Two people are at fault here:

The selling company for not disclosing this clearly
The purchasing company for not going over all the company documents.

Someone sold something on a lie and bought it on a lie. Now it's the consumers who pay.

But it's not illegal to screw your customers. A company has a sole responsibility: make money for shareholders. The current UnithedHealthCare lawsuit should make that clear; they basically said they missed profits due to the CEO murder and that UHC didn't act in a way that allowed them to "continue anti-consumer practices" to make goals.

Literally suing because they weren't allowed to fuck customers over to make profit. Sued. Over not being able to screw customers out of money.

Pretty soon bait and switch laws will be null. You won't know what you're buying. The ad will say this, they will give you that, and you will get screwed and like it.

I say you keep it like it is now:

these are unsecured. they're not fdic insured. if you lose it, you're fucked.

I bet most people would skip using if it they knew it had zero protection and was like keeping cash in your house; once it's gone, it's gone.

As someone who is concerned for how crypto is allowing terrorism funding and avoiding sanctions; this is just making America the funding source for terrorism.

We already have one fiat currency...let's not replace it with one that's even more janky.

Crypto is, without a doubt, the currency of anonymity because it's done for nothing but bad actions by bad actors.

Code is not a good basis for a currency. Anyone who thinks so is a goddamn fool. Imagine waking up tomorrow and finding out all your assets are worthless because the coin crashed.

But I guess when everyone has crypto access the hackers will have more incentive to do what they do. This is just going to fuck everyone over.

A backward mule brays at alligators.

Still knew what hogshead was in some form.

If it didn't know that...what would it have thought?

It's called context. It was one of those things I remember being taught in elementary school...kindergarten even. "If you don't know what the word try to figure it out from the words around it."

I mean teach us context without teaching us the word context.

If I was go up to a stranger and say "hogshead in a duckpond"; they would probably think it was just the insane ramblings of a homeless man and had absolutely no meaning. But if we saw someone do something stupid and i said "he's acting hogshead in a duckpond"...they would have the context. it's how someone acts and since we just saw someone act like an idiot that must be it.

Glad that riled your back 40. You should come by the house one day when the crows are dancing and we'll have one one hell of a rousing sandy.

It's not wrong, but for the wrong reasons. My grandfather used to say it a lot; actually it was "actin like a hogshead in a [something]". The, something, had no meaning; and hogshead was just a fool. I don't know where hogshead came to mean fool...I can pull some fake etymology out of my ass and say it was probably related to drunk people. "If you drank too much from the hogshead you'd get a hogshead".

but the duckpond part is literally whatever; in fact the more unrelated it is to the foolish person's location the better.

Once again AI is acting like a hogshead in the duckpond. Always gotta be boonswaggalin the cat. But they'll keep on chooglin that bootleg hollar.

The problem they're facing is that while their costs are now genuinely rising; prices have also just gone up in the past for the same stated reason. The difference is before where we didn't really know what costs were increasing...they have this magic black box called AI they can point to.

I went to an industry conference recently and sat in on a talk because it happen to be where the food was. The guy that was giving the talk was pretty well known for acquiring failing businesses, turning them around, and overall just making a ton of money. It basically boiled down to this:

'Everyone raises prices 1 or 2% every year? Why? Well, growth; but really, it's because they can. Because it's less hassle for the client to pay the increase then move their business over to someone else. So why not a 20% increase? If you can increase your pricing by 20% without any additional expenses...then that all goes right to the bottom. Now the reality was if you called and complained, we'd negotiate down; we only got an additional 5% out of some people. But the vast majority just paid. The next year, when everyone else is talking about the yearly 3% increase, you just don't. You think about the longer term. You wait an additional six months, or even skip the whole year; and then you do 20% more. Same deal...you'll have some smaller clients get angry and leave, most of those probably cost you more in man-hours. The big ones you'll negotiate down. The majority...just pay the increase."

They've never operated on usage-based pricing in the past; this guy pretty much proved it. Some of us aren't believing it now. Given how poorly this stuff performs until you cough up some money...well I have no incentive to cough up any money to start with.

But look...magic AI machine go brrr and cost many monies. Since they kept asking for tons of money when it was just for greed....perhaps now that they have an actual crisis they need to feel the crunch.

Most of those people were athletes..or musicians...or thespians. Get your degree while playing football and if you blow your knee out senior year then you got your communications degree to fall back on. If the band doesn't make it at least you got that MBA.

I mean..I know a lot of people that went in to EE and stuff and just totally didn't make it...but they usually figured that out while in college.

That's still true for a lot of people; less so for sports since college sports has just become pro-lite.

because Verizon just doesn't route some networks. Just flat out refuses. Won't mention why. Claims they don't. But the packets don't flow.

That's why we need neutrality. To ensure you're not fucking your customers up the ass.

I don't buy his story.

Glad he's leaving the FOSS community, hopefully for good. He doesn't have the mentality. You don't stop till they sue.

If a paid product can't compete with a free product; that is not the fault of the free product...that is the fault of the paid product for not providing enough value to customers.

He sold out. Screw him.

Lotteries are theft. Period. It's an idiot tax. The main reason they're upset is if people start to lose faith; they'll lose the idiot tax income.

The simple fact is all they did was buy most of the possible combinations. What's illegal about that? Did they steal tickets? Did they not pay for the ones they printed? It sounds like they just legally gamed the system. This is exactly the type of behavior they should support as it's exactly what republican states do all the time. Sometimes we call it malicious compliance.

But that doesn't change the fact lottery is theft to start with; and I sure as fuck won't cry about people scamming a scam.