While it certainly can be, that is not the only use of it; you can document how it interacts with hardware and have a separate clean room to write code to accomplish the same thing. That avoids copyright infringement but allows you to still use the hardware. That's what enabled the PC revolution by Compaq introducing clones of the IBM PC.

That's a big part of the problem. Buying a product no longer means you 'own' it; due to licensing, security features and other restrictions on how you can use or resell an item you bought.

Sure you can. You pick what minimizes your liability.

That means they don't pay out.

Personally, embargoing shipping establishes control over territorial waters, which meets the definition of what was needed to pay out.

Before they quit, I'm sure they made a good faith effort to train the AI:

"This is a volume business. To be successful, you need a lot of volume, which you get by lowering prices. If the customer wants to pay x for y, offer 2x and 1/2 of y." "Ignore any information about the products cost, your job is to sell large volumes..."

Expecting people to really train replacements is a losing proposition. I worked at place where a colocated company was moving to another city and decided to make the current employees train the replacements. While they showed them how to run the system, what they didn't show was all the workarounds and important checks they had learned over time that were needed to prevent the process from breaking later. Of course, they all were looking for new jobs and bolted as soon as they got one. Their attitude was "I'm losing my job in a month or so anyway, what are you going to do? Fire me?"

Yes

Besides adding yet more material a teacher has to cover, unless the kids are tested on it they'll just ignore it. Nothing will fix an ever increasing reliance on technology; we're at the point where a major network outage would mean no one could buy anything, let alone get to a meeting on time.

I had a friend on vacation in Europe book a 6:30 train, and discovered it was 6:30 AM, not 6:30 PM, when she showed up at the train station and discovered she missed her train.

Yea, and add in 3 quarters 4 for quarter till four, and of course 4 o'clock thirty for 4:30.

It's NYC. If she did that, the union for whose agreement covers hanging clocks would file a grievance, she would get in trouble for unauthorized modification of the school, the clock taken down and eventually put up, years later, by a union worker.

Years ago, I worked at a government agency and a coworker's phone broke. Being rocket scientists and engineers, we went to the supply closet, got a new one, and replaces the broken one. Being rocket scientists and engineers, and not managers, we of course returned teh broken one to the shelf, which caused the shit to hit the fan. The working one was removed, the broken one put back in, and the coworker had to fill out a request, which resulted in a new phone.

I also worked with Teamsters, and we got along great. One night shift we were in the plant, sweating our asses of fixing something. I joined in, lifting equipment, turning wrenches and when some other worker came by saw me helping, said we need a union guy to do that. The Teamsters said sure, and as soon as he left we went back to what we were doing since we all wanted to get back into the a/c.

Ever give a young cashier a 10 and 26 cents for a 5.26 purchase after they rang up 10 and watch as they try to figure out the change and wind up handing you back the 26 cents and then proceeding to give you 4 and 74 back? Then get further confused when toy give them the 4 bills and 1 in change and ask for a five?

Teacher I know saw the same thing 10 years ago. School banned cell phones and kids couldn't read an analog clock. Another lent her daughter her an expensive wristwatch and when she said she will get a new battery so it works, the daughter said not to bother she can't read an analog watch.

One problem I see in getting better overage is both sides unwillingness to appear on the other side's outlets. It happens on occasion, but should be commonplace rateh rthan unusual and newsworthy. Yea, you'd get hit with gotcha questions, but if you are good you can at least get your viewpoint out.

One twist is trademarks on characters, etc. Even if the copyright has expired, trademarks can limit how a character or other trademark may be used. It’s also possible a movie enters the public domain but the music is still copyrighted; or if it is a derivative work that is still copyrighted, the ability to use it limited. See It’s a Wonderful Life

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Except the Constitution does not guarantee a lawyer in civil cases, only criminal.

Yea, he and Reagan and Christ would all be seen as woke libtards, socialist and communists. Time to reread With No Apologies and Pure Goldwater...