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  1. Sooo true and bigtech, mostly Google, has weakened our patent system in ways that favor big tech over little tech.
  2. He's a retard. I feel liberated. I'm so sick of these techtards and bros thinking the rules don't apply to them.
  3. I don't know if this is any kind of a groundbreaking thought, but it occurs to me that these social media platforms began as entertainment. Only more recently have they become sources of information and opinion. Moderation of entertainment is almost completely acceptable within the bounds of a given platform. First, it's privately owned so the 1A is not implicated, and owners/curators are free to curate the content of their platform in accordance with their "goals," to be family friendly, to be hardcore porn, to be funny, or musical, or whatever. It is only once these platforms, somewhat inexplicably, became fora for information and public debate that content moderation is even questionable, even if on "sub-legal" grounds. It's the opposite of news. What was once serious news has become entertainment, and what was once frivolous entertainment has become news. The problem is, entertainment is attractive to the morons, while actual news typically is not. Similarly, those seeking to be informed avoid entertainment outlets when that is their goal, or maybe even altogether, to a large extent. We're having this fucked up convergence between news/information and entertainment. It has been recognized on the news end of things, somewhat less so on the entertainment end.
  4. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/texas-sboe-bible-christianity-curriculum/ Try to keep up with the Christofascist agenda.
  5. Got some more federal statute for you, cunt. The flag shall be flown at half-staff 30 days from the death of the President or a former President; 4 U.S.C. s. 7. Note the mandatory language "shall." And note that "display" in s. 5 does not specify full or half-staff, but only the display of the flag, with other details supplied by other statutes. Good lawyering there hotwheels. Hopefully obviously directed at hotwheels not EBO'B.
  6. Not parsing words. Asking what you meant.
  7. What does this mean? A law was passed to end it in the US unless it changes ownership. That was out in the open. The constitutionality of that law is being litigated in the open, part of which is to attempt to expose more insidious motives for which Chinese ownership is a pretext.
  8. Been looking for a gif of this forever. I have this thought a lot.
  9. Had something of a realization on the patent tangent. One of the most significant US patent reforms ever is the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Inter-Partes Review proceeding (and to a lesser extent post-grant review). This provides a forum where challenges to the validity of patents may be brought in the PTO in an adversarial format as an alternative or adjunct to litigation. One judge famously called the PTAB "a patent death squad." He wasn't wrong. In 70% of cases where a proceeding is instituted (it's not automatic that one of these is commenced, there has to be some preliminary merit) all claims of a patent are invalidated. 78% of claims considered are invalidated. https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/01/12/ptab-70-claims-invalidation-rate-continues-source-concern/id=184956/ However, when the dataset is confined to pharma patents, the invalidation rate is much smaller, 15% of all claims invalidated, 33% of claims considered. So half or less of the usual rate of invalidation. It's even smaller among biologics. This rather belies the notion that a lot of pharma patents are bullshit. Some of them kind of are, in the sense that they cover minor variations, but they are also very limited in scope/coverage, meaning they are not essential to participating in the market for the drug in question. That's why, when you drill down into a patent thicket, you'll find a relatively small handful are correlated to "the monopoly." That is, it is usually the expiration of one or two patents that is regarded as opening up the market.
  10. Just realized this isn't new. ITV production, so maybe new here. Had escaped my notice at any rate. Well-received on RT and IMDB.
  11. https://collider.com/a-spy-among-friends-tv-series-streaming/ In like Flynn. Been waiting for a big role for Lt. Edmund Exley for a long time.
  12. One of the more amusing scenes from Zero Dark Thirty, after Chastain convinces them where Bin Laden is holed up and the operators show up, she makes some remark about them and their "Velcro and dip."
  13. You're not wrong, but there is a certain someone that really, really likes to make things political.
  14. Blake was a very good recruiter. The only black head football coach at Oklahoma, Blake recruited more than half of that championship team’s 22 starters, including future N.F.L. players like safety Roy Williams and linebacker Rocky Calmus. The mere mention of that fact seems to agitate Stoops, who did recruit quarterback Josh Heupel, tailback Quentin Griffin and linebacker Torrance Marshall, all vital players in Oklahoma’s 13-2 victory against Florida State for the national title at the end of the 2000 season. https://web.archive.org/web/20090409011252/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/sports/ncaafootball/05sooners.html
  15. Not to mention the fact that tOSU had been stacking 5* like lumber since about 2013 at the latest.
  16. I had to drive my MIL to Rivercrest, CA (China Lake NWS) from Vegas through the Mojave. It was mile after mile after mile of lunar landscape and temps over 110 in June. LA is a little better off due to proximity to the ocean, but that's what it was built on. It didn't need much help from climate change to burst into flames.
  17. Probably about the same reason SoCal hasn't solved its water problems with desalination plants.
  18. Tell me. slorch, who started it? (hint, it's not #bothsides)
  19. Check a box on your SAT, have the scores sent to UT, admission letter to follow.
  20. And spending on wildfire prevention and preparedness has doubled during his tenure. https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-cut-100m-fire-prevention-budget-before-california-fires-2012980
  21. For us, it was top quarter OR 1100 SAT. Shortly thereafter, it was both.
  22. In 1986? What was it top quarter and 1100 SAT? Nothing else mattered. I suspect its the same way for auto-admit today.
  23. The whole of southern California, Los Angeles in particular, struggles with water on ordinary days, as it has since it was first settled. To the extent there's a water problem, it's same as it ever was. Also, public spending on infrastructure that might prevent or help fight fires faster would mean higher taxes and sOciALisM!
  24. Reagan is certainly not blameless for a lot of this shit, but I feel like there's some heavy-duty revisionism going on with him. A whole lot of bad shit went down in the GOP in the 40 years since Reagan left office and before we got to Trumpism.
  25. Also, I find it amusing that now, only now, were Biden officials "screaming and cursing." Zuckerberg has been on this kick for four months now since gobbling Gym Jordan's crank, but only now busts this out.
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