charonn0's comments

On: America's shoplifting problem, explained by retail...

[charonn0]

>After all, why should I pay if others can steal without consequences?

I've had this exact thought while waiting to pay for my purchases and watching people carry armloads of stolen items out the front door.

On: YouTube's ad blocker crackdown is getting harder t...

[charonn0]

Because you agree to the terms of using their service when you use their service.

[tomjen3 → charonn0]

TOS are a joke made up by lawyers. I don't have to sign a TOS when I buy a cucumber, and I don't get my cucumber revoked if I stick it up my ass rather than eat it as was "intended".

No reason to complicate commerce just because it happens online. TOS needs to die in favour of a few simple standard rules.

[charonn0 → tomjen3]

A cucumber is a good, not a service.

[cheradenine_uk → charonn0]

Nope, that's not a contract because there is no consideration.

[charonn0 → cheradenine_uk]

Receiving a service is consideration.

[candiodari → charonn0]

If you reply to this comment I expect $10000000000 and your firstborn.

And your cat.

On: Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

[charonn0]

The lawsuit asks for injunctive, not monetary, relief.

[dragonwriter → charonn0]

False. It asks for both injunctive and monetary relief.

On monetary relief:

On the joint COPPA claim, it asks the court to “Award the Filing States damages, restitution, and other compensation”

On the state law claims, each and every state asks for monetary relief under its own law in the form of civil penalties, damages, disgorgement, and/or restitution.

On: Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

[charonn0]

Meta is not being banned, though.

On: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek

[charonn0]

I never realized that Worf's weird chair with the round things was an actual chair.

[ant6n → charonn0]

Theres this weird little seen where he just sits in it, his parents come in and he stands up.

On: The data and puzzling history behind California's ...

[charonn0]

The EU had already banned this dye.

On: Oldest footprints in North America push back human...

[charonn0]

At night it's called the moon.

[dekhn → charonn0]

there is no dark side of the moon matter of fact, it's all dark

On: I got robbed of my first kernel contribution

[charonn0]

If that were the only consideration, the kernel could be placed into the public domain.

[bowsamic → charonn0]

Is attribution the only reason for the GPL??

On: Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you swit...

[charonn0]

Antitrust laws prohibit anti-competitive practices generally, not just literal monopolies.

On: ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco ...

[charonn0]

https://www.fema.gov/node/fema-only-giving-hawaii-wildfire-s...

[macinjosh → charonn0]

Kinda a biased source if you ask me.

[charonn0 → macinjosh]

I would call it authoritative.