bitwise

Why spend the money up front? That's just bad business. They'll only do it if there's real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

I'm worried that what they'll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can't dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

I wrote my MP once in 2021 regarding the reversal of the wholesale broadband rates. Specifically, about how the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications sat down with the President of Bell Media for some beers at a sports game to discuss things after the 2019 court rulings upheld the existing rules set by the Commission.

The result, of course, was a change to the rules.

You're not going to get a real answer from your MPP, just a staffer tasked with boilerplating out an email that could conceivably be construed as an answer to your question/complaint.

If he wanted to live, he should've bought a new heart before flying!

Copyright won't help here. Extending it to allow the protection of concepts as well as literal implementation is what Oracle tried to do, and would've resulted in a few megacorps demanding licensing for core concepts that no one can really make quality, functional software without.

Of course, software patents are also stupid, even if the general intent of patents seems reasonable.

That's nice. Any chance of them deciding to return the rest of it? No?

Gotta practice that passive language to avoid laying blame anywhere. Wouldn't want to step in it themselves, right?

How do you tell which group is using those tools for good and evil?

I hope so. Room temperature superconductivity would make so many things economically viable overnight...

I don't know anything about the Netherlands' civic structure, but if it's anything like the model spread around by the British, then they were probably staring down the barrel of a no-confidence vote, which would effectively end the same way.

Don't fight it, embrace the neck rolls.

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I have no idea why you're being downvoted; this is literally what those walls full of game boxes were meant for (even back when they actually had shit in 'em).