The appeals court has been handing down some pretty messed up intellectual property decisions in the last decade, but fortunately, the Supreme Court hammered them back in a bit in the last few decisions, like in the Alice case most recently. Hopefully, they got the message.

And containing transponders with limited range that only have 30-day battery life.

The short answer is lawyer fees.

More spent to defend the defendant, longer trial, and the thing that most people don't know - the taxpayer ends up paying for all their appeals if they are on death row. But life in prison, we are not on the hook for that.

You need to stop running Win10 and Office 365 over your 28.8K modem. Even if you think you're offline in a Word document, you try to insert some clipart, and it goes online.

We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

But seriously, it might be cheaper and easier for them to just stock up on old Compaq laptops, if they can still find them.

You manage it on a thumb drive, DUH! Make sure it's USB 3.0! Load the data into Excel, and you can make pretty graphs.

human is dead, mismatch.

Even if our country becomes automated enough that most people do not have to work, we should still require some community service for basic income. Think of all the good that 90% could do.

But it at least includes pot and munchies and video games and fiber internet, right? Because how else are they going to survive?

Freedom of speech. You can make fun of political figures or sell products making fun of them. I mean, wouldn't it be scary if in this world, you cannot say anything that someone would be considered douche?

They know they have no legal ground but sue as a bullying tactic. Sad.

Take something people buy only once every few years and put it on a disposable contact lens so that they have to re-buy every few weeks. Brilliant!

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Don't forget the two power strips.

I didn't know this was a word.

I guess we can thank all the greedy folks at ICANN for the subdomain cash grab that gives typosquatters so many new possiblities.

Someone needs to tell Stanford to stop making donuts.

From the article:
"Among formerly incarcerated Bard students who earned degrees while in custody, fewer than 2% have returned to prison within three years, a standard measurement period for assessing recidivism. This is exceptionally low, when contrasted with the statewide recidivism rate, which has hovered for decades at about 40%."

Sounds like a wonderful program.