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friendbot2000 posted:Amazon has had a myriad of shady IP and patent scandals that just get buried in the constant diarrhea news cycle. Basically, they steal people's products, market it as Amazon Basics or the Amazon Choice and drive them out of business. As far as Amazon is concerned, you could view the Prime program as somewhat anticompetitive - it leverages substantial media streaming, its acquisitions (i.e. discount on Washington Post articles), and web services (photo storage) to create a captive consumer base. In addition to the perks that Amazon offers because it is an enormous corporation, it has a broad hardware program to further encourage a captive market. It has those buttons which automatically order things, Amazon locks (which won't work with other companies), and Alexa. In my view, Amazon has created a program intended to culture a consumer base that thinks "well I could buy X or Y anywhere, but I might as well order it from Amazon because I'd be wasting my membership otherwise". And it's uniquely capable of doing so, because it is a large corporation. As an aside, the 2-day (or shorter) shipping will need to be eliminated in the near future. It's true that delivery of goods is typically more environmentally friendly than going to a store, but the promise of a delivery window makes this much less true. Amazon is even hiring individuals to deliver goods in passenger vehicles, which is clearly bad practice in almost every way. edit: have a capybara, an Amazonian native rodent 
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twice burned ice posted:
tbf he routinely stole from dictators and fellow horrible people, ultimately leading to him seeking out Trump and drawing the spotlight (because he didn't want to be murdered by Oleg Deripaska)
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GreyjoyBastard posted:intellectual property laws are theft from the working class the last time I saw this come up, aside from people not knowing what white label products are, the only patent example someone could point to was a laptop stand which was a U shaped piece of aluminum that even the stand makers said that Amazon's own laptop stand was sufficiently different from theirs that they couldn't enforce their ornamental design patent OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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Mar 9, 2019 18:44
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While looking into China dealings look into McConnell’s wife FBI thanks.
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not surprised at all. these cowardly fucks will just make up a new name until they get doxed again.
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What would a Fox News debate even be? We’d probably get questions about why they’re personally aborting babies a few months after they were born
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Again? Didn't someone just post his bail too?
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it's fun to celebrate alex jones being off twitter but i think people really should worry about how much power twitter has over the world's discourse the fact people think of it as a free speech space when it's controlled by some rich oligarchs is scary to me
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he's led an otherwise blameless life, add five days to his sentence and tell him to cheer up
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alpha_destroy posted:Again? Didn't someone just post his bail too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIla9Mqo1I
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alpha_destroy posted:Again? Didn't someone just post his bail too? This is seen as a racist conspiracy against R Kelly and it’s circle the wagons time.
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My question is how was this story able to be reported by the press but the prison obviously had no loving clue?
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Your Taint posted:My question is how was this story able to be reported by the press but the prison obviously had no loving clue? It seems like it would be laughably easy and cheap for him to pay off prison guards.
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He will definitely claim he seduced a woman guard.
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Prison is too easy for him. In an ideal world, this smirking sewer rat would end up as Gostface Killah's permanent punching bag. And I do not mean metaphorically.
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maybe he bribed the guards with prescription medicine discounts
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https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1104405526069297152quote:The short bio of Yang on the website, identifying her as the founder and CEO of GY US Investments, shows her in a photo with Trump bearing his signature. It says she has been “settled in the United States for more than 20 years” and is a member of the “Presidential Fundraising Committee.” According to the Herald, Yang is a registered Republican, and since 2017 she and her relatives have donated more than $42,000 to a Trump political action committee and more than $16,000 to Trump’s campaign. Her Facebook page, which was taken offline on Friday, was loaded with photos of her posing with GOP notables: Donald Trump Jr., Rep. Matt Gaetz or Florida, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, among others. 
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They're gonna start calling anyone who brings up the human trafficking lady racist aren't they?
