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Because it's not really an opinion.

It's a weird rant on a weird faulty assumption.

I'm not sure what you think is contradicting me. I put "free" in quotes. But they're not making meaningful additional license purchases by changing the name from 10 to 11 with how much they're begging people to upgrade. And Mac straight up makes zero from licensing fees, so again, a new name doesn't mean anything. They abandon hardware with new versions when enough core functions need hardware features to work properly, which happens regardless of what they call it.

Enterprise pays plenty for Windows, but those licenses are all subscription based so new versions don't mean anything there either.

Board chairman Donald Parker said the move to end broadcasts was more to address the question of whether $8,000 spent on the taping was worth the low viewership than it was a transparency issue.

How the fuck are you spending that much? Just get a shitty camera pointed at the stage or whatever with one shitty mic and a shitty camera/mic pointed at wherever you have citizens comment, plug it into a shitty laptop, and send to YouTube.

No one needs 4K with professionally mastered audio.

This is literally a response to the fact that people putting things on social media is going to make it much harder for them to get a desirable job.

That's the entire purpose of the post you were somehow disagreeing with.

You understand that they can find your social media regardless, right?

If you have it and publicly post, it's not private and they can and should consider your public behavior as part of the process of deciding whether to hire you.

It's CBS. The NFL doesn't run the broadcast. But not Taylor Swift lol. I don't think she even did anything to draw attention to it besides existing.

I actually enjoyed seeing her in the stands, though. She was very clearly emotionally invested in the game, and I thought her reactions were genuine and added to the broadcast.

Because she's that popular.

I'm willing to bet there were a comfortable 7 figures worth of extra viewers just because she was at the game.

Pay what?

Mac hasn't charged for an OS in ages, and Windows has given "free upgrades" for several version because they're stealing more data and want people to switch.

They've been designed for nvidia because cuda is better.

And because nvidia has been pushing hardware features needed for AI way before AMD has even considered it for ages.

The NFL plus subscription lets you access either the entire broadcast without commercials, an alternate version that's cut from snap to tackle (and is available pretty quick at least in the playoffs; I watched some late games in the morning before work), or the coaches film (that's slightly slower).

Overseas it's different, but last I was aware it was better and included live feeds in addition to everything else.

They don't need to make it impossible to do anything else. They just need to make their shitty proprietary solution the lowest friction.

lol "full time student" isn't an employment gap.

It is an issue, primarily because it disproportionately affects women (because stay at home moms), but it's sincerely something you can't legislate. An employment gap is time where you aren't gaining experience someone else is.

You might be gaining different experience, and it's unfortunate that in a lot of cases you won't be able to get to an interview to talk about it, but being in the workforce, and fulfilling the requirements to keep your job (even if they are just show up and don't be such a toxic mess your employer is forced to fire you) are things that directly have a bearing on your ability to be a good employee for their company. If you could exclude stay at home parents, I'm pretty confident that you would see a measurable difference in quality of employee between people who have steadily kept a job and people who haven't, even if it's a higher percentage of bad apples and not a lower median performance.

Because it's not valid to vote to take away basic human rights, like the freedom to use simple, necessary modern tools.

The fact that the law is on the books is a restriction completely independent of any enforcement.

It cannot possibly be acceptable.

It doesn't matter if every single person in the town voted to put a rule on the books taking away a basic freedom.

Opposing aggressively authoritarian violations of basic human autonomy is not supporting dictatorship. There are some things a government unconditionally should not have the capacity to restrict. Being a modern human using basic modern tools is one of them.

I'm not. I'm dead serious.

Having the law on the books, without enforcement, should get their charter revoked. It is not acceptable.

This is absurd. People run into each other occasionally, with or without cell phones.

This isn't a minor violation. It's completely, unforgivably, obscene. There's no possible scenario where it could possibly be justified or forgiven, and no possible scenario where a government could possibly be excused in having that authority.

Noise actually materially affects other people.

Having a smart phone doesn't. Even allowing a rule like this to get to a vote should get their government disbanded and forced to re-form from scratch or fall under another municipality's jurisdiction.

No smartphones in the street, or parks or shops, whatever, it’s their town.

Screw that. A town shouldn't have the authority to take away basic freedoms like that, even if literally every citizen directly votes in favor of doing so.

It could just be that windows is obnoxious and likes to do its best to break shit, and they don't want to deal with helping people figure out how to repair it in limited dev time.