So they "tied" it to something popular to get millions of peeps on ads.

What's the beef? A few years back CNN ran an article soon after the huge tsunami in Asia that sea rises due to global warming "would be like the tsunami zomg!!!" In the fine print a scientist said there could be a 30 foot sea rise, the same height as the tsunami wave, over the course of 100-300 years.

Ad people are jackasses.

"Prepared to license the patents?"

Why is any patent licensing required to build to a standard? The standard group should say, "If you want it considered, you will give up royalties for any related patents."

Also, how is "smaller but more of the same" even patentable?

Irrelevant to this discussion.

This is about dictatorships outlawing guns to make it harder for people to shuck off their oppressors, which is exactly why it was enshrined in the US constitution.

It's not about home safety or hunting rights, or the statistical vagaries thereto.

Mr. Dictator no want lose cush job.

And, by the way, loss of a nation's freedom exceeds all prosaic gun violence over the decades as a major disaster by light years.

Fair enough, but why should this be different from any other Wiki data issue -- just let page/picture page editors flip a bit and leave it up to the review process?

You mean like tax it?

Like require all content providers to screen things that are posted to pre-approve them?

Like they control the phones? Or newspapers? Or TV?

Nah. I'm sure it'll be fine.

I've been asking for lighr on the ice at drive-thrus for 20 years.

Is anyone else disturbed that such an incredibly major change happened only 20,000 years ago?

This could be worse than an ice age.

> how to observe this (most likely) last-in-a-lifetime event.

2117 is the next one.

Claire from Six Feet Under lived to 102 and she missed it by 30 years!

Oh, poor Google -- Imagine the long-term disability costs of inssane asylums for unfortunate employees when asses start deliberately uploading Jar Jar scenes.

Pfeh!

I had a semicylinder reflector griller perfect for one kebob or footlong hotdog at a time, 20 minutes per.

This was back in the 70's before environmentalism was "cool", and it was called ecology. >:-(