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Their about section looks... well, they just look like some real interesting people, I tell you hwhat...

Drug testing around childbirth is a wreck and needs to be seriously looked into...

My second son was premature... when we were in the NICU... there was a lady there, whos child was born premature because the taxi she was riding in from the airport was involved in an accident. She came from california... where her gyno was pro-mj, and she used MJ to manage her Hyperemesis gravidarum... so its in her system, clearly... but this is Texas... so even though her doc recommended it, not only was her child in the NICU, but when he got out, he didnt get to go home with her... because of stupid laws that pay no mind to actual scientific evidence...

So what makes me so special that I can do that, but others cant? To say that some external thing predestined me to success in that moment, where others were to fail, is to take away my efforts to succeed.

Then move to a location with good internet?

The internet isn't a right. Cable TV isn't a right. I feel like I'm repeating myself lately, but why is there so much entitlement lately?

If you want better, do better. If you want nice things, bust your ass. If your town doesn't have what you want, move. Don't tell me it cant be done. I was laid off twice in 2 years, my credit and savings wiped out from underneath me. With a wife and 2 kids... being the sole provider. I could have settled and got a local job that paid nothing and complained about being poor, but I didnt. I scraped what little I had and I moved myself and my family to a place that offered the opportunities I needed.

I had to live in Oklahoma along the way, until i could find a better job, but i did, and it sucked, but i did it until I found a job and a place to live and now im writing this in a nice apartment with gigabit internet.

I was literally down to $1200 and no place to live... anyone can save up $1200... stop expecting people to make life easy for you. Men used to be men, and handled stuff... now men sit on their ass and wait for life to get easy...

How is an article that is clearly incredibly biased on top of the front page?

Leechers who don't contribute got cut off - that sounds incredibly fair... yet the article spins it to sound like it was malicious.

I guess the entitlement complex rolls all the way up to businesses, too...

I feel like this whole thing belongs on TMZ, not Hacker News...

New Law in Your State changes website performance forever!

Yes, there is a huge difference.

I bet people like Rosa Parks, MLK, etc... people who paid dearly for Equal rights would be so upset that you've lowered the meaning of that word to simple movies...

Being treated differently, being cast aside and being held back from success because of your race, that you cant change, that you had no control of aquiring - is nowhere near not being able to watch a movie because of legal restrictions of where you live. How do you possibly consider those things even remotely similar?

"have to copy them for free"

Man, i didnt realize they HAD to copy them... i swear they have the option to just not watch.

Oh, but again, they feel entitled to watch.

No, thats not at all what it is. There are regulatory and legal reasons why netflix content (even specific content) isnt available everywhere. Its not discriminatory.

Its simple entitlement. Don't try to confuse the issue by making it about some kind of discriminatory issue. A business has to have licences to operate in a country, there are many stipulations and there is a cost involved with those stipulations, netflix has no oblication to jump through legal hurdles and pay more money so everyone can enjoy their content.

I work for a global company - one who works in the digital realm and makes AAA games... trust me, I deal with these things. You'd be surprised the effort for a US company to sell their product/service in china...

Because for netflix to provide a service to you in your country, there is often legal hurdles in doing so... If you think netflix's motivation is "lets keep these people out because we want to" ... you're not very smart. Netflix will gladly take money from anyone willing to give it, assuming they can legally do so without higher costs to them that outweigh the gain. No business turns down customers if they dont have to.

...Because they feel entitled to the content...

I think the reply would be... why do you feel entitled to consume content that you didn't create, in the first place?

You had the choice to stop watching... and thats the only legal choice. To pretend that doing something illegal because you feel entitled to it is right, thats a little bit... childish?

Where is this drive to create dumb languages coming from? I dont mean dumb in the opinionated way, i mean, dumb in the way of "its hard to write proper code that follows rules, quoting and commas are hard" ... ... ... if quotes, commas and escaping is hard for you, you dont need to be an engineer....

Everyone, including the author, is missing the point of lets plays...

They aren't monetizing the game... the game is largely secondary... i find myself (and others i've asked today about this) tend to follow youtubers or streamers, not games. Its the personalities that earn the revenue, the game is just a talking piece...

Because, when you try to use the wrong tool for the job, you don't get to blame the tool...

This is a very entitled piece... and a very entitled thought process...

When you are using someone else's platform, they still make the rules... this line in particular: "it wouldn’t help other developers who I believe deserve to get the same level of opportunity as me." ... nobody "deserves" access to any API... period.

I don't understand the entitlement in so many tech projects, who get upset when a 3rd party they are freely using changes their service... you were never entitled to it in the first place, you merely benefited from its existence and should be appreciative of what you were allowed to do instead of feel entitled to it.

Anyone remember the day where you just made a business, and built it over time, and nourished it into a successful company? Where you didnt beg for money from investors and build your entire plan around using someone else's money? Where the best businesses came out on top, and not the best flashy idea or happenchance encounter with a VC? I don't get why every freaking idea has to be tied up in investors to take off, when if its a valid, profitable business, it would build on its own, and prove itself a strong business without needing help...

Im just tired of seeing so much tech tied up in the politics of investors...

What a bunch of asshats you guys are being, they were never referral links, he was including them to be useful... you guys that were complaining are quite honestly horrible people for doing so...

Every argument FOR this is made moot by the fact that you dont have to register ultralights...

It's not prejudice to point out absurdity. Religion is simply that... and while there may be some intelligent people, I would say that anyone who believes in supernatural sky beings that run everything and watch every move and every thought of every human is not smart.

I think smart is the application of intelligence, and while intelligent, the religious are not "smart" in that area.

Steam seems to remember for a while... i've played Euro Truck Sim while traveling with no internet...

The intention of most of their decisions is more about their own money...

Case in point, it took forever for chrome or opera to come to iOS because they "competed" with the apple product already integrated into the OS, and "provided a less seamless user experience" ... basically, Apple didn't want to be outshined on their own platform...

You're right... but its not the reason, its the excuse.

And a weak one.

Killing civilians doesn't work, and it never has... terrorism never wins... unless your a huge nation like the USA, then it wins...

I don't buy it. Where is the negative publicity on android? It doesn't exist... There are apps that many people find offensive on the play store... just like there are movies on amazon that some people would find offensive... same thing..

Wouldn't they have to prove that there was evidence pertaining specifically to the current case to get you for destroying evidence?

While this plane oviously isn't WW2 era, the glass cockpit says nothing. There are plenty J3 cubs, planes WW2 pilots learned to fly on, still out there today... and many of them have glass cockpits w/ gps and all the goodies. Airframes last a logn time when taken care of, and swapping panels is trivial...

No, because as a developer of a site, you know the defaults... if browsers defaulted to predictably blocking ads, content providers would adjust accordingly. There is a difference between a standard on pretty much every browser and an addon.

How would that be any different than any business model? Don't do what customers like, or do specifically what they hate, you have less success...

Do you not see the sense of entitlement in that?

If the site has too many ads for your taste, simply don't visit that site. You have some sense that you are entitled to whatever efforts the site owner has committed to bring you content (obviously enough effort to be interesting to you) without supporting them through the ad service they chose. If you don't like their ads, you could simply move on, but now you're taking the fruits of their labor without giving them the passive support they ask in return.

I'm not saying its right or wrong, but the attitude of "they did what I don't like, so im going to do x" is very much entitled...