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I think you should reread my post. My post is making a very specific point that your reaction tells me you get, but aren't applying.

Read it more like a poem and less like a proposed bill.

I disagree with your premise that I shouldn’t express concern/opinions or point out problems with things that affect me simply because I’m not a trained expert in that thing.

I’m advocating for controlling the damage. The way I said it is cutesy, not literal.

I intended it to point out that it’s too easy to merge companies together but it’s effectively impossible to stop someone from becoming anticompetitive without a real consequence.

If we can’t make it easier to rip them apart then we shouldn’t be so slap-happy about approving them in the first place.

Slightly tangential thought:

My belief is: legislation needs to either make it just as hard to merge two companies as it is to unmerge them, or make it just as easy to unmerge two companies as it is to merge them.

It's insane to me that for how often companies merge and cause competition issues, we effectively never see the opposite happen. I know there's a ceremonial approval for merging two companies (at least in the US), but it's just impossible to undo or prevent the damage.

Understand. Thanks for the answer.

There’s obviously a line somewhere though, right? Like if that same company put a camera in a bathroom stall?

So on one extreme with have CCTV parking lot cams, on the other we have bathroom stalls. It seems like we could find where spy cameras that exist solely to break citizens rights to privacy land on the spectrum and write laws around that.

> In what world is this not abridging the freedom of the press?

Why does that freedom supersede all other guaranteed freedoms? For example the US constitution tries to protect its citizens from unlawful searches, etc. just as strongly as protecting the presses. Why do I have to sacrifice my freedom from searches to preserve Home Depot’s freedom to tape others?

I live by a park. These places don't care for the same reason the park doesn't care: the wind blows it all in my yard, not their problem anymore.

Shipped to countries that have banned the growing of the crop because of water concerns

Utah

Nagware will always get a bad review from me if I paid money for it.

I'm your customer, not your marketing team.

The nags seem to always come at the worst time. Open an app to look up something and I have to click to close all the bubbles about what's new and "you like this? please review us!". It's incredibly frustrating.

I have a windows computer that tries to install HP Printer software automatically because it detects an HP printer on the WiFi. No physical access needed

Mario 64 was byte for byte decompiled to C. It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game.

Otherwise they reference rips of the original game.

yeah, i ignored them for years just to see how long they'd play their little game. I finally got sick of it, paid them for a month, downloaded everything, and then canceled/closed the account. Didn't know there was the free option... but oh well. Glad to be rid of them.

So tired of the games everyone plays to squeeze $5 out of someone.

I think it’s a major feature gap that Gmail (paid or free) cannot create filters on headers.

I also can’t do wildcard filters on “to” or “from”. For example, in my GApps I have it set up to route all emails not associated with a specific user to my primary user. So that it’s easier to make throwaway emails. I want to filter all to:`[email protected]` to a certain folder. No can do.

It just feels restricted.