sophrosyne42

The laffer curve is the law of diminishing returns applied to taxation revenues. It is relevant anywhere the government cares about tax revenues rather than being punitive or arbitrary, and its effects depend on the item being taxed and the effect this has on the wider economy.

It is pretty funny you refer to these periods because they are the quintessential example of big business pushing for regulations to push out their competitors and become monopolies. And the "progressives" enthusiastically supported such monopolization.

It's like locking people out of their own home, and then when people express outrage the concern troll steps in from out of frame to point out that they're not acknowledging the very real risk that if they could access their own house gasp they might accidentally let the wrong person in, or break something, or whatever.

They told the agents to run a capture the flag, but did not give specific limits on the scope of that activity.

If an organization runs a capture the flag, but the rules don't specify that they have to stay on certain networks and can't hack into the org's own network that has the CTF solutions, then it's pretty obviously on the org running the CTF because they did not appropriately scope the challenge.

I think the gist is more something like: you should expect the government to neglect their property.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Freedom of religion is deeply intwined in the US's legal and political system, to the point where superficial pronouncements made by certain parties are not effective in changing that fact

Software has always been maleable. To think otherwise is a plain delusion. Go ahead and write a few bytes into a binary, or download some updates, and you'll see what I mean.

The issue here is the legal barriers which set up a delusion of nonmaleability. Copyright and IP treat software and ideas as if they were fixed, unmaleable things; they are not.

You mean the ones that have been doing so for many administrations across both parties?

The writer of this website and people like them should be removed from having any amount of power and relevance in software development. That is, if you want to do software work instead of bikeshedding with bad faith struggle sessions.

Probably not, since our intellect can produce lossless compression too

The only reference to specific information about these weapons described that they were intended to target Hamas. The title amd rest of the content is quite misleading.

Ah yes, the big tech propaganda that undermines their entire business model. Without copyright, you would be free to modify or alter any data collection capabilities of tech you purchase.

Copyright does no such thing. The copyright owner is free to alter or change their material at any time, or to discard it and force it to remain unused until it deteriorates and is destroyed (e.g. video game preservation is mostly done by copyright violators).