It gets even more complicated. Daylight Saving Time. "Today", "tomorrow", and "yesterday" get more ambiguous. Secular law needs to get rewritten. Religious law gets more complicated. Etc.

If you pay with the same credit card that's ever been attached to your email address via the same payment processor (even at another store), they can link it up with you. I've had various merchants that use Square/Stripe/Toast/etc. add me to their mailing lists without my consent, even though I never gave them my email, because I had given my email to some other random merchant that used the same card.

You gotta either pay with cash, or pay with a card that's never been linked with your email (hard to do), to avoid this. Cash is king.

It varies by venue (and sometimes even by artist), but for the most part yes -- most TM venues and artists exclusively use mobile ticketing with an animated barcode that can't be screenshotted. I've had only a handful of TM shows in the last few years that still allowed print-at-home PDFs or paper tickets by mail or will call. They still charge you a BS $14 "convenience" fee in every case.

If you don't have a mobile phone or if your phone dies or whatever, you can supposedly still pick up the ticket at the box office with ID on the day of the event, though I've never decided to test this.

Of course the real reason for all this is so that they can control the resale market: you can't resell the tickets on your own terms, and you have to resell through TM, so they get an extra cut every time the ticket gets resold.

Paul Tucker

I'm sorry this happened to you. It's possible to fix, but it will take time and effort. Roughly, you need to send them snail mail to their legal department threatening action under the Fair Credit Reporting Act in order to get the attention of someone who will actually fix it. Patrick McKenzie goes into more details in this article.

They're working on it with the STIR/SHAKEN protocol, but progress has been slow, and it's going to take a long time to get all of the telcos on board.

Yes, they overpaid. Next question?

Dr. Ken Libbrecht has figured out how to grow any kinds of snowflakes he wants in a lab.

The Importance of the OxfordComma

Owing to ambiguities caused by its omission,
the Oxford comma became the subject of a petition
raised by serious serialists desperate to ensure
its use was to be mandated in lists of three or more.

Signatures flooded in from across all of society;
never had they expected to see such variety.
Who would have thought that those in favour
would have had such a diverse, democratic flavour?

There were the investment bankers,
the robbers and thieves,
as well as C-list celebrities,
the needy and mildly-diseased.

There were the footballers,
clowns and less mentally able,
alongside the poets,
unemployed and emotionally unstable.

There was Michael Gove,
a drug fiend and a trafficker of human organs,
and, of course, the sexual deviants,
Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan.

Such was the range of names
that the list did constitute.
Oh, not to forget the Queen,
a well-known madam and a prostitute.

(source)

Yes, in September 2017.

Most types of cryptocurrency mining (particularly proof-of-work) are just not even close to economical in cloud computing these days, so there's very little incentive for legitimate users to want to do that in the first place.

Much of the cryptocurrency mining that does occur in the cloud is the result of fraud: customers have leaked/hacked credentials and then attackers secretly mine on the customer's dime for as long as they can until they're detected. Those fraudsters certainly aren't going to be dissuaded by new changes to the cloud service provider's Acceptable Use Policy.

The demonyms are Vanuatuan and Ni-Vanuatu.

That may be technically correct, but it's not the convention used in the video games industry. Game developers and publishers overwhelmingly use the term QA for the employees who are testing games and filing bug reports, as well as for the folks improving the processes by writing the test plans, developing automation tools, etc.

The doctrine of first sale means that if a movie exists on DVD or Blu-Ray, Netflix can have it in its library and rent it out to you. No need to negotiate expensive licensing terms, like they had to do for web streaming; and nowadays most content providers won't even come to the bargaining table for that since they want to run their own streaming services.

This business model can and should continue to exist for access to hard-to-license titles, even if the subscriber numbers dwindle. But whether it will remain economical or not is up for Netflix to decide, and if it's losing too much money then they won't hesitate to axe it.

Every car in Phoenix will just say it's 105 degrees and not raining, I can see how that will be very useful!