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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Brand new 1985 IrocZ found in storage
Who the fuck buy a new car and store it without driving it
I remember the days when one of those added hotness points.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I remember the days when one of those added hotness points.
It doesn't anymore?
FileUnder: Stopped searching for an IrocZ
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I remember the days when one of those added hotness points.
It doesn't anymore?
FileUnder: Stopped searching for an IrocZ
LOL, I've heard they are crap cars.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I agree with Martin Shkreli that when he raised the price of his drug he was within his rights because he had to reward his shareholders... If he's the only one selling it then he can make as much money as he can... We have to make money when we can. The price of iPhones goes up, the price of cars goes up, hotel rooms are very expensive.
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@Rhywden The right way to handle such things is to stop buying the drug due to the vastly decreased QALY/$ ratio.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I remember the days when one of those added hotness points.
The car of choice for the Teenage Dirtbag's nemesis:
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@dkf How do you "stop buying a drug" when you're not the one who actually buys it?
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@Rhywden Mu?
The premise of the question is wrong. It is exactly for those responsible for purchasing the drug (or purchasing it wholesale to provide to pharmacies/drugstores) to decide to not purchase it if it is too fucking expensive for what it does.
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@dkf And if the alternatives are of dubious or unproven value? If alternatives actually exist, that is.
There's a reason why that guy felt secure in upping the price by 400%. And I'm certain it's not because of: "Oh, if that's too expensive they have plenty of alternatives to choose from."
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
And if the alternatives are of dubious or unproven value?
What about the other people you can't afford to treat because of what you've spent on that now-more-expensive drug? There's always finite resources…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
And if the alternatives are of dubious or unproven value?
What about the other people you can't afford to treat because of what you've spent on that now-more-expensive drug? There's always finite resources…
Last time I looked, it was not the hospital ultimately footing the bill for a treatment.
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When you buy a movie on iTune, do you really own it?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
When you buy a movie on iTune, do you really own it?
No, you only buy the privelege of possibly viewing it if available and currently able to be viewed on a particular device and you have bandwidth and you have space (maybe). And and and... and.....
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
When you buy a movie on iTune, do you really own it?
ISTM the Parable of the Scorpion applies here...
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Last time I looked, it was not the hospital ultimately footing the bill for a treatment.
Depends on the system being used, yes? If patients are paying directly, they get to spend money on those drugs instead of other things (and medical bankruptcies are a consequent issue). If there's an intermediary (governmental, insurance company, clinical commission, etc.) then they have to decide how to use money efficiently. But it's never possible for every person to afford to do everything; there's never enough money in the world, and something's gotta give. Products/services that have recently had a 400% increase in cost are often candidates for severe cutting because fuck those gouging assholes…
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The next US company decides it doesn't have to follow the laws in other countries. Which has worked out so well for all the rest
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George Foreman could not be reached for comment.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
'please respond to these descriptions of massive amounts of child molestation'
'we must overcome the great accuser who seeks to create scandal'
Could he be any more blatant about it?In case you needed translation, he's talking about the Devil, "who seeks to create scandal" by "tempting" priests to sin by touching little boys.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Microsoft are really doing their best to annoy everyone recently. I've just noticed the Security Center is spamming me to install OneDrive, that is a not a security problem!
They have learned nothing from their past antitrust suits, apparently.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
'please respond to these descriptions of massive amounts of child molestation'
'we must overcome the great accuser who seeks to create scandal'
Could he be any more blatant about it?In case you needed translation, he's talking about the Devil, "who seeks to create scandal" by "tempting" priests to sin by touching little boys.
The optics aren't great though, when you use that kind of language in a case where you're getting accused of a lot of things. Anyone not super-knowledgeable about Christianity is going to take this fatally wrong.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Microsoft are really doing their best to annoy everyone recently. I've just noticed the Security Center is spamming me to install OneDrive, that is a not a security problem!
They have learned nothing from their past antitrust suits, apparently.
Sure they did: As long as you keep pushing in things like this quietly, and don't make them forced, you can get away with anything.
Apple still makes other web browsers use Safari's rendering engine still as far as I know, and no one seems to be slapping them down for what is a far more egregious move.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
As long as you keep pushing in things like this quietly, and don't make them forced, you can get away with anything.
