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pfft, were you still working for a living or something, you leaner?


You must be young.


Nuremberg Defence for the 2020's will be "the Agent did it."


It will totally happen.


It already started:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...

> the airline said the chatbot was a "separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions".


I also fell for it.


This is just elaborate trolling that you're all in on like Sopranos quotations, right?


Third amendment was tested in 2011 when Nevada police decided they wanted to occupy the house of a disinterested neighbour to a suspect and then when he refused, bashed down his door, shot him with pepper balls, pulled him out of his house and jailed him for obstruction. Then went across the street to his dad's house, tricked him out of the house, and arrested him too when he tried to go back home. Charges were dropped, and courts ultimately decided that police are not peacetime military, so 3A doesn't apply.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/in-rare-third-amend...


How is it double-speak? The "free" part doesn't mean "free beer"...


I've often had the mental image of Galileo trying to order a pizza and being very disappointed at the garlic bread that turned up.


"Privacy policy" is definitely one of the most prominent Newspeak terms around today. The full term should read "how we'll violate your privacy policy".


They've apparently had a corporate philosophy of obfuscating the underlying system from the end user and deliberately inhibiting their ability to learn how it fits together since at least the early 2000's.

I feel like the current ignorance of the average computer user was a deliberate outcome they've been working towards for more than 20 years. As someone who has been using computers since the late 80's, I find their current offerings harder to use than ever.


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