“We also plan on patenting atmospheric air and granting reasonably priced usage licenses for limited daily volumes to every man, woman and child on the planet. It’ll be great!”

Why even buy a “TV” instead of just a monitor and hook it up to hardware you actually control?

Much like Vampires, no sane person should ever invite Oracle into their home: Both are bloodsucking parasitical leeches, and you’ll never be rid of the affliction.

While I’m not generally in favor of capital punishment, I’m prepared to let this one slide.

To the complete surprise of absolutely nobody.

Very interesting, although I’m going to withhold judgment pending some serious peer review.

Edit: One person doesn’t like peer review to be part of the scientific process.

No thanks.

This fucking planet…

That’s rich coming from the leader in the field of manufacturing demand out of whole cloth.

Where were you when the bubble burst, Bill?

Hey America? If you could stop executing people with Hellfire missiles without giving them a trial first? That’d be greeat.

Huh. Must that Deep State they’re always talking about.

…Oh you sweet summer child.

Yeah, but we have a choice as to whether we want to run it or not.

Then it’s a good thing it’s been a very long time since I last had to care about what Microsoft wants me to do with my computers.

Funny. Normally we call people selling these kinds of products criminals and attempt to shut them down. Turns out those naughty lads were just going about it the wrong way. They should have gone public, floated the company and sold for dollars instead of bitcoin, and suddenly everything would magically have been just fine.

It’s a neat trick, and it works for other unsavory things normally not allowed too: “Unregulated militias and arms trafficking” becomes a “PMC”, “kidnapping and slavery” becomes “prison services” etc.

Same old tired song and dance.

I’ve got to wonder what they thought they were buying. It’s not like the warning signs were sparse these past, oh, ten years or so.

I’m sure that won’t be an issue for anybody working with confidential, privileged or private information.

For some odd reason.