I can understand that having your own copy is nice, especially if the service is closed for some reason.
I just don’t bother doing that anymore, I prefer browsing my library on GOG instead of a file-manager.

Being a moron is not a requirement for being Republican, but it helps.
🤔 …
Nah who am I kidding? Og course it’s a requirement.

No I absolutely expected it to be sarcasm.
I read the part, and that’s quite funny and fitting.

I don’t get it? I searched defense on that page and got nothing.
Is it about being absurd?

Logically it favors the rich, just like every other aspect of society.
So I guess it’s no more insane than so many other aspects of society, like how Enron Musk can get paid more by Tesla than every single worker working there.

Some companies are just scumbags, and the bigger they are the worse it gets.

Cool, digital photography is an area that has had insane development IMO.
I’m absolutely flabbergasted by the digital photography capabilities of modern phones. high res, image stabilization, and of course color mapping/filtering.
The processing power needed is insane. 4K movies are 8 megapixel at 3 colors 30 fps, and it’s 750 million sub pixels, that need to be processed per second, and we do that on a cheap tiny handheld device! The better ones can handle 8K and that’s 3 Billion sub pixels per second!

It’s impressive that you have been part of it. 👍 😎

I have a friend who works for the city and invented a brilliant system to remove weed from pebble driveways, without using weed killers. They wrote an article in the local paper, and he was even awarded by the mayor.

Several people recommended to him to patent his system, and he contacted a patent lawyer to do just that.
The lawyer praised his idea, and stated he could make the paperwork to get the patent, for the small fee of some insane amount.
Luckily he pulled out, and did not go forward.

It turns out that his idea was already in production in Germany. The money to the patent lawyer would have been a complete waste.

The moral of the story is, that the only sure winners on patents, are the lawyers.

Edit PS:
Another story, a guy had some patents he found out were being used by a really big company.
He contacted the company to make an agreement on the use of his patents, and the response he got back was basically: “Sue us”.
Those big companies have lawyers on their pay role, patent cases are insanely expensive, in part because patent lawyers are among the most expensive, and it’s near impossible to predict the outcome of a case. His chances of even affording the case were slim, and the chance of winning even if he was obviously right were even slimmer. Because the big company will just hire “experts” to claim non violation. And the little guy can’t afford to match it.

So again the patents didn’t help the little guy.

The original idea with patents is to help protect small inventors from being run over by bigger corporations.
But the result is more often the opposite, where small inventors that have a genuinely profitable novel product, is quickly forced to bankruptcy by frivolous patent suits, even when the new product is patented, and when bankrupt bought for peanuts by the bigger corp.

The other main basis for patents is that the technology should not be lost, in case of the inventors death.
But the way tech works today, that is no-longer relevant.

5 year patent would absolutely be better than what we have IMO.

This is absolutely awesome: 👍😎

Project Jengo is Cloudflare’s effort to fight back against patent trolls by flipping the incentive structure that has encouraged the growth of patent trolls who extract settlements out of companies using frivolous lawsuits. We do this by asking the public to help identify prior art that can invalidate any of the patents that a troll holds, not just the ones that are asserted against Cloudflare.

Emphasis by me.

I’m more shocked how little I need extra space!
I’m rocking an ancient 1TB for backups. And my main is a measly 512GB SSD.
But I don’t store movies anymore, because we always find what we want to see online, and I don’t store games I don’t actively use, because they are in my GOG or Steam libraries.
With 1 gigabit per second internet, it only takes a few minutes to download anyways.

Come to think of it, my phone has almost as much space for use, with the 512GB internal storage. 😋
Maybe I’m a fringe case IDK. But it’s a long time since storage ceased to be a problem.

Sorry my bad, yes that’s actually a good point. 👍

Qalculate is an amazing calculator, highly recommend it.
It’s my default in Linux.

Trump is using the widows response to her husbands death to deliver a joke. Trying to make the whole thing funny. How is that joke not at their expense, when it’s built on their situation?
Trump is absolutely being disgusting, and half the people here can’t even see it?

Trump is using the widows response to her husbands death to deliver a joke. Trying to make the whole thing funny.
How is that joke not at their expense, when it’s built on their situation?

How is it not at his expense, to make a joke that some women would rather have the money than their husband back?

The first quote is the EXACT same as the OP article, and it’s disgusting to crack a joke about women rather have the money than their husband back. As the finale to a story about the woman who just lost her husband.
From the article 3rd paragraph:

“So they’re going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the check," Trump told the appreciative audience. "We handed her the check – and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband.’ Now, I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the same.”

So what part about making a joke about it is it they misrepresent?

No it’s not the same, Trump is obvious, that’s because of the 2 party system, and first past the post.
And people moronically believed Trump was a vote against the political establishment, and for the minimal state.

Antonov was made in Ukraine too. The biggest cargo airplane ever built was the Antonov 225. That plane was absolutely insane, and could carry diesel locomotives and whatnot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

There’s a saying that when war breaks out, the first victim is the truth.
That said the Ukrainian numbers about Russian losses seem pretty accurate, when compared to numbers from for instance Pentagon or UK defense.
The Russians however have been shown to basically always lie and mislead. So even if Russia did release similar numbers for Ukrainian losses, they would probably be pretty worthless.