, except in this case :do_not_want:
It's nice that they've give us the option to not show the message again, because you know installing a not-Edge browser is something I do every other day.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Microsoft are really doing their best to annoy everyone recently. I've just noticed the Security Center is spamming me to install OneDrive, that is a not a security problem!
BTW, we have a dedicated thread:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/25687/microsoft-seems-desperate/
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Microsoft are really doing their best to annoy everyone recently. I've just noticed the Security Center is spamming me to install OneDrive, that is a not a security problem!
BTW, we have a dedicated thread:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/25687/microsoft-seems-desperate/I saw. I posted it first though, he's culturally appropriated my discussion
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
'please respond to these descriptions of massive amounts of child molestation'
'we must overcome the great accuser who seeks to create scandal'
Could he be any more blatant about it?In case you needed translation, he's talking about the Devil, "who seeks to create scandal" by "tempting" priests to sin by touching little boys.
I thought that was pretty clear but it doesn't do anything to change the impression that he's trying to avoid having the Church actually do anything about it.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
The alarm was set up to deter trespassers and a spokesman said it had been very successful but they were unaware of the effect it had on residents.
He explained that the song had begun playing continuously due to an itsy-bitsy spider.
The "eerie" music was set off every time this spider crawled across a CCTV camera linked to an alarm
The arachnid had been found on a camera that was linked to the alarm, he said."Every time the spider went across the CCTV it set off the alarm".
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Apple still makes other web browsers use Safari's rendering engine still as far as I know, and no one seems to be slapping them down for what is a far more egregious move.
It seems to be because the European Com
edymittee does not understand that each platform is a market of its own, so when Apple has something like 20 or 30 (or I-don't-know-how-much, ) percent of the overall mobile market, they won't be considered to have dominant position. Microsoft still does have a dominant position on the desktop market.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
each platform is a market of its own
Sort of. The barriers between the platforms are higher, but it is possible to jump ship between them.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
George Foreman could not be reached for comment.
Florida Man thread is
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
each platform is a market of its own
Sort of. The barriers between the platforms are higher, but it is possible to jump ship between them.
Towards the users, mobile phones are one market with a bit of cost to switching. But towards application vendors, they are completely separate markets. When you are selling an application, each platform you are on gives you an independent set of potential customers.
But the anti-trust committees and regulations either don't recognise that these are markets of their own, or don't care about business-to-business relationships. So Apple can pull off their bullshit because it is primarily at the expense of the independent application vendors.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Not in the blurb: That's within an hour of notification by the authorities. Not of uploading, or of notification by arbitrary users.
That's still a censorship concern if it prevents human review of the notification, of course.
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@pie_flavor
Gotta note, a byline of "Is um a gay say" puts that article firmly in the Poe leaning side of the ledger for me...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
each platform is a market of its own
Sort of. The barriers between the platforms are higher, but it is possible to jump ship between them.
I've seen the same argument applied to cable providers in the past. Entire municipalities typically only had a single cable TV provider, with the only local alternative being significantly more expensive satellite providers. But it was not a monopoly because users could move to a different part of the country which had a different service provider.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
'please respond to these descriptions of massive amounts of child molestation'
'we must overcome the great accuser who seeks to create scandal'
Could he be any more blatant about it?In case you needed translation, he's talking about the Devil, "who seeks to create scandal" by "tempting" priests to sin by touching little boys.
The optics aren't great though, when you use that kind of language in a case where you're getting accused of a lot of things. Anyone not super-knowledgeable about Christianity is going to take this fatally wrong.
Ok, but to be fair, he was speaking at Mass... his audience was Catholic. And not just Catholic, but bishops, apparently.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
'please respond to these descriptions of massive amounts of child molestation'
'we must overcome the great accuser who seeks to create scandal'
Could he be any more blatant about it?In case you needed translation, he's talking about the Devil, "who seeks to create scandal" by "tempting" priests to sin by touching little boys.
Sure, that's a potential interpretation.
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Apple announced a product they can't deliver
From the article
Apple had made the job of developing an all-in-one charger all the more difficult by using differing wireless charging protocols for the iPhone and the Apple Watch.
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@TimeBandit Just paving the way to invent it in a couple of years
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
using differing wireless charging protocols for the iPhone and the Apple Watch.
Yeah, because using Qi, the thing they helped develop, is too hard.
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@pie_flavor Once again, they're the company that named their most excessively priced product yet XS.
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@Magus "Ten Ess". It's really obvious if you were one of the seven people who called the previous model the iPhone Ten.