rchive

All of Earth has always been a disaster zone. Do you realize how incredible it is that we don't all get eaten by lions every day like our ancestors did? Lol

Everything has a buyer at some price. These people will just have to sell at a loss, probably.

Don't worry, housing prices will crash next year and then you can buy cheap. Lol

The criticisms I hear from the American left about carbon taxes is that they don't work, not that they look like socialism. I think they probably would work, but what do I know.

Good. Subsidizing risky behavior, as we do with some kinds of disaster insurance, encourages risky behavior. Rising insurance costs are the market telling people to stop living in certain places. We'd do well to listen and stop living in places like Florida so much.

He probably does think that. He could spin rising premiums as speculation based on climate change belief.

ISPs mostly aren't public utilities, so none of that applies to them. Taxes generally don't go to them. They're no more public utilities or tax funded than a company that would come to your house and cut your grass.

It is true that several times in the last few decades the government has handed ISPs some cash in exchange for doing specific things like expanding service to certain areas. It's more than justified to be mad at them for not holding up their end. That doesn't make them public utilities, though. The government deserves a bunch of blame for that, too, because it's stupid and handed a bunch of private companies a bunch of money with no accountability mechanism. Of course they're gonna take the money and run.

That's why I'm saying stop trusting the government to fix things like this.

I'm not sure what that has to do with YouTube detecting ad blockers.

I think what they were saying is that the law specifically makes exceptions for things that are necessary. Others are saying ads are not necessary per the law's definition, but that's a separate issue.

Why wouldn't the hacker just be liable instead?

Are you arguing people should only try to be correct when it benefits a poor person? When being correct benefits a rich person we should just lie about the truth?

I mean, no matter what, you do have a say. You can just not use YouTube. Pretty easy, actually.