The problem patents were solving was an inventor creating something and having it completely taken over by a well funded company leaving said inventor penniless. They created a new problem, though, when the well funded companies realized they could just buy all the patents and force everyone else to pay them while holding those ideas hostage.

Assuming my phone is dead from the associated EMP, I’ll start singing “I Melt With You”

I mean, every one of those definitions do not apply to LLMs.

They’re already spying on everyone, VPN or not.

If you assume each one is only starlink and they always send the max and no losses, it would take 90 years to get 1 million.

High call volume is any amount greater than zero.

I can guarantee making them wait won’t make them read if that wasn’t their first choice to begin with. All you’re doing is making them angrier for when they finally do get connected to a person.

Actually, the tough love approach can encourage them to find a job less damaging to the soul.

Least expensive until you have to buy ink or toner.

They changed that motto years ago. I believe they got rid of the “don’t”.

In the '80s we’d need a building to do a fraction what our phones do now. Even in the 2000s they would qualify as a supercomputer. I guarantee you wouldn’t be able to install whatever you wanted on any of those computers and even if you could, a days wait would be lightning fast in comparison.

That does happen. You can see stuff like that on scam baiting videos all the time.

They changed their “don’t be evil” motto years ago. I guess they must have kept two thirds of it.

Same thing happened with blockchain to a lesser extent. I remember my old company forcing us to put blockchain in something, anything, so they could add it to the sales pitches.

Our capitalism is just British empire capitalism rebranded.

Reformers don’t feel guilty. They’re trying to stave off the inevitable guillotines.

He didn’t say them at the same time. He is absolutely all about firing them. It’s his favorite pastime.

Yes, you are.

Dear lord. You’ve upgraded to weasel paragraphs.

You sure love your weasel words.