I have a ":w! saves" mug ;)

Interesting. Definitely a better reference than mine.

Proving it was stolen can be hard, agreed. But the LLM code does not have copyright and anybody copying it from you is not committing a crime.

Greed makes blind and dumb. Nothing new. In addition, most people are not sophisticated enough to understand that history is worth preserving.

That said, in sane legal systems, this is allowed.

I have to ask: did you literally never use a computer lab at all in the DOS era?

Not "logging into DOS" - logging into your account. I literally said "mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands", e.g., you're at the DOS prompt. When you want to login, you ran LOGIN.EXE, which "mounted" your network account. I believe it was Novell NetWare-based.

I think more research is needed. We may get that in the next years. Or not.

Nonsense. You don't have to defend your copyright to retain it.

At worst, they can lose the Trademark, if it no longer identifies the original owner in common usage (which makes sense, because of the purpose of the Trademark). They still retain the copyright and all other relevant intellectual property.

Exactly. I think the death rate metric is being used to give the appearance of the US not being as bad as it is. There is no other reason I see why an indirect (and incomplete) metric like the death rate would be used, when quite direct and clear life expectancy numbers are easily available.

This metric is misleading. It is used to make the US not look as bad as it is. The numbers I quoted are solid and not misleading.

Hmm. Maybe. So the wealthy think they are not affected by a for-profit (and hence bad) healthcare system, but they are. Well, intuitively, this is plausible. It could also mean that the wealthy get worse, more greedy MDs (think of the idiot that killed Michael Jackson), that actually do a worse job generally in health maintenance.

Definitely an interesting question and a complex one. Although the base stress level in the US (and that basically affects everybody) seems to be significantly higher than in Europe, at least that is what many people say that left the US for Europe. Probably a multi-cause thing with each cause contributing a smaller part.

Yep. Funny how that goes when "magical thinking" collides with reality and actually has to deliver. The real pathetic thing is, however, that all those business grads have still not learned or are unable to learn or accept that scientists and engineers can predict these things quite often and with good reliability. They have to test it out and see the profits failing to materialize. I think the problem is that business grads come with built-in high levels of arrogance, but rather low levels of actual skills.