radix

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[–] radix 88 points 2 months ago (7 children)

There's also Ulysses S. Grant. The "S" was apparently just a mistake on his enrollment at West Point. His birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He tried to switch his first and middle names, but ended up with the initials USG instead of UHG.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulysses-S-Grant

[–] radix 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Legally, it's still a license, it's just effectively impossible to revoke.

Edit to expand on this: A truly offline forever-purchase of physical goods can be re-sold. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine (this is the US-specific version, other jurisdictions may have similar doctrines).

American legal concept that limits the rights of an intellectual property owner to control resale of products embodying its intellectual property.

A digital "purchase" is usually non-transferable, even from GOG. It can't be removed from your own HDD once you download the installer, but there are still restrictions attached on what you can do with it, even if those are limited and hard to enforce.

[–] radix 5 points 2 months ago

Qaren Rogers has an unhealthy bromance with Hackett. He'll be the last one standing.

[–] radix 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have twitter links blocked, so it was hard to get to the original source for me too, but this is it:

It makes somewhat more sense in context. He's not calling all gamers scum, he saying "gamers" (in scare quotes) that root for the downfall of companies and harass people on social media are not decent people.

There's still some room to disagree with him, but it's not as bad as the top headline makes it out to be.

[–] radix 46 points 3 months ago

Amber and Silver alerts were made for the most vulnerable, helpless, weakest members of society that need constant care and attention.

It's a hell of an admission to model another alert after those.

[–] radix 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tencent and Guillemot combined are considering a buyout of other shareholders. Most of that is Guillemot, with Tencent increasing their share very slightly from 9.2% to 10%.

[–] radix 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Foreword written by Georgia O'Keeffe.

[–] radix 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Giuliani, Cuomo, Bloomberg, Adams....

Somewhere along the line, I'm sure NYC has had a decent mayor, but the recent history has been pretty fucked up.

[–] radix 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If we're gaming the whole scenario out, I imagine it would go something like this.

None of his current convictions are expected to come with a custodial sentence, but say he loses the election, and the more serious trials are heating up. At that point, he knows he's toast. 2028 is too late to run a fourth time; he's got no more hail marys, so he dismisses his detail completely, retreats to Florida, and sneaks away to Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night.

He's got a private jet, so getting out of the country shouldn't be a huge problem. But I think you're right that he has to set all this in motion before a guilty verdict is delivered. At that point, getting away from the secret service would be much more difficult.

[–] radix 47 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I got curious. This showing is in about 90 minutes, in one of the reddest counties in the country.

There is another show tonight that has about 10 tickets sold.

[–] radix 110 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Well I've seen enough to know it's not even worth a hate watch:

[–] radix 116 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Security is a privilege, not a mandate. Nixon dropped his in 1985.

Becoming a fugitive from justice would count as voluntarily giving up lots of privileges, the very least of which would be a publicly funded security detail.

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