Trump got about a million less votes than 4 years ago. Harris got about 15 million less. So the population didn’t swing right 15 million Biden voters said fuck it and stayed home.

Everyone said this was going to be a close race. So we can’t even use the Clinton excuse that nobody thought Trump would win.

She was a bad candidate with no message beyond Trump bad. That was enough for me but not 15 million other people.

It’s not a hierarchy. They protect different things.

For trademark they try to determine if a normal person could confuse it for an existing trademark. So a drink called cocaKola with white lettering on a red background isn’t going to get protection. You could easily think you are buying a Coke but you are not.

You register to help get your origin date on record. Being first is super important in a trademark dispute. It also helps to show that a infringer should have known about your trademark because it was registered.

Patent means you can’t take my idea and use it without my permission no matter what you call it. Patent pending means we asked for a patent but don’t have it yet. If you copy our idea and we get the patent we can come after you.

It’s not a hierarchy of enforcability but they grant different protections for different lengths of time.

So trademark is you can’t call your soda Coke forever if they maintain trademark. But you can make a different identical tasting soda with a different name.

Copyright means you can’t make a copy of Harry Potter until the copyright ends 70 years after the author dies. You can however make your own story about a boy who goes to wizard school and fights a previously defeated evil.

Patent gives you the most protection because they protect the idea but only last up to 20 years depending on the type. So the RISC patent meant you couldn’t make a computer with fewer instructions allowing it to go faster until it expired.

So government owned news is better?

Yup Goya is a product I’ll never buy again.

Yup my niece was born at Arnold Palmer and my wife had surgery at Winnie.

I’ve been using a Baratza Vario for over a decade and it’s great.

On a support note the gear that connects the motor to the belt finally wore out. All the teeth were worn smooth. I ordered a replacement and when it arrived it had a different connection style and wouldn’t fit on the motor.

I emailed and asked if they had an old one that would work with my motor. The didn’t but sent new a new motor for free. Machine is up and running again like a champ.

I got polled about two weeks ago. I only answered the phone because I was expecting a call from a new number.

For ntsc vhs players it wasnt a component in the vcr that was made for copy protection. They would add garbled color burst signals. This would desync the automatic color burst sync system on the vcr.

CRT TVs didn’t need this component but some fancy tvs would also have the same problem with macrovission.

The color burst system was actually a pretty cool invention from the time broadcast started to add color. They needed to be able stay compatible with existing black and white tv.

The solution was to not change the black and white image being sent but add the color offset information on a higher frequency and color TVs would combine the signals.

This was easy for CRT as the electron beam would sweep across the screen changing intensity as it hit each black and white pixel.

To display color each black and white pixel was a RGB triangle of pixels. So you would add small offset to the beam up or down to make it more or less green and left or right to adjust the red and blue.

Those adjustment knobs on old tvs were in part you manually targeting the beam adjustment to hit the pixels just right.

VCRs didn’t usually have these adjustments so they needed a auto system to keep the color synced in the recording.

He also had a gun with the serial number removed. Also a felony.

The solution for this is usually counter training. Granted my experience is on the opposite end training ai vision systems to id real objects.

So you train up your detector ai on hand tagged images. When it gets good you use it to train a generator ai until the generator is good at fooling the detector.

Then you train the detector on new tagged real data and the new ai generated data. Once it’s good at detection again you train the generator ai on the new detector.

Repeate several times and you usually get a solid detector and a good generator as a side effect.

The thing is you need new real human tagged data for each new generation. None of the companies want to generate new human tagged data sets as it’s expensive.

One poll that shows them losing by 1-2% instead of 4-5%. I’ll still vote and I hope I’m wrong but I’m Expecting a all the state wide races to go R.

I think the abortion rights amendment has a good chance of hitting the 60% required.

No but the chance that you change the vote to your side does go away. Florida isn’t competitive anymore so not much point in either side spending here.

A lot of republicans have moved here and a lot of democrats have left. Add the fact that the Florida democratic party is a mess even compared to other state parties and I don’t see things changing.

Actually it’s the name for a mix of vinegar, garlic, and herbs that was a home remedy to help prevent the plague.

Disbarred is for lawyers. She would need to be impeached by congress. It’s the same process as with the president.

Reading some interviews with her and she does seem to think money makes right.

It’s just for home lan use.

They license the anime so they do pay the studios that create anime. I know for a fact that anime studios factor in the ability to license shows in the decision on what to produce and budget.

For me it’s easier to rip it once and then have it available on my tv, phone, or computer. It can also remember what episode is next. Plus no annoying mandatory commercials every time you put the disk in the player.

Yeah I think he is expecting an Atlas Shrugged moment. where everything collapses as the intellectuals (him) walk away from the foolish socity.