I know. What was I thinking? Screw bringing in those eggheads!

When you punch through to a hole in the ground I would have thought somebody would be concerned with sinkholes and other underground features that can cause a foundation to shift or collapse.

Nope. We should follow your lead. Drive those piles into the ground and raise a 40 story building.

OK. Let's do it you way. Next time a construction company punches into a void area of limestone or other sediment they should fill it without further study or concern. I'll tell them Runaway1956 takes full responsibility, don't be concerned with a delay. Fill it with concrete. After all, that brand new Nuclear Power Station you're building is going to supply energy for an entire region. We shouldn't concern ourselves with the possibility you accidently discovered a previously undocumented fault line.

Nice. Your former employer filled undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all) with cement. You worked for the same breed of dumbasses who tore down a Mayan temple to make road gravel.

Is government a pain in the ass? Yes. Do the overreact? All the time. Why? Because of people doing stuff like what you just described.

I'm just a poor boy

An interesting concept but it seems very unlikely this will be a prefered solution in 30 years as battery technology improves.

In 2008 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion against copyright holders after failure to enforce trademarks for more than 40 years.

The defendant Thomas Kenneth Abraham for years was a producer of decorative fraternity and sorority paddles. In 1990 thirty-two fraternities and sororities commenced contacting Abraham asking his to pay a license to use certain house names and logos. The defendant asseted a "laches defense" which is when a copyright holder falls asleep which regard to their trademark enforcement as he had already been creating the paddles for 30+ years. In 2008 the plantiffs sued and and were declined monetary relief after failing to enforce their copyrights for so long. They were however awarded an injunction against further use by Abraham, which of course doesn't line the attorneys pockets.

How long have people been singing Happy Birthday? How many people even knew there was an "author"? I would have assumed it was a 'traditional' and hence public domain.

Certainly there has been no enforcement of copyright over the years, and I'm guessing latches would apply.

The only part I thought was actually cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YYfgx_cHo

They could do the next film this way. Better than putting Ahnuld in front of the camera.

...gave Dr. Evil a million dollars he'd have (da daaa dadada dadada) 11 MILLION BILLION DOLLARS!!!!

Muahahaaha! Muahahaha!!!!

Am I the only Doctor Who fan that did a double take on that name?

It was staring them in the face!

Your mistake is assuming this information is being harvested from the client side rather than server side. It doesn't matter what ROM you run (or OS for that matter) if the service provider (Google, Facebook, etc..) is allowing backend access to the servers.

I respect and understand how you feel, but the anger should be directed at Washington. When the White House hands down mandates what do you expect these companies to do?

If such measures were enacted I'm sure they would apply to our elected officials as they move about in their cars and limos as well. Politicians would conform to not having use of their phones and portable data as they transit between locations.

I'm sure.

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