It just added a hash of the password to your posts so that others could verify which user made the post. These hashes were easily cracked though. The username could be anything you want. There was no account creation

wouldn’t it be so much fucking easier to just bring him back?

There’s a reason he had fled to the US and was protected with asylum, and a reason that the US was not supposed to deport him back to El Salvador. He was probably dead as soon as he was sent back.

Bear, no contest

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So here’s your chance to clarify your statement and represent it the way you intended

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments

Your choice example of technology to support IP laws is… something that was created publically and is a collection of open, public standards 🤦🤦🤦 do you think the internet is patented…? By who??? Lmao

The internet is literally the peak example that proves IP laws are unnecessary for innovation and actually inhibits it. And yes, good observation that IP laws predate the internet. They are antiquated by it and no longer relevant in a post-internet world.

No no no the world has always worked the way my flawed ideology requires!!!

that technology never would have existed in the first place

Oh gee, a wildly incorrect assumption

So… what, are you denying that open source software exists because people have to pay bills…?

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Was this said sarcasm? I can’t tell

You’re on the internet…

This is the kind of culture you get and deserve when you allow corporations to control your country and culture

Reddit behavior

Be BFFs with your Micro$oft Spy™ 😀

giant paragraphs detailing what a broom looked like or how a piece of ham glistened or whatever

I genuinely don’t even know where that is coming from. He is known for lengthy description of landscape and geographical features, and that critique would be valid, but… not about trivial details about random objects like this? Huh??

You’re not wrong. But also I don’t think it would be quite the same without, and the tedious display of reverance for song and poetry contributes something very human (and often beyond human) to many of the characters.

Did you read the Hobbit? Might be more your speed. I’d also most highly recommend The Children of Hurin.

Just climbing over the walls to get to my center cubicle

Even if tariffs worked the way Trump wanted and it magically brings all this manufacturing back to the USA, it will still cause extreme inflation in the USA. The reason foreign goods are so cheap? Dirt cheap labor. To manufacture these goods in the USA would mean orders of magnitude higher labor costs and ultimately orders of magnitude higher price of goods to the consumer. Inflation.