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I'm not surprised. In this case, however, it doesn't even meet the OSI definition because it doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.

When people who care about open source talk about "open source", they often mean the Open Source Initiative definition. https://opensource.org/osd

> A general strike means the labor class ... stop working in order to put extreme pressure on the group of people who do control those contracts and who do control capital.

> Such a system ... should be Deconstructed as rapidly as possible with the expropriation of all that capital

(emphasis added)

The result, predictably, is that unions lose all their leverage against the investor class (which no longer exists) and management (which is now the government). See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_the_Soviet_Uni... ("[S]trikes were still more or less restricted... Unions remained partners of management in attempting to promote labor discipline, worker morale, and productivity.").

If you did buy one, you might not be able to license it in your state. Your mileage may vary.

Note: USPS is exempt from state regulations because it is a U.S. federal government agency. That is also why they don't have state license plates; they don't need them.

Patent application filing fees and the time you spend preparing the applications, primarily. Also the loss of privacy (name, etc. in application) in applying for the patent.

Edit: Also the risk that your application is rejected so that you don't get a blocking patent, which would mean anyone else can use the invention or even patent an improvement. An improver might even cite your rejected application in their applications for more draconian inventions, which could be demoralizing.

It’s rare in modern times, but sometimes you may encounter a sign board written horizontally right-to-left, as in this sign above the front entrance to the Nippon Budōkan:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nippon_Budokan_-_2...

Where is the logical fallacy? Actually, where’s the argument? His post is just a few reasons he doesn’t trust his government; he’s not trying to argue that you shouldn’t trust your government (you probably shouldn’t, though, for reasons I won’t go into).

If they can't get the basics right, who knows what horrors lurk under the hood.

What's the relevant difference?

> I too, as the good samaritan that I am, like to stroll through my neighborhood and give all the cars and bikes I encounter a quick pentest, purely for the benefits of the owners of course.

In my neighborhood, "security researchers" can often be seen checking houses for vulnerabilities. During the day, it's usually a woman or a kid with a clipboard who knocks on front doors, checks for cameras, tests if the front door is locked, etc. I'm told they work with crews of men who will come back later to do a more thorough investigation when everyone is gone so as not to bother the homeowner.

Every night, there are other "security researchers" who test all the doors of all the cars parked on the street and in driveways. If you leave your car door unlocked just once, you'll be informed about it the next morning!

It's really something to live in these times!

So who got the insurance payout? The buyer?

> Does the Allen estate really need the cash?

The article doesn't clearly distinguish between the museum auctioning off the item it owns and the Allen estate auctioning the items that it had loaned to the museum, but there's a difference.

Cheaper than an Apple Pro Display XDR ($4999 to $5999).

No need for foreign operatives, we do it ourselves.

We treat thumbs up/down as agree/disagree, whether we're supposed to or not.

Some restaurants should just be food trucks.

All of those are common in Japan.

Many of the free or cheap OCR services are based on the free, open-source Tesseract OCR.

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/

Those services usually do not expose all of the options. If you’re handy with shell scripts or Python, you can probably get better performance by hand-tuning options for your particular images. For example, if I recall there are page segmentation options to tell Tesseract to expect multi-column text. That alone might get you better performance than the automatic mode.

I rephrased the question. The instruction set may be copyrightable, but as in Google v. Oracle, we don't have to answer that question. Even if an instruction set is copyrightable, then under Google, it is probably fair use to copy it for interoperability purposes (e.g., making a compatible processor or emulator). For the actual binary encoding of instructions, there is even less of an argument for copyright protection because the encoding is purely functional.

Would copying an instruction set and ABI to make an interoperable processor and system be fair use in light of Google v. Oracle (2021) [0][1]?

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....

Edit: Changed phrasing of question. Also, to be clear I think the answer is probably yes.

Probably this company: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com

Certainly, owners sometimes leave properties vacant, and sometimes do so for long periods, for various reasons. The housing market, however, should be big enough and robust enough to allow for some of that occurring.

Personally, I'd like there to be so much more housing that landlords have to compete with each other for who can provide the best apartment for the lowest price rather than potential tenants competing with each other for who can pay the most for the only apartment that is available.

> that they own 100%

You might be surprised to learn that many small rental properties are heavily mortgaged. Along with insurance and property taxes, the biggest cost is usually mortgage interest. Some owners even lose money for a few years until the rents rise to meet the costs so that they can break even. (These owners are playing the long game, believing that rent and property values will go up over time and eventually their investment will be a good one compared to their other investment options.)

Allowing occupation of vacant properties by squatters because there isn't enough housing supply is like allowing stealing food from farms because there isn’t enough food supply. It’s demoralizing to the producers and maintainers of the resource and does not encourage further investment in the activity.

> Are landlords the most vulnerable people right now?

Increasing risk will eliminate a lot of the "mom and pop" landlords (widows, former small-business owners, retirees, etc.). If it is too risky to own only a few extra condo units or a single small apartment building, then those properties will go to large corporate landlords.

> there are people whose sole contribution to society is "owning flats".

Landlords make sure the utilities (water, electricity, heat, etc.) work, that the roof doesn't leak, fix plumbing issues when they arise, take care of pest infestations, etc. Even landlords who don't personally fix things are employing managers and tradespeople. And with big corporate owners, the shareholders are usually pension funds which effectively are the retirement savings of people who have already "contributed to society".

Americans use metric where it's required by law (e.g., food and drug packaging), it just takes government force. Government force can also change a population's language. See, e.g.,

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

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

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

Reviewing this a bit more, it was actually the 1710 Statute of Anne in Great Britain that took away our rights to copy whatever we wanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

We used to have the right to copy whatever we wanted and be accountable to no one.

That all went away in 1790 when the U.S. government passed the first Copyright Act. https://www.copyright.gov/timeline/timeline_18th_century.htm...

> you have to sign a contract

You have the right idea, but there isn’t a contract that a buyer has to sign.

A restrictive covenant is attached to a property when a developer (e.g., of a condo complex or subdivision) deeds a subject property to an initial buyer. The restrictions “run with the land” and are enforceable against any subsequent buyer. (The restrictions are a public record kept with the county recorder, so any buyer is on “record notice” whether they actually knew about them or not.)

Also, the way most HOAs work, there is no joining just as there is no opting out. You are a member if you own a subject property. That’s it.

I mainly know about California, but it should be similar in other states.

This reminds me of the Computer Literacy Bookshops in Silicon Valley. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookshops