Despite using Kagi as my search engine, I still use the term "Google" to refer to seeing generally. I think everyone else does too, and the result should really be Google becoming a genericized word.
Adtech is annoying for sure, but it doesn't directly scam people out of their life savings the way scammers try to. Adtech just wants to advertise to you and sell you some crap you don't need (or some stuff you do, that's the entire promise of "targeted advertising": don't advertise PC building parts to someone who isn't building a PC, for instance, but only people who might be). There is a place for advertising in the world, as there has been for literally thousands of years (evidence for advertisements have been found in ancient cultures); the real debate is over the ethics of information-gathering, profile-building ("spying"), the general intrusiveness of modern web ads, etc. Modern adtech I think we can agree really needs to be better regulated, but they're not the same as scammers.
That's in Turkey. When they say someone is facing N years in Turkey does it really mean they could be sentenced to that much?
Or is it like the US where you can be charged with C different crimes that all cover the same physical acts each with a maximum sentence of Y years and that gets report as you are facing C x Y years, even though for sentencing purposes those all count as the same crime so the max you get is Y years no matter how many of the C crimes you are convicted of (as long as it is at least one)?
Laws can be weird, they may be legally required to have a person do the set years. But I think they likely re-sentence based on the new realities. Setting 89000 knowing he’d die in max 100 is different if they can do longer
What the hell is that website? Literally half the screen is filled with ads and when I scroll down far enough I get to see a different version of the same article?
This title reminds me of the old rude boy song "Judge 400 Years", in which a judge hands out multi-century prison terms. It's a great track: https://youtu.be/bX8USu78E7E
It is a really cool idea - shame it was a scam. I can’t think of anything else where the virtual world represents the real world in a similar way (or even the inverse). Pokémon go feels similar though.
Meanwhile in Canada you can have several dozen priors, be out on bail, commit a violent crime and be released on bail again immediately because you pinky promise to behave this time.
Then have the charges dropped after X months because the courts were too busy handing out probation and bail to other repeat offenders to actually try your case.
what if we get the bitchun society in the next few years, and eventually everyone can live forever? if they actually sentence him to 1000s of years in prison, and he gets the upgrade, will they keep him in there?
