It’s absolutely part of the deal.

Lol a comma would really help the end of your first sentence

Hey I think I know you! Infamy is alluring

Well it’s an attempt to generate temporal scarcity.

Offer good limited time only.

It’s a big gamble on the “buyer’s” needs

The world runs on contacts, and those dollars were spent around the globe. There are examples of what you say, with mali considering reclaiming ml. Nationalization can have a chilling effect on industry, but depending on your affiliations this isn’t really an issue

A fair point indeed, but that’s not how it is. Public dollars were funneled one-way into private infra, in many cases.

“it seems so backwards”

They set the shit up, so they decided the behaviors.

Because they prop up the infra to support them right?

Funny thing here on Lemmy…

Hmm for the sake of discussion, it could be such that that legal tribunal was calling into question all of that history. Just because a “crime” (in this case a misclassification) occured and was propagated for many years doesn’t mean it is correct tomorrow.

The point of the episode was the kangaroo court. It was that data had served as a valid, meaningful, human-like member of the staff for years, and all that was at risk. It does the very star trek thing of highlighting real world issues, in that people all over the world suffer from kangaroo court style judicial-injustice, and Picard’s achievement is that much more impressive given the hill to climb. (Corruption)

Even in a seemingly idealistic futurist-future, injustice can arise, and minorities can be swept up in the mess. The federation is not perfect, and this episode is a crystal clear example of it’s potential faults. (Executives with opinions trump up proceedings to bring about their own goals, essentially corrupt bureaucracy wrapped in judicial procedure)

Dr Seuss?

Lots of people here are operating on the “hurt the right people” maga energy regardless of their alignment. They just want to see people hurt.

This is still a heinous act of dehumanization,… When I hear of a human being marked as a “brand” I think of a hot iron. I opened the article fearing the worst. Thankfully this is not that.

Yeah I’ve worked with a team that has a very impressive on prem solution, if you have the hardware. Most clients are comfortable with the privacy risk rather than the hardware spend.

16k is insane. Even 32k is a super low for a bipedal, work ready robot imo

I’m allowed to further discuss the on topic subject, especially as clarification of my point.

Edit you minimized the discussion to quantitative “more olives”, and I clarified my position as being more than that, and that the definition of premium is a known thing.

If you are all set, stop replying. I promise you I wouldn’t double reply to repull you.

Edit also you entered this conversation debating what “premium” is so don’t act like that’s invalid discussion.

Well it’s clearly described what you get. It’s not just “more”.

Bro!

Material, physical changes to the customer experience.

You’re literally getting a different seat as a product, or a different relationship with the purchase, as a service.

I’m not simping for the airline here, but it’s literally different (and stupidly more expensive)

That’s silly and not seen anywhere in the commercial flight market

Position in the place for example there’s only so much plane and there’s food space and bad. “Somewhat less shit” is a short rope as there’s only so many rows, and since are better than others.

Being able to refund is clearly premium.

Etc etc