Ironically, every level of Maslow’s Hierarchy is behind a paywall.

Self-actualization is only a luxury for the rich.

“No way. It’s only fair if everyone has as miserable of a life as I have!”

His acting was superb in Oceans Twelve!

(He played “Bruce Willis as himself”.)

Joke (whoosh)

My head

I’m afraid I don’t follow you. Why would you sand down your dice? Wouldn’t that bias them?

The way I read, it just calls he a “Hon”.

I’m convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.

Universal Healthcare (behind a paywall)

Yes and, they also needed to break a filibuster by the Republicans, which took 60 votes in the Senate, despite severe illness and Republican shenanigans. It was a huge lift to get what we got.

Blame Republicans and a couple of Democrats. Yes, it was half-baked, but it was also almost defeated, and later almost repealed. The alternative of “nothing” is so much worse.

When my Mom was in a coma, they asked me as the oldest child to make that decision. I based it on not only my wishes for myself, but per her directive.

However if it was my own child, I would probably make the same decision. Parents make thousands of decisions on behalf of their children. This one, however horrible, would be another one of them. I would support my wife in aborting the (already dead) child, rather than further risk the life of my wife. It’s the only and best choice, however tragic.

That anonymizes Google results. It’s Google, all the way down.

Brother printers to the rescue. I think they are still untainted by crap bloatware and just do the thing.

I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀

EULA’s are widely honored and established law. However, anyone can push back on anything they put in an agreement.

To fight Microsoft, you have to fight Microsoft’s lawyers, in Microsoft’s jurisdiction. But you can’t sue them, because you already agreed to arbitration. And you’d have to pay lawyers in what would be a long, drawn out process.

If Microsoft demands things that are incredibly weird like what you describe above, there definitely would be a chance it could be appealed to a court and eventually see a judge. I think it would be a long and expensive process for both sides getting there. And Microsoft’s argument would be, “The user has the option to stop using it.”

There are undoubtedly severance clauses in there, so if a court deems a part of a license illegal, then it is stricken, and the rest of the agreement stands.

So, Microsoft’s lawyers only put things in the agreement that they are 99+% sure of wanting and winning. So they probably won’t request your spleen. They don’t want that. They just want your money, your data, and your eyeballs connected to your brain.

It kinda does make it legal. If you don’t agree to the terms of the product, then you are using it illegally. It sucks, but that’s where the law is. I am typing this on a Linux laptop in Firefox, but those have terms and conditions, too!

Yes, but - in many of those contracts (particularly end-user license agreements) you agreed to them changing the terms of the contract. You also have an “out” - not using the product any more.

You’re right though: it’s slimy. Anything slimy thing can be put into a contract!

Source: I’m not a lawyer, but worked in an office with a lot of them, and worked with software license agreements in particular.

I bet Trump has other people pay fines for him. “Take it out of the special Russian account.”

Wait, what?

Bold optimism that the USA will last 100 of any time unit.