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Or Ubisoft. A colleague of mine was super hyped for Far Cry 2, both the collector's edition but it wouldn't start on his PC. He contacted Ubisoft support and they gave him an actual scene crack. There were other reported cases of Ubisoft support handing out scene cracks to go around their shitty DRM.
"A" for effort for the support people in finding ways for customers to be happy and play the games they paid for. But a Steam release for a humongous corporation just straight up using the crack and releasing it as is, that's a new low.
This isn't just some email web app that may have a few bugs, it's putting lives at risk on the road. They shouldn't be able to just label it a beta, overpromise its capabilities, and neglect any responsibility.
And Kashoggi got baited and chopped to bits by the Saudis over financing opposing voices on Twitter.
Enjoy those super-long summer days and truck it South for winter. Yes, still silly but I'm just trying to make this work.
They don't make their engines.
Israel is already assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists with autonomous/remote-controlled gun platforms. The last one I've heard of apparently was able to use facial recognition and shoot the scientist in his car sparing the other passengers.
Next to that, putting the platform on a Spot seems almost trivial. Maybe one day they'll be able to airdrop a bot, have it walk kilometers across a forest, and place itself in a position to snipe someone marked for death by one State or another.
The military already uses such devices. They look like bulky sci-fi rifles and are quite man-portable. They aren't frying the drone, they just need to send a signal stronger than its control signal so the inverse square law works in its favor.
Or look who helped Musk finance his Twitter buyout. Laws are of little importance to a King.
Make it harder for the free Scientology groups to operate. The groups offering the same services for free and without the accuser and they use second hand e-meters.
It's the methadone to the CoCs opium and the church doesn't like it.
There is a group offering CoS-equivalent services free of charge as a bit of a challenge to it (CoS Lite, CoS Methadone). They do so by acquiring these devices second-hand and I guess maintaining them is needed and the CoS wants to limit their impact by limiting their right to repair the devices.
But everybody has heard about the Titanic.