Comment How does it benefit the public? (Score 1) 92
Then please allow me to follow up: How does it benefit the public to exclude free software from the market in favor of a cartel?
Also, what’s up with caffeine-free diet Mountain Dew?
No sugar, no caffeine, might as well call it Mountain Don't. But seriously, some countries ban caffeinated beverages that are light in color. All Mountain Dew citrus soda sold in Canada, for instance, was caffeine-free until early 2012.
Do you time travel to 1995 to visit your parents?
There's a reason that the trope page for Decade Dissonance has a real life section.
I don't want a cellphone.
Without a mobile phone, how would you go about reaching roadside assistance or emergency services?
Any shitty old mobile with no service plan will work to call 911
Normally I'd recommend a dumb phone, but HalAtWork refuses even this.
As for roadside assistance, just take off your pants and stand in traffic! Someone will stop sooner or later.
Like a police officer ready to stay you for indecent exposure. I would not find permanent sex offender status worth not carrying a phone.
I don't want a cellphone
Without a mobile phone, how would you go about reaching roadside assistance or emergency services? It's hard to find a payphone anymore.
Cloud-based everything makes it even more realistic for most users.
Yeah, if they want to routinely pay data overages.
[Disassembling and documenting a game] would be enormous amount of work.
Fans have shown themselves more than willing to perform such an "enormous amount of work". See SMBDis.
But why (c) 2014? I hope that does not mean that the 75+ year long copyright length restarts from then, does it?
For a work made for hire, the clock starts at the first publication of a particular work. Whether the 2014 is appropriate depends on whether the changes are not substantial enough to form a new work. If the alleged infringer can prove not, then the clock starts from the old copyright date.
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