OldTimeCoffee

It's basically how the US system worked prior to 1976, though the terms were 28 + 28 renewal. Most didn't renew because they didn't make enough money to make the renewal worth it.

So then Trademark begins to be used as a copyright extension mechanism and Trademark law has no expiration? That doesn't seem like a good idea.

How do you solve the Mickey Mouse problem? E.g., you have a character that has created an "empire" that an organization has the means (cultural/monetary) to prevent their creation from entering the public domain. You have to figure out what to do about those rare situations because they're the driving force for extending copyrights.

My ideal is like the old system (initial registration plus fixed term renewals). That actually worked well to balance interests and we should go back to it. Just make the renewals an increasing cost so that your 'Mickey Mouse' hits can continue to have effectively infinite protection while most won't renew and drop into the public domain.

Because companies aren't buying trucks anymore, they're buying vans instead. Manufacturers have realized that people are buying trucks for their daily driver, so they've optimized the product around that. They've moved to a more car-like comfortable interior and they've stopped selling the regular cab (2 door) models because they don't sell. They pretty much make mostly double cabs because you need a backseat to drive around kids (again, car like). The 5 foot bed is fine because you're not hauling a 4x8 sheet of plywood anymore and a 8 ft 2x4 fits diagonally fairly comfortably.

1990 wasn't a Tacoma, it was a T100/Pickup. The Tacoma was introduced in 1995. It weighed 3155 lbs for a 2WD in 1995 not 2700 lbs. You're also comparing the Regular Cab to the Access Cab for length. Regular isn't made anymore (because it didn't sell), but Regular to Regular is 174 to 190 (2004-2015).

A 1995 Tacoma xtracab length was ~ 200 inches. Today's Double Cab is ~ 212 inches. The Tacoma really hasn't changed in length in over 25 years. They have gotten about 10 inches wider in 2004 and a few inches taller (every model is the Off Road height now).

Side note, no one would call a Tacoma "compact". It was a small pickup in 1995 when it was introduced and now people call a 'midsize' truck.

The problem I've had with it is that not many exchanges trade in it. I've got some from 2014 I want to sell, but I don't even know where to sell it.

I can only speak about the Exos drives, but the Ironwolf (Pro) drives are basically just the Exos drives relabeled for the consumer market. I'm actually about to buy 6 14TB Exos x16 drives to replace 7 6TB Exos 7E8 drives that are 5 years old. Frequently you can get the Exos drives cheaper than Ironwolf anyway.

At this point the URL bar is a search bar.

I hear this a lot, but it's really not true. Most "pizza places" are small businesses (<50 FTE), so they aren't required to offer benefits anyway.

They want part time employees because it offers scheduling flexibility. If all you have is full time workers and someone calls out sick, you're short a person. If you have mostly part time workers, you can call everyone not scheduled that day to see if they can come in. Office jobs don't really have this because it's typically not critical that the employee is there.

Seagate Exos (x14, x16 or x18) and Ironwolf or WD HC520. Consumer drives, like the Ironwolf drives, are usually more expensive than enterprise. If you have a SAS backplane get SAS because they're cheaper as Chia caused the price of SATA drives to skyrocket.

I don't think taxes are a major factor in US immigration, considering the slightly lower taxes are offset by far higher healthcare costs.

You've linked a Daily Mail story with a baseless assertion and LEGO themselves said it was because of the logo of the store. The story has the owner of the store holding up a t-shirt of the logo such that it's somewhat obscured and the remaining focus is on the store itself.

Wireless is a worse product than wired, but you trade the worse product for the convenience of not having the wire. None of the examples you give match that pattern.

SSDs are a better product than HDDs, they trade capacity for speed, but if you need capacity it's likely you don't really need the extra speed, and you're likely running into other bottlenecks anyway (a HDD can still saturate 1G Ethernet)

Electric cars are a "worse" product, but for most use cases they're functionally equivalent. Most people don't drive farther than the range in a day, maintenance is at the same place as ICE, slow recharge times are easily negated by just plugging in every night and charging while you sleep.

Paper is a worse product than a screen because a screen can be updated. It's about as easy to read, the resolution is about the same, they're equally portable (see a cellphone), but you can put just about anything on a screen and update it many times a second. You can't do that with paper, which is why screens have mostly replaced paper.

"But they are “really” rich and can easily access that wealth. They’d just prefer not to."

Banks have lending limits. You're assuming the $2mm house isn't leveraged to begin with.

A house can't be sold readily. Even if you get in contract ASAP, it's usually 30 days until closing. It's illiquid because 30 days isn't 'readily'. To contrast this with something 'liquid', with a stock you can sell and wire the funds same day if you needed to, 2-3 days if you use ACH instead.

HELOC is a loan and doesn't have anything to do with how liquid the asset is.

Part of the problem is that previously they were a value add as part of a service provider. There was no intent to generate revenue from it because the revenue came from the provider's operations. If I'm building a chat client now, though, I've got to find a revenue path. You need the walled garden so that you get lock-in and can find a revenue model from it.