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Comment seller is on crack (Score 1) 30

From the ebay auction

Just park it down at Cape Kennedy or in Vegas and you will be making a constant and continuous 150,000-200k++ a year. This vehicle will outproduce any rental property you can buy for a million dollars. It's an investment. Not only that it's a smart investment because no one's ever going to be able to compete with you. Or use it to promote you company products, or rent it for events for $10k a pop. There are tons of possibilities

Yea, right... You claim someone can easily make $150k+/year renting this out but couldn't even find a starting bidder at $50k.

Real "used car salesman" vibes here...

Comment Re:Old enough to remember (Score 1) 115

A long time ago...

Seriously the site with the most potential so poorly run that those in power imposed zero tolerance for anybody trying to solve a problem different than the way they would solve a problem and would nuke your karma to the point where you couldn't participate if you disagreed with them.

Comment Can we retire the Admins too? (Score 1) 115

Ever have difficulty disconnecting an RJ45 cable? Well, here was our opportunity to just cut the damn things off instead of figuring out why the little tab wouldn't release the plug."

Sums up in two sentences, the general intellectual capacity of a Stack Overflow admin.

Seriously, I've never encountered such a toxic "help environment" as Stack Overflow. If you search for solutions you'd get 10 year old answers that no longer apply. If you ask a new question, their admins admonish you because the question was asked already (10 years ago).

Comment Fuck all of this (Score 3, Insightful) 78

Trying to turn this story into some surveillance state bullshit is just absurd. Read the back of a concert ticket. For at least the past 30 years tickets have clearly informed me I might be photographed and recorded at a concert. They warn you when you're going to buy the fucking things.

Don't take your mistress to a concert, you're just as likely to be seen by a neighbor as you are to be caught on a kiss cam. I don't give a shit about the guy's morals but he's demonstrated he's far too stupid to run a company. I hope his wife cleans him out, she deserves every penny after having to deal with his dumb ass for so long.

Comment Re: Kiss Monetary policy and the USA goodbye (Score 2) 52

I understand your knee jerk intuition about crypto currency. But very earnestly I suggest learning a bit about monetary policy. It's indispensable. And after that you may want to read about bretton woods and how banks in different countries actually can trade money to each other. The US treasury and its impact on monetary policy enables this. It's not just a methodology in the sense that bitcoin is a method for moving money. Monetary policy is how countries can perform the miracle of Keynesian economics to regenerate Growth in a downturn. That cannot ever be done ever without fiat currency and a central bank. Period. This was. Why for example Germany plunged in to pre-hitler ruin after world war 1. There was no way to climb out of turned down economy when you had no gold reserves (France took them). Germany only managed to recover when they pegged their mark to a kilo of wheat-- not a long term solution but a desperate move that mostly worked. But the economic malaise didn't end till Hitler started spending money into the economy. That was made possible by moving off the gold standard prior to Hitler.

Without monetary policy you are left with the austerity of Austrian economics which pretty much inverts the rational of monetary policy and loses all it's advantages.

Comment Re: And nothing of value was lost (Score 2) 49

That seems completely unreasonable.

If Ford decided to stop selling the Mustang, should it give away all the machining, tools, design plans and everything else, so that others can continue making the Mustang if they want to?

Hint: no.

None of that stops using the car. The problem is when a solo game becomes unavailable, due to some online feature being shut down. If the game was sold as an “online solo game”, the customer is aware of what they are getting into. Not so much if is presented a “solo game with online multiplayer mode”.

While ideally online games would become available in LAN hostable mode, the other element is ensuring that games companies aren’t misleading customers (intentionally or otherwise).

Comment Re: Ok, but... (Score 1) 30

Ugh this.

Everyone is trying to get in on the market place action, including stores I likes using specifically because they were not market places. Also FFS why can they not seem to let me order by "actually in stock in the shop", and "available for next day collection or delivery" when that information is available. That would remove basically all the market place listings and it's also why I use the shop in the first place.

Yup, since for certain products types it might change what I select. If the store is only 20 minutes away, then hopping down to pick it up may be favourable.

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