Still being able to use them as speakers is beside the point when people paid considerable premiums for the product over other speakers.

This obviously sucks, but it's completely fine if you just give me a refund then. If a company sells a product containing online-only features, those features should be required to work for the lifetime of the product.

There is obviously prior art, so it's not patentable. Since we are seeing more and more of these malicious attempts to patent common practices, I would propose that the patent authority can issue penalties for it. Like, let them issue a fine up to 5 percent of the business' turnover of something for really egregious behaviour like this. Make them feel it.

As it is now, there is no reason not to try, which is kinda ridiculous.

The M can still stand for Motoren, as electric motors are uhm, motors.

OK, so copying something isn't violating copyright, as long as you don't let others copy what you copied. Everyone should be copying their school text books instead of buying them then, because that's legal. Libraries have a problem, though.

All fiat currencies are backed by their governments. Who is backing bitcoin exactly? Money launderers and criminals is the answer generally to that.

What exactly have you dug up about Vance that you like??

I ask because I see literally nothing likeable about him. He's a tech bro who has barely achieved anything in life by himself, he wants women to stay home and cook and have babies, he's kinda the prototype of a guy who labels himself alpha but is really beta as fuck.

"ISS has a zero fault tolerance for a spacecraft control problem", but they still let it dock with 1 thruster not working. Zero apparently means "close enough" in space.

Agreed, canceling it is completely fine, it's become a convoluted mess. I was still watching, but not really enjoying the journey as much as I was just wondering what the ending would be. For all I care they can just make a wiki page and explain where this was going.

Nothing to see here at the "Beijing Normal University", we're just a totally normal university. Definitely not a cover operation.

So with $1.000 for office equipment, it certainly isn't going to be Apple products, is it :p

Why stream music when you can own your own library of it?

If there will even be any future humans, they will not visit Earth the same say you don't visit the garbage dump. Bezos yet again shows he lives in a completely different reality than the rest of us. What a Bozo.

Trying to overturn a democratic election comes to mind. So does ruling largely by executive order, firing anyone who opposes him - including supposedly independent watchdogs, using government ressources such as the DOJ for his own private purposes, hiring his entire family despite zero qualifications for their jobs. Trying to undermine the press so he can spout whatever lies he wants without challenge. All things dictators generally do.

That's a shame, but maybe a 7 days return period should really be the industry standard instead of Tesla rolling it back. I mean, it's very difficult to test everything relevant on a test drive before making such a large purchase. Lots of cars give me knee or back pain issues, but that takes at least 4-5 hours of driving to crop up. And at least around here test drives are 30 mins max.