Sounds like Microsoft Defender/other AV sandbox running it to check for malware, Ive seen it happen in the wild in a similar fashion. A client was running software with phone home licensing and the vendor auto disabled the license after AV sandbox runs touched their license server from the sandbox IPs. I think Quark also had that issue for another ckient, but that was almost a decade ago.
"The Climate Change Hoax" was the most poinant takeaway of the evening, alongside Pence getting fired up without mentioning Mother. It was a wild ride of bullshit with no real substance by a pack of propaganda clowns posing as candidates.
So you aren't killing the plants and vegetables you eat as a vegan?
Or you perceive no ethical quandaries about murdering plants?
Or plants don't count because they don't have the same type of nervous system that allows us to communicate in an ethically direct fashion?
Are trees ethically more important than plants you can ethically eat, thus perceived as more ethically protected under such auspices?
And what's your ethical stance on property development groups clear cutting small pine tree forested areas near existing residential/industrial/commercial zoned areas to create more affordable single family and multi-family homes for low income families?
of course they had to go with chromium and just become another dicksucker.
Interesting take to put Google higher on the list of fuckery corps than Microsoft, but what goes around comes around in different ways. I'd make a guess it's more likely they're just doing what they do, going full embrace and extend on chromium to dilute Chrome's dominance. Unfortunately they determined that means going full Internet Explorer with their integration into the OS (which they get to play technicality over with antitrust concerns since their 'apps' are what default it rather than an underlying OS 'default' that this effectively deprecates).
I dont watch or listen to commercials, and Ive had ad blockers in some form since the early 00s even if it was just a custom hosts file.
I wont watch regular tv with commercials and more than half the time will turn off youtube if watching thru a smart tv if they dont allow the ad skip. If Netflix had no ad tier, I'd have no Netflix.
GOOGL, AMZN, BIIB, EW, META, none pay dividends but are still generally considered sound investments (META's bullshit forced VR pivot not withstanding).
My portfolio has grown less from dividend stocks (with automatic reinvestment) than from growth stocks without dividends. Your entire positioning argument itself quickly becomes speculative nonsense the more that time passes.
Crypto is volatile and most of it is vapor ware, but as a flip side to that same exact coin, most stocks are volatile and the business plans are vaporware crafted from few centuries of practice taking peoples money. It's all a shell game of belief, don't get too lost in belief to see real trends and changes as they are happening.
There's also considerable strategy differences in terms of making money with investments versus protecting money with investments, and you'd really have to preface an argument with enough context to make it particularly valid over another.
In fairness to both points of view here, in my 20s it was no problem. In my 40s my knees sometimes randomly start popping when I walk on flat ground in a straight line, lol. This getting older shit is annoying. ;)
Sovereign immunity is a real thing and it's hard to overcome. They may be able to sue a municipal government (county/parrish/city) but going after the State or the Federal govt means a lot of very efficiently walled off legal precedent to overcome. Even using bad faith arguments that can sometimes skirt around monetary damage for sovereign, it can still end up evaporating in the face of the the state/fed having to voluntarily be willing to be sued, not even looking at the cherry on top of the current established court views of the 2nd Amendment.
I guess the point is, there's no way, short of some weird amalgamation of liberal progressives and conservatives combining into a party that seems real election success over the course of a full decade, that most States and the US federal government would go all in on allowing themselves to be sued willingly. We're more likely to get an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed.
Sounds like Microsoft Defender/other AV sandbox running it to check for malware, Ive seen it happen in the wild in a similar fashion. A client was running software with phone home licensing and the vendor auto disabled the license after AV sandbox runs touched their license server from the sandbox IPs. I think Quark also had that issue for another ckient, but that was almost a decade ago.