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Weird. My employer is stupid strict about open source. I suspect it's because we contribute a bit.

Open source is usually preferred from a security and time to evaluate and implement standpoint, but it all needs to go through review to ensure we meet every licence agreement. This process can be annoying for some things and closed commercial products are used instead, who will happily sign business agreements in exchange for cash.

Because this was such a barrier to open source adoption, they actually implemented a process of cataloging approved open source software allowing projects to get the correct licenses arranged quickly.

Tech firms have no reason to abuse open source licensing, unless getting sued is cheaper than the software, which I suspect is largely not true, it's just also expensive for the developer. Maybe we need some sort of union-like organization for open source developers with special commercial licensing that they can contribute union-like fees to for suing these shits.

"he's just recording an Ashley Furniture store?"

I am the IT people. I like working from home :)

I didn't know how transponders worked so I didn't know if they could do that.

Jesus that's a lot more than I would have expected.

You know, I always wondered where the professionals ended up in Elysium. Like there are the medical professionals taking care of the earthlings, but the life saving machines are in Elysium so they aren't needed up there.

But like, what about the software folks? Like there's an epic shit ton of software going on in that movie that just kind of gets handwaved.

Passification is handled by robots and crazy humans. Other than the one executive who comes down, where are his direct reports? There is no way he was interested in the factory management, that would be a middle management job. And then what about accountants? Researchers designing the tech on Elysium?

It never really made a whole lot of sense that Elysium was just the rich. They can't just "get" everything they want up there, it had to come from earth.

Man, the coast guard really doesn't fuck around does it?

The same way the FCC prosecutes other RF violations

Which come to think of it, there isn't really a way for them to do that unless it's a stationary high powered source

Isn't there a pretty big fine for fucking around on that frequency?

Or is it one of those things that it's not actually enforceable

I was going to make a joke about how my social status died over a decade ago, but then I realized that no, it didn't. It changed.

Instead of my social status being something amongst friends and classmates, it's now coworkers, managers, and clients. A death in the social part of my world - work - would be so devastating that it motivates me to suffer just a little bit more. Losing my job would end a lot of things for me.

I need to reevaluate my life

Regardless if he takes office or not, I fully expect political violence. That is what this rhetoric leads to.

I suspect it won't be nearly as bad and nearly as pervasive if Harris takes office. But it will still happen. That's what happens when you have idiots being enflamed by this sort of rhetoric. They see a jihad. That's the endgame of ultraconservativism. Blind adherence to the authority. Be it a person, or an imaginary entity.

I have a son I need to protect. I have friends to protect. I don't know what will happen, but we can't pretend this will all be ok.

That's the part they don't get, we value debate. They can't wrap their mind around us disagreeing on stuff