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Wow. Given he had threatened action before they even broadcast, I'm sure HBO's segment was very carefully researched and worded. From what I saw it consisted of things he said and very reasonable opinions based on things he said. I hope this goes to trial and HBO conducts the trial in the most public way possible.

That's Paul. The Wiggles had quite a few connections in the Australian music scene, before they turned to kids' music they were a moderately successful early 80s band called the Cockroaches. They seemed to do a lot of work with Leo Sayer as well, for some reason.

I couldn't disagree with this more! There are plenty of jokes. His style is often quite subtle and he tends to drop a funny line and move on rather than dwell on it. His Ryan Lochte line is very funny but he just moves straight on. The spelling bee reaction shots, he could have done 5 minutes just on that. On balance,

Still waiting for the Logitech Brio to go on sale. Looks like an excellent webcam but the price is ridiculous.

I have a Google Home but my thoughts exactly. It is surprisingly useful, it has instant wife acceptance factor, and it even works to keep my kids occupied asking it random (often nonsensical or scatalogical) questions.

It was when he was 19 though… that's a lot of money when you've just left school.

The camerawork in Blair Witch Project. Not only was it not scary but I felt ill throughout.

Mine is "Well, it is finally official: murder is legal in the State of California."

I wouldn't have thought of turkey as a very Chinese food. But I went to Hong Kong Disneyland and damn if every second person wasn't snacking on the biggest turkey drumsticks I've ever seen.

The whole boardroom scene was very Steve Jobs.

Yeah but the licence he gave Piper Chat might have been specific to Piper Chat. And if it wasn't in writing, I wouldn't want to use it as the basis for an entire new venture without Richard on board.

Good point. There was basically a little culture war in about 1996 between old school tech nerds who wanted the Internet to be a lawless decentralised frontier and big business who wanted the Internet to be a safe place to sell widgets. Guess who won? There were various groups trying to reinvent the internet around

No, I thought he said one of the other founders of Hooli applied for the patent, to stop Peter working on it while he should have been focused on founding Hooli. We assume that other founder was Gavin because it's a typical Gavin dick move.

Well the show is purposefully vague about that. Some sort of global network where the nodes are everyone's connected devices rather than the big server farms that are the backbone of the internet, so it is more decentralised? That in itself doesn't seem novel enough to patent - it's just the internet on different

Yeah, this is another occasion where it would have been a good idea to take a minute to go to the car wash and run this past his lawyer.

I think it's entirely possible Gavin could have kept that patent personally. The point of registering it was to block Peter from being able to commercialise the idea. Gavin had to keep ownership of the patent himself to ensure that he kept control of it. Plus as it was a pie in the sky unfeasible idea, it's unlikely

Gilfoyle is a master at just effortlessly poisoning Dinesh's relationship.

I hate to dissect every legal issue in the show, but since it got such a good response last week…

Don't make me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.