Wooster

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[–] Wooster@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Through a valued partnership between Propstore Ltd. and CBS Studios Inc., an amicable agreement among all parties involved has been reached to restore Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation captain’s chair to the Star Trek Archive,” a statement on Propstore’s website now reads. “The chair will be preserved as a piece of science fiction history. While the whereabouts of the chair had been unknown for three decades, the Star Trek Archive is currently working on plans to showcase it for Star Trek fans to see firsthand in the coming year.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the Starfleet Academy game… waaaaay ahead of its time… as in the hardware really couldn’t handle 3D combat.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 106 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Is this a Russian style self inflicted wound…?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish the actors were cleared to reveal little things… otherwise these interviews are just barely interactive NDAs.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

I wasn’t expecting an Animorphs reference . Gosh does that take me back.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Cool.

Do Facebook next.

They are doing Facebook next, right?

Right?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I swear, Texas’s grid is the sort of thing that would’ve been written out of a dystopian novel for being too cartoonishly evil.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Huh… I wonder if the Borg Corgi is a homage to the “Ensign Sue Must Die” saga, which featured a Borg Beagle.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I question how much of this is a logistics issue, vs how much of this is because half the population is convinced that basic medical care causes Down syndrome .

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Mm… again not a lawyer, but I think that question goes beyond the scope of the document.

It basically gives the government permission to hold renters accountable for using software to artificially raise prices. What form that accountability takes is not addressed. Either that’s covered under existing collusion laws or is up to the courts.

So, it’s an essential ingredient to the cake that you’re describing… but unless prosecution (or whatever the term actually is) brings that up (I assume?), it won’t happen.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

The joint legal brief clarifies that it is indeed collusion. And continues to explain how this is a technological evolution of the handshake.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I just read the joint legal brief, and, I have to say up front that I am not remotely a lawyer… but the document specifies how and where to identify price fixing, and that motions to dismiss those charges are to be dismissed.

So it doesn't dictate the penalties for price fixing (I assume that's on a trial by trial basis—but again, not a lawyer), but it makes it impossible(?) to ignore, and suggests that (to me), users of 'RENTMaximizer' will be in the crosshairs… while not actually stating that.

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