Have you ever lied?

Well yes, you are lol

That's going to be a sick business. In practice you're going to need either a controlling stake or convince enough shareholders to go along with your plan. That's typically how such takeovers happen.

Yours is a completely true post that also misses the point of the post you were replying to.

Of course they are. The only way a legislative body can spend money is by making a law. The only way they can do anything is by making a law. The laws are as easily changed as they were made in the first place. Your point is fun but meaningless.

I like how your post has concrete facts that clearly make your point. As a bonus, they're backed up by numbers, which really reinforces things. Good job.

To clarify, when I said 'computer companies,' I meant manufacturers like Apple, and Microsoft.

If you've bought a computer recently, it probably already has the UEFI drm in it. So we are getting closer, step by step, to that sort of reality. Whether we take the next step is unknown, but until now we haven't stopped moving in that direction.

Woah, calm down and think a little.

The total market value of the largest corporation, even by today's inflated stock-market values, is still far less than the revenue of the United States Government.

That's good, I like that you're showing numbers. A lot of people don't do that.

Those numbers are like comparing apples and oranges. Revenue for countries is like profits for companies.

That is, the Australian government has $498 billion to spend on whatever, but Walmart gives most of its $468 billion on suppliers. Walmart's operating income is only $27billion.

It seems strange, but even right now, some software will prevent you from modifying photos of certain things (Photoshop and hundred dollar bills for example).

Computer companies are depending more and more on media companies every day.....consuming media is the primary use of many of these devices. Soon they might say, "Why not implement this? It'll make the media companies happy, and most people won't care."

Good link.

There's a pretty big difference between 'distorting' and 'co-opting,' bro.

It wouldn't be surprising if in a near version of Windows, we see a way to have 'uncopyable' or 'unscreenshotable' sections. We already have DRM embedded in popular OSes with some video playback.

What deep learning system has learned to do something like weld?

Wow, sense of proportion. Tthe total market value of the largest corporation, even by today's inflated stock-market values, is still far less than the revenue of the United States. Businesses have not grown large enough to co-opt government, not by a long shot.

Probably because they had a 3d printer handy and it was what they knew how to use.