Sounds like a job for the Peel P-50!

...is in a handbasket.

The "biggest websites in the world" are already complicit in the activities that the US is in trouble for, so don't expect any impetus from them this time around.

At first I thought this read "So sick of popular _greek_ culture", to which I'd agree. If we're going to draw from mythological names for astronomy, there are plenty to choose from beyond the typical Roman & Greek ones, both modern and ancient.

Kerberos and Styx were the equivalent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters thousands of years ago.

The patent system allows scumbags to exploit it, with all the rubber-stamp granting of vague, non-novel, and non-unique crap.

Actually, countries likely have a mutual spying agreement. USA spies on $COUNTRY, $COUNTRY spies on USA, and they share information. Both never technically spy on their own citizens and therefore obey their own constraints, yet they effectively have full unchecked information invasion on their own people.

I'm not an anti-vaccine person, but I think it makes sense to space them out a bit more. When I was a kid, I think I had under 10 things I was vaccinated for, and that was over multiple shots.

Nowadays, they shove cocktails into kids that have upwards of 60 pathogens in them. Why not give them a shot a month over a course of time, to give the body a chance to deal with things?

Vaccination is fine. The delivery seems kind of iffy to me, but I'm not a medical professional.

Amazon has the worst search engine of any shopping site I've used. If I'm shopping for tech, I browse through categories on newegg or pricewatch first, even if I end up buying from amazon.

People learn new platforms via reference materials, which brings existing programmers into their realm. This is especially true with Android, since it builds off of Java and to a lesser extent from the user & app-programmer perspective, Linux.

Learning to program, however, is a separate skill. I'd suggest learning Java, then applying what you've learned to Android. If you're good at learning on your own, then go straight into Android programming examples from Google's materials and learn both at the same time, sussing out any weird language understandings with Java references.

Your post completely overlooks the required traits of novel and non-obvious. The question isn't if it infringes on prior patents, but if this is patentable at all given that the proverbial cat is out of the bag on the ideas and implementations of combined card-edge connectors.

Sure, IF that implementation is novel and non-obvious. The diagram looks like it contains exactly the same application of ideas as its predecessors, making it obvious.

Senior information like health & retirement, alumni & reunion sites, credit reporting, bars, any hobby club or organization or even forum with 18+ or 21+ limits on membership... all of these are technically "adult" sites.

I, for one, am sick of "adult" always implying adolescent, sexual, or vulgar topics. It's impossible to use the word for grown-up stuff anymore without people looking askance.

And where was the political outrage towards Apple when they opened their own stores, for causing "unfair" competition with the other retailers?

(Obligatory computer analogy in this car thread.)

It's a 3rd party escrow service. The funding threshold and levels also add a sense of gamification.

Also, people giving money are not investors looking for a positive return, but just want to see something done, and just expect a perk or trinket for their support.