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Apple TV+ drama 'Invasion' gets trailer, debuts October 22
OutdoorAppDeveloper said:Another annoyingly uneducated sci-fi invasion series. Let me break it down for you.
In our galaxy, planets started forming around 13.5 billion years ago. Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago. Life on Earth formed 3.8 billion years ago just after Earth cooled enough to have a solid surface. There could have been life in the galaxy for 11 billion years before it formed on Earth. That means that any alien intelligence we encounter is likely to be billions of years old. Their technology is as advanced as it is possible to be. They have access to all the resources in the universe. They don't need to invade Earth but if they did, human resistance would be laughable.How narrow minded to assume that other life in the universe encompasses only highly advanced civilizations you describe and ignore the possibility of thousands (or millions) ranging from those advanced civilizations all the way down to primitive cultures. Or to assume any life we encounter has to be billions of years old.
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Epic Games vs Apple -- The continuing App Store saga
Quote by Tim Sweeney (Via Twitter) back in 2019 on why it’s good that only the Epic Store distributes their software.There’s a saying: “You’re safe because the pilot is on the plane with you”. Epic relies on the Epic Games store as the sole way we distribute our games and engine to all of our customers on PC. Our whole business relies on it. Similar with Epic’s online services.What a fucking hypocrite.
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Apple denied Parler re-entry to the App Store despite guideline revision
Lies.n2macs said:
Parler is no different than facebook or twitter.crowley said:Good, but heaven knows why it was allowed in the first place. Absolute cesspool.
I have accounts on Parler and Twitter. On Parler I have literally called for the execution of specific politicians BY NAME and not even a warning. Dozens of times. On Twitter I’ve made vague threats like “Those 2nd Amendment folks could help us deal with some corrupt politicians” with nobody mentioned by name and received 24 hour suspensions. I stopped after my 2nd suspension as I didn’t want to get permanently banned.
Anyone who claims Parler is no different from Twitter is a straight up liar.
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FTC, 46 states file antitrust suit against Facebook, seek Instagram & WhatsApp break-up
lkrupp said:The irony here is that the FTC was the one who approved the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions in the first place.I think that’s simply down to the FTC having no clue about social media and where it would go.
When a large oil company wants to buy up the next two biggest competitors it’s easy to understand what they’re trying to do and the issues it raises. Not so with WhatsApp and Instagram. -
Judge backs Apple in BlueMail's App Store antitrust case
sbdude said:There’s no precedent set when a lawsuit is dismissed without prejudice. It means they can refile the lawsuit upon providing another legal theory that supports their claims. If the judge had tossed the case with prejudice, that would be a different story.That’s a simplification.
The lawyers for Blix would have presented their strongest possible case. The idea they can simply refine their case isn’t really true, as it would imply their lawyers did a piss-poor job the first time, and will “get serious” next time.
If there were several possible avenues to take regarding this lawsuit you can bet they picked the best one to present. Any other legal theories they might have would be inferior to this case, making the likelihood of success even lower the second time around.
