You mean Kazaa Lite K++, right?

I loved so much that one of the top downloads on Kazaa was a ripped version of the paid version of Kazaa.

Does it? I always see them.

My city finally got a court order against a billionaire for unpermitted building that allows us to bulldoze his house. Just took 7 years in court to get the ruling…

And instead of bulldozing the house, we were able to use the court order to strongarm them into fixing their site so it no longer damages the environment, their neighbors, or city infrastructure.

The upside for the city there (aside from having to bid out and manage a major project in-house) is that we get a lot more tax revenue from a house that is brought into compliance than a scarred, demolished site.

I think my account was banned, but don’t know for sure. I left during the API bullshit.

Definitely didn’t do anything against the rules.

If you write enough laws in a manner that makes it easy to violate them accidentally, then anyone can be prosecuted at any time and civil liberties can be removed via technicalities.

Most police departments also don’t generally have helicopters and paint bombs.

The real world isn’t GTA where you get a 5-star rating and suddenly all the cops can instantly appear with missile launchers and shit.

I work for a small city in the same building as the police department. And yeah, they have AR-15s and body armor now, but grenades and helicopters are a different story. They’d have to get the closest major city, or more likely the National Guard to deliver that kind of firepower.

And it’s not that the police didn’t try whatbthey could in this case. They jumped on top of the machine, and even dropped a flashbang (which SWAT teams do have) into the stovepipe to try and disable it.

The governor reportedly considered sending in the national guard with an attack chopper, but a hellfire missile does a lot of damage and theocal decision to try and block his escape from the hardware store with a different dozer worked. He wasn’t able to back out after ramming the shop, and was forced to try and drive through, getting stuck in the process.

Grenades aren’t exactly standard issue police equipment.

There’s scraping data, which should be considered stealing, and then there’s asking people to steal company data as part of an interview process.

This is actual industrial espionage. If true, it could be a big deal.

That’s how they’ve been operating for years. They’ll go public soon enough though, so your 401k will take the hit instead of the parasites on top.

That’s what the SpaceX IPO was about. They were listed on the NASDAQ way earlier than companies are normally allowed to be so the assholes up top could raid your retirement fund despite there being no path to profitability.

Half my University students weren’t alive for Halo 3.

I teach at University and half of my students weren’t alive for Halo 3’s release.

The US has a weird mix of big emplty spaces, really fucking expensive existing underground utilities and roadways, and private property (easements ain’t free) that makes new underground utilities stupidly expensive to run.

You have to buy big easements, negotiate utility contracts with local and state governments (to use the public right-of-way), dodge existing infrastructure while repairing what you break, and lay a fuckton of cable.

I work on the municipal side, and despite Google Fiber having a utility agreement with us for years they still have yet to lay a single foot of underground fiber because we won’t allow them to cut across roads that we just replaced in the last year, require their microtrenches to follow engineering standards, and they need to show existing underground water, gas, wastewater, and electrical services on their plans because they’re famous for just running a trench and making it the water district’s problem when they cut 7 public lines in an hour.

They probably have a stronger claim and higher-ceiling on their portion of any judgment suing individually.

Yeah - these are crazy preppers. Inknow a few of them, and they’re the kinds of people who you very much do NOT want to share a bunker with.

At will employment isn’t a magic trick, and this case demonstratesit clearly. It means employees can be terminated without cause. But if employees are terminated without cause they get to claim unemployment. That’s why they manufacturered a reason here - to keep him from being able to claim unemployment.

It also allows them to term employees for illegal reasons. An older employee making more money and approaching pension can’t be fired and denied pension for being old. But if they steal a cookie? Absolutely.

That rule ain’t gonna stick any more than the lining in th reflection pool.

That actually sounds pretty dope. Make the pitch round with walls (kinda like arena soccer), and that could be fun. You could even do something cool where each goal actually gives points to both the opposing teams so there’s a more strategic dynamic to it.

I so use my Quadraphonic 8-track player as my main speaker system.

I keep “Star Wars and other Galactic Funk” by MECO loaded in it, mostly because i don’t think it would survive being removed at this point.

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard disco mixes of the Star Wars soundtrack that were made as a serious project and not a parody.

Work Product and Attorney Client privilege are broken by AI use, making anything shared with an AI discoverable.

Defaulting AI on is how you get the corporate lawyers to make us drop Microsoft.

Starts blowing towards DC