Those fancy oxidizer rich stage combustion rocket engines would be cool. Currently the US buys them from Russia for the Altas V although that was already ending. By turning their IP to toilet paper they are letting everyone potentially copy them. The mechanical design isn't really special in that case and its apparent by looking at it. But what made those engines possible was the metallurgy which allowed for turbine blades on the fuel pumps to not disintegrate when exposed to pure oxygen. That's some special sauce.

It really isn't the same thing. You see, America and Germany were at war. Nobody cares about IP law in the middle of conflict, both sides actively try to reverse engineer each other's captured tech as a way to get a leg up in the conflict. These "lesser" disputes don't matter at the time because war is the most extreme state of relations two nations can have with one another. All of that gets hammered out after the war is over. And often times assets like patents can be invalidated as part of formal reparations. Which is what happened in WW1 and WW2. Germany lost and as part of being the loser they had to compensate the winners for the trouble of going to war. You can't bring back dead soldiers so they had to do so through other means. One way among many is to invalidate some patents so the victors can be compensated by your industry. Its really no different than being paid in cash, its just another form. The end result is the same, your economy gets to heal somewhat.

Russia is not at war with the west yet still thinks it doesn't have to be party to international agreements over patents. Any Russian companies that actually take him up on that will regret it long term because even after the sanctions end their products could be banned from the global market for violating patents and international treaties on them.

By definition they were second world. However given the last decade and shifts in alignments with the the second time the Russians invaded them I think they firmly qualify as a first world nation.

People just serially misuse the terms.

So they cold blued it. Why didn't they just cold blue all of the bikes? If you blue something before it starts rusting then it wont rust. Or is that kind of expenditure "out of step with Peloton's quality brand"? Overpriced garbage. There's never enough money to do it right, but there is always enough to do it again.

False dichotomy. America doesn't invalidate the IP of foreign companies operating there. China does.

RF travels at the same speed regardless of what frequency its at. 5G travels at the same speed through the air that 4G does, the speed of light. Any latency improvements are due to higher performing networking hardware not from choosing a new bit of spectrum.

This problem would have, and actually did still happen in socialized health care systems. The problem was the company that made it went bust. Do you think any of the European health agencies started making copies of the device or picked up support for it? Of course not. A French patient with this prosthetic is just as screwed as anyone else. The article says there are over 350 users world wide. Some of those are definitely going to be from single payer systems.

other than the fact its uniquely French. But if this is sincere and realistic, its good policy. And I applaud them.

A lot of modern shows are also very formulaic. That hasn't changed. What has changed is the production quality has gone way up, with some shows spending in a season what normally would only go into a feature film. And TV, really streaming but we still call it TV, has become acceptable for big time movie stars. So you have shows that are far more expensive with big names that you never saw in shows before.

But many still fall back on formulaic and uninspired writing because all of showbiz suffers from that.

All I need to counter anecdotes are other anecdotes. If you bring stronger evidence then I will too.

Kinda hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube if you know what I mean.

Ah yes clearly your one anecdote is evidence enough for a blanket statement about society as a whole. I guess you haven't heard of the carnivore diet or that people hunt and prepare the meat themselves? I have a freezer full of venison from a deer that I killed and dressed myself.

Butchers do that because preparing meat is a skill that most people don't know. Its a convenience. And fish heads aren't generally consumed because they are mostly bone. But at least in my grocery store, which is just a normal Krogers, you can actually buy whole fish with the heads still attached. They are cheaper that way than just getting fillets.

I assure you, people aren't trying to fool themselves into thinking they don't eat meat. Those are culinary terms and chefs have been using weird names for all sorts of things not just meat for a very long time. Your goal of turning everyone into a vegan is not going to be as easy as changing their vocabulary.

Not sure how you can fake bone-in chicken economically. Are you suggesting they put fake meat on real chicken bones?

They have had two years to figure out how to work remotely. That excuse doesn't fly at this stage.