Benedict

I think the biggest risk is social engineering the elderly anyway

Pretty much the same situation with any Finnish bank.

Ah! Well, apologies.

My phone is my bank credentials, no other way to authenticate.

Nokia sealed their fate when they spent $8bn on NavTeq. Switching to Android would have made the purchase valueless, and the people responsible for the acquisition were still in charge.

Uh, it’s been coined for decades now.

Iain Banks’ book The Business features an organisation where people vote for their leaders. It was quite credible, I thought.

Happened to me in 1997 but I didn’t mind

with a pillow!

The only theft going on is the ongoing theft from the public domain, due to corruption of copyright law by special interests enabled by law for hire. Your analogy is irrelevant as the marginal cost of operating a park for an extra visitor is not zero.

I will gladly take a position of moral superiority, because copyright has evolved from a very limited monopoly, intended to encourage creativity while balancing public access, into a licence for corporations to seek rent.

So, call it stealing if you like, I will sleep well tonight regardless.

But stealing is not owning so QED

Bankruptcy court?

If your business model needs undercover advocates to fake grassroots legitimacy you may have a problem.

If buying is not owning, copying is not stealing. Simple as that.

Reality is woke

There’s a random ship encounter like this in starfield.

Violently happy

If we keep beating it for long enough, thermodynamics says it might spontaneously turn back into a horse.