True, but we know that human drivers slaughter vast numbers of humans every year.

In the embedded systems world, you can turn more optimization into cheaper hardware into (lower prices/higher profits). It's not dead.

Knowing something about _houses_ is almost irrelevant. Knowing something about _land_ is useful.

The sticks you pile on your investment are not the investment. The land is.

Whether or not it's a _good_ investment is a different question.

"As long as you do not get paid from the EU you do not need a work Visa."

Sure about that? When I was looking at the situation in Ireland, the answer seemed to be "it depends - you need to talk to us." The laws just aren't set up for remote international working.

You do not want to assume that you're going to fly under the radar. As a working professional, you do NOT want to be in a situation where it's hard for you to travel to country X because of visa violations when you were younger.

The link you posted only compares a part of Europe with the United States; Europe is much larger than that. Western Europe != Europe.

There are time limits on how long you can stay on a tourist visa everywhere (something like 6 months for Americans in the EU, and you can't just leave and come back to reset the clock). Plus, it's not really clear that you can legally do what you're talking about; countries haven't adjusted to the new reality of working from anywhere. You may find that you need a work visa to do this, even if you're not making money in the country.

Why would you need ribbons? Manual typewriters will make a physical impression on the page - it's good enough for teaching.

The original post was pretty clear about this: yes, they intend to destroy the phone multiple times. Remember that part about the OP submitting multiple claims previously?

"Insurance" is a great buy if you're paying less than 100% of the value of the item - if you _know_ you're going to use it. You're just buying n phones for something like $(1.3n).

And (heavily socialist, although strangely often claiming to be conservative) farmers own lots of Republican politicans, so there's no chance they'll have to play in a free market any time soon.

Replace your law firm _immediately_. They're not competent.

Yes, the EU has software patents, they just don't call them that. You get them in through mechanisms that looked to me (a non-lawyer) kind of like US business method patents, but that's too much of a simplification. When you're interviewing new legal firms, have them talk you through their process for European software patents. It's not that complicated, and only a little more expensive than the US. It's been a couple years, but I think the numbers for a simple software patent from a top-tier US law firm were roughly $20k for US, $30k for Germany, and then some increments for other EU countries. But get a more recent and less vague quote :-).

If you're putting together an assembly line, it's your call whether or not to mark things with a patent number. If you do, you better be sure that you will retool before that patent expires. If you want to avoid that, the solution is to not mark. Simple, easy, foolproof. Whether or not that hurts your patents is completely uninteresting.

If you're continuing to run a production line, knowing you're marking with expired patents, your intention is to deceive the public and the penalties should be harsh. I think it's bizarre to suggest otherwise.

Or if you do think the penalties for misusing patents should be light, then they need to be light for everyone, always.