They did a huge amount of damage, for sure. IMO it already became kinda fucked when we joined the Berne Convention, which IIRC started the ball rolling on copyright durations becoming stupidly long (since (AGAIN IIRC) we extended it to match durations in Europe? Someone please correct me if I got that wrong).

IMO the focus on "using copyrighted works" - making copyright **STATUS** the important part - feels like a hell of a red herring - vs if permission is needed, or granted if it is needed. Anything created in a country where copyright is automatic, and not put in the public domain explicitly, is copyrighted, even works where people would encourage using it in X way or Y way, or want it only used in other ways, if used at all.

Or... something being claimed to "protect kids" doesn't mean it is immune from having issues that can cause problems / need to be addressed, not pushed through because it is claimed to be needed to protect kids.

Your response reads, IMO, as "a predigested response from those unable to handle, or comprehend, the idea of having criticism for something."

*Alleged.

Seeing how copyright cases being fair use or not are IIRC decided on a case by case basis, that's really all that can be said until the litigation runs its course.

Maybe a stupid, stupid question: would one party or two party really matter at all if it were a public place, and not a conversation that is meant to be private (as in, an attempt was not made to make it private), for instance?

Retaliation for protected activities like unionizing would be illegal.

Naw, just because some people are too lazy or stupid to avoid generalizing doesn't mean you're right to keep it going.

Please let this mean the eventual end of Microsoft Flight Simulator using a FUCKING WEBVIEW2 FOR THE UI AND GAUGES! I GET that native gui apps ablnd games can be a pain in the dick, but here is NO reason in a SIMULATION GAME for something that can fuck performance, where performance matters.

How can the concept of conscious AI itself be a myth, desired or undesired?

All the citations needed.

Depends on the airport, time of day, route, etc - for much shorter routes , for much longer flights that seems absurdly impossible though.

Why would you include waiting at the airport though in the travel time (boarding and baggage retrieval, which also assumes someone has to be checking on bags too (another potential assumption error))? I mean, if the measure is getting between two points, why not just compare the travel between two points (which can include taxiing to the runway, to the gate, at the airport)?

I really wish they'd bring back the Modulex line of bricks (which was meant for architects and capable of making proper scale buildings due to the 5:5 width/length ratio (vs LEGO's 6.5:5 width/length). If I want to make scale models using LEGOs currently, I CAN, but there are some tricks I'd need to employ that would blow the size of my model up even more size-wise (and given the size of LEGOs some of the model ideas I want to make can get kinda hefty).

And with it, a slew of comments on YT, Twitter/X, etc, by idiots who exlaime "the public domain is a mistake" or what such fiddle faddle when they see character-turned-into-horror-movie slop (ignoring that good things take time to be made, and that the public domain serves a very important purpose).

Good thing people can't slap other people through their monitors, I'd have very sore hands in resposne to those nitwits.

Maybe another silly question, but how many of the memory vulnerabilities and other bugs we see from those utilizing C would be more likely to be mitigated if programmers in C were not just made well aware of them / their cause, the ways to prevent them (either on the job or in relevant education in school or elsewhere), AND if programmers and engineers had the time they needed to design things properly, implement them, and TEST THEM (as in, if the development processes slowed down for fuck's sake)? Sure feels like everything (not just program development) is way too fast paced these days.

Ah, I get it - that makes sense.