This is both true and untrue. On the one hand yes printers do this. On the other hand if you never registered the warranty then it’s unlikely that Best Buy still has record of which printer you bought 10 years ago.

As ever YMMV.

This is the 21st century though so it’s going to be sub-dermal RFID tags that get scanned like toll booth passes in cars.

There were 53 million households in the US with cable when the fairness doctrine was eliminated in 1987. Cable and the Internet are where and why the people we have been talking about weren’t deplatformed. The Internet has been around since the 60s. I think you might be confusing it with the World Wide Web which is a 90s thing.

Trump has said that his favorite president is Andrew Jackson… the dude who perpetrated the Trail of Tears…

AFAIK the alert voices, like the ones for the NOAA, were automated already.

I can’t agree with you on the fairness doctrine specifically; first it only applied to over-the-air broadcasting, (so ABC, NBC, etc.) but not cable or the Internet. Secondly it was largely interpreted by these networks as forcing fringe views into the main stream. So they would have a faith healer on at the same time as a doctor, or a creationist on at the same time as a paleontologist. There are those who feel that this led directly to our current “my faith is as important as your reason” problem.

I’m just going to leave this here.

Nobody is talking about the United States. This whole thread is about your quote from the Chinese government.

I didn’t compare anything to anything, I asked a question and have not gotten an answer. I have already explained how one possible answer of that question would be racist.

It’s not obtuse to point out that it’s racist to say that what the Chinese had 5000 years ago was a nation but what the Incas or Cherokees, for instance, had was not.

No. We are talking about China and I asked a specific question. Now you are bordering on being racist.

American people lived in America prior to Europeans too. That was my point.

So China has existed for 5000 years but America has only existed since white peoples decided to start a government? Or are you cool with Native Americans claiming 50,000 years?

Also, I’m adopted…

My name was changed in the decree and not on my birth certificate.

I came here to voice this opinion as well. It’s one of the only things I miss about the other site. I have found people on Mastodon attempting to fill that void with regional hashtags though. YMMV.

Supposedly that was one of a couple leftovers from a more R rated first cut.

Source?

One of the expressed reasons for cutting funding to PBS and NPR (via the Corp. for Public Broadcasting) is because they can’t influence what is being said by those entities.

It’s what Game Stop (and a myriad of other “buy, sell, trade” stores) does with used games and consoles but with cars. eBay exists but most people don’t want to go to that much trouble.

As a UX person often my job is to implement somebody else’s vision rather than being able to design something that makes sense.