Financial networks either need “network neutrality” rules or maybe that monopoly needs to get broken up

He was driving on a suspended license at the time, so I’d suggest that it should be permanently cancelled

This pleases me

Your presence on an illegal, sedicious, and - worst of all - unsanctioned messaging server has been noted, citizen; have a treason star. In addition, it has been noted that you failed to file form TA-616/17B (Official Notice of Intent to Engage in Sedicious Activity) with your local IntSec office before engaging in the aforementioned activity - you are fined 50 XP Points.

Moxy and chutzpah are stats in Paranoia

If ECan are looking at shorter term fixes, perhaps dumping some of the billions of dollars this would cost into having a commuter bus service from Rolleston that runs more than once a day

Over COVID I was given 3 of the widgets that my company manufactures to take home in case I needed to help diagnose a customer problem. Stuck them in my backpack and walked to my car, then realized that my backpack was now worth about $150,000. When I got home I emailed my boss to confirm that, if my house were to burn down, the widgets would be covered under the companies insurance policy

Existence is suffering

To me, “fine” means “legal if you are rich enough”; I’d be for a system that if you get more than X speeding fines within a period, your license becomes provisional, and you have to resit the full license test within 6 months or loose it entirely. Maybe required people to have a “P” plate in the window while their license is provisional as a bit of social pressure as well.

Pretty much you’ve shown you aren’t familiar with the requirements to operate a vehicle on public roads, and need a reminder

At a guess:

• People with steam accounts and VPNs in countries that steam doesn’t operate in. Steam will block your “foreign” credit card as a fraud risk, but eBay dgaf cos it’s the sellers problem if they get ripped off
• This is probably a pretty convenient way to send small amounts of money to people in a way that looks pretty legit. Arrange to buy some drugs off someone over telegram, they get you to buy a “steam card” from them, they send an envelope with a blank bit of cardboard and the drugs

A friend of mine seems to get a ticket about once a year on average (which I don’t get - I’ve been driving for 15 years and never got one) - the thing that really bugs me though is how angry and upset she gets when she does get one; like she’s been targeted personally for something entirely outside of her control, not that if you choose to consistently drive 10km/h over the limit you are eventually going to get pinged. She doesn’t seem to have the “nothing is ever my fault” attitude generally, but for speeding fines it’s like she doesn’t feel that responsibility as a driver or something. Idk people are weird

We misunderstood, we thought that we owned you and could do whatever we wanted

So realistically, what would happen if there was a collision like this?

It’s a pretty significant hit, but not enough to meaningfully change the moon’s orbit, so no long term impacts from that. Maybe a pretty meteor shower from the material ejected? Probably not enough material to cause a significant amount of surface heating.

See, the thing is I grew up outside the US and was taught about the civil rights movement as well - did they just not talk about what the police and federal government were doing for a century? Was it all framed as a minority of whites that were being racist or something?

Check them into Git, but be cautious about credentials that might live in the env files that you don’t want to expose if you end up making the repo publicly available.

Damn, toner is running out

… so I shouldn’t use the CEOs history of bankruptcy and failed a Kickstarter when judging if I think it is going to succeed or not?

IIRC Ubiquity make a line of point-to-point ethernet bridges that operate in the 20GHz range (because more bandwidth, and if you have line of sight you don’t care about interference as much). Responsible vendors won’t even sell you one without sighting a license cos they can also get in trouble for selling it to you if it turns out you are operating it illegally

So this whole Gemini thing is a tactic to push people to upgrade their phones again right? They gave up on the whole “your phone is 6 months old and therefore won’t be getting security updates anymore so you need to buy a new phone with identical specs otherwise hackers are going to break into your bank account and set your dog on fire” because regulators were starting to get twitchy, so now it’s "your phone is brand new but you didn’t spend enough money on it so you better buy a new phone or you won’t be able to have a sentient assistant to help you do your job and manage your life and you’ll be passed over for promotion by a 16 year old AI Native and never get a date and your family will be angry at you because Aunt Mildred doesn’t like fish and you booked family dinner at the wrong restaurant "

The irony of being asked to sign up to a website to be able to read an article about opsec failures