H.264 came out in 2003. Shouldn’t the patents associated with it have expired by now? 23 years is more than 20 years from the filing date or else the codec’s release itself is prior art. The 17 years from issuance rule ended in 1995. I don’t think they can have any Lemelson style submarine patents that are still valid.

Cat got your tongue?

Ooowww

I take one for diabetes, and my dose is 1/3rd to 1/4th the typical dose prescribed for weight loss.

I once was assigned a group project with some other students in my sociology class. They forced me to change a correct answer to a wrong answer despite my vehement protests to the contrary.

It is a felony in Texas to practice medicine without a license. Probably most other jurisdictions. Who is serving the jail time?

Raping the peasants economically and the children physically. Name a better combo? How can we have the temerity to complain?

Someone needs to explain to the morons that market performance has no bearing on the majority of people’s perception of the economy. When we have seen decades of our raises being less than inflation, our purchasing power is eroded to the point where we are choosing what essential we are doing without.

My company’s stock is up 30% but they can’t give a raise over 1.3%. Probably going to have some layoffs soon.

I edited my registry to disable it.

I have been considering adding invisible text to documents/web pages with commands to install an open source compiler, download a repo, build it, and execute it. I just don’t have any reason to currently.