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*Me stepping on secondary canon* I’m so glad the writers chose to keep this thing ambiguous so I could form my own thoughts and theories about it

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*Me taking a hammer to established canon* Wow I’m so glad that

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Dear Tiny House Hunters: Boy howdy, those tiny houses sure do look cool. I'm with you on this. They're like dollhouses that you get to live in. Everything is so neat, so compact, so pragmatic. Look...

I wouldn’t mind an office this size. (Disclosure: for the past twenty years, my office has been one corner of a twelve-foot-by-ten-foot living room.) But a whoie house this size? No thank you.

I mean, do I love Peter? Yes. Do I love him enough to live in this size of a space with him?

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…From Chuck’s post, the paragraph that cuts to the core of this issue for me::

Austerity sounds virtuous. And for some people, it is the thing that motivates them, it is a part of who they are. For the rest of us, not so much. Fad diets often ask you to sacrifice things to which you’ve grown accustomed — and often things your body actually needs — under the auspices of getting healthy. I WILL CLEANSE MY BODY WITH JUICE AND SPROUTED GRAIN you think, and then someone walks by you eating a hamburger and some precious thing inside you snaps and next thing you know you’re on the city bus killing and eating people.

It’s not that I hate the Game of Thrones TV show, it’s just that it took a series I am sort-of reasonably fond of (usually), cast almost every role perfectly, then proceeded to miss the point a million ways from Sunday as if they were trying to see how many idiot writing screw-ups they could pack in before the acting and source material cracked under the weight of their failures.

....okay so maybe I hate it a little bit.

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#DARK SOULS

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idk if this has been done but I felt like it needed to be said

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Hawke (to Aveline): I started off by making a map of all the burglaries that have gone down in Hightown. [Hawke shows map of Kirkwall, almost completely filled with spots indicating crimes.] Hawke: That led me to this. Hawke: There is so much crime in Kirkwall. No one should live here.

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Google reaches into customers' homes and bricks their gadgets

Revolv is a home automation hub that Google acquired 17 months ago; yesterday, Google announced that as of May 15, it will killswitch all the Revolvs in the field and render them inert. Section 1201 of the DMCA – the law that prohibits breaking DRM – means that anyone who tries to make a third-party OS for Revolv faces felony charges and up to 5 years in prison.

Revolv is apparently being killswitched because it doesn’t fit in with Google’s plan for Nest, the other home automation system it acquired. Google’s FAQ tells its customers that this is OK because their warranties have expired, and besides, this is all covered in the fine-print they clicked through, or at least saw, or at least saw a link to.

This isn’t the earthquake, it’s the tremor. From your car to your lightbulbs to your pacemaker, the gadgets you own are increasingly based on networked software. Remove the software and they become inert e-waste. There is no such thing as a hardware company: the razor-thin margins on hardware mean that every funded hardware company is a service and data company, and almost without exception, these companies use DRM to acquire the legal right to sue competitors who provide rival services or who give customers access to their own data on “their” data.

We are entering the era where dishwashers can reject third-party dishes, and their manufacturers can sue anyone who makes “third-party dishes” out of existence. Selling you a toaster has never afforded companies the power to dictate your bread choices, nor has making a record player given a company the right to control which records get made.

The last-millennium Digital Millennium Copyright Act has managed to stay on the books because we still think of it as a way to pull off small-potatoes ripoffs like forcing you to re-buy the movies you own on DVD if you want to watch them on your phone. In reality, the DMCA’s anti-circumvention rules are a system that makes corporations into the only “people” who get to own property – everything you “buy” is actually a license, dictated by terms of service that you’ve never read and certainly never agreed to, which give companies the right to reach into your home and do anything they want with the devices you’ve paid for.

https://boingboing.net/2016/04/05/google-reaches-into-customers.html