We hide trade secrets in this industry by not releasing internal software to the public or partners. We have manufacturing and engineering software that we don't reveal and some of this is under open source license. Yet with GPLv2 at least we are still able to keep our secrets and comply with the license, as we don't distribute even binaries in that case.

Or does your software vendor own your computer?

Really short-sighted on the GOP's part to have chosen justices that are expensive to bribe.

Democrats have things far easier, you can push your agenda through if you add a token gesture to a woke ideology. We could have gotten the Keystone Pipeline on track if the oil executives would have promised a bird sanctuary every 100 miles along the pipeline staffed by trans biologists or whatever gets center-right liberals excited.

Texas is in the top 20 states for violent crime. Florida is 31. (from whatever source this used)

I'd argue that Mississippi and New Hampshire have better gun laws than Texas (and Florida is not even worth considering), and both have far less violent crime than either.

Although I value fresh air, ocean breeze, coastal hiking, fresh produce, cool music scene, and more over gun laws for places I prefer to live. So as long as I can afford to live on the central coast, I'm going to stay here.

I'm for some taxes on the rich instead of nearly no taxes for the rich. That's the compromise I'm willing to accept, but for some people that's not good enough.

With an inability to print its own money, states need revenue in order to provide services to its people. Often the services are an obligation under the state constitution (such as California's education budget).

But ultimately my income tax here isn't the issue. Even the property tax isn't too bad, because it's fixed at a very low rate. It's that the housing prices are so out of control that anyone wishing to move here cannot afford to. And people who didn't buy their home 10 years ago are paying a small fortune to stay in both mortgage and property tax. California's problem isn't the nanny state, industry regulation, or even education spending. It's the lack of control over problematic housing decisions that have been left to the free market and special interest groups.

Poverty and lower cost of living has more to do with it. Manufacturers trying to minimize labor costs will go to so-called shithole countries to save money.
Research, engineering, science based businesses will also go where people can be hired cheaply, but if an insufficient number are available they will go where people with education and experience live.

You can't even drive or walk down certain roads in border states without getting harassed for papers. So at least the authoritarianism is consistently applied to both real and virtual reality.

Tracks with Christian Nationalism, government surveillance, and corporate oligarchy.

Ban porn and gambling online. Treat it as publicly visible airwaves.

(actually doing that effectively is probably impossible)

Verizon and AT&T should have offered the other justices interest-free loans to buy an RV. Really a huge slip up for these large corporations to not have used the levers they had available to them.

And your owners and creditors get to raid any intellectual property you have. It's not free for Google to take.

I don't understand why this is so difficult for you to understand.

Leaving the value judgement aside. Even a failing business has a right to its own intellectual property in a capitalist society. Letting the vultures loose on any business that is too small to succeed is a pain straight towards corporate hegemony. Especially when media and journalism are what gets vacuumed up. I suspect Google, Meta, etc were targeting the news media intentionally an not simply as a consequence of desperately seeking more clicks.

For some definition of "voluntary" and for "capitalist". I have a lot of questions about what people on this site think is or isn't capitalism. Mostly people seem to think it covers an area much larger than the economic and legal systems necessary to implement its literal namesake.

Start reading your history book starting with a palace economy. Then check in every few thousand years until you get to capitalism.

As for personal ownership, also existed before capitalism. And the argument is a bit of a red herring as I neither confirmed or denied that there is personal ownership. Although I will assert that without regulation you can't have a fair and free market, you'll just end up with various iterations of self-dealing and Phoebus cartel.

I'm not sure what improving capital means.

Capitalism is about raising money among investors (capital) and the legal frameworks to shield participants from liability.

Whoever told you that capitalism has anything to do with markets or free markets was either lying to you or parroting ignorance. Markets existed before capitalism.