The point in my “ideal world” is that because they are forced to open source the software and allow users to replace it, other users could for example try to implement android TV on that old Sony Bravia tv. If the Android phone market is anytbing to go by, it is a real possibility, depending on the popularity of the tv
The point is that if they get complacent, they get replaced (example: what tesla and new Chinese companies like BYD are doing with the car market)
Maybe what we need to do is to start considering such feature abandonment as abandonware and make it so all abandonware must be user modifiable and open source. (To me ideally, there would be a complete separation between software and hardware, aka, if the company can substitute or replace it, so must the user)
Maybe they demand permanent instead of “sustained”
Let’s never forget Patton got assigned to this balloon army because he pissed off his superiors, yet the Germans probably thought it was a promotion
Edit: not specifically this one, the one that fooled the Germans in Britain right before Normandy
No, I said that the expert level is in Portugal lol
Nah, that is in portugal. Ya should’ve seen the agricultural protests
With every breath, a man thinks about sex
Só, they’ll win game of the year with the game of the year edition again, prompting a perpetual cycle of game releases
Someone will unfortunately correct me on this, but can Larion be any more based?
I’ve read that one, the one with a silly piramid of doom and lots of posters with a moustache man, and the smallish book by the original moustache and beard man with the whole commie thing laid out
“Im absolutely sad”
Most state bonds are quite a bit lower than 4%, and even business bonds (I take bonds in some football clubs as a reference, because they tend to do quite prominent ads on them) only do 5-6%.
Maybe you just need to punch the animals so they stop being so happy about it /s
Dude, I have much of my savings for retirement invested in stocks (ETF’s, it’s a fairly safe investment) since the social security in my country kinda sucks. My return on investment is 5% a year. Having a 6% tax actually means I lose money
Hey, if they have an issue with too much money, they can always give me some, that I can handle it for sure
Hey, if they have an issue with too much money, they can always give me some, that I can handle it for sure
Fun fact, I’m actually in one of the few countries they thought of couping, that they didn’t. Portugal in 1974 had a military staged coup against the dictatorship that ruled back then. It looked a lot like we were going to turn red, and Kissinger even said “let them be, it’ll remind Europe why communism doesn’t work”. Long story short, after a few nationalisations, an attempted coup by radical left, and some general weirdness, we managed to get ourselves a mostly working republic that still lasts to this day