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Comment Re:Was it a Russian drone? (Score 0) 48

Russia has more reason to attack it because in doing so, people like you will contemplate it being Ukraine blaming Russia to garner sympathy. Of course, Ukraine has more reason to attack is so people like me will think it's Russia hoping to blame Ukraine for it being Russia false-flagging Ukraine's implication of Russia being to blame while falsely accusing Ukraine.

Given this level of subterfuge, all I can say is, "Sloppy job, Mossad."

Comment Re:Social Norms (Score 5, Insightful) 97

Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?

No, it would piss off a lot of the other passengers - even though it is legal behavior.

Talk to someone who does street photography about their confrontations sometime.

Comment We know how this will play out (Score 1) 47

Members of the current administration will certainly talk about anti-competitiveness, along with a copious amount of Trump spewing random unrelated crap when he gets asked about the merger - but then Netflix will funnel money to Trump in some manner and the deal will get done.

Netflix might buy into the ballroom, it might promise to develop "Trump: The Making of a Beloved Modern King", or money will quietly flow directly into the Trump family's pockets. One way or the other, this is going to be allowed to happen.

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 47

Most of the opponents are unions.

Good point. So here's a solution to make everyone happy: A precondition for the acquisition of Warner Brothers (by anybody) should be to place WBs current library in the public domain. Then the unions and everyone else will have plenty of work to do creating new content.

After all, isn't this what copyright is supposed to encourage? The creation of new works?

Comment Re:But can Anish Kapoor use it? (Score 1) 52

I think that's a bit of a joke. Isn't Kapoor the guy who thinks he has the exclusive right to develop artwork in stainless steel as well?

Sure, the patent holder of VANTA Black may have accepted money from Kapoor for the right. But that makes Kapoor the idiot. How can one restrict the use of something if it is sold it in rattle-cans?

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