Patents shouldn’t be allowed to be vague. That’s the problem here. Sonos’ patent is for “multi-room streaming software” and the judge didn’t throw it out for not being specific. There’s nothing specific to how their infrastructure intercommunicates, just the conceptual idea of devices streaming the same audio at the…

Ideally we should stop pretending billionaires are anything but evil. No one needs to be hoarding wealth like they do, and compounding wealth in the hands of very few people does far more damage to the world then any of their good works. Rockefeller and Carnegie spent insane amounts of money on the arts, but let’s be…

Wealthy people and corporations may shoulder the brunt of the financial responsibility, but people who actually understand the problems and how to work toward the solutions will be in charge of how they get put into practice.

LiteLife’s “Gimme-Lean” sausage is great for making biscuits and gravy. I usually add a table spoon of maple syrup while cooking it and it’s quite passable for real maple pork sausage.

I especially liked his comment “When I was a kid in the 1980s, “writing online” wasn’t something that I dreamed might exist one day, let alone might be a career that could support me financially.”

Or how about you get 20lbs of luggage, no matter the orientation of it, and then 2$/lb for anything over that.

No, he did in the books too. Teresa “Tracy” Bond was his wife in “On her majesty’s Secret Service”. It ended badly for her.

I think part of the trope though is that their shared trials and tribulations bond them more than they could with anyone else. Do you really think anyone who hadn’t been in Dumbledore’s Army could have related to anything Harry Potter had been through?

Think about it less as a rarity from present day and more of an…

I’m cool with that.

Actually, the best theaters are the ones where people are there to sit down, shut up, and watch the damn movie. Listening to people eat and get progressively drunk isn’t exactly an enjoyable movie watching experience.