I think a patent troll is defined more by whether a company developed patents with the intent to make a product in the first place, vs. just patenting stuff to get a patent without doing any real work, or buying patents to sue on. Not whether they are a “shadow of its former self” or are currently successful selling…

Looking at the complaint it’s not “just time stamps” - that’s just the shorthand description the article used looking at the title. It’s specifically the algorithm that determines whether a string of messages is part of a conversation, and to only assign a time stamp after a break in the conversation.

Just wanted to point out a few things:

The starting salary of an LAPD officer is $59,717 - Goes up to an average of 78k up to 100k for standard officers, 110-120k as they move up to Sergeant.

Because private citizens in the US have access to firearms? Makes everyone less safe from everyone.

Yea, well don’t get your point then. You started of saying that the security lines were the “best” target and I disputed that by pointing out that - well, they weren’t, and they exist to prevent a far better target from being open.

Wouldn’t it be better for your health, less wasteful of resources, and accomplish the same thing just to order a water, but tip a couple bucks for it to be equivalent to a drink?

If you’re in sales, which is the closest comparable compensation model to waiters, then yes - you do get “docked” if you make a mistake. I.e. if you make a mistake and lose a sale, you don’t get the commissions from that sale.

You keep on ignoring my argument and just saying broad shit like “terrorism is about terrorizing people not killing” - Like no shit, but the point is about whether whether we want to have TSA checkpoints that screen out bombs from going on planes, but would increase the risk of having a location with a lot of people…

Well fine, if your standard is:

Yep, i know it’s usually shrapnel, which is my point about it not actually killing that many people in a security line. The 5-6 people standing immediately around it are doomed, maybe even 1-2 more layers deep of people, after that, terrible to think about - but the initial people will have “absorbed” a lot of the…

There are a few hundred people trying to get through security in total, but my point is that’s spread over quite a large area. For the same amount of explosives that could actually reliably kill everyone (not just injure) you could probably bring down a dozen planes and kill thousands.

If we’re talking about the same size bomb, it’d do a lot less damage on the ground, in an open space, than in a plane.

It would be, but it’s better to have a dozen people injured at the screening point than a couple of hundred people killed on a plane. All about mitigating risk.

Well part of the reason we’re not dead is because of regular PSAs. People did use to regularly die from mass epidemics transmitted by unsanitary conditions and practices. Spreading information about how i.e. you need to rush your hands after going to the restroom, helped lower that significantly.

Bacteria per square inch isn’t that great of a way to define ‘dirtiest’.

She’s definitely plus-size, by any standard.

I don’t think that’s a “chinese” thing, that’s a buffet thing.

I just want to point out - those are delicious - and you just picked aspects of Cantonese food that focus on gelatinous textures (which is kind of like just calling out different brands of hot dogs as representative of all American food).

I think it actually makes it stand out when a show can stay good to the end. Almost any show can have a great beginning/pilot - when all of the attention and energy is there - but in my mind, most of the truly “great’ shows all were defined as much by their ending (i.e. whether they were able to come to a cohesive…