Don’t leave us hanging

The Original Macintosh was an attack at how shitty IBM was.

It’s was too much hassle for too little profit. Their bread and butter is having regular people not remember they still exist.

Legally they can’t stop you, but they are doing it anyway. I haven’t tried ignoring them.

Stores near me require you to weigh and print a label in the produce section. You scan the label at the register like anything else.

In the produce section you either type in the four digit number or select from a list.

Depends on the store. Some of them are terrible. Tiny areas to checkout an entire grocery car sucks. Especially when it weighs as you go, then hits the weight limit and apparently just starts ignoring the requirement.

It’s great at small stores where you’re getting a bag or two. At large grocery stores or Walmart like stores it’s annoying. There’s never enough space to put everything, it’s easy to mix things up if you have to put things back on the cart, and it takes twice as long because you have to unload and load while scanning. A couple of the grocery stores near me have scan guns that you can use while shopping and checkout right from. Walmart has this via their app if you pay for Walmart+, but they still make you go to self checkout to finish and wait in that damn line, and they still block the exit wanting to check your receipt which can gather a line. I avoid going to Walmart for all but a couple items that are super cheap. Even then I’ve paid more elsewhere because of how terrible the checkout experience is.

CNN’s docuseries are actually incredible, but they air on Max anyway.

Your definition is the stricter answer yes. Not getting paid overtime when you are legally suppose to, and penalizing people for taking PTO are too. The rest are a stretch that imo waters down the major ones.

Amazon is practically a case study on your last point. They routinely copy competitors products that use their platform to sell, taking most of the profits for themselves and sometimes putting those others out of business. I don’t see that as a good thing, it’s anticompetitive and eventually the big business just squeezes for more profit.

Patents don’t let you own an idea. They give you an exclusive right to use the idea for a limited time in exchange for detailed documentation on how your idea works. Once the patent expires everyone can use it. But while it’s under patent anyone can look up the full documentation and learn from it. Without this, big business could reverse engineer the little guys invention and just steal it.

It is extremely vague, because the top 10% of Americans in net worth are those who have over about $850,000.

“The 1%” is the catchphrase, but that’s only a net worth of about $10 Million. The people they are really mad at are the 0.01% or lower. This article uses 10% which is about $850,000 in net worth.

https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/605075/are-you-rich

It’s under 200k easy. I’d guess it has more to do with an inflated market than pushing poorer people out.

The Internet Archive has no ground to stand on at all. It would be one thing if they only allowed downloading of orphaned or unavailable works, but that’s not the case.

A ton of people need to read some basic background on how copyright, trademark, and patents protect people. Having none of those things would be horrible for modern society. Wiping out millions of jobs, medical advancements, and putting control into the hands of companies who can steal and strongarm the best. If you want to live in a world run by Mafia style big business then sure.

It’s not. In the late 90s it was pretty much just IE after Netscape died. Mozilla came from the ashes.

Mozilla is the result of people giving up on Netscape. It will live!

Like a lock on a freezer isn’t a giant red flag

I was speaking for Americans. Companies like Door Dash are practically experiments in avoiding labor laws .