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  • I could lend out my old computer with old games installed to somebody else to use, right?

    What if instead i lend my hard drive, is it still the same thing? Or what if I lend out my remote access screen sharing password to my old PC. Still the same?

    Maybe the legal workaround is to game the system here a bit - forget downloading executables which feels a lot like pirating and just lend access to a system that is legally running the original license.

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  • Non-US citizens can get permanent residency and a green card if they invest at least certain amount of money in the USA. I think it's about $1,050,000 and set up a company that employs 10 other people.

  • A company cannot disrupt itself. Sears, Kmart, and their colleagues who have perished became particularly good at making a profit through one specific channel. So every executive, every performance bonus, in fact every person on the payroll was focused on maximizing their specific method of turning a profit.

    Unfortunately for them, the world changed and the leaders didn't realize they were themselves being disrupted and therefore had no capacity to turn the titanic.

  • Dear higher power:

    Please cause this guy to profoundly lose the election so there is absolutely no further attention given and the media networks can finally lay off the stories because all issues have become moot.

    Ramen.

  • There are only a few counties in the world that draw the smartest and most accomplished from the rest of the world. The USA is pretty high on that list. This gives the USA an unfair advantage worldwide in several ways:

    US schools and businesses get to pick from the best and brightest worldwide, promoting an atmosphere of high performance STEM jobs.

    US replaces lost high education and high IQ population, since there is a negative correlation between education level and reproduction.

    Finally, if you think in terms of winners vs losers, which I feel MAGAs do these days,, other countries lose their best and brightest, making them less competitive to the USA.

    And of course don't forget that the vast majority of Americans come from families that immigrated, and few would argue that they themselves should be sent back "to where they came from".

    No matter how you look at it, immigration is extremely advantageous to the USA if handled properly and an enviable position that many other countries wish they could be in.

  • It’s important to realize that in most democracies this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the system. The founders of these systems wanted to ensure that major decisions were deliberated, not rushed into, and that there wasn’t a lot of room for an executive power to make snap choices that would determine the future of the nation.

    • The media covers whatever gets them paid.
    • Trump figured out how to hack the media cycle. When the news gets spicy, he just makes even spicier news. (Real life "one simple trick!")
    • Everyone is so fatigued by the endless chaos that they start to tune it out.
    • The eye of sauron shifts and nobody cares about January 6 anymore, because that mofo is an actual contender to be elected yet again. That alone is more palpably terrifying news.
  • Bangkok AP —

    Thai police have arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban Bangkok, as families arrived in the capital Wednesday to help identify their loved ones.

    The bus carrying six teachers and 39 students in elementary and junior high school was traveling from Uthai Thani province, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Bangkok, for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces Tuesday.

    ... continues

  • Meh, your phone probably is. Also likely whatever else you use for connecting to the internet in the west too.a that irony isn't lost on the local but we'll educated in china, they just use a VPN. Those who aren't educated, well, they just don't know what's out there.

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  • There is a Russian captcha solver bot called xevil that costs under $100 (I think, last time I looked) that has been able to solve nearly all captchas for years. You just have to supply it with relatively expensive proxy IP addresses because Google rate limits solve attempts.

    So the title of this article has been true for a long long time. Capatchas are absolutely useless except against poor or uninformed script kiddies.

  • I subscribe too. I'm an expat in a SE asian country where the subscription cost is a bit lower so, I do have that going for me. (~$5.50)

    My consumption of YouTube is primarily through the official app on my Xbox. I also have a Pihole but it doesn't work for YouTube.

    This subscription lets me watch the creators I want to see, on the device I want, with the least amount of friction.