Maybe lets not try to pretend that it is just about the costs shall we? I bet MBAs will cower at the suggestion to put up a paywall from the beginning. Afterall, bait-and-switch is their bread-and-butter.

Subscriptions weren’t the norm when we actually paid for something and got the full product. The cost to run things didn’t suddenly become a factor just now.

Only thing that changed: greed of businesses, execs, shareholders.

No need to convince anyone. Trump presidency ensures their will is implemented.

When meta abuses entire countries and skirts regulations… i think a fucking $25 meal card is just petty bullshit.

Stop licking corporate boots.

If you have to defer to the law as justification for doing something purely selfish… then people will judge you to be an asshole.

Edit: Not you personally.

he was focused on ethics

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

Sorry this was my first laugh of the day.

Its quite simple really: if you want profits then you should get it honestly. Otherwise you don’t deserve the profits.

Have a lot to say =/= have all to say.

Like if your local library got a copy of Book X and then when someone wanted to borrow it they just copied it right there and let you keep the copy.

That’s how it works in the rest of the world.

Probably arrange it such that not one person/server knows what the stored bytes are. There can be a server where the bytes/blocks get reconstructed where one can check for the bad stuff.

Not a good idea to tell this to teenagers without also teaching them about contraceptives and protection.

One of the reasons I am an atheist. I mean what was God thinking making these morons?

Logitech… the company whose 150 dollar mouse have double click issues months into the purchase?

Feels like sam secretly wishes this to be true

You must not be just a troll… but a mountain troll

If that’s the only criteria they use then yeah… they’re probably wrong.

Userbenchmark spotted…

Yeah I almost did a double take

Protection with taxpayer money for war profiteering from the deaths of brown people… I am sure there will be people who will say “you shouldn’t be threatened with violence for anything” but this woman and many MPs have already inflicted terror and violence on others indirectly from the comfort of their homes and parliament.

Its convenient. Not everyone wants to waste their life centering divs you know