The executive branch of government is pretty much all of it.

There's some difference in that between systems. When someone from a Westminster system country says "government" or especially "Government" they typically mean the executive branch specifically. People from republican systems often mean both the executive and legislative.

I didn't make a comparison to a company executive, although companies are usually organized the same way, with an executive that carries out the will of a board (the legislative branch). My last sentence was actually alluding to other republics, especially the various French ones, but also the Roman one the US is at least spiritually based on, that have drifted back and forth between strong and weak executives. "Drifted" being perhaps not quite the right word.

All licenses restrict pure freedom because it's generally not possible for everyone to be completely free. The GPL and licenses like it trade developer freedom for user freedom. There's no "disagreeent" about that. They do, very purposely, precisely as the OP stated: restrict actions the consider harmful. If you read Stallman's essays he's quite explicit about this tradeoff.

but perhaps you should stick to BSD licensed code

You seem to have a very simple concept of morality.

The word unperturbed means these clocks need to be corrected for gravitational, magnetic, and other effects that would change the transistion frequency.

Not gravitational. The SI second is a unit of time. Relative velocity and gravitational fields change time, and the definition of the second changes with it. There is no universal "unperturbed" standard. That's why relativity is called relativity.

Terrestrial time is the standard for time passing on the "surface" of the Earth. TAI is a particular realization of that standard that uses hundreds of atomic clocks and does compensate for gravity.

The chief executive in the US government is a ruler. The US constitution really does give them complete power over the executive branch.

Yes, this is a situation that most organizations that have an executive have recognized isn't a super duper great idea. Some of them painfully and repeatedly.

George Washington thought political parties were the enemy of democracy. Your problem isn't that Republicans have a slim majority in both houses of congress, it's that Republicans, probably members of both parties, are more loyal to their party than they are to their country's democracy.

The other problem is that the US democracy was set up by principled people like Washington to rely on principled people to function correctly.

And please put that on the dashboard display, too.

Heads up displays are becoming more common, even in non-luxury cars.

The SI definition of the second just involves cesium atoms. I don't think the SI has a definition of terrestrial time, if they do I'd be interested in reading about it. There is a primary definition of terrestrial time, TAI, which estimates time on the Earth's geoid, which is similar to but not quite the same thing as mean sea level.

Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Even more gory details in the third reference:

https://webtai.bipm.org/ftp/pu...

It's based on over 450 atomic clocks in very precisely characterized locations, corrected so the result approximates proper time on the Earth's geoid as closely as possible.

This seems like the kind of punch in the face that is compensated either by a court awarding you a lot of money or the guy who punched you paying you a lot before a court makes him.

Has been already. There was a story about it a few days ago, which is pretty clearly what drnb is referring to.

claiming to have used that clean room technique. And when (not if) it happens, how will people tell the difference?

You don't need an AI for this. I expect there's a lot of "clean room" reverse engineering that's nothing of the sort.

They say it right in the summary: copyleft. The GPL has a whole list of restrictions. The point of a license is to impose restrictions. Even the MIT license has a (short) list of obligations.

The FSF and other organizations that write licenses have a list of restrictions they think are justified for one reason or another. You may agree or disagree with them, but that's what they do. If you don't want to impose any restrictions on the end user you simply release it into the public domain.

Oh no, what can be done?

It turns out that people have figured it out. Many politicians are required to put their assets into blind trusts. US presidents, up until uh, recently, used to do some version of this. Publicly traded corporate officers generally own stock in their own employer that they're not allowed to just sell because they "need some money for personal needs." They use prearranged schedules and borrow against the assets if they have to.

what if it isn't a scam.

What if the scam has in fact been as many suggest decades of de-industrialization of American

If only there was a way to find out. A huge communication network that brings all the knowledge of humanity to our fingertips perhaps. If only.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...

That must be the reason.

That must be it.