Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also, this does not work for patents; independent creation is not a defense to patent infringement allegation.

And by that same token, it doesn't do what it claims to do. There's no way to win here---either they opened themselves up for copyright infringement, or they have done no good work of the kind that they thought they might be doing.

No, one of the fair use prong is if you are damaging the commercial value of the work you are allegedly infringing. Whether your own use is commercial or not can be used to infer if you are damaging the potential market for the work being infringed, but the fact that you are not making money yourself does not preclude enforcement (talk to all those regular folks that RIAA successfully sued).

Also, a lot of life necessities are exempt from sales tax (and this VAT proposal). A big relevant category is groceries---if you are eating at a restaurant or buying prepared hot food, you would be paying sales tax (and possibly this VAT), but if you are buying the ingredients to prepare for yourself, you are already not paying sales tax on those (and you will continue to not pay any tax, at least not directly through this VAT).

Sales tax being regressive isn't exactly a surprise for policy-makers; they try to make it less regressive by exempting basic needs categories from sales tax.

Well---that's why they propose to pay you a boatload of money, so that you'll put up with their B.S.

I guess it's a choice---put up with their B.S. and make a lot of money, or find a job that you will find fulfilling regardless of compensation.

Yeah, because Amazon runs a search business? Maybe you'd get fired/not hired if you were applying to Wolfram; but Amazon isn't in search business.

What makes you think she's married?

It's Alfred Nobel setting up Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm going to be a contrarian here and say that wget running under WSL is the best browser for downloading other browser. Fuck Edge.

Once you factor in the labor cost of grating and cleaning the grate, I think you'll easily wipe out any savings you accrue that way.

I see no span tags that seem problematic. Waddya mean "span issues"?

One way to regulate something is when the size gets big enough you add more rules, such as taking down inaccurate information that pretends to be accurate information.

This being Facebook, I fear the intent of this would be misinterpreted to mean that I must share my real name and identifying info—NOTHANKYOUVERYMUCH.

Let the Facebook become the ghetto of the Internet-world. Let it become where the filth gather; don't try to "fix" it.

But it tastes better if you add a little bit of cocoa powder to it---so, why not buy the ones that are pre-made that way?

Tubs of lard (or vegetable shortening) is probably "most efficient" calories-to-money wise, but it doesn't taste all that good by itself.

The moment you start tracking data and running analyses on it, it becomes a de facto psychology/social science experiment that you should clear through some sort of ethics review board (you can't experiment on human beings based on some two-bit manager's whim).

But of course, Google of all people wouldn't understand that. At some point, they are going to have a class-action suit against them and finally understand why these formalities are important.

FWIW, I was going for Funny mods. Oh, well.