I tried that and got "Firefox can't find the server at www.putty.cc." The fact that putty.cc doesn't exist is the real problem.

The problem here is that it isn't "obvious shady shit" as you claim. The official PuTTY download page doesn't look very "official". This makes it easier to fool people into downloading the trojaned version instead of the official version.

Which C runtime library do you use with MinGW? I'm told third-party applications shouldn't use MSVCRT.dll anymore.

Hobbits are fictional. I was addressing the plausibility of the fiction, not particulars of the geography. People who go barefoot and raise animals are likely to catch pathogens by stepping in the animals' feces. This risk is present whatever the continent.

The copyright owner has the exclusive right "to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work" (17 USC 106). What defense to preparing a derivative work are you thinking of?

As I wrote in my reply to Oligonicella, the document served by the web server is a collective work consisting of the article proper combined with advertisements licensed from advertisers through the ad network. Or what am I missing?

Medium.com: Because Small.com and Large.com don't exist.

I see it as closer to "I wear a bullet-resistant vest that is immune to the particular models of bullet included in the most common black market ammo kits." In practice, do more intrusions use vulnerabilities whose existing patches an administrator just failed to apply or vulnerabilities for which a patch does not yet exist?

That's the defense that early video game cloners used, but courts ended up ruling that the copyright in a video game relates to those portions of the program's audiovisual output that are constant across runs.

I'm no lawyer, but I speculate that the legal theory is that advertisements are incorporated into the site's "collective work" under license from the advertisers.

Hobbits don't wear shoon (or even shoes) for a different reason: thicker skin on the soles and hair on the rest of the feet. But wouldn't they get infected going barefoot all the time?

You have now. It's called Rhinitis medicamentosa or rebound congestion.

You may be having an XY problem. You say you want Sudafed but what you most likely want is a decongested nose. I'm no physician, so I'll just tell you what worked for me: I switched from pseudoephedrine tablets to oxymetazoline nasal spray. Brands include Afrin, Sudafed OM, and store brands. To avoid dependency, I use it in one nostril in the morning and the other at night.

It happened a century ago.

Fun fact: Spelt (Triticum aestivum spelta) is a subspecies of wheat that has become more popular over the past couple decades for needing fewer fertilizers than common wheat. Thus "spelled" has come to be spelled "spelled" to distinguish it from spelt.

And America south of 49 degrees north latitude has been not an English colony for nearly 240 years.

Widespread paywalls would put even atypical people like me who want to see the opposing viewpoints into a bubble because opposing viewpoints would cost substantially more.

"Not my problem" is a cop-out. I can probably come up with a couple scenarios where it would reasonably become your problem. If somebody desires your opinion about the text of a particular document, but the site hosting the document has gone subscription because off-site ads, the fact that you cannot view the document is your problem. Or if somebody desires your opinion about an interactive document that has been published through a web application, but the scripts powering the document's interactivity happen not to have been vetted by a third party that you already trust, the fact that you can see only the minimal noninteractive fallback version is your problem.