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Just block ads while you're there so you're a drain on their resources and not lining their pockets further.

Well I suppose I'll keep that in mind! Haven't tried that one yet myself.

Maybe at their brick and mortar locations, but I haven't felt like the pint in the grocery store is anywhere close to good enough to be worth $9. It's hard enough to justify Ben & Jerry's with it's $6 price tag.

Oh wow - our legal system CAN react this quickly. That's good to know, as we watch Washington burn to a crisp while federal judges and congresspeople do... uh....

Oh wow - that's something I was unaware of!

But then it is certainly the need for a jailbroken console that has Sony filing a DMCA. Sony has historically been ridiculously controlling and tight with their console software... I fortunately was pretty in the know and didn't upgrade my PSP software beyond the version range for running exploits - but there were periods of months where no progress was ever made on future versions. It was a very long, hard fought cat and mouse game. And another example, mod chip makers for PS3/4/5 have been repeatedly taken to court and dismantled by Sony.

I'm saying that he is treating all of our existing laws as guidelines that you'll have to sue him in order to reverse. Almost as if our laws matter only if you bring him to court to defend them.

Our congress is not balancing him. No formal objection or interference as far as I know, raising their own bills with horrifying implications in the meantime. But maybe it's an optimistic view, I think maybe corporations and rights groups and foreign countries, and wronged individuals are going to be up his ass for four years. It's the only way we can expect the judicial branch to check the lunacy.

Another GAAS bites the dust. Praise be.

"Fair Use" in media and on the internet is not a legal protection, it is a defense in court. Most cases never go to court over fair use, because the billion/trillion dollar company targeting you can afford to wait you out.

Our whole legal framework has degraded to this level, I fear. They would have to defend it I think court for it to matter - and what are the chances a college aged kid can afford to.

There are rights groups that used to be a help in these matters, but if everyone everywhere is under attack, they certainly don't have the resources to deal with everything.

English, man.

It's certainly true that they're profitting off of the cheaper labor. I imagine their factory in Germany only has so much capacity and is tooled for manufacture of specific models. The original strategy with the resources they had lead them to break down their global manufacturing strategy in this way; but that's not to say they CANNOT do it differently, it just made fiscal sense due to probably a thousand different factors.

So I imagine that yes, they COULD move operations to the EU. But it's probably cheaper to fight legal battles and continue to operate this way for years while they're resolved in the courts.

I guess it doesn't take very many to make the map if there are no/few other identifiable naming conventions. Fair strategy scrolling municipalities on Wikipedia - thanks for that.

The subject of the photograph is meant to be the Great Wall of China, which the name Great Firewall of China is referencing. Now tech CEOs liked what ideas the dictatorship had and want an American version. Obama is present because I believe he narrated a wonders of the world documentary, and it was just a weird choice.