> "Good on you for having the financial security to select and filter employers so aggressively."
It may not even always about having financial security at that moment. Sometimes it may be about already having a cruddy job, and not wanting to just move into another cruddy job, so you suffer with the current job for as long as it takes to find the right job to replace it.
> "I presume that Americans always take the poo of their beloved pets from the streets."
They're supposed to by law (and just good old-fashioned manners), and many do clean up after their pets, but anywhere you go there's always gotta be at least one jerkwad that doesn't care one little bit about anything beyond the tip of their own nose.
Much of the (true) "open source" movement / community is still all about that mentality / spirit. Much of the "hacker" / Maker crowd, too. So much of what made the early Internet great still lives on in later generations who keep that spirit alive and continue to share it with others.
> Also Google: "Let's do all the evil things..." ~ heavily "paraphrased" ;)
My "tongue-in-cheek point" is that it seems like corporations beyond a certain point of "filthy-richness" just do as they please, and say what they please, and mostly neither thing has to agree with the other, nor does either one need affect their profits "bottom line" all that seriously much. Most of your typical "mega-corps" are really only able to be affected much by the laws and legal system, which they've been increasingly "capturing" in various ways so that happens very rarely anymore these days, and when it does it's most often a "slap on the wrist" and "don't do that!" sorta thing, followed by more business-as-usual.
You know the old worry about the "paperclip production maximizer AI" eating everything to create paperclips? That's kinda where we're pretty-much already at with mega-corps. They're so utterly laser-focused on maximizing to extract every last dime of profit out of everything that they're gonna end up literally consuming all matter in the universe if they don't just destroy us all in the process of trying to get there.
I mean from a non-subjective legal TOS perspective.
I'm not arguing that the grocery store saying "fresh produce" guarantees that the produce is fresh. Fresh, like evil, is subjective.
I'm saying that if the grocery puts "All our produce is no older than 10 days" you can be pretty sure they adhere to that and train employees to follow it. "10 days" is not subjective.
Yeah, I was thinkin' exactly the same thing. Even if not for games (although that would be nifty) just imagine the additional "depth" and "sense of presence" this would bring to Google's Street View. Street View was already pretty slick, but pile things like this on top of what they've already got there? Just ... Wow!
> "The Internet Archive has roughly the same problem with the internet as space travel has with space, there's just so unimaginably much of it. You'd think you have some kind of a grasp of how much of it there is but it isn't anywhere close to tangible."
And, what you describe is actually far more-so what you describe than people even begin to grasp, because the Internet is so much more than just the "world wide web" that most people instantly think of when they hear the word "Internet".
I had so many hours of fun playin' with Lightwave 3D on my Commodore Amiga back when this show came out. Blender's my "go-to" software for all those needs now, but man... How amazing it felt to have access to the same exact software and hardware used to produce a major TV show (and a ton of commercials and other things around that industry) back then. Good times...
So, is someone missing a great startup idea here maybe? "Jailbreaking" supposedly "defunct" EVs, and / or custom firmwares, etc? Could be profits to be had?
It may not even always about having financial security at that moment. Sometimes it may be about already having a cruddy job, and not wanting to just move into another cruddy job, so you suffer with the current job for as long as it takes to find the right job to replace it.
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