You are correct in that figuring out the details of copyright law is like following Gandalf down with the Balrog.

The point I'm making is that being 'right' is very often utterly irrelevant to filing lawsuits.

Steamboat Willie is legally and entirely in the public domain. That doesn't stop Disney from suing anyone, bankrupting them, and then losing the suit. That's the entire strategy.

As something becomes popular, and widely known, lawyers come out of the woodwork.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

I wish all RIAA lawyers were more like the Grateful Dead. Grateful and, well....

"They should be fine" unfortunately doesn't pay the lawyers bills to get to a judge making that ruling.

Bankrupting your opponent legally is a well trodden path of big business, even when you don't have a legal leg on which to stand.

not what I was referring too. The South West has multi-century wet/dry cycles and we've recently discovered the last 100-200 years has been the peak wet period. It's only getting drier for a long long time.

Record heat + severe snow deficit resulting in record low snow cover is anything but surprising.

Gonna be fun when the natural cycle is already dipping into extreme drought, such that we are now erasing the one thing that can mitigate it.

The worst states by almost every measure are GOP run. AL, MS, OK just to drop a few. Dem states are significantly better off on average.

But our problem is, you note correctly, the binary choice we have. Bad actors on both sides know that they will be handed the reins when the other side inevitably fails at something.

Support Ranked Choice Voting so we can have true 3rd party candidates with a chance to win elections.

ask yourself how much pain red state MAGA needs to feel before we see a Nixonian level shift towards Democrats...for a generation.

That's a high high bar and we aren't anywhere close to it yet.

oh Comcast and friends will entirely pay the bribe to continue using shitty routers.

But the option to have a 'separate' router from the modem will certainly disappear.

quite a few will pa$$ the test.

Certainly an improvement but chip level backdoors still exist...and are even more likely built in China

the only secure windows is CE/ME/NT

That's a societal problem we haven't really solved yet. AI/DataCenters are using VAST amounts of energy and potable water...and aren't passing the full costs on to their users directly.

I'm in NoVA, Data center capital of the world, and we're seeing power bills jumping by 20-30% per year at this point. My usage hasn't changed...the only thing that has is the massive overbuild being done.

My house will have 14 data center complexes within 1/4 mile.

Doubles your productivity....probably increases the power/energy used by multiple orders of magnitude.

A comparison of power usage before and after would be interesting.

A fun game is asking people who their State level reps are.

A staggering percentage have no idea...and also wonder why laws get passed they don't like.

FTFY