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I can take my business elsewhere and do.

but do I blame the average person for not caring? The kind of person who would use GoDaddy for hosting? I find it really hard to blame them.

Game loads on firefox desktop, but is a black screen. Debug didn't show anything out of the ordinary. loads fine on Chrome though.

Even better - give the customer the $10k.

I lived in east Oakland for awhile, I'm pretty sure that driving stolen cars and torching them afterward don't give a fuck about auto insurance rates. The people who are driving like that on the 580 or @ 90th & Bancroft probably are uninsured as is.

Do you really think everyone is just insured because it's the law? If so, you're fairly naive. Try leaving the bubble you live in now and then. Oakland cops stopping responding to anything less than murder at lot sooner than 2020 lmao.

I always conceded that Google would have this data, I always told myself you have to trust someone eventually. There was an implicit agreement that they would go to bat if the government came knocking for it. I see now that was a naive perspective on my part. They spent years just handing it over.

This is a fascinating piece of software. I played with it briefly, it's quite the little evolutionary sandbox.

anecdotal evidence is what I usually base my purchases on, which is why I've never bought a Google device after being burned (literally) by the Nexus 6P battery issues.

you can pretend it doesn't matter, but bad word of mouth is all it takes for me.

Sounds like it'd still cost something to operate it, however, I agree that you might as well send something up there if you already agreed to pay for the trip.

I agree. I think it's reasonable to expect companies to safeguard that information from malicious actors.

Exactly. I treat anyone suggesting Russia should be treated with kid gloves with suspicion. The sentiment that they are being bullied is flatly offensive. Russia made its bed in the 90s and complains about lying in it.

The Cold War never ended and criticism of Russia is not criticism against Russians.

If the Cold War was truly over when the wall fell, we'd have welcomed Russia into NATO. That would have been a huge mistake, as Russia has proven to be antithetical to democracy and an aggressor against the interests of the West, despite dressing up in its skirt.

Instead we've engaged in proxy war after proxy war with very little changing in the best part of 40 years or so. That's no accident.

Suggesting otherwise IMO is to take talking points from the mouth of the Kremlin. I get tired of the "Russia is being bullied by the mean ol' United States" narrative, they're malignant and hostile. I think you're right to raise this point.

I work for a support org for a traditional telco. We have "contacts" but they're effectively middlemen.

If you dropped this in my lap, and I'm pretty savvy for a layman, I wouldn't know how to get past my single channel. I think it would require convincing the gatekeeper.