remember that 10c goes toward funding a fascist regime.

Speaking as a layman, I think you're a bit confused by the differences in copyright and trademark and how they apply. Steamboat Willie is now in the Public Domain, meaning that you can show it, or even sell copies of it and Disney can't do anything to stop you. However, the characters are still trademarked by Disney meaning that you can't use them to make new cartoons without Disney's permission. The question here seems to be can you use parts of Steamboat Willie in an advertisement for your law firm, or do you still have to ask Disney's permission to use the characters.

I've heard of those famed supernovae that were visible with the naked eye in the middle ages, and I've always wished I could see one too in my lifetime.

I might just be lucky before I go nova myself.

Anyone remember dBase?

Quite well, TYVM. And, I know why its name was so short; do you? Hint: CP/M.

And if the person I asked had answered that he'd helped create wealth for the nation, I would have thanked him for a job well done. Military service isn't the only way to do something for your country, it's just the most obvious one.

Well, there's that too, but I prefer to think of it of deciding for myself which branch to serve in.

No, there are many ways to do things for your country other than military service. I was just showing how I served to avoid a "put up or shut up" situation.

You certainly have a right to your opinion, and I respect your right to follow your beliefs. However, I'd like to ask you what, if anything, you've ever done for your country or have you just held out your hand hoping your government would drop money into it?

And before you try turning the table on me and asking me the same question, let me tell you that I'm a Nam vet (Not, mind you, a "Viet Nam era veteran") who served in Uncle Sam's Navy and can proudly claim to be a member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht club, having watched 6" shells hitting the water about 30 yards off my ship's fantail.

Any attempts to stop this by legislation will have to be at the Federal level and enforcement will need to go through the FTC, and possibly the FCC. This is clearly an Interstate Commerce issue, and trying to deal with it one state at a time is simply a waste of time and money.

They don't need AI for that. Teams - and pretty much all Microsoft products - are honeypots designed to collect data.

Well, no so much "honeypots" in the case of products that employees are forced to use at their workplace: they're no honey needed to attract them and get them to give Microsoft data. If you disagree with Microsoft's privacy invasion, you lose your job.

That's the genius of Microsoft's particular brand of invasiveness: instead of convincing individual people their products are good enough to relinquish their privacy for (Facebook), or convincing a large part of the internet to let them sneak in their trackers (Google), Microsoft convinced the bean counters at most companies to install their spyware and ram it down the throats of people who need to make a living. Disgusting...

Anyway, the AI thing is just the turd on top of the shit cake.

Just do what I do: I tell them I'm deaf and am having trouble understanding them even with my hearing aids. Of course, in my case it's true. I've only had a very few people refuse to speak more clearly and/or a little slower when I tell them that.

No, the character after Z is Yuzz. And there are nineteen more letters after that.

It is analogous to what the NAZI's think. Ping me if you think I am wrong about this.

And I call Godwin! All that happened over 80 years ago and it's still not long enough that it's acceptable to use that as a generalized insult. Next time, try showing a little imagination and come up with something a bit more original and appropriate.

If you go over to BritBox, you not only get rid of all the commercials, you have a wide variety of shows available, many of them adapted from popular book series. As an example, there have been several versions of Father Brown, most of them mediocre at best. Pick the one starring Mark Williams,as it's the best of the lot. You can also enjoy the spinoff, featuring Sister Boniface as a nun who doubles as the forensic scientist for the local constabulary.

What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.

A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.