It was the exact same. the math of this is that verizon makes enough money on the contract that they can pay for a phone within your 3 year contract.

Our education system values rote memorization over actually learning something. So instead of teaching you how to use the periodic table, they teach you “The element of Hydrogen has an atomic mass of 1” etc.

A few teachers who actually give a fuck will do both, but they are required to teach the test for funding. Because that’s how they are graded.

When I left my company, I had to get a new phone. When I talked to the rep, the phone cost was essentially free with a contract.

The offer was that Verizon would pay for the phone over the course of three years.

So it’s not financing so much as it was free with a contract. When I asked why this was, he said that it was due to how the market was. Everyone has a phone at this point so now cell service provides have to compete to keep people. So they are willing to pay for your phone so long as you are locked in with them.

I’m sorry, but it’s not going to be. Mozilla set the stage of this when they changed from FOSS to source available.

I made this prediction right when this was announced.

libvirginity has a sev9 vulnerability due to its dependency on the unpatched version of libpatriarchy.

I think my physics teacher told me this fact but followed it up with “Measuring a planet’s rotation around the sun by how fast it rotates around it’s center is like trying to measure the speed of a truck based on how many rotations a ballerina can spin inside of it.”

That quote haunts me.

“…but I’d still vote for him.”

- every evangelical leader

There’s a season 2?! I thought it got cancelled after the first season.

Reverse engineering prohibitions are the dumbest things.

Let’s say I do this. Arduino sues me. Okay. Now what? What money are they going to take?

Hell, this would be a perfect time for everyone to form an LLC and purchase Arduinos as the LLC and then release your research under your corporate name as CC0. If your LLC has no revenue, you as an individual are legally protected.

Arduino can try to put the genie back in the bottle but good luck.

Better companies than Arduino have tried to prevent hardware reverse engineering and have failed. Apple being the biggest company I can think of that have tried to sue people for releasing schematics of their motherboards.

It’s easy because school administrators are more afraid of conservatives than they are of progressives.

This was always to the goal of “age verification”. The government wants a way to know who is behind every “subversive” comment so that they can chill speech. “For the children” is just the most convenient excuse.

If that doesn’t work, it will be “to fight terrorism”.

Line must go up.

Conservatives have always been fine with federal government taking away other states rights.

The civil war started because the South didn’t want the federal government to force them to stop using slaves but 100% okay with the federal government forcing Northern states to return slaves back to the South.

You’re forgetting about SCOTUS. They could decide that Medicaid is unconstitutional because of $reasons and scrap it.

NYMBYs is why politicians don’t have the balls to do anything progressive. Unless you have a wide swelling of support, which thanks to our two party system we never will, Democrats are often stuck keeping the status quo.

I’ve seen liberal voters only revolt when it’s in their back yard.

“I want to help house the homeless, but I don’t want to see them.”

No they want to start using Latin so that they can have interpretations based on vibes of the day and not the letter of the law.

Legit question: why didn’t you take the domain before trademark was issued?

If you already had the name registered (but not issued), couldn’t you essentially cybersquat yourself and then buy it from yourself after it’s been issued?

And yet this lesson will be completely lost to established DNC, and they will learn the wrong lesson again and move further to the right.

Meanwhile we’ll get another Trump who promises Great Things whereas Democrats will promise to keep things the same.

We desperately need a new political party that can push people who want change to vote progressive.