That was a case where the seller literally didn’t have the rights to the book. If you search for the title today you’ll find a version that is listed as the Authorized Orwell Edition.

Not the same as what I was referring to. Video games based on licensed IPs, often get taken down from digital game stores because the publisher’s license has ended. What you described with 1984 is someone who shouldn’t be selling the media, having sold it. Sure, it sucks if the title disappeared from your device but maybe that was the only legal resolution?

Licensed titles are different. Unless they’ve done that for non-licensed titles.

I’ve read the series (well only the Douglas authored books). I have a copy of The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which I have not read. Does it make a difference?

I’m not upset. I got mine when retailers had been unable to keep stock. Bought from a second hand resale market (StockX) for $800. I couldn’t find it anywhere else.

That’s a terrible way of doing it.

That bad?

Remember when the Epic Games Store was so bad that anti-virus software was identifying it as a threat?

A BIT FUCKING LATE FOR THAT NOW!

Fuck Israel and anyone that supports the state.

I don’t believe these boxes actually have the game till they are opened. Secondly, back in April, Yaamava Casino claimed to be giving away as a prize, a unopened copy of Mario Bros. The thing that pissed me off was in all the advertising (including television), they would never say the name of the game. They just showed a image of the box and referred to it as a “cartridge classic”. IF YOU WON’T SAY THE FUCKING GOD DAMN NAME THEN I DON’T FUCKING BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THAT GAME!

Does this not count as union busting?

I’m gonna link this article from Sprudge from 2019 when the price of commodity dropped to like a $1 (maybe it was less). Starbucks put together a relief fund, giving smallholder farmers in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, and El Salvador, $20 million dollars. Long story short is that this exact amount based on currently available financial data, equated to less than $61.3 million at the time, which was approximately how much the company earned in revenue in a single afternoon. The point was that without up to date financials, the public did not know what the true impact was. For what it is worth, Starbucks could have been hurting farms by doing this at a time when the price of commodity was extremely low.

https://sprudge.com/starbucks-would-prefer-you-dont-think-too-hard-about-that-20m-relief-fund-151839.html

This sounds like the plot of a Futurama episode.

So he doesn’t want them in the U.S. but he doesn’t like them elsewhere either? Dude, stop projecting your racism onto other people. Just because you are a dingbat bigot doesn’t mean anyone is or wants to be.

That is call cheap where I’m from. He did not do that.

Yes, this is the one!

The thing most people don’t bother to learn about TPUSA, is that the organization is focused on indoctrination of Christian-Right ideology in schools. They want schools to have a charter to promote their fucked up beliefs. At one point (I don’t know what was made of it) the Oklahoma school superintendent claimed TPUSA charters were something their students (or maybe the parents) wanted and that he would mandate across the state all high school’s have a charter.

I would like to think I understand enough to believe it would be offensive if the UK stepped in to intervene on behalf of Ireland. Someone correct me if that is wrong.

Sorry, I was like half asleep. I can’t find it, there was a website I saw shared somewhere on Lemmy that showed you all the info you automatically shared when visiting a website and it pointed out stuff that they collected without even asking for it. The implication is that your device gives websites data involuntarily; the website wasn’t asking for it.

A some recently website someone shared showed, there are some bits of data you automatically share with websites without them asking.