Copyright originally came about as a response to the invention of the printing press, and the subsequent publishing (for sale) of books without compensation to the authors.

The "right" to copy, print, and sell particular books was originally granted by the government to the publishers, not the authors.

The real solution is a Supreme Court that cares about democracy.

You may be overestimating the number of successful recruits. I took a test for an ATC job application back in the late 70s. It included listening to increasingly long lists of words and numbers and writing them down after a short delay. I'm pretty sure I didn't do that well, but they kept my name on a list of possible hires for a year or so until they notified me that I would have to respond in order to keep my name on the list. I had gotten a different job in the meantime, so I declined. I don't think they were hiring very many controllers at the time, but if I had kept my name on the list I might have been hired when Reagan fired all the striking air traffic controllers. Anyway, that test would be pretty hard for most people.

. . . Excel uses some kind of BASIC variant that nothing else supports.

Actually, LibreOffice does a pretty good job handling Excel VBA macros.

Need to switch to pedestrian mode.

I had the opposite problem once. Wondered why the GPS kept saying "turn here" after I was already in the intersection. And then it tried to send me the wrong way down a 1-way street! Finally figured out it had somehow been switched to walking mode.

This is what happens when you blindly accept what a computer tells you.

To be fair, before the era of computer maps or smart phones I once did something similar (but not as serious) in the Colorado Rockies. Looking at a paper trail map, I convinced my wife that we could hike up to a lake, have a picnic, and hike back down. After getting a little over half way up, we decided to just stop, eat, and hike back. The sun set well before we got back, we didn't have flashlights, and we could hear coyotes (and maybe wolves?) and other critters, and for about a half hour could barely see our way by the little moonlight filtering through the forest trees. But we made it back, no problem, except for the admonishments from my wife.

Also, a standard US outlet is 15A @ 120V = 1.8 kW, not 1 kW. There's a little loss so you get more like 1.7 kW into the battery.

A circuit is typically only allowed to be continuously loaded to about 80% by code, so you'd be getting about 12A or 1.44 kW into your car.

Also, 20A/120V circuits are quite common, most of my breakers are 20A.
Further, most houses also have 240V available. If / when I get an electric car, I'd have a 240V receptacle installed, which would be easy for me, since the panel is in my garage.

Officially, perhaps, but ABC is fighting tooth and nail to claim it is a "bona fide news program" [bloomberg.com] to maintain the exemption from equal-time regulations.

This whole thing is ironic, since it has been the Republicans that have done the most to push back against equal time rules since at least the Reagan administration, including interpreting the rule in such a way that news shows, talk shows, and entertainment shows could feature politicians without the need for providing "equal time".

This would be a good time to point out that every political argument has two sides and two points of view.

In my experience, very few political arguments are limited to only two sides and only two points of view.

Can anyone here with a straight face state they truly believe "The View" is a newscast?

Who said it was a newscast? It's named "The View", which basically states that it is opinion. Last time I checked, opinion is protected free speech.

Sounds pretty limited. Inside the data floor, I cannot recall ever seeing an ounce of wood, anywhere . . .

Carpenters work with metal studs, too, not that there are many of them in an open data center floor.

But the lift from camber and from angle of attack are both caused by the Bernoulli effect.

If we interpret the digits as base 10, we are only using 6 out of 10 possible digits. We have gaps in the range. That doesn't seem random. Some values having a zero probability of appearance.

You don't interpret the number of dots on the dice faces as digits in base 10, you convert the dot patterns to whatever base you want.

OJ is a stone-cold blooded murderer, but finding him innocent was the right thing to do.

The jury found OJ "Not Guilty". Innocent is a different thing, entirely.

This is probably to compete with Halon gas in data centers, where you can't use sprinklers at all . . .

I've worked on many small data centers / server rooms ranging from 5,000 to 200,000 square feet, designing HVAC and plumbing mostly, but also a little fire protection, and all of them had pre-action sprinkler systems, as back-up to gaseous fire suppression systems or as the only fire suppression system. Water-based sprinkler systems were often required by codes, including, surprisingly to me, in an emergency generator building that housed six 3 Megawatt diesel generators operating at 4160 Volts originally designed with a CO2 fire suppression system. (just have to hope not being in that space when the sprinklers go off if the generators are running)