That the FBI lied about understanding how FISA courts and warrants works, is scay and hard to believe. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and ignorance of the law when it is your job to enforce and uphold is doubly worrying.

Only fools see privacy as a partisan issue. Keeping pointing the fingers across the lobby as they al step on the freedoms they've taken from us.

You can buy the Mexican version of Coca Cola at many stores. That has sugar in it. It costs more.

Unless the industry sets a standard rte they all agree to.

In 2009 Apple's iPhone had third place market share at 14.4%.

Actually Hong Kong isn't truly China. This seems lost on you. When Hong Kong was returned to China after 150 years of British control the agreement was: one Country Two systems. They (Hong Kong) were to remain largely autonomous until 2047. This is why in 220 there were mass protests as China started to interfere and surveil dissidents, and those who spoke out about China.

But it's their country and they can do with it as they please.

This is innaccurate. I can't tell if you're ignorant or shilling. But either way you're making yourself look bad.

The telcos have been given billions already to build this all out They spent the money on lucrative markets and now they think it is cheaper to go to court than honor their obligations.

Likely they hired their own orchestra to create a new performance of it, to which they owned the rights.

As of Jan 2024, you can put it on youtube netflix or archive.org. legally and sell it, repackage it, colorize it etc.

As long as the toys look like steamboat willie they will be perfectly legal. Packaging cannot have a disney logo, but otherwise it is fair game third world or first world.

According to Ars Technica/Timothy B. Lee you can definitely create and sell a Steamboat Willie toy if the Mickey represented looks like Steamboat Willie. Wait a year and you can give the toy white gloves.

I doubt Disney would be spending insane amounts of money to extend copyright protections if the only thing that changes when the copyright expires is the public can distribute a single Steamboat Willie cartoon, they haven't been able to monetize in 70 years. There is something else, some other use they are worried about.

You are incorrect:

Republic: "A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch." Democracy: "A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."

The laptop was not a hoax. Your question is ignorant.

AI works in digital. Maybe at some point there will be painting robots applying brush strokes. Until then the paintings will look a bit sterile. Will VanGoghbot still cut off his ear?