When Congress bows to a corporation you know the system is broken. Walt Disney died in 1966 and copyright is meant to allow creators a period of time to profit from their creations. How did we get here where copyright is now the authorâ(TM)s life plus 75 years?! And this from a company that mined the public domain for all of the 20th century. Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella. Pinocchio. The Little Mermaid etc. Copyright shouldnâ(TM)t exceed 20 years.

Sorry. Wrong. Oxfam just published a report today. The richest 1% emit more carbon than the bottom 2/3 of the world population. You have no idea how much these flights emit.

NSA code breaking, nuclear physics and simulations, and other stuff that they arenâ(TM)t going to tell you about.

So. Linux is ten years behind? Thatâ(TM)s supposed to excite me?

Only the most reprehensible fanboy would be considering continuity when seeing costumed characters parading around an amusement park for children.

Total freedom until the government asks the manufacturer to hit the kill switch because you were late returning your library books or you posted a mean Tweet.

Itâ(TM)s physically impossible. Computers and the human mind are not analogous despite what you may read. The human mind doesnâ(TM)t make discrete calculations. A binary digital computer could neverâ"everâ"become self aware. So it would need to be another technology. Quantum computers maybe. But all research today with computers towards AI is worthless.

If one is that concerned about having a criminal record one should refrain from committing crimes. All he had to do was write a short post on his blog to call attention to whatever issue it was that was bothering him. Instead he broke into a server room, installed a computer, and illegally downloaded thousands of documents. I think 6 months and a criminal record is about right for that sort of thing.

Maybe we could dilute it with fresh water.

Energy weapons don't provide the satisfaction you get when gibbing someone with a gun that shoots bullets. Even the sound of them is lame.

Died in 1984.

Pay them directly using Patreon or something similar. No reason to make your payments to YouTube/Google.

So then this is a complete non-story that shouldn't be on the front page.

Revenues aren't profits. All that money needs to go back into the company to keep it afloat. On $89 billion dollar revenues, expenditures exceeded that figure; they lost $240 million last fiscal year. Million dollar fines would definitely hurt Amazon.

You're joking but I feel that the 2nd Amended does guarantee the people the same weapons to which the government has access. Now of course we can't have John Q Public running around with a thermonuclear device so I believe the solution would be that the government can't have them either.