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I’m going to give the fifa peace prize the same amount of respect I’d give a Nobel football world cup. Less even.

Well I mean it’s true if you also belive trigger’s broom in only fools and horses is still the same broom.

Probably only older people from the UK will get the reference. Sorry.

Ahh, that’s the modern terror.

I would say, now it’s learning that actually sticking your head in the sand is only ever a delaying tactic. But, if it DID learn that, it’d mean it has surpassed us already.

At home I’m on Linux but yes I also have a work laptop and I hate windows more and more daily.

It’s always been that way. In universities green is a very popular party. As people get older many move toward the other parties.

The main difference is that lib dems also used to be more popular in universities. I guess the coalition put an end to that.

Thanks AI. Remind me how many megawatt hours your model consumed to create?

Of course not. As the merovingian in the matrix says. French is a fantastic language, especially to curse with.

Ahh so a trojan horse. Inside is a klingon bird of prey?

Now, and yet also at any point in history, and also likely the future.

The annoying thing is, the partner they use accept credit card as a method of verification. I suppose they cannot justify access your saved card details for this purpose. But technically the info is there, yes.

OK. +1. -1000. They’re clawing it back! :P

Then I suggest they use an XNOR pointer instead! Checkmate patent trolls!

Regret is such a long word, when I’m so, so tired.

Or, you do the tutorial, play for an hour don’t come back for a year and don’t know what is going on.

Well I’d also be very weary of getting that close to the sun too.

Huh. I am sure you could search for individual books. For sure you could do it by goodreads ID I think? Yes, adding an entire author as the primary way to do things is a bit much for some. I know for sure I have managed to do individual books before now.

Well it is. If you get fined £50 a day for leaving your car parked in a no parking zone. And you get a notice your parking is being investigated. Do you a) Move your car to mean you “at worst” get the fine for the time you were there or b) Just leave it there, because “they’ve already got me”?

Just because there’s a POTENTIAL for some comeback from prior infringements, doesn’t mean a good financial decision isn’t to pull out of the market to avoid future infringement actions. This is ESPECIALLY so, when there’s a new law with stricter enforcement available to the state regulator.

My whole point has been from the start “Just trying to avoid being fined” is a financial business decision. They have multiple options. But the ones that matter are:

1. Remove yourself from the UK market, thereby limiting exposure to future fines.
2. Accept you will get more, significantly bigger fines and try to fight them in the courts.

One carries less financial risk than the other. They chose the option with lower financial risk to them.

I’m from the UK and it’s not a great situation for us. But, I also think businesses that have a genuine fear of ending up in Ofcom’s sights need to start making this kind of decision to the extent that normal people begin to feel the effect of the Online Safety act. Because that’s the only time they’re going to get the kind of backlash they need to respond to.

But, that’s still the same thing. It’s a commercial decision to withdraw from the market rather than fight a legal battle. It’s entirely based on financial risk.

Like I say, the ICO and Ofcom are letting that fact pull a lot more weight than it should. But it’s technically a correct assessment.

Yep, same. Well I actually remember finding the best ways to copy a game on a tape error free first. Some, without protection you could just save back to tape for a digital reproduction (and this also allowed tape to disk conversion). Actually those with non destructive copy protection could kinda be copied too if you knew a little Z80 ASM. Others, you needed to copy tape to tape and hope the quality turned out OK.

But yes, then bringing your box of copied disks (Amiga in my case) into school and swapping with your friends was the way to go.