Doesn’t/shouldn’t work for their liability either. Vocabulary fail on my part.

Where did they get the idea that that’s a more respectable response?

EDIT: Doesn’t/shouldn’t work for their liability either. Vocabulary fail on my part.

I hope they bankrupt the fucking state of Texas. Someone should sue him for wasting taxpayer money. Toss-up on whether I feel bad enough for progressive &/or sensible Texans to care how those two thoughts play-out.

Okay, but was it for their home, a friend, their boss, a government office or workspace? Was any harm really done? Was the fridge really unsecured during transport?

It always amazes me how little the context of what a group with a bad rep is willing to act on matters when they think they’ve found an excuse to look like they hold themselves accountable with transparency.

Accountability and transparency should be so much more than a scapegoat, a couple paragraphs, and a picture that doesn’t even show the whole fridge/vehicle.

I want this on a t-shirt

Thus the confusion in my first comment. Governments play at least as fast and loose with their own rules as this dude did, and you’re right, its stupid the article doesn’t mention it at all.

I read the article.

Not that he’s not reselling them, but paying a 9% tax for every single item you posses beyond $500 in value every time you cross the border is just absurd. Remind me to never take my laptop, phone, or a decent camera anywhere near Singapore.

All that aside, I thought the idea of customs and import duties was versus new items, not things that can be picked-up at a second-hand store or pawn shop. If he provided itemized receipts, would they even believe him if the prices weren’t high-enough? … or were “too old”?

Reminds me of Massoud Hayoun’s When We Were Arabs. Jews being welcomed and protected by their Arab neighbors(and family!) in Palestine is one of the many truths that Israel/the West wants everyone to forget.

Nah, their patent on acetominaphen is expired, so they have little real interest in defending it today. Slap another brand on their various meds that don’t contain it, and call it a day.

How the hell is this better than “unreliable machines and confused corporate users”? Seems it’s for nothing more than sneaking a diffuser into environments where it’s rightly restricted. Every single time I’m feeling remotely okay with such non-sense…

Itself, first and formost. FCC-approved method for dealing with EFI. Me? I would rather have a drain-hole and keep it away from other vulnerable tech, but I’m not the traget consumer.

I don’t even eat there, but I still thought the new logo was absurdly bad.

Sadly, I would assume oblivion was no longer a choice at that point, but yeah, given the choice, reincarnation or oblivion for me, or I’mma at least ask them to let me see what hell’s like before deciding.

Okay, but, irrefutably faced with “the option”(accepting the offer by way of accepting whatever dogma, after death), would you refuse?

The way its written(judgement is full of people who don’t understand why they are getting in, as well as those who think they should have, and don’t), that’s pretty much what it would take to end up in the other place, and you’re right, its stupid they ask people the “will you” question, rather than “do you want to?” Oh, and, “do you understand even the most basic premise of your professed beliefs?”

I mean, you made me look at it again myself, as the multi-part rar files on Usenet are still very much a thing. The allowable “article” sizes for binary content are larger than for text articles, but still too small for video or high-quality audio.

Pirated media(images, movies, ebooks, ROMs) uses binary posts, not text. There are different limits and retention policies for binary versus text articles, and most Usenet servers, particularly cheap or free ones, don’t host a lot of the categories a pirate would want at all.

Please don’t imply that all Usenet providers facilitate piracy.

Magical times before my own on Usenet.

Exactly this. I don’t need 1080P or 4k mp4 rips with 10bit audio, and I definitely don’t have the storage for it, but when that’s all that is seeding, its usually quicker to just download it and re-encode.

Downloading large files from Usenet was paid pretty early on. If the core functionality of Usenet is now paid, this is news to me.