Of course, it could all be another elaborate pump-and-dump scheme by Elon. It wouldn’t put it past him.

Money only has value if you believe it has value.

Only $20? Wow. What a bargain! You’ll soon be able to almost buy a gallon of gas for that.

Good old right wing “humor” (punching down on everyone else because they consider everyone else beneath them). We’re all going to be seeing a lot of this type of “humor” (lynchings, book burning, singing about how wonderful being dictated to is) in the next 10 years or so.

Pro tip: If your outcome isn’t achieved, do not riot on the steps of the Capitol.

Well, aside from keyboards and mice.

Some interesting context about Citizen Kane.

User name checks out.

Like wealth disparity, you see people claiming more and more within the realm of IP. Where does this sort of land grabbing end?

Comedy homicide doesn’t really work if you have to be that nerdy in your explanation.

The growth was largely driven by Azure and cloud services, which saw a 33 percent increase in revenue. The company attributed 12 percent of that to AI-related products and services.

This sort of study shows you more how mathematicians think than how science or philosophy works.

“The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

This argument is not very convincing, and I highly doubt there’s any evidence to support it.

I thought the garbage symbols were part of the humor of the title.

We should totally just go along with DRM, or they might decide to break other stuff. This is totally an innocent request, and far from attempted extortion.

/s

Journalism has been dead for ages. Now, satire (like The Onion), that’s informative.

This is felony level bait-and-switch going on, here. This really should have criminal charges attached to the perpetrators.

Lots of pro-Russia bots in here pretending to be concerned about their sudden inability to sneak backdoors into the kernelopen source.

1. It came with the machine.

2. There are a few things that still don’t quite work as good in Linux.

Now that I think about it, the cause-and-effect here is probably being viewed all wrong.

What likely happens is that a game comes out to overwhelming expectations, and the greater those player expectations are met, the more word-of-mouth gets around about the game. Thus, games that deserve to do well make more money, and pirates are less motivated to work on a crack right away.

If player expectations are not being met, the less success the game receives, and the more motivated pirates are to crack it (driven by their disgust at bad software).

The above scenarios probably do a good job of accounting for 20% of the revenue for a game.