The kind of people who say this shit are the same kind of people who tell me "I should take a class so I can do your job."

Antidotal, actually. He's got a terminal illness and he's looking for hope.

BadAnalogyGuy? Is that you?

Don't like the terms? Don't license it. I'd prefer to see the whole permission culture shit go away anyway. But unless you're going to argue that they shouldn't have any say on whether their arms are presented in a game at all, it's a little absurd to argue that they shouldn't get to negotiate how the arms are used in the game as part of the licensing deal.

They fucked up another one in Milwaukee not too long ago that drew dregs into the neighborhood and culminated with an M4 (read: actual, honest-to-god assault rifle, not an "assault weapon") hitting the streets.

Or maybe he has, only to find out it's already been patented. I've run across more than one "how the fuck did they get a patent for that?" moment in my career. "Common business practice X on a computer" sort of shit. It gets downright absurd sometimes.

Alternatively, since they have to follow court rulings, we could try: OBVIOUSNESS TEST FOR SOFTWARE PATENTS SHOULD BE DONE BY SOMEONE WHOSE EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD INVOLVES MORE THAN SENDING E-MAIL IN OUTLOOK. Seriously, where do they find these people? If it's software to do X, it should be examined by someone with expertise in the field of software AND the field of X.

That's how my parents did it. Didn't do much for my morale, but my morals have kept me out of prison!

Transformative works are (theoretically) exempt from such a claim under fair use. In practice, YMMV.

TIL that the Second Amendment is the only one we've watched get chipped away over the years.

While I believe this is a good thing for evolution, I know it will be abused.

If all it takes to pick up an object with a limb is an opposable thumb, this will surely be abused by people.

Instead of picking up a banana, one could pick up a deadly rock. The appendage could also be used to deliver a choke where they would no longer require both limbs. You'd get grappling.

How easy would it be to make a pointy stick. You don't have to get as close to people to strike any more just don't wear thin hide.

Browser exploits are used to gain access to systems. This doesn't mean that all they got ahold of was browser history.

Does anyone know if Maria is a MySQL fork?
Signs point to "yes."

How would you even know if nothing bad came of it?

I guess that works if you want to pretend nails don't exist.