Are you thick? The flight attendant wouldn't have a key -- it would be a matter of the flight crew having to physically allow him/her in before one of them leaves the flight deck. The only way this would be any less secure than the current arrangements is if the terrorist attack was an inside job, and cabin crew are no more (or less) corruptible than flight crew, as a general rule.

Yes, the US court system in particular is a bugger for everyone. But the principle of not needing to file trademarks is sound, even if the execution is flawed.

Sorry, but this one is good for the little guy. It means that granny can make Mrs Mullins' Marmalade without needing to file or register anything, and The Big Conserve Co can't just walk up and register, steal her reputation and force her to stop trading when she's just starting to make a name for herself. This is protection for the little guy.

Quite a lot of people. And they even think they're switching off.

The people who "generate the most wealth" are often responsible for massive amounts of unemployment. If we look at the Walton family empire (Walmart Stores Inc), we see a string of relatively labour-light retail outlets that push smaller companies out of business, resulting in a net loss of jobs. Amazon has taken this trend to ridiculous levels, exports profits to tax havens whenever and wherever possible, and then whenever criticised for sharp practices stands up and demands that we "celebrate" the billions in wealth and the thousands of jobs they "create".

As for "rewarding people who don't work and contribute nothing to society", you have clearly never had to live on benefits. They hardly constitute a "reward" for anything.

But the continual heating of the transformer coil also shortens the lifespan of the device.

I think that was a joke, because any device with a remote would have a standby mode, and would therefore be soft-power-down rather than hard-power-down.

You don't "trademark" things -- you register a trademark. Registration is not strictly necessary in most jurisdictions -- as long as you are actively using the branding, it is automatically considered your trademark. Order of registration only matters if you're talking about two commercial entities independently coming up with the same brand. Here we have two entities with an existing contractual relationship. Smart Projects therefore was not ignorant of the informal body that later became Arduino LLC. Who initiated the contract and who came up with the name? What did the original contract say about the name? Clearly the initial contracts were poorly drafted, or there would be a clear answer, and we wouldn't be having this conversation!!

Arduino turned 11 yesterday, and like many children of that age, the celebrations were kind of interrupted by its divorced parents' continuing battle for custody....

Or just have a senior member of cabin crew step onto the flight deck whenever one of the flight crew steps out so that there's always two people in the cockpit at any given time, and one can open the door if the other is incapacitated.

I think the prudent response to this incident would be to mandate that two members of crew should be on the flight deck at all times, so that there is always someone available to open the door. In practice, that would mean that the senior cabin crew member would have to step in whenever the pilot or co-pilot needs to go for a pee.

Cattle markets are considered wholesale.

Although a certain large dating website manages to catch cocktail in its obscenity filter.

I think you're confusing "fuck" with "Frigg". "Frigg" was a Norse god, and thus gets a capital. "Fuck" was a norse profanity, so doesn't. Except in sentences like that one, where it occurs at the beginning of the sentence.

That's some major league victim blaming there. Let's see if we can blame the victims of the Titanic for "letting someone stick them in a big tub of riveted metal and setting them afloat on the world's second largest ocean". Or maybe we can blame the dinosaurs for being stupid enough to live on a big rock with only one inadeuately small moon to help protect it from once-in-a-gazillion-years meteor strikes. Stupid dinosaurs -- they really had it coming.