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I was enjoying the kookiness of Resident Alien, but it gets worse as it goes along. Harry (the alien) gets better at acting wierd as he should be getting better adjusted. I just started 3 Body Problem it’s very interesting, I’ll give it more time. (Level 4 completed) Foundation lost me on the...

Not even. It is EU regulators doing what regulators do - keep their jobs by regulating. Then the professional tort/class action lawyers do what they do - scrounge for their 30% common fund.

Re: the DOJ and consumers going after Apple for being anti-competitively innovative (thereby limiting innovation?!?!) An interesting take over at Daring Fireball about a Kurt Vonnegut short story about conformity and equality. The story, Harrison Bergeron, is about a society that keeps things...

From the article - professional Apple sue-er who has been organizing class action lawsuits for years. He came after Apple for ebook pricing and app store policies. So far winnings are around $550 million. His (maybe) Motto "Stub Toe - Sue Apple" because iPhone is addictive and I became...

Agreed - though I would say all the more reason to choose an iPhone. The lawsuit is a reworking of the old complaint that Apple created the ecosystem to dupe buyers into the "walled garden". It claims that it keeps consumers hostage in that ecosystem and continues to build products (watches...

So. Card companies get (+-) 2.5% per transaction. Those are the "proceeds" and Apple wants 30% of that? Fair sez I. That means $0.75 of the transaction for doing at least part of what the card companies were doing. Remember in the day the store had to call for an authorization number for...

The DOJ has finally decided that iPhone (with 55% market share) is a monopoly and uses its monopoly power to the detriment of consumers and in restraint of trade. Somehow the politicians have to look like they are taking on big tech. MSN but at least not paywalled. From the linked article...

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(Look) see seesaw sawtooth

nothing

Owl Cowl Vowel

Scratch cash hard

daylight (was hoping for quail above - not qualye with an e)

potato (without an e)

nine-inch punk Godfather

grouch

Symphony cantata quartet

A mystery smothered in gravy with a nice Pinot Noir

Interesting fact, upstate NY is historically Republican because the agrarians there were abolitionist (i.e. modern “Liberal”) and NYC more Democratic as the commerce there was more anti-abolitionist ( i.e. conservative) “The world turned upside down!” :cool: