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Of all the panels in the newest page, and you picked that one. Why not the car diagram? :u

Car diagram needs context.

Also it amused me less.

People getting squished by invisible walls is passé. Dapper octopi are in.

There are other ways to make money. They don't need big big data. They don't need to destroy my privacy.

... providing they want to see massive reductions in profit margin. Corps (businesses in general) want big data because information == profit, flat out. The better their understanding of the consumer base, the more able they are to make profit. Especially in a 24/7 heavily interconnected world, to be behind on the data is effectively to be dead. Without that and the flexibility and responsiveness it brings to businesses, competing with companies that do have that information is frankly impossible, especially over the long run. All other things being equal, the company with more information will outperform (and effectively kill, given enough time) the company without.

Basically, you'd need some other message if you were going to push through better privacy controls with any degree of corporate acceptance. Because cutting back and cutting off data collection, in just about any way, is saying "We're going to gouge out your eyes, break your hands, and hamstring you" to competing business entities. You're going to need either a really damn big stick or a helluva' carrot to get them to not fight that with every ounce of resources they have available.

Which isn't to say m'not personally pretty ready to get out the icepicks, hammers, and tendon cutters, but part of figuring out how to get that done is knowing just what you're trying to do, from the perspective of the proverbial enemy.

... though it's probably notable those examples you mention have considerably less to do with big data type stuff than it does with simple customer convenience. Those problems weren't symptoms of rampant corporate privacy invasion, they were symptoms of an economy going digital and certain (idiot) companies deciding to skimp on security (and/or hiring bloody idiots somewhere along the lines, either/or).

Then I guess folks where you're at should be relocated to the states, so they no longer have to choose between staying where their choice is worse (no variety) and moving to where the choice is correct (variety)

E: And so the international War of the Bread Toppings found its roots. Centuries later, the few historians still clinging to life among the ruins would agree that it was easily the most bloody stupid reason to destroy civilization they could think of.

E2: I do not believe I had, until this day, tried a peanut butter and syrup sandwich. This has been rectified. It is delicious ;_;

Apparently unlike wherever you're at, Scriv, here in the states we have choices

Which is to say we have both with and without bitsies. As we please, rather than being stuck with only one option and no variation whatsoever.

Welcome to the future of bread spreads and fruit-based drinks. Here, there is freedom.

... hasn't the NSA already been used to coordinate counter-protest efforts? Pretty sure that's come up a few times in here and in the occupy thread, if my memory's not failing me.

Honey just sort of crystallizes and turns solid but you can still dissolve it in stuff, and it tastes the same.

Some don't~

... though I think it may just take bloody forever, I'unno. Had a jar of tupelo honey sitting in the cabinets at home that sat in there, liquid, for over a decade. If it hadn't been ate (because even after a decade of sitting there, it still tasted fine), I imagine it would still be sitting there, uncrystallized, waiting. Watching, with its tiny little dead bee eyes. 'Cause there was a dead bee in it the whole time, which is why I never actually ate any from that jar. Didn't bother some of the other folks in the house, though.

The second video states pretty directly in the summary that it's vanilla minecraft. Sooo... either the uploader's lying, or he/she/it knows tricksies.

Spoiler: Frumple. (click to show/hide)

... that is a pie cake (cake made of pies), instead of a cake pie (pie made of cake), but also acceptable.

I would eat that cake, I think.