Run a personal VPN server at the home address and have external users route through it. I’d think it’d work for any subscription service doing this crap. I’m surprised nobody has started selling a turnkey self-hosted VPN device that even a non-techie can get running in a few steps - all the end users would need is an app that does split tunneling for the media players.

First rule of Fight Club…

Sarcasm detector on the Fritz again?

Kinda surprised Canada hasn’t followed France’s lead, and invited all the worthwhile people like scientists to apply - they’d become more important and useful than the USA rather quickly.

It’s simpler than that: “we’ll say & do whatever it takes to avoid legal proceedings (including bribery) in our mission to slurp up every last bit of money we can, because that’s the only thing that matters.”

Heck, I’da done it for just 1% of that.

Looks like a great remake of the old Rampage arcade game.

Pocketing most of it while lying in whatever manner it takes to get it, like most Republican-run enterprises do.

That’s the point. They didn’t want weakling slaves. Only the strong survive… and those that own them.

I don’t know, but if I had to guess: email, bank, & government sites are probably the bulk of their use. Those pages don’t change all that often, so once they’re in the browser cache they’ll probably still load at reasonable enough speeds for their use I’d imagine. Those people probably see it as a tool to get certain things done, and that’s about it. They’re likely much older, and so never had much interest in being terminally online.

Great, so those living in ultra-rural areas because they can’t afford anything better will now have to pony up 10x the cost for satellite Internet, or become even more disconnected from the rest of the world than they already are.

Probably originally something offensive that sounded similar in that language, and was forced to be changed to be more civilized.

While that’s true, in America at least the fact that average global temperatures are rising in large part due to human activities has been a significant point of contention with conservatives who seemingly instinctively deny responsibility for anything negative that they and/or their preferred policies are contributing to. They fought against “Global Warming” tooth and nail despite the documented facts. They more begrudgingly accepted “Climate Change” because it could at least be spun more easily into outcomes that didn’t make them look so bad.

Statute of limitations ran out.

Agreed. I don’t know why you’re saying that in response to a conversation regarding the article’s veracity, however.

Outside the “snitch” headline, nowhere do I see that stated - or even implied. I hate right-wing spin as much as any sane person, but I also try to be fair. The article proper didn’t contain a single thing that screamed “bullshit” to me. Maybe the choice of Xitter user quote they inserted, but that’s all.

Okay - that’s obviously bad, but even the Fox News website tells the facts much of the time - they just bury the hell out of them in spin. Outside the obvious “snitch on your neighbors” - which is really pretty mild in terms of spin - what specifically is inaccurate here?

That’s not what I wanted, hew-man!

…and a similar disparity in cost.

To answer your question, it was indeed a sarcastic comment on the BS surrounding CC being somehow more politically acceptable than the truth of GW. I’ve never been a proud American (in part because of the truth in “pride goeth before a fall,” even though I’m not religious), but I’ve never been less proud than I’ve been forced to become over the past couple of decades.