Hemingways_Shotgun

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I was a tech-manager at Staples when those launched and it was an absolute shit-storm right from the start with returns and complaints.

    The only thing crazier from that time was an HP WebOS tablet (I can’t remember the name) that launched with pretty big fanfare with HP trying to take a marketing page out of Apples playbook, only to have it fail so completely that they announced a week later that support was being dropped and any remaining stock was offered to anyone who wanted at 99 bucks.

    Wild days indeed.


  • Jide Remix Ultratablet.

    Kinda glitchy from the start. Got one minor software update before the company decided to focus first only on their mini-desktops and soon after, B2B; dropping the consumer support entirely.

    Which wouldn’t have been so bad is the released the proprietary blobs for others to use to keep up support. The hardware was nice, and the concept was one of the first to try an “Android version of a Surface”. But to my knowledge, no ROMs have ever been made for it.


  • Entitled to what exactly? Her chin shape?

    Whether he admitted it or not, unless she’s gone through the process of actually trademarking her chin shape (which I doubt) it’s not going to be nearly a unique enough feature to waste the courts time with.

    The only question the courts have to ask is if there is a reasonable chance that a “viewer” could recognize that as her chin when watching the movie and did it do anything to her reputation as a result. The answer of course is no. No one would have EVER known it as her if Cameron hadn’t mentioned it in passing.









  • True about the pay.

    In general I just feel like our representatives are too far removed from the people they’re supposed to serve.

    Here in Canada, we’ve had a couple of floor-crossers from the Conservatives to the Liberals, and social media is up in arms about how that shouldn’t be allowed. “We voted Conservative, not Liberal”. Whenever someone points out (and rightly so) that in the parliamentary system you’re voting for an individual, not a party, they freak out and say that’s not how it works.

    They fundamentally have no idea how a representative democracy is supposed to work.

    A part of that comes from an American culture bleeding up into Canada a bit, with people thinking they vote directly for the Prime Minister the same was Americans directly vote for their president. But a bigger part of it is that those representatives spend more time in Ottawa than in their own ridings. And if a representative loses their seat in an election, they can just pick a different riding where they don’t even live and run again. It’s ridiculous.