So… You want to avoid your family?

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

I don’t know you, and I don’t care to know you.

I was there, Gandalf. I was there 20 years ago…

Congratulations, looking sharp!

Yar har fiddly dee

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.

I’m not going to leave. I’m fighting for the country we should be.

Where do my boys Component and S-Video end up?

Where to draw the line, when it comes down to it, is a very personal decision and depends on a lot of different circumstances. I think we can all agree that the furthest we can move away from animal exploitation is the “best”, but that isn’t always feasible.

It’s a lot like recycling and reducing waste. We don’t need a few people doing it perfectly, we need everyone doing it imperfectly. Just doing it better than now. Any degree you move toward the ideal is worth it, and not making it all the way should not be shameful.

But for real, I kinda want to try these

It depends significantly on location and living situation, but 50k ranges from moderately comfortable all the way to poverty line.

Haha I love this. Are you guys playing origin characters or custom characters?