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• On the post: Trump Has To Pay $392k For His NY Times SLAPP Suit

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2024 @ 03:01pm

  Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything. :)

• On the post: Ubisoft Says It Out Loud: We Want People To Get Used To Not Owning What They’ve Bought

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2024 @ 09:27am

  in 15 years, when my kids are old enough to want to look back at their own gaming history, the won;t be able to. they will have to look at MY gaming history instead. This is because since about 2010, almost everything has required an online component to even work, which means that once the servers are shut down, poof, we just lost over a decade currently of gaming. Ubisoft has put a big target on it's back from the gaming community, cause a lot of people were willing to go along with what was happening until some idiot(Ubisoft) rubbed it in their faces. Personally? I'm gonna pirate everything from them from now on. That company will never get a single penny from me ever again.

• On the post: Lawsuit Says Hudson County Jail Recorded Calls With Attorneys, Gave This Info To Prosecutors

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2024 @ 10:10am

  He doesn't have to you complete moron.

• On the post: Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2023 @ 09:26am

  there is video evidence of him doing all those things tho. So how would it be libel? Asking as if I'm the exact demographic that fanbois over Musk and Trump, wouldn't it only be libelous if the accusations were false?

• On the post: Ex-Marine Sues Gov’t Over Its Demand He Take Down His ‘Fuck The Government’ Sign

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2023 @ 08:18pm

  I'd take the sign down. Absolutely. Then I would repaint the slogan on every side of my house as large as i could make it fit. Malicious compliance for the win!

• On the post: The FTC Is Trying To Get Back Into The Ring With Microsoft Over Activision Deal

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2023 @ 08:37am

  Wonder when someone at the ftc will realize that 90% of the complaints about this situation essentially resolve to "OH noes!! Someone other than Sony is gonna own a "Must Have" game or two!" Antitrust: It's only bad when it's the second guy doing it.

• On the post: Court Shuts Down Union’s Assertion That NYPD Officers Should Be Allowed To Choke People To Death

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2023 @ 08:12am

  Step 1. Get rid of QI Step 2. Any settlements/penalties assessed should be paid out of the police pensions. Step 3. Any cop on suspension/under investigation who quits cannot work at any other location, and in the case of under investigation, is automatically found guilty. Step 4. Cops who turn off/"forget" body cams will be treated as a civilian would in the situation. Police reform right there :)

• On the post: You Still Don’t Own What You Bought: Purchased TV Shows From PS Store Go Bye Bye

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2023 @ 05:01pm

  If it’s DRMed, you can copy it but the copy won’t work. And in this case, neither will the original. Not a very useful definition of ownership. this is making my decision way back to buy a lifetime license to DVD Fab Platinum an almost prophetic choice :)

• On the post: You Still Don’t Own What You Bought: Purchased TV Shows From PS Store Go Bye Bye

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2023 @ 10:57am

  If i could simply make a perfect copy of a car, and the original owner could rive away with it without ever knowing(or, even if they did know, it did noting to change their car at all) I would absolutely do it. But I also have no problem paying for something if the deal is fair. If you have infinite amounts of something, that costs noting to reproduce, there is no reason to EVER take it away from someone, especially if they paid money to have access to it. For Example: I paid for Scorched Earth(remember that 90s DOS gem?) a couple weeks ago because I truly enjoyed the hell outta that game, and I am the more common type of pirate who doesn't mind paying for what I use, I just won't be cheated or punished for doing so.

• On the post: Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2023 @ 10:36am

  just don't ever connect your TV to a wifi connection. problem solved. has worked on every so called smart TV I have ever owned, including my LG C3(for evidence it still works today) I agree tho, I try to buy things that don't require connections to the internet to work

• On the post: Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2023 @ 08:54am

  Yeah! Show the man we aren't gonna pay a subscription for basic car functions by paying a subscription for the whole car!!! That'll show em!

• On the post: Our Ongoing Refusal To Regulate Data Brokers Is Going To Bite Us On The Ass

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2023 @ 01:03pm

  you did her about the lady who is being criminally charged for desecration of a corpse because she had a miscarriage while peeing and in her panic and devastated state, flushed the toilet(a REALLY common thing to do in these instances) and then, when the toilet was clogged with her 22 week old fetal corpse, used a plunger to try to clear the clog? ya know, probably hoping that it wouldn't blow up into a huge thing and she could go an mourn her loss privately. Oh wait.

• On the post: Our Ongoing Refusal To Regulate Data Brokers Is Going To Bite Us On The Ass

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2023 @ 08:52am

  My response to "well, if you have nothing to hide" is always 2 questions: "What's your spouse's favorite sexual position?" and "what's your kids favorite candy?" It's amazing that after asking those two questions, suddenly privacy becomes very understandable and important to people :)

• On the post: ‘AI’ Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System’s Worst Tendencies

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2023 @ 07:39am

  so, AI didn't fold every single protein, or we wouldn't still be doing folding. as for the rest of your nonsensical rant, you missed the fact that the entire paragraph preceeding the single mention of covid was a quote from someone else, and no where did it say that the AI wasn't informed, it states that the AI didn't take it into account. You really need to english harder if you wanna rile people up :) Here is the quote for you: “It’s unclear how nH Predict works exactly, but it reportedly estimates post-acute care by pulling information from a database containing medical cases from 6 million patients…But Lynch noted to Stat that the algorithm doesn’t account for many relevant factors in a patient’s health and recovery time, including comorbidities and things that occur during stays, like if they develop pneumonia while in the hospital or catch COVID-19 in a nursing home.” where does that say the AI wasn't informed? right. Keep makin shit up, eventually you might accidentally make a truthful statement! :)

• On the post: ‘AI’ Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System’s Worst Tendencies

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2023 @ 07:34am

  wow, you managed to reply in a way that completely contradicts reality yet again! places that have universal healthcare pretty universally have higher life expectancy and less utilization of healthcare for minor issues.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Promises To Sue Media Matters To Silence Their Speech

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2023 @ 11:13am

  but wait, how can they get social welfare if they are illegal immigrants? wouldn't they have to have social security numbers and bank accounts and all that other wonderfully accountable stuff that also leads to taxes and things? and if they are stealing social security numbers to get jobs so they can work, that means they are paying taxes(since you'd only need a socsec number for above the table work) and of course, anything they buy gets taxed, cause the gubmint loves them some nested taxation!

• On the post: Copyright Leads To Internet Fragmentation

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2023 @ 06:22pm

  Copyright, as with all IP "protections" is basically saying "I invented this, you can't use/modify/upgrade it unless you pay me" which honestly probably sounded great originally, before it became the fustercluck it is today. I do not have a problem with Artists getting paid for their work. I do not have a problem paying for the things that I OWN. What i do have a problem with is the fact that there are many things we could have in this world, if it weren't for shitty companies who deliberately hold back innovation because they have a government granted monopoly on anything and everything to do with an object. need an example? Find me ONE single laptop that is also a phone. You can't. they were never made. Now, Imagine a Surface style tabletish laptop with the voice dial feature that all Sony Ericsson candy bar phones had in the early aughts, connected via bluetooth to your headset, and just hangin out in your backpack. but we can't have these things cause "thinnest and lightest!!!!!" = no battery life and no room for innovation. Why don't we have a standardized dock that connects to a monitor mouse and keyboard(maybe in the dock is a video card processor and ram, etc) and we just plug our phone into it and TADA! there's our OS, complete with our desktop and all our files? Why can't we then plug into our friends dock and yup, there's our computer setup again, on our friends hardware cause it came with us. Nope, can't do that, we've had the tech to do it for at least 10 years now(i would actually say 20) but won't ever happen, or it will, but be so boutique no one can afford it, and whatever company will go "oh, no market!" and everyone will give up(see Samsung Active phone series)

• On the post: But What Do We Do If Google Is Legitimately Just A Better Search Engine?

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2023 @ 02:34pm

  alternatives may be available, and yet, 90+ % of all windows installations are left to default settings because most people won't bother. so they either like it or don't. is your car old enough/did you ever own one old enough to have steel rims and maybe hubcaps? did you ever change them out? better options have been available since the mid 70s. or did you just use what was put on there cause it worked? (god i really hate car analogies with tech, sorry)

• On the post: But What Do We Do If Google Is Legitimately Just A Better Search Engine?

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2023 @ 02:32pm

  why, can you not figure out by the context of what i wrote that i was replying to the person directly atop of my post? :)

• On the post: But What Do We Do If Google Is Legitimately Just A Better Search Engine?

  

  MindParadox ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2023 @ 01:26pm

  Linux is different, it's not necessarily better. and unfortunately, all the linux bros who keep saying so when the evidence is so clear that its not does not help linux at all. one simple case, remember when gnome?(whatever it was was the default windowing system for Ubuntu for a couple of years recently) made it so you couldn't change the desktop without manually editing files and using hte command line, instead of simply doing a "make shortcut here" couple of clicks functionality? basically windows remains the default for everyone for a couple of reasons. A. microsoft has deals with most if not al of the oems to have windows preinstalled on nearly every computer. b. windows is capable of doing 95% of any possible tasks without using the command line, which most people just don't want to have to learn. Linux is so fragmented in terms of distros, various apps, etc that is a nightmare for anyone who isn't very used to the OS, and that has been true since i worked with the Linux Kernel Project back in the 90s, and it's still true today.

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