How a lot of things keep happening despite their obvious negative impacts: propaganda, the art of communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda.

Rand Paul — another GOP politician who needs to be put on an involuntary 72-hour psych hold to establish the state of his mental health, as he is clearly demonstrating that he’s a high-probability danger to himself and others.

Now...how much did they spend on a Denuvo license and how many man hours did they spend integrating it into their product? Because I’ll bet that whatever minimal amount Denuvo *might* have ‘increased sales,’ it won’t be greater than the amount it cost them to have it in the first place.

Ask 10 people their opinion on something, you’ll get 11 different answers....

Dumb’merica — where the racism is so thick, it’s oozing out of every pore and spewing out of every ‘hole.’

These people need to be involuntarily committed for a 72-hour psych evaluation. They are *CLEARLY* not of sound mind.

While I certainly understand the sentiment, until you’ve taken a ride on the vomit comet, do not assume you will enjoy the experience of space travel — not simply being there, but the experience of getting there, too. It is not for the faint of heart.

Don’t you understand? The poor are supposed to get nothing and be glad of it. That’s all their worth. If they were worth more, then they wouldn’t be poor. [/sarcasm]

Lazy theaters vs greedy studios. Who am I supposed to root for again??

Other states need to counter by not allowing their state-funded education facilities to use or teach from any textbooks produced in Texas or owned by companies HQ’d in Texas. Let them cut themselves off from reality. And when the banana republic of Texass inevitably implodes from the gross ignorance and incompetence…

No. Dealing with a lawsuit is EXPENSIVE, whether you win or lose. The whole point of SLAPP lawsuits — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — is to use that expense as an attack against a given individual or company for doing something the ‘aggrieved’ party dislikes *IRRESPECTIVE* of the legal outcome.…

And how long will it be until uppity (read: racists asshole) white folk, displeased that their preferred ‘sites’ aren’t getting these monies, raise a stink and stonewall the funds like they did with aid to not-white farmers?

Definitely true regarding anti-SLAPP laws. Multiple states don’t even have them. But this is definitely Corporate America attacking consumer rights, the way they have been for decades, steadily chipping away at them until consumers have no rights...because consumer ‘rights’ interfere with their profits. And honestly,…

Twitter and Facebook and such all made a deal with the devil when they courted these extremists to pump their profit margins. And the devil ALWAYS collects....

The first one, possibly yes for modding *tools*, but only if you can demonstrate that it’s for the purposes of bypassing copyright protections — and of course, *mods* aren’t. The second one, no. Not unless they’re actually distributing portions *of the game* which they aren’t, because that’s not how mods work.

That, right there, is the problem. Either Amazon is tracking and *KNOWS* how many and which reviews are fake, making their claim about inaccurate information true but also exposes deliberately maintaining fake reviews — which opens them up to legal actions — or they don’t know how many and which reviews are fake,…

Are they distributing materials owned by the copyright holder? Not as far as I can tell. Are they distributing materials or tools with the sole usage of bypassing established copyright protection methods? Also no.

Right alongside the fairytale of trickle-down economics and tax cuts paying for themselves. Oddly enough, all three of these are also favorites of Republicans. But I’m sure that’s all totally coincidental and whatnot....

It’s almost as if politicians need to be held to higher standards of conduct, that lying — implicit or explicit — should never be tolerated from them, and that unethical behaviors of any kind should be grounds for immediate removal from office, regardless of how their ‘supporters’ and ‘voters’ ‘feel’ on the matter.

And what, pray tell, was so important about this skating rink that they had the funds and permission to install the hardware and software necessary to *DO* facial recognition (poorly or otherwise)?