Imagine how amazing the PR would have been if the title had been: "User gets spectator seating for a SpaceX launch in return for lost handle"

Yes, they asked for a reminder, not a conversation. Parents have to choose their battles. Demanding non-standard behaviour in order to do a required parenting thing like helping your child remember stuff is a really stupid hill to die on!

Liberté!

Texts are less important than email, and less urgent than a phone call. It's ridiculous to think it's rude not to reply, especially for kids who probably get 5-10 texts an hour.

If something's important enough to you that you want a definite response eventually, send an email. If it requires immediate communication, call. Don't apply false rules of politeness just to get a response out of your kid!

I don't like to keep any security stuff in "the cloud", written down anywhere, or even on my own devices. It's too easy to lose everything after one security breach.

Instead, I use password algorithms seeded from both the service name/identifier and one or more private passwords. This lets me keep thousands of service/site unique passwords in my head just by memorizing twenty or so words.

But my ex was really crazy. You gotta hear this!

I'm reminded of the old saying: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

The same would hold true for any third party who isn't physically in your presence at the time of need. You are your primary means of defense, with third parties as a backup...

Well, I've made a reasoned response to someone's post and haven't been permabanned, so I have to assume that it's better here than the authoritarian state that r/libertarian has become!

I can often dig into the source and quickly figure out what's broken.

And for the 99.9% of humanity for whom that is either impossible, or a dreadful slog,

On Windows, I'm usually shit outta luck. Gotta trawl through tons of messy forums and bullshit SEO-optimised blogspam sites

While this^ is a practical option... This^ is a practical optionof hu

Weren't they already?

Monopolies are the opposite of free markets. Even pseudo-monopolies are counter to free markets as they inevitably use their dominance to manipulate the markets in their favor.

That said, I feel like there are a lot of libertarians who feel like free markets are core to the philosophy, and about as many who believe that free markets are a nice-to-have, secondary to everyone doing whatever they want in the market regardless of its impacts.

This reminds me of one of those documentaries where they show some ridiculous mechanical contraption in a scene, and the narrator says, "Before the technology became extinct, it had become vastly more complex and sophisticated, but alas, it's days were numbered..."

This is the situation I'm in. Half-a-dozen clients in the energy and automotive industries, each with multiple security regimes and short timeouts. Passwords mutate with time and I stay sane...

Consorts?

I'll support Senators not having a dress code when there isn't one for anyone else working in Congress...

Ah-hah! Thank you. I figured me being stupid was the explanation...

The general rule is identification every 15 minutes or at the end of an exchange. Only one person in the exchange has to identify, if they're all on the same license.

Your family can use them use them just like they do FRS units. Within your conversation, use normal names, "unit numbers", or nothing at all as you will, then you just have to throw in station identification once in a while...

It's nice to see the right starting to eat their own like the left does...

Coming from the viewpoint that the greatest threat to free markets is the artificial beings created by government called "corporations", I fully believe that some form of IP, appropriately time-limited and only licensable, not transferable, is a perfectly valid way to protect individual human creators, but that it cannot be granted to anything other than natural human citizens.

It's not about prevention of use by others, it's about prevention of monetization by others...

Nothing better than your first brew....