Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com
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@Jennifer @CptSuperlative @pluralistic Nope. I think the Mafia were more honorable.
@jbhughes @CptSuperlative @pluralistic A Nobel Prize for proving the obvious!!
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@CptSuperlative @pluralistic Kenneth Arrow won the Nobel Prize in Economics for proving that private, for-profit medical insurance cannot work to deliver health care.
@realTuckFrumper The sad consequences of their gun laws.
@briankrebs Unfortunately the size of the 'fines' are an order of magnitude too small to create any need for change.
@Techmeme $47M? So what?
@arstechnica 'CEO-heavy board' equals 'nothing substantive will be done'
@twrling Working as intended. Nothing will be changed by this pocket change.
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All three leading #wireless carriers fined by the #FCC for illegally selling customer #locationdata, in this case to Securus for warrantless sale to local law enforcement. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402213A1.pdf
@oaklandprivacy The fines are so puny that they won't even budge the 'cost of doing business'. Fortunately, no executives were harmed by this action.
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All three leading #wireless carriers fined by the #FCC for illegally selling customer #locationdata, in this case to Securus for warrantless sale to local law enforcement. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402213A1.pdf
@metacurity Wheee! A slap on the wrist with a tiny handkerchief. Will they even notice?
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Repeat after me: Canonical is a company. Their purpose is to make money and in the process serve the majority of their paying customers.
That means that their interests may not align with yours and mine. Most #linux afficianados and techno-tinkerers are statistical deviations on the fringe. It's REALLY hard to internalize that because we all want to feel important, but that's just not the way the Capitalism game is played.
Do what you like and use what you like, but continuing to ride the #Ubuntu train when Canonical has made it clear for YEARS that it is bound for Snaps station and then raging against the dying of the light feels like wasted energy to me.
Why not redirect the rage and instead embrace a distro that actually matches your preferences? Debian for example has always been and continues to be free as in beer and its guiding precepts are decidedly not governed by any private owner or board of shareholders.
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imagine getting a "please send us donations" letter from a university that pointed snipers at its students
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Michael Vick went to prison for what Kristi Noem did.
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John Roberts' legacy is being Chief Justice of the most freakishly corrupt and anti-American SCOTUS in history. Even if he lives to be 100, the first paragraph of Roberts' obituary has already been written. [cartoon by Bill Bramhall]
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#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org
@lauren It may depend not on the outcome but on what is revealed and on the extremely unlikely event of Trump actually testifying.
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I've never understood the "get out of jail free" card given to religion for criminal fraud.
They enjoy the same near impunity from the law for threat funding, money laundering, drug trafficking, tax evasion, slavery, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, election interference, civil rights rollbacks, voter suppression, labor law violations, child marriage, and bigotry.
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Everyone talks about the puppy, but hardly anyone mentions the beautiful coat she’s making.
