This is how the web was meant to be!

“The Wealthy” here is one guy, who got employees to do it, and he is not only not in jail, he got tens of millions when he left eBay after the court case started.

The Wealth lt DID get away with it. Their goons didnt

Congratulations, you pass the first test.

GTA 1, 2 & London were simultaneous releases, no? waggles glasses annoyingly

Do Google actually ever end up paying these fines? If so, over what period and how much have they paid so far?

People will create plenty of content for free. Basically every blog, early YT video and all of Wikipedia was made by people who just like creating stuff for free

Er… what? Their punishment for defrauding investors was “you can’t be a company director anymore… for a while”? No fines, CSO, or prison time?

The third one is as close to “yes” as his weasely words will allow. I read it as a yes, anyway

The answers are more like “yes”, “check the source and intent”, “yes”

Damn. Back to the drawing board.

Anyone know how they got found out? Did someone snitch, was one of them a Spycop, were their communications infiltrated?

Maybe its my age showing, but I’ve only ever bought one article of clothing online. If I can’t try it on before purchase I just wouldn’t bother.

The one exception was a jacket that only sold in the states, a personal recommendation.

Summary: Police now have to declare if they are or have ever been freemasons to the police. That’s it. 400 have done so.

They’ll almost certainly still try and get their masonic chums off with a lighter sentence.

Hey guys! We’ve invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode “Don’t Invent Dead Person Simulators!”

I advocated for banning them because they’re polluting, unhealthy, and 500000 years of human history shows we don’t need them. That you insist we DO need them is probably false.

I’ll take your personal argument for why YOU use them - they’re easy and convenient - but it doesn’t justify their continued existence, any more than than the truth that “safely disposing of dangerous chemicals is expensive and inconvenient” justifies dumping them into lakes and rivers

Ok, all you needed to say was “i hate cooking”

Sure, but you could instead make a giant pan of e.g. spag bol one evening, put in individual tupperware tubs and freeze them. Then bring into work as an when. Saves umpteen trips to the shops.

I don’t mean to deride them in every circumstance - I probably buy them 3 or 4 times a year when I haven’t been able to shop/cook for some reason. But if they weren’t available, that would probably be better for consumers and the environment. A tin of soup is much easier to recycle

Ready meals are unhealthy, not hugely tasty, and more expensive than making it yourself.

It’s nothing. 1.2m divided by 50 councils is 24000 each, i.e. will buy one high pressure hose and 1 near minimum-wage job per council. Comparably, I think the NHS costs £25m per day or something

I swear, the amount of government swindles over the last decade are at a level we haven’t seen since the 18th century. So many billions lost to dodgy covid kit, nhs contracts, school and prison services…

Ok that is really useful context, thank you