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Caught between the twisted stars The plotted lines the faulty map That brought Columbus to New York Betwixt between the East and West He calls on her wearing a leather vest The earth squeals and shudders to a halt . . .

Spot on! Their first email was likely also full of pointless passive aggressive bullshit. That’s almost certainly why I didn’t read it first time around.

They can email my boss instead if they want, he gets paid extra to get shat on by dickheads.

“All ‘jedi’ had was a bunch of muppets.”

Those are balls.

This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you’re looking at balls.

I’m ok to give them 1 in 500 resolution (or whatever rough order of magnitude) to tell them i want to read the EN version. That’s a lot less precise than 1 in 10 billion or whatever the fingerprint is.

Is it possible for URL to request the one that i want? I feel like i remember different language versions of webpages from before browser fingerprinting - though I guess I don’t know long ago it started.

Even so, it seems like it only needs to know my request as a one of 500 group. An individualised fingerprint of 1 in 10bn seems like overkill to me. Assuming that’s what fingerprint means in this context.

Don’t worry, your pension fund or bank can. They will gladly use your savings to print money to give to people (not-you) to bid up the price.

ed: tbf your savings are fairly irrelevant part of their balance sheet, but if they were effectively regulated then they might be . . .

You’d need proper accounts the P+L and importantly the balance sheet for full transparency At least until they start paying their accountants more for corporate fuckery - though I think many do already to dodge taxes.

But the real fucker is in the bank loan, you probably can’t borrow at the same rate until you have as much collateral as them. Even though your rent is literally the asset, and you and the previous tenants keep buying them more collateral that puts them in a better position to borrow more and acquire more.

Good old Free market, no barriers to entry, no first mover advantage, no congestion effects . . . /s. I’m sure rent control is terrible invention, ruins cities.

I think I had a demo of one of the mechwarrior games, but it ran slow on my PC, or was a bit boring, or something, I never got on with it.

It was in the doom era though , and very little could compete (from my perspective) - so probably i just played doom coop (until it turns into defacto deathmatch) anyway. I mean that was most of the 1990s the way i remember it.

Certainly the mechwarrior demo wouldn’t have had networking anyway - but i feel like maybe it got less out of my meagre hardware than doom did.

Honest question: What were the best games developed directly by ms on it’s own. I can only think of flight simulator, and that’s not really a game. I just genuinely don’t think I’ve played any.

I mean ignoring minesweeper and space cadet pinball or whatever.

Oh maybe like forza motorsport? was that them?

It’s weird that they don’t brand them - I guess B2B is too important to them to risk reputation on frivolity. Which is odd because of all the f-words i could use about sharepoint, i think frivolous is about the nicest.

no, there’s also me.

Doesn’t a lute have a sharply bent back head, and usually way more than four strings. I thought it was essentially just an oud. akksshully

Probably. I , for one, reject all NASA lies, ‘barren rock’ - my arse. I think they already found the soup wells, probably killed the dragon, and are keeping all the soup for themselves.

its not ‘treason’ that bothers me. Its the state supported accumulation of excessive power , and the despicable consequences thereof.

I’d strongly support burning all them cunts though.

Be careful what you wish for. You should probably aspire to like Bhutan, or wherever the Clangers live. Somewhere nice.

This dude cares more about union jack than most Farage voters. Not sure who I’m supposed to hate more vigorously.
Oh , thats a lie, i do actually know which ones are the biggest cunts.

It’s a bit rotten, I must agree.

oh right, cool. i’ll stick to my chunky chunks then.

Is there such a thing?

I’ve had a few crappy ones, they’re basically e-waste after a few uses or trips. So I revert to a full size internal sata one or the same but in a 5.1/4" external caddy (powered).

Buy a phone that lineage os support then. Way more options than pixels. Pretty cheap used, you just have to accept one from a few years ago. and make sure that any required bootloader unlock from oem can still be done.