I’m gonna say CGI. Arm isn’t mounted to the floor (I can tell by the pixels), no cables going to the arm, holding the bowling ball like that is extremely unsafe.

As someone who just moved into a 1965 house - yep, plugs absolutely wear out. These are some sloppy bois.

My grandfather always used to lick his drill press before changing the drill bit. It’s very important and highly recommended! You might drill the wrong size hole otherwise.

I haven’t licked my drill press as much as I should, but if I had to, I bet I could lick 100 drill presses.

It’s duplicated in case half of it is lost to Bitlocker

It’ll affect it, but it won’t stop it. This is a good question to bring up though.

I design medical devices. IP is incredibly important in this process to protect our R&D investment in the current system. If IP didn’t exist, we’d protect that through other means like obfuscation of function.

Also if IP didn’t exist, I could design devices that are so much better at healing people. So much of what I do is restricted because someone else has 30 years left on what they patented.

R&D is expensive. Just because you see what someone else did, doesn’t mean you can easily replicate it.

In short: if your goal is pure profit, yeah removing IP probably hurts this a little. If your goal is producing the best product, then get rid of it.

I think the best solution would be a much shorter exclusionary period for patents.

Pretty much. I’ve never been more disappointed in my fellow Americans than over the last few months.

Both the apathy, and the actual Nazis running around.

I don’t think anyone has accused these fuckers of having an overabundance of schooling.