If we still need to buy one copy of a gamer per simultaneous player,.then the rest of the differences are just ceremony.

Nothing indicates that moving a Nintendo digital card requires uninstalling the game locally. It just, like steam, does a DRM check to see if it’s being played elsewhere.

Steam sells non-transferable lifetime licenses to each game you “buy”, that let you play it on one PC at a time but never transfer it to anyone else, even as part of an inheritance after your death.

If you have a family there is a “sharing” plan which allows you to let family members also play some of the games in your library, but not at the same time.

Nintendo is imposing a bit more ceremony if you want to share digital games each time you share them, but the essential “one device at a time” nature is the same that steam imposes.

Nintendo made a huge deal about virtual game cards, saving us from exactly what you’re afraid of.

Not as good as what Sony and Microsoft do, where we can essentially install our whole library on every console we have, but it’s about as good as what Steam does.

Plus they’re bringing back a “game share” like feature, so some multiplayer games should be playable in a local family with only one purchase.

Not even.

2+2=(3,4,5) is just recognizing imprecision in the original measurement.

The “budget” not matching appropriations is “I’m only going to spend 100 on lotto tickets this month, and save 50” and then buying 150 in lotto and putting the 10 you ‘won’ in savings.

It’s not the math ending up. It’s just recognizing that budgets are nonsense if the actual spending is a wholly separate act of Congress.

Is this moron still involved in any way?

Was he ever?

(Apropos reminder that Musk has nothing to do with Tesla staring; he just showed up with his PayPal golden parachute, picked “founder” as the title he wanted, and they proceeded to success largely in spite of anything he actually did.)

As said elsewhere: 30 days or else what?

Trump will withhold the federal dollars Congress appropriated to NY that he already wants to withhold? Projects that would be DOA in a hard-right Congress might be even deader?

Hochul will get another empty threat from the fed DOT?

What exactly business are taxed on varies a bit from state to state, but for a tax on “profit”, which is the most common in the US, wages are definitely deductable from revenue to get the “profit” for a given period.

Walmart and Amazon would pay a hell of a lot more tax if they couldn’t subtract the wages they paid to their employees and contractors from the money that comes in the door when calculating their tax bill.

Maybe note that Wages arent like office equipment, in that there’s no asset to plausibly be sold to recoup a purchase price?

(This isn’t directly my area of expertise either, but I have a hard time thinking of a tax scheme that would allow deducting the cost of an office chair rented for an employee but not the wages paid to her.)

If you work for someone else, and THEY provide coffee, they can (and do) deduct it from taxable revenue. Same as they do the wages they pay you and the chair they have for you to sit in.

Security,.privacy, and logistics would all adapt and be of weirdly more manpower with teleportation than without.

There would be companies who do nothing but teleport goods across the world all day. Just because I don’t have to drive an hour to the warehouse doesn’t mean I want to take an hour to teleport to the warehouse and pick up my purchase myself.

I assure you that anyone who ever put on a town hall debate, including the League of Women voters and definitely the TV networks, screened the questions and reserved the right to exclude anyone they chose to.

No debate or political event since well before Nixon/Kennedy has been “open to everyone”.

“town hall” is a style of event. Back when there were meaningful debates during presidential campaigns, it used to be a regular choice.

I guarantee you that they were closed events, with attendees chosen legally-arbitrarily by whatever TV network was hosting the event.

So long as he takes questions from those in attendance, it’s a town hall. Even if no cameras are allowed.

So, what rule do you think makes “congressional town halls” work differently than any other campaign activity?

So, how does it work? Does your state have a law requiring congressional “town halls” to be open to the public?

Things like the MS-PL strike me as Open Source but not Free Software, but I can’t think of a contrary example which is Free Software but not Open Source.

Unless the town hall is paid for with taxpayer dollars or held on government property, it’s a citizen who happens to be in Congress having a private event with their political supporters.

Same as a political party convention or fundraiser dinner,.AFAIK.

(And, depending on state law, even a function on government property may be legally private.)

There is a mythical “Sony fan” customer who pays extra for their video game consoles, and justified that by believing it comes with a right to be special and awesome and play games no one else is allowed to.

It’s a pantomine of a Nintendo fan, who pays for an underpowered console for first-party games that use unique controllers. None of whom would ever complain if their games were sold on PC so long as they could bring the controller over.

AFAIK, the only real people who want exclusives on PlayStation are Sony employees and shareholders.

“task masking” happens for only one reason : managers value appearance over honesty.

Gallant writes code and documentation quickly and efficiently, then pulls out a Gameboy while waiting for new issues to come in = must be a bad worker.

Goofus mutters all day and types furiously, but produces no usable code = obvious the backbone of the team.