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Because a demand isn't a favor? A demand to someone implies a loss on their part, of time or effort or value. It doesn't matter how easy it is for them to do. If I say that ice cream vendors must give out their ice cream for free, it's not a policy that favors them just because they can more easily meet the demand then someone without an ice cream business.

I just looked and Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven Piano Sonatas is on Google Play Music and Spotify, so yeah unless something is pretty new/indie/remixy one of the two is going to likely have it

I'd say the vast majority of PC gamers right now have maybe one or two special edition physical boxes and everything else is digital in their Steam/Origin/Epic accounts. As it is right now at any point those accounts can be closed down without oversight or warning, and you don't legally own the games in your steam account. I don't see game streaming fundamentally changing things at this point, the "own your games" ship sailed long ago. Also like many steam users I have a metric ton of games in my account that I will likely never play or use again in my lifetime. A monthly rental playing a catalog of old games and some new ones might honestly end up costing me less then having all those old useless games in my library that I played once for 2 hours and can't return that I'll never play again.

As for the subway thing, wifi networks are becoming more and more ubiquitous and advanced, I know my local subway has it's own inbuilt wifi, obviously it's not going to be amazing any time soon but between that and 5g and the hotswapping connections to keep uptime, idk it can work.

Exposure is key, I know I don't buy games that aren't on Steam. So many games I wouldn't know about at all if they weren't on steams recommendations page.

"In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.

At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue's ships were "re-floated", and the rules of engagement were changed; this was later justified by General Peter Pace as follows: "You kill me in the first day and I sit there for the next 13 days doing nothing, or you put me back to life and you get 13 more days' worth of experiment out of me. Which is a better way to do it?" After the reset, both sides were ordered to follow predetermined plans of action.

After the war game was restarted, its participants were forced to follow a script drafted to ensure a Blue Force victory. Among other rules imposed by this script, Red Force was ordered to turn on their anti-aircraft radar in order for them to be destroyed, and was not allowed to shoot down any of the aircraft bringing Blue Force troops ashore. Van Riper also claimed that exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against Blue Force, and that they also ordered Red Force not to use certain weapons systems against Blue Force and even ordered the location of Red Force units to be revealed.

This led to accusations that the war game had turned from an honest, open, free playtest of U.S. war-fighting capabilities into a rigidly controlled and scripted exercise intended to end in an overwhelming U.S. victory, alleging that "$250 million was wasted".

Seems like a faked war exercise to me, seems more like a propaganda exercise.

Telus is a phone/ISP company, they're pretty much uninvolved other then the ability to send emails from a @gmail.com address for their customers needs. Spammers are just utilizing that for malicious purposes with spoofed headers. As for how they got your email, the spammers could very well be working from the US too, Telus is just a tool. But then again on the internet boundaries matter less and they could be halfway across the world and got your email from a random online leaked list.

Telus is a phone company. They presumably deal with text/email stuff through their phone services, and they presumably have some sort of interactions with Gmail as a result. This isn't Telus doing it, it's just spammers utilizing the ability for Telus to send emails to customers. From someone else in the thread: "it looks like telus.com has set up SPF records allowing people to send mail as @gmail.com via Telus' servers. That's fine. These messages are being sent with a "reply@telus.com" return address (the "envelope from")". Telus is just being maliciously used for something it rightfully offers to customers.

Yeah, Pwned is fine. I mean what's a Google? That isn't a word!

You mean some sort of great leap forward produces negative results for your citizens until it's completed? I swear I heard a story similar to that in reality.

My favorite example for this is Grey Goose Vodka vs Kirkland Vodka. They are the same place, made from the same water source, just one has a fancier label and sells for 3x as much because of it.

I think all the console makers learned a lesson from the Red Ring Of Death. No one wants to be having a massive portion of their systems become useless hunks of scrap because of poor thermal design not dissipating enough heat and causing the solder to crack.

Well from what I've seen in my googling, it seems to be a concept relating to the Unwritten Doctrine of Plato. He had esoteric teachings reserved for his close following vs his exoteric writings for the public. Esoteric came to mean shadowy/hidden, but it's really just how you say/think/act differently with an insider group then an outsider group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_unwritten_doctrines

I've been using my $300 Acer c720p chromebook for almost 5 years. Keys are falling off, it has quite a few cracks and smudges, and the battery is less then half of what it used to be, but it still boots up in about 8 seconds, and there's no new noticeable lag. Right now sounds like my Chromebook was a better decision than a iPad.

The longer time goes on, the more you realize that what companies can get to the public in a year for $1000, takes 10 years and a multi-billion dollar contract for any government (other then priority bureaus like NSA) to obtain. Like good luck getting anything through government bureaucracy and shitty subcontractors.

Yeah it's shitty, but I mean at least they have a 100% guarantee on all online stuff where if you didn't give away your pin/password/card, and didn't make it your name/address/number/other personal info they will refund you. Which I mean isn't much help but at least is something. I wish they had 2FA.

Nothing says that the civil disobeyer needs to go out of their way to turn themselves in to the authorities if the act of civil disobedience isn't known by the police. If I plan an act of civil disobedience like say sitting in the road to protest something, and it turns out no one drives on that road and the cops never come, I was still breaking the law. You have to accept the consequences of your civil disobedience, and I'm sure the people sheltering slaves/jews knew that if they were caught there would be consequences that they would have to accept.

Or, as they say in the article, that's 4 months from now, a somewhat reasonable time (considering it could have been 28 years and 4 months) to finish everything up, get her affairs on the outside settled, and all the bureaucracy done.

This article really should have gone through spell check or been proofread, re: "have to say? to summarize it", "oine", "compatibel", possibly more.

Still, interesting that Zen is performing well.

If there's anything Sci-Fi has taught me, it's that sentient machines will either be our salvation or our doom, and in both of those cases, treating them like they have no rights isn't good for our health in the long run, so to do so is stupid.

As for clones, considering how often our bodies replace all our cells, you aren't remotely close to the same person you were even a year ago, which proves that it's our minds and experiences/memories that make us who we are. With that in mind, and knowing many other people would agree, the idea that everyone would be ok with a clone slave force is absurd. Maybe if they were brainless chunks of lobotomized flesh incapable of learning and totally empty of sentient though, but otherwise?

Imperial is mostly for measurements related to the body, (temperature, height/length, weight), presumably due to the amount of people who grew up with it and it's ubiquity in the American media. Pretty much every other aspect of those measurements not related to the body are done in Metric (It's -10c out, my yogurt is 750g, and it's about 5km to the store). Most room temperatures are in Celsius, or have dual options, and those that aren't are typically because we heavily use American made thermostats due to our trade connections, or it's an older model. Almost everything else uses Metric except for small exceptions like Construction which is again due to long/common use and trading with America. Everything with scientists/doctors is Metric.

Seriously. I don't get how a non violent crime like this gets more jail time then if someone was a heroin selling murderer.

Allegedly