I'm having a bit of trouble working up any sympathy, as the saying goes.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

The FSB is certainly getting a good ROI on their investment in Trump.

This is a horrible idea. This will just take money away from having decent public airports and reduce the incentive to provide them. We don't need more ways for the rich to separate themselves from everyone else.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

AI is so smart that it can hallucinate without even having to take drugs.

No, that is not how it works. Different jurisdictions have different copyright laws, and you have to file and win the suit for infringement separately in each jurisdiction. What the international treaties such as the Berne Convention do is give you automatic copyright in the other signatory countries. So, you publish a book in the US, you not only automatically have a US copyright on it, you also have a copyright on it in most other countries. But if you want to sue a publisher in, say, Germany, you still have to file a separate suit there.

As I recall in discovery it turned out that SCO had actually hired an expert to compare its code to Linux and he had reported that he was unable to find any overlap. The SCO claims to own Linux code were in bad faith.

Undoubtedly the origin of the Hobbit-steals-dragons-treasure meme.

I think you mean, "so the middle men can pocket the savings".

"Thank you Vera much."

I'm not criticizing the proposal. It is obviously good for the public welfare. I'm just curious as to whether the cost will be large enough that the companies will resist, small companies perhaps go out of business, prices to consumers go up significantly, generally speaking, what the consequences may be.

Anyone know how much this will cost the companies?

From the summary:

IOW, they're sticking with their marketing pitch.

That's no longer the American Way (if it ever was).