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They should absolutely be forced to provide either a refund or a downloadable copy, this is absurd. It sounds like they didn't actually have the license necessary to be able to sell these movies in any reasonable way.

Thankfully much smaller potatoes, but yah, I'm annoyed by it

This is exactly what I mention in a sibling comment - an incredibly misleading survey is quoted here to make it look like there was overwhelming support.

>>>More than 93% of the record 223,273 British Columbians who completed the Province’s survey on time observance have indicated they would prefer a move to permanent daylight saving time (DST).

Sticking with Standard Time was not an option listed in that survey.

No the OP, but I'm also in BC and dislike this change.

The change was made (partly) based on a bullshit poll of residents, that asked basically "Hey which would you rather do, use year-round Daylight Savings Time or keep switching every six months?" - notably not including the option a lot of people wanted (and which is well-supported by a lot of research as the best option), which was "use year-round Standard Time".

And then in a bunch of press conferences and answers to the public, they would say "oh, this is what people chose" from the poll.

I was being a little flippant there - but I think we've gone way too far in the "nuclear is risky" direction, largely because of Chernobyl, which was a) a very specific disaster caused by a perfect storm of bad decisions and bad luck and b) not that deadly. In the US about as many people die every year due to coal pollution as have yet (or will ever) die because of Chernobyl. About the same number die in Europe every year because of a lack of AC. Those are just invisible risks that we accept already and we need to start seeing them.

SAT isn't a perfect IQ test but it's not bad for a first-pass filter. Nearly all who scored 1600 will be bright and nearly all who score 800 won't be.

It's a bit like BMI. Yes, if you're Peter Dinklage or Arnold Schwarzenegger it will be pretty meaningless. But most people aren't and BMI works pretty well for them.

Oh my god, yes, please. It should be 100 over the next 10 years but this is a great start. We should be cranking these out and building cities in the north with clean unlimited power.

Yeah. I don't think they're gouging, I totally understand how expensive RAM and storage and GPUs are, but...oof. I just can't justify it as a 'fun' purchase.

You sort of do; stop doing work above a certain volume, stop meeting deadlines. This will have consequences, which may include a) firing or b) better volume and deadlines, depending on a number of factors.

I have my problems with this as well, but at least no one else already has root on my phone.

They have my account and transit number and stuff, sure, that's different than my username and password for online banking. We print them out on cheques that can be (reasonably) safely given to my plumber.

patio11/bitsaboutmoney has some good writing about this

Why would you ever login to a sensitive account on a device you don't own and have root on? Like I trust my employer not to do anything shifty with my banking info, if I were to use it, but I'm not going to take that chance for a dozen reasons.

Always a bit illuminating to me how many exploits seem to so dumb I'd never even bother to attempt them. You're telling me I can just...ask for the password? And that works?

If they have 5 minutes, sure. If they have 5 hours, they'll follow procedure.