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The license plate itself isn’t the issue. The state want cars to have an easily visible identifier? Sure, whatever makes sense from a perspective of being able to identify a car and its likely driver at the moment when it's actively being used for a crime or for traffic enforcement.

The problem is that this state mandated visible identifier is then used by them to constantly track where you go. So the question is do you have the right to not have the government tracking your movements and keeping logs of everywhere you’ve been for months or years, especially when you’re not currently suspected of any crime?

It's less the people of the UK have chosen this and more of general apathy towards the state of the world today. The lack of unity and mobilization of the proletariat class to secure our rightful share of the productivity gains of recent decades has left us in a terrible bargaining position, and technology these days is such a huge force multiplier that it feels hopeless to go against governments, and to a lesser extent the huge corporations and elites that influence them (or totally control, according to some). Sometimes I wonder if we've already crossed the point of no return and that they've won and just nobody realizes it yet, and we're doomed to descend into some flavor of corporate dystopian hellhole future.

Yes but dedicating the same amount of time as kids or young adults do to school while also working full-time as an adult is exhausting. I washed out on my first go at college, and going back several years later took me 6 years to finish what was 4 semesters of credits back when I wasnt having to work 40 hours a week AND squeeze in classes when I can at night or early morning.

Bridge to Nowhere 2 years ago

Universal Paperclips, it's a clicker game where the only object of the game is to make your count of paper clips go as high as possible. With that in mind I'm sure you can reason out his intent now.

Most American towns have one pickup day for both recycling and trash, and only one type of recycling anyways. Kind of unnecessary to print hundreds of thousands just to mark Tuesday or Friday every week on them.

Calling FSN a porno because it has sex scenes is like calling Wolf of Wall Street a porno just because it has sex scenes. It's extremely reductive and entirely inaccurate. There's like literally 3 or 4 h-scenes in the entire novel, and collectively they all probably make up less than a few percent of the text/screentime.

Your judgemental attitude is definitely a part of the problem because while you may be 'accepting' others that share your actual opinion aren't. Do you also think people that take anxiety medication are wasting their life? People that take sleep medication? People that take ADD medication? People that take pain medication? People that have a drink after work to relax? People that drink socially to have a good time?

The 75 lane your talking about is actually an HOV lane, not an express one. And I appreciate that it exits off the highway for exactly one reason and it's that it makes it so incredibly easy for the cops to setup their checkpoints to catch single people using the HOV lane without screwing over the rest of the traffic on the highway. Love to see it.

Literally all they're saying is 'fuck' and 'holy shit', it's not like they're dropping racial slurs or anything.

If you're that sensitive to this mild of profanity you probably shouldn't be on the fucking internet in the first place my friend.

Dmv.org 2 years ago

Tax office has to be in your county yes, which makes sense because you're registering your vehicle with the county you live in so it has to be one of their tax offices, but you can go to any DPS for drivers license stuff. We regularly use a specific DPS office in the next county over that's in small town about an hour away, and so much quicker to get things done there even accounting for the extra time driving out there.

Out of all the things to take issue with about their monetization model that is such a wild take. Do you also have issues about paying for a videogame that uses your GPU? Probably not.

Any paid software you can run on your own hardware by definition is paying to use "your own" resources(CPU, GPU, storage, etc), what you're paying for is their effort in creating and maintaining the software. If they want a gatekeep features for a premium version that's their right, if you have a problem with it find something else or make it yourself.

I'd assume a legitimate Netflix watching session looks pretty different from a speed test metadata wise. Small amounts of data sent for a bit while you're finding something to watch, then a consistent rate while you're streaming it, as opposed to an immediate maxing out of the connection for 45 seconds.

This should only be flagged if it was found that this article was fraudulent and incorrect and he didn’t say that in my opinion.

Okay then it should be flagged by your reasoning, did you read the article? Because there's no proof in it that he ever said it. A woman who refused to identify herself past a first name claims he said it.

Steam also provides multiplayer support/matchmaking, social features, voice chat, download/update infrastructure, anti cheat, and other things I'm probably not listing because I don't directly interact with as a player, and the only up front money you have to pay is a one-time $100 that gets refunded if you end up making $1,000 in revenue. Pretty good deal.

I think people believe that "on prem" means actually racking the servers in your closet, but you can get datacenter space with fantastic power, cooling, and security almost anywhere these days.

That's because that is what on prem means. What you're describing is colocating.