yeah - i mostly see them as a public good for low income or homeless people… it allows them a lot of different places they can place free phone calls… perhaps not ideally as private as you’d like to deal with medical or social security things, but services exist for that too - just pay phones are everywhere
also i guess for calling 000 (our 911)
in australia they’re still everywhere because when i government sold our state telco they mandated that they maintain the pay phone network at reasonable prices
that doesn’t sound particularly comment-worthy on its own so here’s the cool part: turns out collecting coins is more expensive than the money they got from it so they just stopped charging and now all our pay phones are not only still everywhere, but entirely free and have free wifi embedded in them
clay is just as likely to drive as to catch public transport
fisting is great too
the department of WHINEY LOSERS who CRY at all the WINNING i’m asking them to do
draining them of money here means less to donate to campaigns and hate-peddling “charities”
imo it’s pretty easy: they have a definition for “household” already, so if “household income” applies it’s 300k, if not then it’s 150k (though i’d argue probably a little over half since being single is more expensive than splitting expenses, but i guess also having kids is more expensive than that)
or perhaps it’s 180k or something + 100k per person in the household which makes a nice little niche for kids, partners, etc and the same applies whether you’re a single person making that or a couple making that … and if you’re raising like 7 kids or taking care of disabled relatives etc, i mean bravo paying a bit less tax is probably reasonable
i mean i assume good luck landing without prior experience in general … surely it’d be easier for someone over the radio to walk you through setting some auto things correctly than walking you through how to land?
aussies, kiwis, germans, etc are being detained at the border too: skin colour is irrelevant RIGHT NOW
tbf the millions of people who are starving probably don’t care about health insurance premiums
and the innocent people in gulags probably… well, they probably care about the starving people because they’re not monsters but lets say they have their own priorities
i agree with the sentiment but republicans presented only horrible, cruel options and democrats were forced to choose
also that 45min the little exercise cost is like $400 for them to do nothing
well it is only 0.50.0… the way most of these things go is that you get the gameplay mechanics working fist and you optimise performance close to release. same is true for early access commercial titles
if you can’t do it then quit sucking the air out and let someone else have a go
voyager automatically opens links in reader mode for me and it works about 80% of the time
(but this article it doesn’t work for)
this entire thread is about the STG petition, and thus about the theoretical possibility of how laws could change
mandatory minimum warranties are also not relatively minimal effort and yet we have laws that require those… most consumer protection standards aren’t minimal effort: that doesn’t mean we don’t make laws to ensure consumers get what they are expecting when they hand over money
why shouldn’t handing over source code to a game that’s being shut down (and apparently that nobody finds any value in since it wasn’t even bought in bankruptcy auction) be mandated as a last resort?
literally what STG is about
and the law is able to make license conditions illegal/unenforceable (like non-compete clauses in employment contracts)
usually in bankruptcy the game gets sold in order to help pay debts… whoever buys the game assumes the responsibility of contributing to run the online services, or provide options for others to… in the case that nobody buys the game (im not entirely sure what happens to the IP in that case) but it’s relatively minimal effort to release server source code or documentation OR even just remove the online parts that’s usually just for DRM which is now pretty irrelevant because you’re shutting it down anyway so why would anyone care if someone pirates it?!
rad works :p you could go with BONZA MATE if you’re really putting it on ahah