Business card CD ROM's were a nice idea in the day.....

.... trouble was they would often 'misfeed' when using a tray style CD Rom drive and jam in the mechanism, meaning you had to dismantle the drive to get the card out.

Understandably, this would quickly piss off people you gave the card to. This helped make the cards rather unpopular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_compact_disc

> You can export mails, but only if you're on a paid plan.

GDPR to the rescue: You have the right to data portability. All UK/EU email providers offer this (and any that don't may need a polite reminder for them to play ball).

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

I thought protonmail supports imap. Or was it discontinued?

There is a local bridge which transparently communicates between Proton’s encrypted servers and offers imap locally. Only on non-mobile OSs afaik. [0]

[0] https://proton.me/mail/bridge

That's exactly what I wrote in my comment above. You need to install Proton Mail Bridge. But it only works if you're on a paid plan.

> “try our new AI features!” which never remembers that you dismissed it 50 times in a row.

Ah, the standard Silicon Valley permission request format:

"Would you like us to invade your privacy: 'Yes' Or 'Ask me again later'".

It's like being propositioned by a nutcase who won't take no for an answer.... the ethics and legality of which are obvious for all to see.

> ChatGPT seems to think this isn't true

Please don't do this.

Quote an authoritative source, not some AI bot known for ~hallucinating~ bullshitting.

This goes double when dealing with such an emotive subject.

gpt 5.5 thinking is more reliable than the median internet commenter

Then quote the source gpt 5.5 gives you

Yes, but one wouldn't quote these as if they were trusted sources either.

'Whataboutism' isn't a valid criticism of my post.

It's not 'whataboutism' when you're impugning their authority while seemingly have none of your own... or, in the alternative, even if it is, it's quite valid in this instance.

That's a forced emigrant.

Emigrant on one side, immigrant on the other. Unless you live in a boat in international waters, I guess...

But you're only "forced" to emigrate, not to immigrate.

Nicolas Maduro can be described as "forced immigrant".

You will find the unemployed are a prime target for scammers/grifters.

Targeting the desperate is profitable.

A former employer once had Christmas layoffs. Their way to help was preemptively giving these scammers a list of everyone's contact info as "relocation assistance".

Frankly, I take a perverse delight in going backwards and forwards, slowly taking off my belt, keys, watch, small change and finally, steel toe boots.

> terrorists have used fake bomb threats to achieve some other goal

That 'other goal' being to cause disruption. Which this did.

Now we all know how to disrupt a flight anonymously. Grudge against <airline>? Fill your boots!

I mean something like taking control of the plane or else they blow it up

> Are you suggesting opening every package to check for a CE?

In the old days, when an importer purchased Chinese goods in bulk and resold them, import checks were commonplace.... AND the importer was legally responsible for paying import duties and selling goods to the public that were legal and met safety standards.

Now that any individual can order direct from China (with cheap subsidised postage!), the floodgates of untaxed and dangerous shite are open.

One solution is to address the subsidised postage that makes this state of affairs possible.

That’s unworkable: asking a recipient unfamiliar with producers to know whether producer is reputable or not in advance and if the producer is unscrupulous you expect every affected buyer to follow up or be in violation of importation laws?

If you are not sure, buy from within the EU from an importer who deals with this.

The old system of spot inspections worked because most import volume was from known, repeat importers.

So consumers should just pay for a random import company to ”pinky promise” that it is safe? It is well known that most of the crap that is CE hasn’t actually gone through a million euro testing program. It’s just a stamp. And if something happens then well that LLC goes bankrupt (but odds are low)

License importers? Have them audited, post a bond, etc?

CE is self certification for most part. It’s just the seller saying ”yea, I promise it is safe”.

Should consumers have to post a bond to receive a package from abroad?

I think thats asking much from people some of whom easily get scammed by phone banks in Eastern Europe, India etc. many people will not put in that effort.

So hold the consumer liable for laws meant to protect the consumer?

Holding a consumer liable for the broken crap they order would be just, but political infeasible as long as there is someone else to blame.

Why even have consumer laws then if consumers are punished if their Samsung phone explodes?

It depends if Samsung is imported by a consumer or a company that takes liability

So pretty much just pay for the stamp from a shell company that will shield the legal risk? So just more expensive for consumers and more profit for lawyers that can just set up single purpose shell companies to sign off on the import?

> How much more is the US supposed to do in Ukraine beyond the $60-70 billion in weapons and supplies?

sigh

800 Patriot missiles were used within the first 3 days in the Iran war. This is greater than the total number of Patriot missiles received by Ukraine during the entire war with Russia.

Your orange president is displaying some funny priorities.