Fun Times! Because everyone pays for the waste and when something goes wrong. Privatizing Profits while Socializing Losses. The core motor of capitalism.
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I would pirate any game without protection if I would have to buy it with protection. Such cracked games, if truly cracked... run better and have no need for cumbersome registrations.
Maybe they only put them on the "Off Road" Tracks of the Street Trains. They usually have a covered bottom (like Cars) to avoid debris flinging into its soft parts.... but that will only solve one Issue of the many MANY there are. (Lots of Ifs here)
Googling CD Keys, Torrents and Cracks was easy back then. DC++ was the way to go and Limewire was not yet Infested with CP and Viruses. There was a sweet spot but only for 2 years. After that, the golden age of Piracy with the File-Hosters came and Reddit wasn't shit.
If I have to pinpoint the timeframe: When 4Chan got really unironic racist (and the Stromfront forum leaked to the rest)... oh and Facebook...
Anyone remembers Z0R or P0WN ??? That was ART, killed by the discontinuation of Flash. I archived all of this and in 40 years I'm doing a Gallery in the Metaverse.
Shit man... you should get in contact with a maker space or hacker space. Maybe a bounty on Hackaday which just jailbreaks those devices. At least they stay useable (I would love to tinker around with one of these, and so would probably a lot of makers).
Thanks for the answer. Really a sad world we live in.
Strange that politics who call for deregulation never deregulate useful things.
But just out of interest, what happened to the devices?
The system can only be fixed by violence. I am no violent guy but billionaires have to die... all of them or we don't even have to start.
I keep on trying to fix little things, but I don't think that I can do enough... even remotely compared to the destruction their greed brings.
I'm out.. no kids, no blame, it's more CO2 than anyone can save. And honestly,... it's the kids of the other people who will die in the climate wars. I simply don't care any more until real change happens.
Edit: Humanity will prevail. Sooner or later even with a technological state as today or way more advanced... it just will take a few 100 more years for the remaining few to build this solar punk future. I'm just sad I'm living now and not when all this capitalism BS already died ages ago.
Millennial here too... I blame myself for everything, including climate change. Everything I (can) buy is wrapped in plastic. Everything I (can) consume produces CO2. Every step I take, every breath I make... I'm killing earth.
I have a lot of self hate and can understand anyone who hates my generation. At least it ends with me. Who ever thinks kids are a good Idea must be completely insane.
Nuclear should only be done by the state. Any commercial company doing nuclear HAS TO CARE FOR THE WASTE. It has to be in the calculation, but no on ecan guarantee 10000 years of anything. Same with fossils... execute the fossil fuel industry. They destroyed so much, they don't deserve to earn a single cent.
That funky startup is producing waste. Imagine a startup selling Asbestos as the new hot shit in 2024.