a metaphor or simile? on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If no, then it should not be allowed to describe a non-dairy product.

  20. This is what should have been done in the first place.

  21. Re:Legally, those 12 Russians are still innocent on Tesla Model 3 Teardown Reveals a 'Symphony of Engineering,' 30 Percent Profit Margin (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    He knows nothing will ever come of the charges because they will never show up. He also knows that if it ever did go to trial he'd lose because there is no chain of custody of the relevant evidence. Instead there is a copy of the evidence given to the FBI by a for profit company with the technical ability to fake said evidence on behalf of an organization that immensely benefits from it being the Russians rather than an internal leak. Regardless of whatever actually happened that means any court case, even a civil one, would fail utterly.

  22. Yeah. "Proceeding" to trial. When you indict someone, that means you have all your ducks in a row and are ready to go to trail. Mueller had nothing, and is now in stall, stall, stall mode. Dog and pony show.

  23. Yeah, how's that other trial going? You know, the one where they indicted some foreign companies and then when said companies showed up in court Mueller went "Ummm, ummm, we're not actually ready for trial yet." Welcome to the dog and pony show that is the Mueller special council.

  24. Re:Funny thing is this will probably go to the SCO on Justice Department Appeals Time Warner-AT&T Merger Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially since Kavanaugh's NN jursiprudence explicitly doesn't apply in areas where there is only one significant class of cable operator.

  25. Re:Funny thing is this will probably go to the SCO on Justice Department Appeals Time Warner-AT&T Merger Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a large difference between anti-trust actions and thinking the FCC has the authority to institute NN.