I write stories about hardboiled detectives, usually interacting with fairy tale and fantasy characters.

My writing style is deliberately contrived, with over-the-top metaphors and lots of archaic slang.

I wonder if this tool would tell me that I'm an AI based on that?

Put the link on your website. The page doesn't have to be linked to your homepage or anything. Just tell your new client/customer/employee "go to example.com/blah and click on the link you find there."

The right way to do that is to say "I have issues X Y and Z that I want to discuss with the doctor during my appointment."

Then sufficient time can be allotted to deal with your issues and the doctor can be prepared to do whatever is needed when you walk in the door.

"Oh by the way, just one more thing" leads to running over the allotted time and can go beyond what the doctor was prepared to deal with when you walked in the door.

"Oh by the way, here are three more things" just increases the scope of the problem, of course.

" the RSL team has established a collective licensing organization, the RSL Collective, that can negotiate terms and collect royalties, similar to ASCAP for musicians or MPLC for films"

Anyone who has looked at organizations like ASCP/BMI and the like (most countries around the world have similar copyright licensing collectives) can see how well that works out for the average musician/author/whatever.

The middleman (the collective) takes their cut, then the remainder is doled out using an arbitrary formula that may or (more likely) may not reflect the real world usage of whatever it is that they're licensing.

So if a creator can sign up with one of these collectives (a significant feat in itself) then their royalty cheque may be 37 cents at the end of the year.

Copyright licensing collectives are the very definition of corrupt behaviour and insider dealing.

"That guy was paid the full value up front."

So was Shatner. His contract said he'll get paid X for doing Y, he did the work and got his cheque.

He got paid a wage for doing the work on the show.

Why should he get paid for doing that over and over again into the future?

They guy who installed the tables in the local restaurant doesn't get paid a residual for every meal sold there into the future either.

It's $3000 more than they had before this settlement, so based on a ten percent royalty (apparently that's average for a non-self-published book) that's $30,000 worth of books sold. At $20 per copy, that's 1500 individual book sales.

Turns out I was wrong. So much for going from memory.

Having now actually checked, the Bards Tale 3 is 3 double-sided disks, or six "sides".

"I did have The Bard's tale 3 but I can't honestly remember if it had more than one disc."

2 double sided disks.

Stuff I write tends to hang around for years and sometime decades. There's a water vending machine that I wrote almost 40 years ago now and it's still running just like it always did, though the hardware and even the shack by the side of the road that it lives in has changed a few times over the years.

I've found that when I have a brainstorm and write some "clever" code it tends to turn around and bite me when I come back to it ten years later to make a change. Either because I can't remember why it's doing whatever it does, or I can't remember exactly what it was supposed to be doing in the first place. All of the inline comments in the world and I still can't avoid that "duh..." years down the road.

Simple==good because simple==maintainable. If there's a change needed in some code due to hardware changes or new requirements, it's nice to be able to read what you did back then without having to spend half a day wondering why...

What would you teach it?

Climate change != human-caused climate change.

There's global warming on Mars too.

So you can accept there's global warning on Earth, but it's not necessarily being caused by human activities and ceasing and/or modifying those activities may not have any significant effect.

What is wrong with you? You're doing exactly the same thing again that you did when I made a comment earlier.

Please stop doing this. It adds nothing to the discussion and it makes you look very small-minded and petty.

You may be (and probably are) a pretty smart guy but stuff like this doesn't reflect well on you at all.

Again, please stop doing this. It's really in your own interest do do so.

Thank you for the insult.

"Because I was talking about something completely different."

Could-a fooled me (and apparently did).

Care to try again and state what you're really trying to say?

Consider providing more detail; that would likely make it more comprehensible.