mctoasterson

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 51 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

Well the good news for progressives is you'll likely see Thomas and maybe Alito retire during Trump's next term. The bad news is they'll be replaced by 35-year-old strict-constructionist Constitutional conservatives.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The House isn't stuck with that though. They can amend the rules for the next session, and I'd imagine any speaker worth his salt would demand that rule be stricken because it is unworkable.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I saw this as a kid and completely forgot it had both Tim Curry and Laura Linney in it.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago

He's Teflon Don. He will literally never do a day of jailtime.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Eventually people come to the surprising realization that their best product was actually the Zune.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is how all military branches have always pressured Congress for more budget. They give a public disquisition with doomsday scenarios about our rivals/adversaries so the public will see the press coverage and call their Congressional reps to demand the military gets built up.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

I think this game had the misfortune of launching right before OoT. It became a footnote after that because anyone with an N64 was understandably distracted by Zelda.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

This could be a blessing in disguise... My main purpose would be to avoid Apple-style "client side scanning" which, in the hands of vertically-integrated Google hardware and software, amounts to exposing yourself to constant and on-demand warrantless searches.

Since there is no transparency into the hardware backdoors, the internal workings of the close sourced Google ROM, or the business agreement to cooperate with LE / intelligence agencies, bare minimum is to run an alternative OS that complicates their efforts to undermine user privacy. Hobbled AI features on the chip itself might actually be another safeguard, depending on how it is implemented.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're implying that one candidate has a super secret big lead not reflected in polling.

Who? And why do you think that?

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No shame in it. Teri Garr was both hilarious and hot in that movie.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

Not a lawyer but I believe in the US this would be legal as you are granting the use of the original license and not duplicating any content for simultaneous use by others.

What I would like to see is a gentlemans agreement of sorts where companies agree not to come after people for playing pirate, emulated or archival copies of games that are decades old and not for sale in any format anymore. I guess this is somewhat encompassed in the framework of "Abandonware".

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

I 100% expect both camps will have extremely optimistic sounding rhetoric all the way through election day.

Both will claim victory.

Due to some bizarre procedures in at least one swing state we are unlikely to know an actual winner until Saturday (which is kinda crazy since the election is on Tuesday) and if things are even somewhat close there will be lawsuits and recounts.

This could actually end up being a long wait to know the outcome.

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