One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

-Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, 1792

Or, put in modern terms: There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

These are the same Senators who argued ex-presidents can't be impeached.

He seems to be confusing "freeware", which is basically a license for copyrighted work, with "public domain", which is the absence of a copyright.

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Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you'd say "in the consulship of Jones and Smith". 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of "Julius and Caesar".

That is what is known as "sarcasm". I wasn't sincerely calling for violence against the Supreme Court, but rather drawing attention to their hypocrisy.

Good riddance.

There was a vampire movie, I forget what it's called, but part of the lore was that vampires were only affected by religious symbols from their original society. So showing a cross to a Muslim vampire wouldn't work.

many advertising companies have argued it would undermine their industry.

Yes.

“Absent this data, smaller enterprises will lose a critical path to reach and attract new customers

They seemed to get along just fine for centuries without it.

"[...] and consumers overall will have less exposure to new products and services that may interest them,” a group of ad trade bodies wrote in a letter first reported by Adweek.

They say that like it's a bad thing.

I will be availing myself of this law just as soon as the website is up.

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People who use "I didn't know who it belonged to" to justify stealing things.