Does buying the book give you license to digitise it?

Does owning a digital copy of the book give you license to convert it into another format and copy it into a database?

Definitions of "Ownership" can be very different.

Don't you need money to stop Venice sinking?

some dude out of Silicon Valley hears about this, and hacks up a system that just uses a $30 webcam, an AI model that detects fingers (trained exclusively on pudgy white fingers of Silicon Valley executives)

Hotdog / not hotdog

Private banks should mean they can fail without the government stepping in.

Beyond the services of a basic checking account and ability to send money, banking should be private.

• I know nothing

• I don't believe the information

• I believe but don't care. <--- The US is around here

• I care but I don't act

• I act but without effect

• I act with effect

The word "Atrophied" seems very out of place.

Congress also holds a lot of the blame.

Americans have so many weird number associations

420

10-4

7/11

401k

5150

187

411

Etc.

The US army is much larger and better equipped than the Canadian army.

What % of the US army would be happy to obey an order to invade Canada. At what level if seniority? What justification could be given to sure up the troops?

It's gonna bite her in the ass.

You can be wealthy and not be "pay your own medical bills" wealthy.

This. Lego has amazing tolerance for a toy, but isn't leading across the whole of the injection molding industry.