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Comment None: It's like spying on yourself in the shower (Score 1) 94

I'd like to know how much of that price drop is now supported by increasing ads and ACR served up by these TVs. And how prices might be affected if actions like those in Texas and elsewhere expand.

Spying on you just isn't profitable enough to justify giving you a tangible discount on a TV. Also, what data can it collect that another broker couldn't do a better job of acquiring? Why spy on you when they can order your data from a broker with greater correlation and accuracy?

Spying on you through your TV is kinda like putting a hidden camera in to watch yourself shower...there are better ways of getting the same show!

Comment Simple Answer: Volume (Score 2) 94

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why a TV with less features would cost more.

A dumb TV is niche. It's sold in less volume as most want a smart TV. Most don't give a shit about privacy or data ownership. Most just want to watch Netflix and chill.

Similarly, a manual lever espresso machine costs more than a fully automatic one. A Mr Coffee electric coffee maker costs less than an aeropress or even most cheap pourover cones. Manual transmission cars cost more than automatic ones these days.

Comment Re:Because paywalls (Score 1) 143

Oh, balls, you're right about that.

What then about the stories that are freely available on multiple sites, but we get The Guardian's version here? It bothers me because The Guardian explicitly denounced journalistic objectivity, announced that their opinions were the correct ones, and still want to be treated like the journalists they aren't.

Comment Re:OneDrive is their AI vaccum (Score 1) 158

So, you exempted it? I don't like doing that, especially when it looks like I'd be working around some jerk's mistake. But maybe I'll have to, and if so, you just saved me time and hassle! Thanks!! Filter rules, right?
I'm also using UBO, with pfBlocker doing tons of stuff on the firewall. Is it worth adding privacy badger? I'm not that familiar with it, but it struck me as redundant. If you recommend it, I'll probably try it out.

Comment Re:Fuck "Eat the Rich" (Score 1) 108

There are other, larger issues involved. Consider the FDR era, before the "stich in time". There were a number of cases that would have been marked by these students as rich winning over poor, but what was happening was that FDR was pushing a number of blatantly unconstitutional programs that the Court was striking down. It wasn't that the Court preferred business interests, it was that the acts in question weren't constitutional.

So, this kind of study may be able to show some interesting things about how the pendulum is swinging, as we may be able to infer what kinds of laws are being passed by looking at which are being called into question. But that's about it.

The Court doesn't care about the finances of the parties involved unless it is a significant fact in the dispute. The Court doesn't even care if someone is guilty or innocent. Those aren't the matters they deal with. It's the Constitutional court, so it deals with the more abstract principles. The members of the Court get lifetime appointments in order to help shelter them from what the parties care about. That's what Congress is for

Naturally though, the justices have their own views on what is or is not Constitutional, and those will generally line up with the attitudes of the President/party who appointed them. The more liberal justices will be inclined to think that what Democrats want to do is Constitutional, and vice versa. Democrats controlled Congress for most of the last seven decades. Republican Presidents appointed more justices. Many of our laws are constitutionally dubious. Laws Democrats passed are the most dubious (at least in my view ;), so they would face the most scrutiny and be the most likely to be struck down. Who those laws were intended to benefit is irrelevant, only their Constitutionality matters.

This study was clearly framed to produce a particular result for political use. They scoped it carefully and ignored the most important factor in each decision. I could retitle it as, "Court records show that Democrats wrote the most unconstitutional laws, and brought the most frivolous cases, for 70 years", and their data would support it.

Comment Re:So sex isn't your thing?... (Score 1) 55

Well, I'm not sure of the context. To me, it sure sounded like he was demanding proof that pimps enslave their prostitutes, treating them as chattel to be bought and sold. I don't think that's in question at all. It's why we now call pimping "human trafficking". I felt no need to provide evidence for common knowledge or that definitions mean what they mean. I wouldn't be likely to bother providing evidence for the claim that 2+2=4 either.

Now, if you think he specifically meant OnlyFans "models", and it is possible that I misunderstood, then I would hope he sees this:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Finvest...

Nah, won't leave it to chance. I'll reply to that post again.

Comment Re:None of you know what you're talking about. (Score 1) 158

Did you at least turn it off properly?

All that OneDrive does locally is to change the location of three profile folders and move the contents. And move them back if backups are turned off. I'll guess that there was a link/shortcut somewhere that had the un-backed-up path? I haven't seen it lock a file when syncing.

Comment Wait you have to go back to 1958 (Score 1) 112

Just to find eight of them? This is like how when Christian apologists cite scientific papers from the 1920s to make the case that evolution isn't real...

And you do understand that most drugs don't make it out of clinical trial because they didn't do anything not because they hurt anything....

I get that anti-vax is an important identity marker for the Republican party now because the Republican party is so destructive to the economy but still..

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