Also, “San disk” is very different, linguistically, from “SanDisk”. Would you buy a set of dining room furniture from a brand called Notable? That’s a bit different from No table, isn’t it?

Ref: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/

This one gets easier when you remember that they retconned it later.

Game of Tones?

There’s like 5 episodes that people always mention. If it’s not that, it’s probably The Late Philip J Fry, The Sting, or Lethal Inspection

Not OP, but it’s not a new idea. I’ve seen that suggested, even in major news coverage, for the past 20 years. For a long time, any article criticizing the TSA and its effectiveness would point out that weak point.

I’m impressed by how much Cunningham’s Law is in the comments. I can’t tell if they don’t get the joke, or if the joke is too deep and I’m the one missing it.

Seems they are officially based out of Cyprus, with a large parent (equity) company operating in multiple countries.

I’m betting at least some of those operations are in the US, although I couldn’t easily find a list to confirm. They could also have employees, such as developers, or operate data centers in the US. HQ isn’t especially meaningful in this context.

That gets complicated if they’re in the US. Technically, they only need to follow laws in places where they have a presence. But there are US courts that have ruled that operating a web service available in their jurisdiction counts. Then there’s all the stuff about interstate commerce and enforcement, lawsuits and criminal charges, etc. for a simple example, look up Media Matters and Twitter.

Conversely, if they are entirely outside of US jurisdiction, Florida can file (and win) lawsuits to their heart’s content. It only matters if they can collect or enforce an injunction, or at least enforce a block.

There are no circumstances where you live in Florida, and it would be easier to leave than to setup a VPN connection. Unless you had to build your own VPN server, and even then probably not.

A better plan long-term, sure. But not easier.

Younger me did not care about VPNs (which weren’t really a thing at the time), but I did care about finding porn. Most had some form of Adult Check or similar.

It did not stop me from finding porn elsewhere.

The law doesn’t technically ban porn. It just sets arduous requirements on distribution of porn. They can still produce it all they want, but Florida is now a difficult market to sell it in.

I expect to see a rise in European or other foreign porn sites. These will be able to safely ignore any “requirements” from Florida.

Giving these items to employees could be considered part of their compensation package, like gift cards. Those have to be appropriately recorded and taxed.

FWIW, a lot of these places now send damaged/surplus/whatever items to a salvage company, who then pays the original retailer “fire sale” prices. These items are usually auctioned off locally for a fraction of MSRP.

Same for many returned items, BTW. There’s a local auction site that runs like eBay, but it’s overwhelmingly Amazon returns.

Mixing brands is fine, assuming one of two things is true:

1. They are following the same defined standard (e.g. 802.11ax, not “mesh Wi-Fi”)

2. The proprietary feature you are looking for is contained within devices for that brand. IOW, that feature doesn’t need to interoperate with other brands.

Most mesh systems are proprietary, so everything within that must match (for the back haul connection). But you can also just setup another WAP, following the 802.11 and 802.3 standards. Similarly, your point to point devices can connect to other devices using 802.11 or .3, but not to the mesh back haul.

A 1993 Time Magazine article quotes computer scientist John Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as saying “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”[7]

That applied a whole lot more when most connections were using a phone line, and a decent size city could have hundreds of ISPs. But part of the design of a redundant mesh network is that there are tons of different paths to any destination. Cutting any of those links would simply force traffic to other routes.

The early Internet was decentralized in other ways, too. Rather than flock to corporate platforms like Facebook, people spent a lot of time on federated and independent platforms. This included Usenet, IRC, and BBSes. In the event that the feds, lawyers, etc could take one down, a dozen more could spring up overnight. There was such a small barrier to entry, and many were run by hobbyists.

It’s somewhat true today. There are countless Lemmy instances that are completely independent. Pirate Bay famously references the Hydra, and it applies to their peers as well. But these are limited in scope.

Xitter has shown us just how quickly and thoroughly a platform can collapse through hostile admins, and how slowly people will reject it.

Buggy how? What specifically is an issue? Have you ever gotten to a stable and working point? If so, what changed?

I personally only use Linux in servers. It may take a while to configure initially, but then I don’t touch it in any meaningful way for years.

I work an office job in the US. You need to find a better job. No one here is required or even expected to skip lunch. Scheduling is often difficult, so many of my colleagues put it on their calendars as reserved time/another meeting. You can’t schedule a meeting with John at noon. It doesn’t matter if it’s because he’s in another meeting or at lunch; he’s already booked.

Yes, there are many terrible employers. If you work for one, you need to leave.

Not OP, but it’s going to be really hard to assign a hard value to that. There are plenty of obvious examples where they denied a life-saving treatment. But many of them would’ve died anyway.

Then there are cases where they deny preventative/early treatments. Some of these eventually led to more serious and fatal conditions, some did not. How do we count these?

Then there’s quality of life denials. These don’t directly lead to fatal conditions, but can affect morale and the like, thus allowing more serious conditions?

All of it would be compared to the unexplored alternatives (where treatment was authorized). This is inherently an unknown.

I’m not defending him by any means. It’s just that his body count is, at best, a rough estimate.

Shares with all of your contacts by default. Also includes a sales pitch to each of them to sign up as well

That might even just be the “call of the void.” Throw in some very minor extras, like alcohol or a bad day at work, and it’s easy to see someone heeding that call.

Somewhat off topic, it’s my understanding that they didn’t (usually) go missing. The term was “deported”, so it happened in broad daylight. Of course, what happened after wasn’t so widely known.

You can’t broadly say that for a brand, especially one as diverse as HP. Some are very easy, mostly the enterprise models. Many are borderline impossible. Without knowing the model, it’s impossible to say. It could require removing the motherboard, or special tools to open the case.