I actually had the reverse problem: some stupid neighbor kept trying to pair something with my smart TV, to the point where I couldn’t watch TV at times, due to this moron’s insistence. I looked in the settings and also found I couldn’t disable Bluetooth, or blacklist devices, so I thought of a simple solution: changing the TV name to “virus”. From that day on, no one tried to pair anything with my TV.

Imagine for a second that literally any country in the world suggested that the US should stop invading countries with fake reasons/proof and plundering their goods.

There are service bots, that are used by many of the irc networks, that handle this within irc itself (nickserv, chanserv, etc…).

The paper adds that DisneyLand Paris is regularly infested with bedbugs, noting that the tourist hotspot is hugely popular with… you guessed it, Americans.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20170413/are-american-tourists-behind-the-bed-bug-explosion-in-paris

You can downvote me all you want, but the French think the same: https://www.thelocal.fr/20170413/are-american-tourists-behind-the-bed-bug-explosion-in-paris

On behalf of Europe, I’d like to thank the US for this gift.

Bmw wireless charging: exists
New iPhone: breaks

Must be bmw’s fault, flawless logic.

Obviously not, and I’m not even going into the depth of your definition of “everything”, where would a kid learn long division?

That’s not accurate, the image is missing sleeps between each print.

The only crybaby I’ve seen so far is you.

Here is a project that archived most of those games: https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads/

There’s no need for that, we’re all on the same side, and the GNU tools may not be an os by themselves, but they are a crucial part of any Linux distribution.

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I have a small gripe with this article: CTRL+K, CTRL+U and CTRL+W don’t “delete”, they “cut”, and the clipboard can be accessed with CTRL+Y, which the article also fails to mention.

Took me 2 minutes, literally.

It’s true, there are factors that will make things sort of work, or make them go downhill very fast. In Portugal, there was a lot of deregulation in the past few 20 years, which brought higher prices, monopolies and fixed prices. That’s my main reason for not believing in deregulation, but I understand that there may be exceptions to this. I just think that they’re precisely that: exceptions to the rule.

Also, I love that I’m having a deep conversation in the memes community!

I didn’t have to search much to find an article talking about the corruption in the Brazilian telecommunications free market: https://teletime.com.br/10/12/2019/o-passado-mal-explicado-das-telecomunicacoes-no-brasil/ Sure, you can argue that many of these companies simply went bankrupt, but the weight of those bankruptcies falls on the same shoulders every time: private profit, public loss. Sure, there were a lot of telecoms opening at that time due to the government opening up the market, but at what cost?

It does matter because you cannot isolate the effects of regulations from the corruption, violence, etc… All of which are huge issues in Brazil.

Regulation is hardly on the top 20 Brazil problems list. Be serious.

Regulations are made to make sure that businesses comply with the minimum safety and health rules, as well as not actively harming the consumer. So, no, no area benefits from deregulation. Giant companies love deregulation so they can monopolize and/or fix prices. Getting to your barber example: if I’m trying to find a barber, I will surely only look for licensed barbers, as I surely do not want a busted hair job, or to incur in any hazard. Simple as that.