Leviathan-

Seeing the reason why his account was terminated as being the most important part to you is concerning.
 
Really? He's going to have child porn in his account or used stolen credit cards to purchase everything and then he's going to sue apple? This is the hill your dying on? I'm guessing the dude suing Apple is Jeffrey Epstein but with a mustache so no one knows it's really him right?

Seeing the reason why his account was terminated as being the most important part to you is concerning.
 
Really? He's going to have child porn in his account or used stolen credit cards to purchase everything and then he's going to sue apple? This is the hill your dying on? I'm guessing the dude suing Apple is Jeffrey Epstein but with a mustache so no one knows it's really him right?

Screw the rest of the post, THIS ^^^^^^^^^
1. As long as things are hidden from the public, the public is forced to speculate and scrutinize. That's all I'm doing here.
2. Oh I highly doubt they'd get CAUGHT twice, but as you say, there's lots we will not know about. That's why healthy scrutiny is good to have. 
Agree - again I am not 100% they'll use this for evil in any way, but I am questioning whether this is the best way to accomplish the goal. I always leave room for sheer stupid decisions, even from the richest man on the planet. 
Honestly I suspect more than anything that they will do it simply because they can. the more they show they CAN do, the less most people argue when they make more questionable decisions. 
Unfortunately, as I described, not everyone lives in an area where it's easy to just grab a different job. Some people live where a distro center is the main source of jobs. For an entry level job, $15 isn't bad. It's not good but it's not minimum wage. So giving up on personal concerns of privacy may be worth it for many to make sure they can continue paying bills. If we just argue it's legal so it's fine, just don't take the job or quit, we are just accepting that others WILL take it out of necessity and those people WILL be in a bad work environment. Jobs aren't like groceries, you can't always grab the other brand when one brand makes bad decisions. It's people's livelihoods, the difference between a normal life and being homeless or not eating well, not having reliable transportation. All factors that can happen in a short period of time between jobs, and all that make it hard to get another job. Lose one job, no gas money, how do you get to the interview for the next? These are extremes, but again the people working these low wage, high hours, entry level jobs tend to be living in the edge of or fully in these extremes.
Accepting things will suck is never the answer when it can be made better

Lets not forget this is a business just like any other. At the end of the day their only goal is to increase profits, not improve safety by spending money on cameras. These cameras directly resulted in an increase of productivity and a financial increase in the companies books. 

I agree there is no expectation of privacy on company property however to invade a personal space which you are confined to work in throughout the day is overdoing it. Refer to the poor saps whose managers make them leave their webcams on during their entire work shift so they can see them working. Now imagine you're only making $15.00/hr to be so thoroughly scrutinized for any potential wrongdoing. If anyone needs this type of monitoring it should be politicians and public servants who represent and serve us. However, the public is defending a private company for it's invasive monitoring policies of private citizens to make sure they're not peeing in bottles or pooping in fields because they don't have bathroom breaks.

Come on.

I'm going to frame this quote and hang it on my wall

the steam app gives you access to the store, you can buy games from it and even launch a remote install of the games you've just  purchased or the games on your library from them.
they're not
this doesn't make one yota of sense
and? still not the same market.

This sucks for their IT Team. I'm really curious after they're done with the forensics how the heck they got into their system and obtained administrator/root level access. I sure hope it wasn't a weak password that compromised them. 

I'll view Chinese IP lawsuits as meritorious sometime around the point that CCP doesn't REQUIRE businesses to manufacture their goods in China in order to sell them in China. Until then, :laughs in IP theft:

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

BAFTA is a joke anyway. They seem to care about representation more than about the actual products they are awarding. Imagine if we were picking "car of the year" awards based on gender of the designer who made the styling of the car, not based on actual design and styling. Or basing quality on sexual orientation of the worker who installed the engine instead of the engine itself and its characteristics. Absolutely hilarious and literally does the opposite of being inclusive. It makes sure people are segregated into these little groups that you can point with fingers at and demand certain % of them be in some specific role. IT'S NOT HELPING ANYTHING.

While on one hand I completely agree with the sentiment of "free country, do as you wish", and people should be able to choose the apps/programs they want to use, but on the other hand, do you think that level of freedom should still take prescience, and no action should be taken when companies with direct ties to malicious, communist governments, are manipulating and taking advantage of millions of people, including millions of children?
 
I'm personally a firm believer that burying malicious intent in 5000 pages of a "terms of service" is a bullshit tactic, because 99% of users have no ability or time to read that in the first place. It's purely there to take advantage of readers, and ontop of that the majority of the time, the real things they're doing aren't even stated in the TOS.
 
 
So you think that because you're bored, the Chinese Communist Party should be allowed to harvest incredible amounts of information on you, and millions of other people (who have no idea, including children), and you should lose all rights to that information, allowing them to do with it whatever they please? Imo that ideology perfectly encapsulated how the majority of the current generation is so naive to believe that since something isn't directly ruining their life at that very second, there's nothing wrong with it and they don't care.
 
  
While I agree with you, I also feel saying "don't fix companies like google, facebook, etc, because others will just replace it" is also a bullshit mindset. There's options to have "safe" social media, it's just hard to implement because nobody has an understanding of it, and large corporations control politics, so it's a very hard movement to begin.

Guess the encryption was too strong for the Chinese government to crack so they banned it

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

Hey so I I just wanted to chime in here as I have DT 770 Pros and DT 990 Pros at 250ohms and I also have the Asus B450-F. The short answer is without a doubt yes you will get enjoyable volume with both of them(even though you're just asking about the DT990's). When you plug the Headphones the sonic suite will open and set the amp impedance to extreme automatically. 

Games I usually play all the time are BF4, CSGO, The Division 2. Metro Exodus is also great. One game i've found that could use some extra volume is RE2 on the DT990's however the DT770's with the closed back have no problem. 

Both of them play music just fine and I listen to a lot of different types of music. Deftones - Rosemary, The Doors - Riders On The Storm, DJ Blyatman - Babushka, Andre Rieu - The Waltz Goes On. All these genres play just fine and id dare say if there was any extra volume you could squeeze out you would probably start hurting your ears. The DT770's actually hurt my ears during long music listening sessions so there is that. 

Pick the 990 Pros up and if you want to add an AMP later then by all means go for it. You won't be disappointed. 

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

I agree with the point your making and I'll add on to it by reminding everyone kids are expensive.

A lot of people barely get by and they have no kids, now add a kid to that and use your imagination. I'm not opening this into a "then dont have kids then" debate so please don't try. The real problem that no one here, especially OP is failing to recognize is that these cheap products are mostly targeted to low income people/families.

If you just buy the cheapest stuff you can because you're super cheap and don't have common sense for safety or reputation of the manufacturer, that's plain on you.

I agree to some extent, BUT the price of an item does not determine it's quality, or indeed in this case it's safety. This type of thinking does more harm than good, to think the price denotes some kind of quality, build etc.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.

And the cards will be cheaper? Hah.