Indeed a law or at least a clarification of existing law around what some phrases like 'authorized', 'derivative', 'novel', 'fair use', etc mean in the context of the web are needed.

Law is the only place you can have your cake and eat it too. A lock does not have to be indestructible. Even if you secured your house with a flimsy luggage lock it would still be B&E, if someone forces it.

Those Anubis screens seemingly being put in front of everything suck donkey balls but if you made it any faster or easier it would not work. CAPTCHA has already reached a point where if it is difficult enough to defeat AI it will defeat a lot of people or at least frustrate them too. However the presence of either should be enough to clearly establish that automated agents are not welcome/authorized.

The answer is someone need to get their prosecutor to go after Altman and company for 'hacking' their site.

Then you're not properly explaining the difference. Personally, after a point it is a distinction without difference.

There's a lot more that can sink a model than just that. Just being "ugly" can do it. Plus, competition is generally good, which means that you'll have 3-4 companies all competing for the same market segment (more or less), which tends to give customers better options at lower prices.

Well, of course, but it has its own benefits as well. You see, the existing pumps are part of the existing paradigm, and "most" gas stations aren't necessarily going to be all that supportive of it, at least for now.
For example, installing Tesla chargers might help the direct owner of a Shell Station franchise, but it isn't going to help Shell.
The complexities of this, combined with things like possibly needing serious power refits to supply the electricity necessary for charging, meant that at least initially, while Tesla was building its charging network to help it sell more cars, greenfield development was generally faster and easier.

I think that you're failing to account for new technology. Certainly, there will be those types out there, but the early adopters (who I will agree isn't going to be a 100% match for later adopters) are showing that most are perfectly willing to plug in most nights.
Even then, charging rates with a home charger are decent enough that if the driver notices they're at 20% - and the car should be warning them about that, they plug in overnight, and within 10 hours the car is at 80% or so, without the need to visit a faster charger and sit there waiting.
For longer trips, the software already takes the route into account and will plan the charging stops for you.

On restaurants - Yes, I kind of figure on them being for guests, used as an attraction for more customers.

Fair enough.

On gas stations - it might be better to rename them convenience stores, because that's actually how most of them make most of their money, gas is just a draw. that's why I figure that convenience stores will start shifting towards business models that assume a bit longer of a stop. Less "stop and go" and more "come in for a few!". IE rather than grabbing hot dogs off those roller things, you can get a burger or sub sandwich made to order. More seating. Etc...

Thing to remember is that gas stations actually close and open on a regular basis, as businesses. There's a lot of obviously ex-stations in my area. The newer places tend to have much bigger store parts attached, and yes, some of them have chargers. But I see the chargers closer to the highway than in the middle of the residential area of town.

Depends on the jurisdiction but 'successor company liability' is the term of art.

Committing fraud on the creditors is one way to get liability. One can imagine users here as creditors since the prior company was on the hook for services purchased.

Ask a judge in the jurisdiction but it quacks like fraud in many jurisdictions.

Here's an idea: All graphical operating systems published by gatekeeper-class companies (as defined in the Digital Markets Act or foreign counterparts) would need to support, at minimum, some specific GUI API for developing local applications. For comparison, the US government used to require POSIX compliance. Microsoft delivered the bare minimum POSIX support in Windows NT versions 3.1 through 4.0, though initially not enough to be practically useful because it lacked networking and graphics.

I can certainly see this happening. in a bankruptcy, contracts can be violated and rewritten by the courts. Generally speaking, warranty and continuing service stuff are considered liabilities, little different than non-secured loans like credit card debt.
If the device owners are not on the ball, they can easily find themselves on the bottom of the debt pile to get anything at all, like continuing service or warranty work in a bankruptcy court.
Now, rewriting the firmware to *remove* offline functionality to force users into subscription models is, I believe, mostly untested in courts, though it might be illegal under EU law. Should certainly be illegal in my opinion.
Companies probably don't do it as standard because the expected class action lawsuit would cost more than the expected profit, even if they win.

How would one go about building the FOSS alternative to Apple Mobile Device Service, the component of iTunes that synchronizes music into the Music app of an iPhone? That's probably the biggest thing keeping my roommate on Windows. She wants to play purchased songs (ripped from a CD or purchased on Bandcamp or Itch.io) and rented songs (from her Apple Music family plan) in the same playlist. Because Apple Mobile Device Service is a driver, Wine doesn't run it properly. Last I checked, libimobiledevice for Linux could write files but not the music database used by the Music app, and VLC could play purchased songs stored as files but not rented songs.

Most Windows licenses included with laptop computers sold in major big-box electronics chains are not Pro.

Wine runs user-mode applications. It does not run kernel-mode drivers.

Gen 1 iPhone was a single model, the equivalent would be the Tesla Model S, or maybe even the Tesla Roadster.
Tesla currently offers the S, X, Y, 3, and Cybertruck. Because Musk has a gradeschooler's humor. That's 5 model lines.
Ford Mach-E
Chevy Bolt and EUV
Rivian R1T and R1S
Lucid Air
Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.Buzz
Hyundai Ioniq 5
Kia EV6
BMW i4 and iX.
The above looks like a pretty good number even for cellphone models.

I'm not going to say that more models wouldn't be good, that we aren't in a pause because early adopter types have mostly been satisfied while the "main market" types haven't been convinced yet.

The idea that gas stations to chargers would be a 1:1 fit as opposed to something like "quite a few gas stations are good spots for EV charging as well, but not all"
IE gas stations would definitely be a spot to examine for EV charging, but they aren't going to be universally good, because there are differences between EV charging and gasoline refueling.

Not something I ever argued. Matter of fact, "check use" should imply that one is very much NOT forgetting about them, and keeping track of use.

I still don't quite understand how we managed to install so many chargers that break at the slightest excuse. Tesla builds dependable chargers, EU has apparently been installing dependable chargers, what's up here?

Such a law would have to be very carefully written so as to distinguish between "bots" and assistive technologies used by human beings with disabilities. I can't think of where to draw a bright line.

The Amish absolutely are actually a great example of the type of immigration no nation should want.

Granted they are not as harmful as some groups but what generally happens is:

The Amish move into a somewhat rural area. They start buying up a lot of property usually zoned agriculture and such so that they don't have to comply with construction standards and building codes that require things like hot water and flush toilets. They keep buying essentially gentrifying they area pushing out the locals which breaks up the community, a community they then don't participate in at all socially and minimally fiscally. IE recall those are not 'residences' they construct so they get taxed usually like raw or crop land. Every thing they do is inward, they don't shop at the local grocery, they don't use the local hardware store, they hire local trades to build anything.

but... what does happen as soon as someone in their community is seriously ill or whatever they are at the local hospital, and its usually indigent care because they don't believe in medical insurance.. When they have structure fire, they call the local brigade to help them put it out but none of them join or become members. Amish country aside (parts of OH, Lancaster PA etc) , Amish groups end up being a massing drain on most of places around them.

I don't dislike the Amish but if you look at the economic impact on the more rural parts of New England where they have moved into, it is plain as day the surrounding communities were better off before they arrived.

Yeah, the worse your mind is doing, the easier it is to be satisfied with life.

So instead of age-binary are you age-hexadecimal?

NSA_KEY is already taken too.