The vast majority of people are not jerks.

Operating an open wireless network for your own convenience is not a violation of TOS. Nor is calling it "Use Me Free WiFi".

The foreground dust in the Milky Way just happens to have a pattern of polarized light filtering capabilities that align with the largest grain structure of all the mass in the visible universe on the order of 5 sigmas from our current position. Coincidences like that happen all the time. It is a quirk of timing. In a few hundred years the Earth's position will have shifted enough that this "Ray-Ban effect" will disappear.

You are confusing the use with the policy. Google has an open policy art codecs. I could implement a VP9 player sure that Google will not sue me.

Indeed. Also overlooked, although the Constitution grants to Congress the power to declare wars and grant copyrights and patents, it in no way compels them to do so. They could just repeal the whole thing.

This was always a mistake.

Sorry, no. All computer programs are math. Especially compression algorithms. They should not be entitled to patent protection. Most programs are exceptionally poor math, as well.

Google seems to making great strides in "the progress of science and useful arts" of compression algorithms and giving the result away for free.

If he wants to be well remembered for his charity only, he will have to kill the monster he created to amass his filthy lucre. Otherwise what evil it does when he unleashes it will taint his legacy still.

If you are locked into a contract you can get the free service and then dial it up to gigabit once you are free. Or suck it up and pay the ETF.

Just a note. People of Ukraine call it Ukraine. It is only Russians that call it The Ukraine.

It is no wonder Musk wants a new spaceport. After he has a dozen or so reusable surplus rockets he will be able to launch almost every day.

If Musk successfully executes his reusable rockets plan, every US government launch will produce a 0 cost rocket for up to 20 more commercial missions.

The problem is distribution of trust. This is solveable.