Was it a gift?

Owning an iDevice isn't the only thing that forces one to use iTunes. A lot of recording artists sell their music on iTunes but not Google or Amazon. Good luck finding, say, "Bück dich" by Rammstein; all you get on Amazon MP3 (U.S.) or Google Play Music (U.S.) are cover versions.

I'll go you one better. I'm okay with slaves being physically beaten, because it would be vastly harder to be a slave otherwise.

See? I can be as capitalist as you.

My alter ego questions whether things might not be better without 'getting a job' being viewed as inherently good, or worse, necessary.

Anytime someone brought in a kid suffering from a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination, I would first ask whether the parent was brain dead.

-jcr

Don't German journals just require a life-of-the-copyright exclusive license, which is equivalent in almost every meaningful way to an assignment?

That is an utterly unsatisfying explanation in a world with hardware interrupts.

And they will wakeup from deep sleep if you press a button.

Measles? Not that bad. You're in more danger from simply driving to work or school. You people need to grow a pair. Life involves risks and measles is just not that high on the list.

While you're there? If not, take the car with you. If so, then install a small off-grid maintenance solar system. You've already got kooky habits.

You'd park a 7-series on the street for days? Not me.

I agree. The computer should sleep when not in use. That's excessive.

Welcome to the world of cars which are not astoundingly expensive. The 2000+ Astro will drain the battery if you leave the keys in the ignition. Apparently, so will the 1992+ Ford F250, and it doesn't even have a BCM! Nobody was sending techs 'round for those problems, either.

Nope. This problem is with the car sitting still. That was a complaint about the car running out of battery precisely when it told the driver that it would, after he failed to charge it when it told him to. Broder is still a liar.

Well, no. Not in the Nissan. Like most imports, the Nissan uses a worm gear motor to actuate the headlights, or at least, it did from the eighties to the nineties. It was true in my 1984 300ZX, and it was true in my 1989 240SX, so I'm quite sure it was also true in the 1986 Pulsar. The motor pack has an arm on it like a windshield wiper, and a short pushrod attaches with small ball joints. The best part of the whole thing is that on the top of the motor there's a small knob in the same brick-red color as the fuel injector harness connectors. If your pop-up headlights fail, then you just disconnect the electrical connector if necessary and turn the knob to raise or lower the headlight. Since it's a worm gear drive it takes quite a few revolutions, but that's not a serious problem.

That's just stupid. Not only might it hurt someone, but there's a third way: sleep mode. Modern computers can sleep on truly wispy amounts of power. What kind of chip did they use, a Nacho?

What "short period"? The Supreme Court ruled in Eldred v. Ashcroft that a bill widely denounced as "perpetual copyright on the installment plan" did not violate "for limited Times" in the Copyright Clause.

This begs the question, is the fuel cell technology in fact less destructive than whatever would normally have been used? A typical high-end hobbyist drone today uses the very clean and recyclable LiFePO4 chemistry, which also has more recharge cycles than previous Li-Ion technologies. Fuel cells are often made of exotic metals in high-energy processes. Most fuel cells are hydrogen cells, and most hydrogen is cracked from natural gas in an energy-intensive process. I know that Protonex works with hydrogen fuel cells, but I don't actually know for a fact that this is a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

I suspect that this is in fact more energy-intensive than the drone would have been simply using batteries, and if you used a nice clean fuel, it's certainly more energy-intensive than it would have been to use a microturbine.

This is already the law for a few specific uses of works, such as recording cover versions of musical works.

And therein lies the difference: producers of "premium" works would BAWW that distribution without charge "cheapens" their works.