Banzai51

joined 2 years ago
[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Way back in the day, my best friend had a family friend that owned a computer software store. He rented games and gave us copies of the latest and greatest copy programs with a wink-wink and a nudge-nudge.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Remember, no business is required to tell the truth. Had a pipeline go through my backyard and you would not believe the lies that company told. Glad I lawyered up instead of believing the lies.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Only if you sold it. Back when cassette tapes first came out, the ~~mystic~~ music industry sued, and the Supreme Court ruled it fair use. So VHS tapes were under the same umbrella. We wouldn't get that same ruling now.

Holy hell, that was one hell of an autocorrect on mobile.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I love how you don't highlight the Israelis murdered in the rocket attacks and other activities that kicked this latest round of conflict off. Almost like the usual suspects don't care if Israelis die. The whole, "we don't believe in mass murder" is complete bullshit. You just want one side to win and you don't give a shit how.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 42 points 1 year ago (35 children)

Funny how the usual suspects aren't in here complaining about this. Meanwhile, Joe Biden doesn't kowtow their every policy wish and he's the devil.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

It the same mechanism. They can do it, they just don't want to.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's the 90s webguru all over again!

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They can. I buy and gift games to my son all the time.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Including cell calling?

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 55 points 1 year ago

Just like when Christopher Tolkien died. No one else was left to be passionate about his father's vision and desires.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

That info can go stale quickly as content licensing changes. I've ran into that plenty.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

There are still plenty of good deals in streaming if you have shifted to on-demand. If you want live TV or sports, they're out to gouge the fuck out of you. Luckily my Wife came around to on-demand only and an antenna. Of course, they're trying hard to take away the antenna option from everyone with ATSC 3.0.

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