If "successful" means importing high income people in large numbers to drive up housing costs, while not importing tradesmen, yes. H1B and similar visas are a terrible idea once you realize what they do to the native population. By importing only the most skilled tech people you drive up labor costs, put pressure on housing, and worsen income inequality all while draining wealth from the host country as the immigrants send portions of their income to foreign family members. The idea that a country will become rich by importing highly skilled workers is a myth. We don't need to be importing migrants during a housing shortage. And what has Sundar done for the USA? Cut wages, layoffs, and "improved shareholder value" whilst making the world a worse place for regular Americans who aren't invested in Google stock. Microsoft has faltered, while contributing to a AI bubble and squeezing ads into Windows, invaded people's privacy, driving up RAM prices through shady investments. I can see why this isn't "successful" but rather an abject Failure. Creating high income households for foreigners at the expense of citizens isn't and should never be the goal. That is what has happened though, and this arrangement never benefitted average Americans.

No you can't. Statutory damages are awarded per infringed work, not per copy of infringement. They are specifically designed for when you don't know how many copies were infringed.

I'm not sure that's a valid argument. Men and women apply different strategies. You'd need to examine the relative performance of men vs women and see if a gender blind process affected their acceptance rate. To my knowledge, the only studies that compared gender blind admittance vs gender known found that women were more likely to be admitted. However, that study iirc was for software engineers, so I don't know if it holds true for medical school. I think men are a minority at schools, so it's possible that the schools discriminate in favor of them, but the evidence isn't solid one way or the other and both of you are just speculating based on incomplete information. However, I will not that you are not being civil, given the evidence on your side is just as weak.

The fundamental problem is that this discrimination by ISPs should itself be illegal, and then the platforms should be treated as speakers.

Section 230 should be repealed. I do think we need total immunity in a few cases, VPS/cloud hosts, CDNs, DNS, P2P nodes and ISPs should have absolute immunity for what their customers transmit. Assuming they are also obligated to host and dont have the right to censor. Without an obligation on service providers to host, we would be in a worse place post-230. But eliminating 230 for "platforms" while adding common carrier status for infra services would improve internet diversity.

Of everything uses displayport, hdmi will die off. Consoles are the main driver, so the steam machine going displayport will create a massive incentive for TVs to use displayport. Displayport to HDMI can be bundled with the machine.

Sounds like a valid antitrust suit... or would be but for the insane court system which ignores most anticompetitive actions.

If this was about installing Linux ISOs, then yes, Blu Ray would be outdated. In reality, this is driven by the large collections of HD Japanese animation that has historically been sold on Blu-Ray disks. It would be a bit like someone who wants a CD drive reader to play old music they bought, but it's much more widespread in Japanese culture to have these, and it largely hasn't migrated to another medium. Spotify was able to replace music CDs because it's convenient, but anime has a few differences. First, Anime files are much much larger (gigabytes) so you can't store a library on phone storage. Second, the huge file sizes make them inconvenient to re-download every time you want to watch them (like streaming services tend to do). Streaming services will often send lower quality versions e.g. 720p instead of the 4GiB 4K version people are used to watching on the Blu-ray disk.

Lastly, while using a phone might have similar sound quality to a computer or TV, the same cannot be said about the screen size! For watching on laptops, which don't usually have cellular connections, having a physical media can be more convenient when traveling.

In Japan, it's quite common for the so-called "Otaku" to have entire shelves filled with boxed copies of these Blu-ray disks for various anime series. In the west we tend to view the lower quality streaming version or just pirate it, as the culture around buying Blu-ray disks for our anime/movies doesn't exist in the same way, mainly because the prices are a bit too high for our market tastes. (If they were around $3-4 per season instead of $20+, I think they would sell much more in the west.)

Could they use USB? Yes if you pirate them, but almost all the "legit" ones were sold as Blu-ray, not USB sticks.

Ppl have less sex because they are stressed and overworked by the ruling class. People get a lower share of thier productivity than ever before.

Mini splits are a type of air conditioning... Central vs Mini Split A/C is a thing, but both central a/c and mini-split a/c are types of air conditioners.

Calling the previous setup a tax break is disingenuous. The current setup is more like an additional tax on R&D salaries whereas you used to be able to expense it like any other salary.

Everyone is a bit unusual and unique. It used to be that mental disorders were serious conditions. Now every minor deviation is a mental disorder. I have mixed feelings, it does seem like we overdiagnose, but it also means people have better access to psychoactive medications that can help them. I would rather we admit what we are actually doing, which is to optimize ourselves using psychoactive medications.

Font faces cant be copyrighted in the USA. So it's not a pirated Font, it's a free clone. Font files contain more than just the font face, but the face itself can be freely cloned.

Net neutrality does some important things. 1.), it protects p2p traffic which isps have a history of discriminating against. 2.) It allows hosting a business off a residential connection and for the case of Verizon ib particular 3.) it prevents mobile isps from discrimnating against laptops (which they currently do to boost contract phone sales).

Specifically, the court is wrong to call that license open source as a matter of law. We need legislation to reclaim the term open source as I see many companies misusing the term.