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warbler73··on Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850
That is not acceptable.
warbler73··on Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850
How does Google "own" this "market"?
warbler73··on Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850
Any gTLD whatsoever owned by some for profit corporation is not acceptable.
warbler73··on Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850
Why should any TLDs at all, like .dev and .app, be owned by Google?
warbler73··on Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850
> domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google

Why are domain extensions like .dev and .app owned by Google?

warbler73··on Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18
Why do you think people without passports (or uncomfortable uploading government documents to nearly every website they wish to use) should not be allowed to use those websites.
warbler73··on Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18
> Most people satisfy the "two forms of identification" requirement

53% of US adult citizens have a passport as of 11/22. Most of them have a state ID as well. So yes, a bare majority of citizens will be allowed internet access.

I have never seen a library card or insurance card with a photo id that is accepted as id at all, much less valid id. Do you have examples and if so how common is this in Texas?

warbler73··on Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18
"Man's got a point. Two is no good. Let's make it three photo ids." - Texas Legislator Tex

"Hole up there son, we don't want to have to revisit this every year to patch holes. Let's put in a safety margin: Five photo ids." - Texas Legislator Champ

warbler73··on Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18
> This might not only be about protecting the children.

When you have verified name and address of every user you can charge a lot more for ads.

warbler73··on Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2022
Uh oh. Is it that obvious?
warbler73··on Delimiter-first code
I like to roll this way! (Just not at work.)

    SELECT
      employee_name
    , company_name
    , salary
    , state_code
    , city
      FROM 'employees';
warbler73··on I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
You're right, they acquired Mojang and its transferable assets. But those assets don't include the implied license since there is no contract saying it is a transferable license.
warbler73··on I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
> he implicitly assigned a transferable non-exclusive license to Mojang

This is almost correct. If this was decided in the US, his discussions and acceptance of payment gave Mojang a non-transferable license. During the sale to Microsoft, he was a stakeholder. Microsoft failed to acquire a license, which was why they were trying to force him to sign a contract with terms - of perpetual transfer - that he did not agree to. Mojang needed that signed otherwise Microsoft needed to negotiate a license or purchase from him directly. Microsoft did not do this so they don't own it nor did they have the right to distribute his work until he public-domained it. They are still guilty of infringements up to the date he public domained it, but he seems to have released he right to pursue this as part of this essay.

warbler73··on I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
In the US for copyright to transfer he'd need to be an employee and writing part of his work duties, in which case it is work for hire, or if he is a contractor they'd need a signed contract saying the contractor was performing this as work for hire, or a contract explicitly transferring ownership. They did pay him for it so Mojang had an implied license to use it but he retains ownership.

When Mojang sold Minecraft to Microsoft, they did not own the copyright and did not have a contract saying they have the right to transfer their implied license, therefore Microsoft actually is violating copyright here.

Source: I went through exactly this same legal scenario and won.

warbler73··on Iran set to freeze bank accounts of women who refuse to wear a hijab
US to follow in some way, not hijabs, but some other issue.
warbler73··on Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
> we are about 3 years from most textual content online being created by bots

0 years.

warbler73··on Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?
Yes. I've been booking back country camping and trail access for a couple of years now and at no time did I suspect the money was going anywhere other than the National Park Service and BLM to support the programs and sites. I never would have imagined significant amounts, in some cases the majority of funds collected at a .gov park service site was going to a for profit defense contractor. In fact the site states in places that fees go to support the parks. No where does it say fees go to support for profit defense contractors.
warbler73··on Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?
recreation.gov is a .gov site. Which is supposed to mean it is owned by the government and not a private run site collecting fees for a for-profit defense contractor.
warbler73··on U.S. government to backstop mortgages above $1M
It is good to bail out the ultra rich! Because when has the US done differently!
warbler73··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
Basically we are talking about TV dinners and fast food. Meat is cheaper and better in this realm than the expensive and highly processed vegetarian stuff.

I'm fine with either but I don't eat much fast food or TV dinners.

For homemade the processed fake meat is more expensive and harder to work with than just grilling some steaks.

warbler73··on Health Canada reveals causes of kids’ Tylenol and drug shortages
There's no shortage outside Canada.
warbler73··on A Dad Took Photos of His Kid for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
> if he's so certain of his innocence and has all this supporting evidence

The claim is that he is a child pornographer and has taken sexually explicit photos of children for prurient purposes. There is no evidence of this and if Google had it they should report the evidence.

You instead keep repeating things like "if he's so certain of his innocence and has all this supporting evidence...", implying that since he is not suing Google that there must be something to this.

Your shtick here reminds me of Musk's accusations of pedophilia against Vernon Unsworth.

warbler73··on A Dad Took Photos of His Kid for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
You continue to insinuate it.
warbler73··on A Dad Took Photos of His Kid for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
Why do you continue to insinuate this man may be a pedophile when he has been completely exonerated?
warbler73··on A Dad Took Photos of His Kid for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
> The Dad has legal path(s) to take if he feels he was truly wronged. Paths that would ultimately cost nothing if he prevailed. Paths that would likely force Google to undo their decision if Dad's statements are in fact the truth and Google has no other data/evidence.

San Francisco Police Department:

> “I determined that the incident did not meet the elements of a crime and that no crime occurred,” Mr. Hillard wrote in his report. The police had access to all the information Google had on Mark and decided it did not constitute child abuse or exploitation.

What more do you want from him Alupis? He was exonerated but you are suggesting he did not "do any of that" (false) to clear his name. Why would you say this given the article already rules it out?

warbler73··on A Dad Took Photos of His Kid for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
Apple's Photos app tried to tell me that my child was my lover in their photo event labeling, which really pissed me off a lot.
warbler73··on Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots
What could possibly go wrong.
warbler73··on Considering C99 for Curl
> tldr: we stick to C89 for now.

Cool.

warbler73··on Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages
"Rotating is hard!"
warbler73··on The Rise of the Non-Working Class
> the Non-Working Class

The Aristocracy.

Them that are better than us common people. They who are comfortably idle.

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