Imagine waking up each day to find a new stupid thing he’s done.

We clearly have wildly different views on what makes cars good.

Well in the TikTok case, TikTok had no choice because all they did was have Apple and Google block it in their app stores from Montana IPs. Obviously there are many ways around that.

Yeah I had a ‘70 Electra Limited when I was in high school (early 80's). It had been my grandparents’ “nice car” which meant they usually drove their station wagon. So when I got it, it had 30K original miles. It needed belts, and the gas tank had rusted (and the tank was no longer available from Buick as it was a…

Compared to the rest of the GM line, sure.  Compared to what the Japanese and Europeans were making? Eh.

My ridiculous (cost-wise) purchase will be an Aston Martin DB12 Volante.

I like how most of these are concept cars, project cars, or racing one-offs. That’s not a good sign. Also, I found the Aurora the exact opposite of interesting.

I enjoyed the show as well.  Also, I thought Echo was pretty good.

This sadly is the level of discourse one can expect from one of the cult members.

Ah yes, the older generation blaming the younger one. Never heard that ridiculous point of view before.

If that’s the case, than the number of times you can call me off hours is ZERO.

SSI was the shit, man.  They took their games seriously.  I used to play whole seasons in their Computer Baseball game, manually editing stats as I went.  (I never had the optional Stats Compiler they sold.)

Unfortunately, there was precious little software that could run in protected mode on the 80286.  But I do agree with your overall point: stuff like that booklet was copy protection.  And I lost my damned wheel for Earl Weaver Baseball!

I would guess it is indeed about the tech that has to be developed to pull this off.  Ownership of that tech could mean a ton of revenue, theoretically, especially if it can be repurposed.

the notoriously conservative utterly lawless Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

They can legally prohibit them from doing business in the state (see Montana and TikTok, for example).  If a judge says they have to pay, they have to pay.

Yeah, most people don’t care. I assume it’s nothing but a cost thing; they’re making TVs with DolbyVision and people are all screaming about Atmos, so that’s the default.

I’m willing to excuse Google somewhat, because they have to write for a bazillion different hardware combinations, etc. Apple just writes for Apple hardware. But yeah, “not quite finished” is exactly how Android has always felt to me.

I kind of excuse Google a bit, because they’re making the OS for many different platforms. Apple only has to write for Apple hardware; same with Roku.

Android has never felt fully baked to me.