Pretty silly, doesn't say what it is banned from... public TV? private TV? Public performance? Private performance? Sheet music? Digital copies? Playing your own instrument in your home?

Sure, but the starting assumption is not that the official records are wrong. You'd have to prove it.

"Without any evidence to the contrary, the defendants could not force the system to be tested in court"

I don't get it... even if it was considered reliable by default, why would you not be able to test the system in court? There's a lot of things that the court might consider true by default, but you can still challenge them.

Like, take official records, say the list of births, deaths and marriages... It would take a lot to challenge something in that, the records are kept carefully, nobody generally has any incentive to falsify them... but with enough evidence, you can challenge anything... and if you feel it can be challenged you have the right to look into it, supoena records, witnesses or whatever.

I guess if you find a cellphone that supports open Android firmware, you can run it as long as you want. But I was looking at Android phones the other day, and the cheapest ones are $US 80, and they're not even that bad. Heck, I have a flagship Samsung, and the $160 phones I could run and not even feel really deprived. It even had an IR blaster which my flagship doesn't have, and 8GB RAM which is the same as some base model Samsung S23s. What's the point in keeping these things running 10 years?

The top flagships are 12GB, unless you skimp on the lowest spec.

It's got nothing whatsoever to do with ARM or Qualcomm. They just sell little semiconductors. A better question is why Google doesn't push out the updates, since they are the Microsoft of phones. And the reason is, they don't want to take responsibility for all that hardware working.

Do we have color eink tablets yet? I'm sure Amazon will give you one sometime, albeit with all the things an Amazon product entails.

Well.. they were pretending they like Android now. They have Phone Link which they collaborated on, and they've given up their failed attempts to ursurp Android.

What makes you think they always update the whole OS? Plenty of patches for download are quite small.

Trust Microsoft to get behind its product and support it to the hilt? Bwahahahaha How many failed MS phones do we have to see before we get the message. Remember Windows CE, Windows mobile 5.0, Window Phone? Microsoft Kin? And should I mention the Zune again?

That would be pretty hard to do since a lot of the people on flight A-B are expecting to get off at B.

I don't know what the fees are, but if they're more than the cost at the destination plus the cost of fuel and the seat etc etc, then maybe the airports should be investigated for gouging.

Not just a jerk move, but a dumb move since your luggage might end up in the wrong place... I mean supposedly they should de-plane it, but relying on that seems dodgy. I'm pretty sure all the skiplaggers are carry-on luggage people.

Not too many people are in a rush to replace their 200K lifestyle with a 24K lifestyle... I don't think... But who knows. Bear in mind that taxes will rise to fund it, so if you're making a lot from those investments, the extra tax may well be equal to 24K, and you may actually not be better off. In fact that would probably be the aim, that your average middling person will pay as much in extra tax as the UBI they are given so that most people's situation is no net change. It must be so for the math to work out.

To be fair, we should at least listen to the arguments of the proponents:

* If it's universal, you can fire everyone in social security tasked with assessing and policing your income levels.

* You can discontinue a bunch of specialised welfare services, because people can use the UBI to obtain those services themselves.

* All the people with no money were going to get welfare anyway.

* All the people working might have taxes raised... but they'll also get free money which balances it out.

Does that mean I think it will work? Not really, but the arguments at least have merit to analyse rather than thinking you can dismiss it all in a hastily written Slashdot post.