To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Except you don't need to have bought one to be affected by it. Maybe your employer bought one, and infected a computer you use at work.

This existed briefly, but was quickly removed because big box retailers complained that people were looking at the real stats instead of big numbers in their ads.

I'm predicting they build it in just 2 or 3 cities, then quit.

Again.

And they could sell a solar panel pack called a rama!

Bananarama

The big issue is that your network provider is also the physical provider, and there's no real competition as a result.

When most people got their Internet service over telephone lines, your ISP didn't need to also own the telephone lines, they just needed some telephone numbers.

When the telcos themselves got into the business of providing internet access, they pushed out the competition.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act, written by a Republican Congress, and signed into law by a Democratic president (Clinton) is largely responsible for the current state of affairs.

The "Information Superhighway" is a toll road, built by taxes, but owned by private corporations.

What's crazy is that the government paid these corporations to build this infrastructure.

When your government pays, say, a road building company to build roads, one doesn't then grant the ownership of those roads to that company.

But that is EXACTLY what we did with our communications infrastructure.

Set or change alarms, add reminders to your calendar, ask about those things, send text messages, start phone calls, have it read out last text messages received.

When I was a truck driver, my wife could test me, and I could just listen to a transcript of what she sent instead of calling her and asking what she typed.

"Hey Google, read my last text"

"Hey Google, send a text to , 'Quit texting me while I'm driving, woman!" Stuff like that. 🤣

There was a string of people swapping marbles into paintball guns for a few years here locally.

Depends how bad the turbulence is.

Nobody outside of churches and expensive restaurants really care how you dress as long as the important bits are covered.

Difference is the school isn't going to confiscate my kid's watch (yet)

When the government is powerful enough to cause genocides, that's a problem. It's far easier to just not give your money to a business that engages in such practices.

Not giving money to your government, however, is considered tax evasion.

My work provided phone is, sadly, an iPhone.

But the case they provided for it (OtterBox) actually doesn't have the window.

Meanwhile, my personal phone, a Pixel, has a case is 100% clear.

I bought a white phone, so dammit I want to see the white phone! 😂

When one group of people has weapons, and the other doesn't, it won't be long before the first group decides the 2nd group looks like easy pickings.

We really aren't. The difference is, the most successful of us are. And those are the ones you typically seem to meet overseas. Because the less successful of us can't afford the trip.

There. Was that at hard?

It's apparently easier than you not being a jackass, at least.

Know what else is like pinball?

Kidney stones. Definitely feels like you're getting your balls thrown into a lot of shit.

Oh no. They'll have to use Linux! A few billion new people using it would certainly bump it up a notch or 4.

Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

The Golden Child.

I I I I I want the knife...

Please...