reverendsteveii

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

The requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism laws

Remember this the next time someone in government says "We need tough anti-terrorism laws". They also get to define what counts as terrorism, so anyone inconvenient can be destroyed and the public told "We're just keeping you safe from terrorism."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

at 1:48 they're in Agrabah, a place that doesn't exist

at 1:59 they're in Agrabah, a place that doesn't exist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

even then, it's essentially paywalling your rights. you need to go to court, wait for the matter to be adjudicated, hope it works out in your favor, run out any potential appeals, all while paying attorneys and not being able to do something you're legally entitled to do. If you can't do all that, then your rights are moot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

which tv manufacturer was it that updated their eula and if you didn't agree it bricked your tv?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't help but think that if this sort of thing proliferates that it will essentially hamstring reviews. This particular agreement might be just because the game is in alpha, but it's part of a broader trend of ToS/EULA wishlists that are so restrictive that they're probably illegal already buy in order to test that you have to go to court against a huge, overpaid legal team which leads to people having their basic rights violated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

any time I ask fleetwood mac fans what makes them special, it's always that they were really awful to one another, and the person telling me about it always gets really excited like I should be impressed that they were really awful to one another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

rules aren't there to be enforced, they're there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

capitalism is when hooray and communism is when boo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (14 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

okay but how do you establish any of those incentives with people who simply don't exist? eventually the agreements fall apart as all parties involved are either dead or cryostatic, and the agreements will have to compel someone who was never party to them to take some sort of action. Like, I guess you could put a reward in trust but even then you'd need some sort of legal entity to manage and distribute it that would, itself, need an incentive in trust in order to continue, and so on in an infinite regression.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

"I'm into if statements lately"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. And if he does it again, the judge warned, he could be jailed.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/donald-trump-hush-money-testimony/60644438 - last updated 04/30/2024

The judge threatened jail with the first 9 counts as well, and then Trump just kept breaking the law and the corrupt coward judge backed down because Trump and his ilk are not beholden to the law.

 

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