Use Office 365, go to JAIL!
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·2020-05-05
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I now have a child so you are all legally obligated to call me a Papa Jean
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ah Papa Jean so Amazon Prime day is
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currently in full swing right now but that doesn't mean Amazon is the only
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place online where you can score a special deal other retailers are trying
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to cut into the Amazon hype including Walmart Target and notably eBay which is
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already offering a number of highly discounted electronic gadgets so you
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might want to give these other also-rans or less cool retailers look because last
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year Amazon actually totally got taken down by a glitch on prime day because so
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many of us need stuff or we think we do
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when it's a little bit cheaper if Amazon goes down again this year eBay will
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offer a crash sale with deals that it promises are even more outrageous so get
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down yet keep your eyes peeled if you really want to save some money by
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spending money you otherwise wouldn't have to spend get down you got stuff I'm
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trying to sell Microsoft Office 365 is now in the same
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legal territory as crack and machine guns at least in the eyes of the
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government of hesse a federal state in Germany last week the state's government
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declared office 365 illegal due to the productivity software's penchant for
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sending user data back to Microsoft HQ in that creepy privacy invading us na
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esta casa si ah not German enough si has
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roughly 6 million people many of whom are now criminals ok it's not that bad
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the state's leadership appears to be using this declaration as the means to
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pressure Microsoft into changing their software in both office and Windows 10
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to comply with German law as well as Europe's notorious gdpr or general data
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protection regulation has these government does specify conditions under
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which schools or offices could continue to use the software including storing
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data on German servers instead of American ones but it makes you think
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about what we do if office was suddenly
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made illegal Google Docs it's no secret that online
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shopping has been the demise of many a brick-and-mortar retail chain but Game
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Stop is hoping to fight back even in an era where online distribution platforms
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like Steam I've taken over the industry the chain is partnering with a design firm to
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revamp its stores promising new layouts new ways to track games before
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committing to buying them and even eSports leagues
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you can see I'm skeptical additionally some stores will be dedicated to selling
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old-school retro hardware in games and just that that seems like even worse of
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an idea overall it's a game Saab wants to turn their stores into more of an
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experience rather than just a place to buy games which would be pretty cool
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except I probably would just experience them there and then go buy them online
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system an alternative to the well known GPS has been down for the entire weekend
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and was still not working at the time we wrote this episode Wow none of its 26
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satellites are currently working for the public due to an issue on the ground no
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word on when it'll be back up but I'm sure Galileo himself is turning over in
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his grave telescopes wryly
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it's game over for the suite of internet
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games that came with Windows XP and Windows 7 ha if you're still using an
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older version of the OS Internet backgammon checkers heart's not hearts
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spades and reversi are all going away
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soon at the end of the month of using XP in January 2020 for Windows 7 users I
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actually really missed those but not quite as much as a space cadet pinball
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well I just wore my arrow keys were just
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Dunn's up it wasn't long ago that Donald Trump
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announced that the u.s. wanted to develop a space for us but now it looks
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like they're allies the French won't be too far behind as Emmanuel macron wants
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to create a Space Command is that what they're calling it that's not as good as
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for us a Space Command to help defend Frances satellites hopefully they'll
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have an easier time with that than Buzz Lightyear did against Zerg that that
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joke sucks that's a brutal joke that's not okay that's not even a French
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movie French I don't even get a joke sucks and speaking of movie stuff a
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movie based on the iconic retro game space invaders is one step closer to
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reality ah it's gonna be bad new line
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cinema has hired the same writer responsible for the moral Kombat reboot
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to work on the film of course the game didn't really have much of a plot to
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begin with other than shoot this group of pixels that kind of looks like an alien but it can't be more disappointing
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than the Independence Day sequel right weird comparison that's not a video game
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and the US Army has announced it will start testing robotic combat vehicles
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next year these vehicles will be unmanned and controlled by remote
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operators who could be men or women and while the first of these vehicles will
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only feature 7.62 millimeter machine guns the idea is that heavier remote
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vehicles with expanded capabilities assisted by AI will be available in the
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coming years ultimately the Americans hope that the vehicles will be more
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effective than the droid army that Jar Jar being somehow took down
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that's all for today so come back for the sequel attack of the clones on
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Wednesday which would be just as good to stay but more clones
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fewer clones
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the appropriate about fewer than zero clothes Wow