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They also weren't destroying rare books. They were buying in-print books from major retailers, which means that while yes, that is environmentally wasteful, it's not actually destroying books in the classical destruction of knowledge sense since the manufacturer will just print another one if there's demand for it.

No, it was after their lawyers told them that was illegal and would cause them to lose a fair use copyright claim.

The diagnosed ones generally are, the others are generally self medicating in a variety of other ways, from caffeine to alcohol to nicotine to marijuana to illicit amphetamines.

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For countries like Finland, the Ministry of Defense is not about offense, and is very heavily armed.

• embearassed

Oooh what an insult. I'm totally going to be embarassed by my public display name.

Yeah, it would not surprise me if the Supreme Court blocked it for being too reasonable.

Yup, gave mine to a neighbourhood kid that I babysat.

Honestly, over the years I think I've come to sour on the whole notion of collecting things as a hobby.

It's one thing if you're collecting stuff that no one wants and will be junked otherwise, or are collecting things to restore them and get rid of them again, but collecting stuff that is either highly desired or potentially used, just to collect it and have it sit there, feels really wasteful and self indulgent.

This judge actually fully understand how companies abuse two sided marketplaces and is thus forcing Google to open up both sides of the marketplace to competition. Both forcing Google to host new app stores inside the Play store so that they're visible to consumers, and forcing Google to allow those app stores to distribute the Google Play apps so that the app stores aren't crippled by a lack of developers.

This is a way way way bigger win than I could ever have hoped for.

PC Gamers think Epic is the devil incarnate because they paid for exclusive games for the EGS, meanwhile they have spent the majority of their fortune on massive legal fees making a bigger impact in the world of digital anti-trust than virtually anyone else on the planet.

Allowing companies to conglomerate is the single worst thing that prevents capitalism from functioning even a little bit, and tech companies are the worst at falsely claiming that every product needs to be tied to every other product, because they can use software and continuous updates to break any third party compatibility that is created.

Lmfao, you take your ADHD diagnosis too seriously.

Like half the planet has ADHD or undiagnosed ADHD, your not neuro atypical, you're pretty normal.