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Nonsense posted:This is seen as a racist conspiracy against R Kelly and it’s circle the wagons time. P much every poc I know sees r kelly as an example of this country's disregard for black women and not as a racist conspiracy against r kelly. like everyone loving knows r kelly is a sex offender, that's been public knowledge since the video of him peeing on a 14 year old girl got out
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InsertPotPun posted:They're gonna start calling anyone who brings up the human trafficking lady racist aren't they? It's probably anti-semitic as well. It's well known that there is a trope of Jews eating Chinese food at Christmas, and therefore Meghan McCain is going to need to cry and rant again. The Democrats are the real racists.
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I would like to know if Trump knows who she is. I think it might matter if he turns a blind eye to human trafficking in office.
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RuanGacho posted:I would like to know if Trump knows who she is. I think it might matter if he turns a blind eye to human trafficking in office. What if she turns out to be a Chinese spy? Would that matter?
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The fake Melania stuff is weird cuz 1) that woman doesn't look all that similar 2) is like 4 or 5 inches shorter than Melania (who is about an inch shorter than Trump in flats 3) actually holds his hand, and not just touches his hand but is like hanging on for dear life and 4) has totally different walk, actually walks ahead of Trump and just has wildly different body language in general E: said better here https://twitter.com/ayglsr/status/1104400871516004352 Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:The fake Melania stuff is weird cuz 1) that woman doesn't look all that similar 2) is like 4 or 5 inches shorter than Melania (who is about an inch shorter than Trump in flats 3) actually holds his hand, and not just touches his hand but is like hanging on for dear life and 4) has totally different walk, actually walks ahead of Trump and just has wildly different body language in general The real question is why is trump letting her get away with dressing down?
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Maybe the real Melania is on vacation.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:The fake Melania stuff is weird cuz 1) that woman doesn't look all that similar 2) is like 4 or 5 inches shorter than Melania (who is about an inch shorter than Trump in flats 3) actually holds his hand, and not just touches his hand but is like hanging on for dear life and 4) has totally different walk, actually walks ahead of Trump and just has wildly different body language in general This seems too dumb to be a real thing. Also, Trump is engaged in active treason, a fake Melania almost seems like more of a way to take the air out of the room to keep the scandal fire from building.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:The fake Melania stuff is weird cuz 1) that woman doesn't look all that similar 2) is like 4 or 5 inches shorter than Melania (who is about an inch shorter than Trump in flats 3) actually holds his hand, and not just touches his hand but is like hanging on for dear life and 4) has totally different walk, actually walks ahead of Trump and just has wildly different body language in general Source your quotes Louise
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USPOL: This seems too dumb to be a real thing. Also,
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Of course you all doubted the obvious truth https://twitter.com/TomDangora/status/1104427859559489538
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Of course you all doubted the obvious truth lmao
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The Merkinman posted:For Google, separate out: For some of us oldies it's memories of decades of apple getting the poo poo kicked out of it by everyone else that we have to overcome.
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SocketWrench posted:For some of us oldies it's memories of decades of apple getting the poo poo kicked out of it by everyone else that we have to overcome. Apple has pretty much always understood itself to be a luxury/aspirational brand; even when they were lost in the desert, it wasn’t that they didn’t know who their customers were, but rather didn’t know what to sell them.
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So it seems Democrat’s are coming out in favor of legislation of weed. This could be pretty big for younger turnout right?
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SocketWrench posted:For some of us oldies it's memories of decades of apple getting the poo poo kicked out of it by everyone else that we have to overcome. Do you have good memories of Apple? I'm actually serious. I just remember them being the computers i couldn't build or upgrade.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Literally nobody understands the difference between a visa, residence permit, or “travel authorization.” All I know is when I went I had a passport and the guy behind a counter stamped it on the way in and said "Welcome to the Netherlands"
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Harton posted:So it seems Democrat’s are coming out in favor of legislation of weed. This could be pretty big for younger turnout right? It’s gonna be funny watching congenitally square, cautious politicians trying to out-flank each other...[Jon Stewart voice] on weeeeed. Bernie is going to propose people’s grow co-ops and a national prohibition on reggies.
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