billybong

joined 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Can you run banking apps and stuff on that os?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stock buybacks aren't really the issue, if they didn't exist they'd just be paying dividends with the money instead. The real issue is the reckless pursuit of maximising shareholder payouts, particularly for too big to fail corps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And the next government can sell it off for less than they paid for it and the cycle continues.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Until security updates are stopped in October next year...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow, patent was only granted 7 years after the game was released so the game will be 22 years old when the patent expires if not extended. Patent law is bonkers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Patented. And the patent should run out fairly soon iirc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But you never take a vacation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Blood sausage isn't just a UK thing, variations are found in pretty much every cuisine that eats meat. And it's not even like its super popular in the UK, its very often not even included in a full English breakfast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And if enough people die then Jack Bauer becomes president.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Four members of the richest British family, worth £37bn, have just gotten prison sentences for paying 1/10th the minimum wage to their servants. Paying them a legal wage would've kept them out of prison and been like you or me dropping a penny into a charity box, but they wouldn't do it, even for people that they saw every day. Billionaires are sociopaths.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It began years ago. That's why things are so bad in Greece, most of the people able to leave have done already in search of a better life and leaving behind a shortage of skilled labour and labour in general. Meanwhile non economically active people, mostly children and retired still need to be supported somehow and unsurprisingly the public finances are in a poor state.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

English is a difficult language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

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