If you think you have watched (insert your favorite sci-fi masterpiece) in all its good glory, because you streamed it on Hulu or Netflix, you haven't. My blu-ray rips and most torrents will activate Dolby TrueHD or DTS-X which are lossless and great, and the super-high quality video codecs and high bitrates put their shit to shame.

Let me know when our Congress feels obligation to the American People and not a handful of conglomerates, and I'll start to care about what is illegal. Besides, you are wrong. Copyright infringement is a civil mater, you get sued by the rights holder. For it to be criminal, you have to have a commercial advantage like selling the copies you make. Oh, and you are legally allowed to make a backup of your purchased media. Under U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. 107), the concept of "fair use" allows limited copying of copyrighted material for personal, non-commercial purposes.

Yes on the commercials. On broadcast TV I get it, but I am paying for a service, I don't want to be the product (exactly to your point). It just needs to be comprehensive like Spotify where it has almost everything ever put to video.

I pirate like a mofo with tons of storage. I have a 2U 12 bay NAS with 20TB in them, and I have a content library to make Netflix blush. At one point I had a blu-ray ripper that was automated with a Mac Mini and headless, and I had a shell script add all the meta data, cover art, and subtitles. The best part? No commercials. I stop paying for services once they have commercials, and I havent had Cable TV in 10 years. I even let my friends steam from my NAS over VPN. I have a little two-port Wifi Router with an Apple TV on the top that I take when I travel. Join it to the hotel wifi, plug in the HDMI, and I am home. Also gives me my own SSID which is also tunneled. I cant tell you how annoying Spotify is in other regions.

The sad part is? I have a decent net worth, and I would be more than happy to fork over $150, maybe even $200 for a video-library like Spotify has done for music, IF it were commercial free, and globally accessible. Just let me pay for a second simultaneous stream. But it would have to be comprehensive, with all the old titles. You cant stream "The Godfather", or "Scarface" or "The Wizard of Oz". Even the freaking "Dambusters" from the 1950s is not available. Why? Apple needs to do this. They need to make their iTunes Video library streamable on subscription. I would stop pirating, but alas.

Forklifts and Scissor lifts already have these.

Maybe when she was younger? My sister can change tires on her Grand Cherokee. She once called me and asked where the best place to get a tire replaced was, she had put the donut tire on already.

No. That is why I am sticking with google. I will give Apple until the end of the year before I ditch them for something Android + my own mods to de-google my phone a-la cyanogen or something; to come up with a better answer than "I found some web results. You can view them on your iPhone". Simple requests like "What is kilowatt?" are handled shittily.

I once wrote a program to scrape a web page that used web sockets and javascript to perform automated interactions. Did it with an actual browser that interacted with the DOM via a plugin, and had a script that could send the browser plugin commands like get dom, set value of an input, take a screenshot, click a button, etc.. It was super easy, and would defeat just about everything specified here. We even once did a screenshot >> image to text test just to see if we could find those captcha letters, and it worked flawlessly. All these things are easy for a skilled programmer to defeat, and a huge pain in the ass for humans to deal with. Seriously, if it's on the web, and not behind a paywall or login, expect it to interact with stuff. I always build my apps API first, where the website itself AJAX's the actual APIs so they can be consumed. That has always seemed to be a positive for me. I cant envision an application where that would be a negative.

Why not just eradicate them with those other mosquitoes who make infertile mosquitoes so they all die out in 8 generations? that way you get rid of Malaria too and you know.. the whole pest thing? And fuck you if you sit here and argue about food chain implications. Nothing feeds solely on mosquitoes, and anything that needs them will find alternatives anyway. ecosystems survive extinctions all the time, and evolve. We should eradicate this pest forever,

I get SPAMed by both parties and to be honest, the messaging is absurd to the extent it makes me want to puke thinking Americans actually respond to stuff like "This is Pete Buttigieg, I am ready to match your donation by 400%!" or "This Kash Patel, we need your support to track down the deep state!". It's absurd to me, my 11yo nephew things its dumb (he gets them on his phone, they must have had his number from a prior user). The fact that someone put these together makes me depressed about the state of the electorate, but we let the government run education, we shouldn't be surprised I guess.

I have been using filtered messages on iOS for a while, since it came out a few versions back. It is easy to turn on, and it's honestly a god-send. Why more people don't use it, is beyond me, and it's easy to use. Also a good tip: Set your voicemail to press the "9" tone prior to your message, you get added to a lot of do not call lists that way. I also have "silence unknown callers" turned on which is also great. Just remember to turn it off when you are expecting a call. back. The caller IDs come back quirky more often than not.

The captcha and other bullshit shouldn't exist. If you want to prevent scraping, put it behind a login.

The payment processors should be held to the same standards as ISPs or carriers, with no discrimination on who is paying who. Their duty is to authenticate the purchaser and the seller and facilitate the movement of funds. Thats it. If there are any further restrictions, they should lose their ability to conduct business as a payment processor. End of story.

This is a boondoggle, and will prove to be at the end. What we REALLY should do is install a solar array / mylar array at the L1 Lagrange point to cast a shadow on the earth, and use the harvested energy to pay for it. Think of what we could do with TWh of solar energy in space.

The Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin to control the American People, and if you haven't seen that yet, you are the dumbass. They happily watch us fight over mutilating children / trans rights / abortion / race / etc... all the while they are a satanic cult that rapes and kills children. Both sides. We are ruled by a pedo-satanic cult, that much is obvious, and all of the presidents since Kennedy are in on it. We are all of us, each and every American; guilty of letting them get away with it. Epstein files? If the Democrats wanted to release them, they would have done so in 2020, or 2016 before Trump took office. No. They are just advocating it because they are not the party in power today. Republicans would have done THE EXACT SAME THING if they were in the minority today. But if the Dems win in 2028, they sure as hell wont release it. The government is a gravy train, and neither side will dare fuck with the third rail which holds it all up under blackmail / bribery, which is Zionism.

Their bills are going to rise as GPTs answers programming questions, then writes functions, then does whole apps for programmers. Stacked's hay-day is behind them, yet their max expenses are in front of them. They will close in a couple of years as the cloud proves too expensive to sustain with their dwindling revenues.