Seems to me it's the GOP that is obsessed with this issue and with what's in kids' pants. They're the ones constantly stoking the culture wars.

s/giraffe/drain/

Where are the usual "think of the kids!" politicians? I guess accepting kickbacks from Meta...

Requiring a drone license is reasonable; it's required here in Canada for any drone over 250 grams. You have to learn the regulations and pass a test to get your license.

But I don't see how forbidding buying or repairing drones in a specific city makes sense.

And if you dont want to be forced to, perhaps dont make it your marketing strategy to yell about how unsafe it is and how it shouldnt be allowed by the government :DDD

Yes!! though it only really make sense for presidential elections. For elections of a house, just implement some kind of propertional representation.

I have a (very old) Roku that I quite like. Oh well. I'm glad I didn't spend the money to upgrade to a newer one.

If your company becomes that valuable, then yes... you should be forced to either share your wealth with your employees and other shareholders, or else give it up to the government if you are unwilling to do that.

I don't know about you, but the prospect of being worth $100M would be more than enough to motivate me to do all of the large things you just mentioned in your comment.

This is why there needs to be a 98% wealth tax on assets over $100M and 99.9% on assets over $250M. No individual human needs more than $100M in wealth.

Of course, to be fair to the poor oligarchs, we can index the thresholds to inflation.

It would probably fall under the landmine treaty, depending on how generic they made the language, but russia never signed it, and Ukraine withdrew from the treaty after Russia invaded them.

I believe something killing without human supervision would count as a mine, but both sides were already ignoring that UN resolution anyway.

String theory depend on not flat universes. The problem is how it bends and folds and in how many dimensions

(Just like that The Exploited song.)

I thought the BSA's goal was to end software piracy. Mandatory use of open source will certainly achieve that goal!

Similar experience. Founded and ran a software company in Canada. Sold it to a US company and within six months, it had turned to shit. I was OK because I had my retirement nest egg, but it wasn't great for our customers (many of whom became former customers within a year of the acquisition.)

If the product was sold with a perpetual license, then this is simply breach of contract and I foresee a class-action lawsuit.