I don't think they think they're an opposition party, and they certainly wouldn't oppose mass surveillance. They never have.
That's true of every religious faction.
Except for mine of course.
The license is royalty free. AOMedia requires it's contributors to contribute royalty free, and AOMedia has worked hard to ensure it doesn't infringe anyone else's IP, but that doesn't stop other companies (some patent trolls) from asserting "You can't do xyz without infringing some obscure patent I own." These companies (like Dolby) target the companies that license AV1, and say "You've infringed my IP. Pay me $x per product that implements AV1, or I will sue you for much greater damages." So AV1 really is licensed royalty free, what we have here is a third party that isn't part of AOMedia (that really liked making money the old way) trying to extract revenue on dubious claims of patent essentiality.
The fun part is that nobody really knows (or cares) whether AV1 is really infringing any IP. They know that the threat of litigation is likely to induce enough people to just pay that the whole charade is worth it. And perhaps ironically, the companies like Dolby want to litigate even less than the companies they are threatening because litigation tends to be a winner take all thing. If they lose, then nobody pays them; not even the companies they bullied into paying. The video codec IP world has operated this way for decades. This is what AOMedia hoped to change. It's Governing Members are some heavy hitters. If they were to defend AV1, they could easily out-muscle players like Dolby. That might happen, but these sorts of things play out over a very long time horizon.
Reddit allows you to appear anonymous to other Redditors, but Reddit knows who you are.
You can create an account anonymously, and you might be able to browse through a connection that can't be tied to you, but you'll be shadowbanned from the start.
There's a chance that leaning out the team makes things better. Bloat kills dev teams.
But... ticketing systems are a bit like fashion. We could see some new shiny system come around that does more or less the same thing, but becomes fashionable for one reason or another and eats Atlassian's lunch.
I was thinking along the same lines, like they probably spend more on fuel. I remember when Honda pissed everyone off in the 1990s after inflating F1 budgets and then suddenly leaving the sport when the Japanese market crashed. At the time they had Honda factory R&D teams designing and building engines just for F1 teams; that was probably tens of millions a year that wasn't even part of a team's budget... in the 80s and 90s.
Anyhow... F1 teams have a budget cap for several years now. For 2026, it's $215 million, and that doesn't include engines, nor driver and team manager salaries.
People started buying EVs like crazy due to high gas prices; the utilities responded with big hikes in electricity prices. They work hard to fuck over consumers.
California. Prices vary between $4.75 and 5.75 a gallon. We're in I think our third decade of paying 2x what everyone else in the US pays.
I mostly drive an EV though, so I can rest easy knowing that California electricity rates are 3x the national average. lol
My experience has been that Grayjay has better features, Pipepipe mobile app is a bit faster with more reliable playback.
It doesn't matter what topic you search... that's all YouTube recommendations are anymore.
YouTube is still decent if you can ignore their recommendations. I use other apps (Pipepipe, Grayjay) and my feed is just the creators I want. No ads, no slop, no nonsense. It's like YouTube was 20 years ago.
Agreed, but Safeway was shitty before 2015.
PE acquisition seems more like kindred spirits finding each other than something bad happening to Safeway.
So there will be 106 players (53 per team). We'll count spotters as snipers too... meaning a spotter + sniper team counts as 2. So what'll the sniper:player ratio be? 2:1, 3:1? Would it be different if Philly had made it in?
Does Draft Kings have a betting line on this?
I'm glad this guy is pushing back on the nonsense and having this marginal success, but there are still a large number ot static, non-moving no-drone NOTAMs over ICE enforcement operations in cities all over the USA. They've been doing this for several months now, and it's been brutally obvious from the start that it was to punish people for recording and exposing the crimes the ICE terrorists commit.
And while I'm removed about it, National Security Airspace NOTAMs have always been bullshit, and they've been abused by every administration at least since 9/11. We've had a never-ending temporary flight restriction over Disneyland Park for the last 25 years. Disney used 9/11 as an excuse to stop banner advertisers from flying over the park, and it's stuck ever since. Same for every college and pro sports stadium on event days. There's no functional security measure to them at all. Just meant to prevent any non-approved overflight.