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The idea/spirit of patents is a good one.

It enables generic medicine - as patented medicine needs to publicly disclose methods. It also allows the public to know what is in the patented product because it is public info.

It also makes iteration easier, as everyone can build off and on top of the patent info.

However, patent abuse is a real issue. Using patents to stifle others innovation and create monopolies. Also patents that come about from publicly funded research often give private companies exclusive rights to profit from work funded by the public.

Mickey mouse is copyright, which is a different beast. It's also good because it protects people producing easily copied work such as writing, music and images. However, the mouse has lobbied his way into making the copyright protection excessively long. It should be much shorter, 30 years since publication would be reasonable - it would be a tremendous victory if we got it down to 50.

Digital keyboards (at least contemporary ones) use embedded systems that require software. OP wants a piano/digital keyboard that uses open source software.

I don't think it exists (I don't know of any). The software for these systems is going to be highly coupled to the feature set of that digital piano and the benefit of modifying the software is low. So it's unlikely someone has made a open source digital piano.

If it exists its either a very small project, a manufacturer has chosen to release their software as open source or an adaptation of keyboard/synthesizer software. Although many libraries for such software are likely open source.

Patents trade public disclosure of technology for a limited time exclusive use of the technology. Without them companies are less likely to publicly disclose any technologies they develop.

High end digital keyboards market themselves as pianos.

I think Gmail on Android does this. Any link you click on in the app Firefox shows you the initial Google address before you go to the link you clicked on.

If you copy and paste the URL this doesn't happen.

People generally sleep to around the schedule of work and school. If you change the clocks these change. Most people don't really have control.of when they wake up.

Was college homeschooled as well?

Yes, but it costs political capital for very little gain. People won't see it as a pro-abortion move. But anti-abortion people will see it as a pro-abortion move.

The UK doesn't have the same public debate about abortion as we see in the USA. However, there is a quiet contingent of anti-abortion politicians.

The conservatives won't move against them. The Tory strategy has been to embrace all positions to the right of them that get any steam. It's seen them move from being the party bring the UK into the EU to leaving it. Being responsible for the the creation of the ECHR to calling for its end. If the Tories made this change in legislation they would anger the the right of their party. This would cause them to flip position back to where we are now. The total result would have them lose moderate votes that would no longer trust them with women's health care.

Technically abortion is illegal. There has to be a medical reason for the abortion. In practice a Doctor would consider not wanting to be pregnant would make an abortion necessary. Practice and society expectations differ from the actual law.

This would suggest no prosector would bring charges against anyone, as it wouldn't be in the public interest. So the police shouldn't wast resources on it.

There has also been a rise in abortions lately. It appears to be down to misinformation online about contraception.

A jammer will be a high output RF. The jammers just shout louder than the signals they want to jam to drown them out. This is wideband high gain noise that degrades the signal to noise ratio of the target signals.

Many highly marketed drinks are just slightly better low grade alcohol.

Many alcoholic drinks do have different characteristics and flavour profiles. You also don't need to go super high end to experience them. If you wanted to learn more go to a tasting event. You don't need to spend a lot to access go quality stuff. In fact the higher quality accessable stuff isn't marketed very well.

High end alcohols won't taste like the very sweet soft drinks. If you want or expect something like that your not going to get it.

The longer a whisky is aged, typically it is more expensive. However, aging only happens inside the wooden barrel. The whisky develops more flavours due to interaction with the wooden cask. There is diminishing returns to ageing the whisky longer.

This isn't what's happened here. The whisky was stored in bottles. These bottles shouldn't cause any ageing. However, these two ideas can be conflicted.

The value of this whisky is a taste of the past. A way to physically experience some history. People with an idea that things were better in the past may want to believe this was a better whisky.

I would guess this isn't going to taste better. Improvements in manufacturing, quality control and knowledge of whisky probably make a better whisky today. Any high end whisky is going to be better. However, these same processes make low end whisky cheaper and probably worse.

Not the same people.

Hamas is a terrorist group.

Israel isn't an equivalent. Its a fully fledged nation state with sophisticated military and intelligence agency. Israel's behaviour should be measured based on how a nation state should act. Not a terrorist group.

If you think Israel is justified in killing children because Hama's did. Your arguing Israel is a terrorist state, just one your sympathetic to.

I don't think we should compare Israel to the standards we hold for terrorists. Because we don't have any standards for terrorists. Additionally Israel's capability for killing far exceeds what Hamad can achieve.

All the deaths due to the recent Hamas attack is the best Hamas can do. How many people could Israel kill, probably all 2 million in the Gaza strip.

Extremist Christians and extremist Zionists have wanted this for a long time. Only tempered by the west's intolerance for mass killing. Since the Hamas attack the US and UK have both morally approved of moving into to Gaza.

This is why we call it artificial intelligence, rather than digital intelligence.

This plan it built under the assumption that more people will be using one drive. The value of scrapped data isn't just quantity, but number of people.

It's odd how often anti-zionism is equated with anti-Semitism. Zionism is the opposite of tolerance, and anti-Semitism is intolerance.

People seem to forget the Nazis were Zionists. They sent some of the Jewish population to Palestine. They also had plans of creating a Jewish state in Madagascar.

German had lost the ability to do either late in the war, when they took there hate to it final destination. People are right to be worried about what a state does to an oppressed class of people. Especially when said state wants those people gone and there is nowhere for them to go.

No amount of money in the world justified the crimes he committed.

Enabling one evil to banish another only exist in hypotheticals and the conscious of the wicked.

Money and financing for charity can be had without sponsoring Epstein. Bill Gates of all people would have access to sufficient funding for any charity endeavour he has taken on.

If Bill Gates lost all his money and access, he would still be better off than most by a large margin. He is extremely unlikely to end up worse off than Epstein's victims.

Bill Gates went to visit Epstein in prison after he got charged.

Allegedly Epstein's behaviour was well know. Donald Trump commented on it before it came out, saying Epstein liked them too young.

Epstein died prior to fully testifying, in suspicious circumstances. His partner was charged with trafficking, with no customers being identified.

It's highly probable some of his associates were his customers. It's right to treat them with suspicion. We don't know who they were, but we know they got away with it. They will continue to get away with it, if everyone just forgets.

Welsh is spoken across the world. There is a significant community of Welsh speakers in Argentina, many of which don't speak any English.

Language is much more than history. It is also deeply connected to culture and identity. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.

I don't think your intentions are bad, but this attitude leads to cultural destruction (when applied in scale). Cultural destruction is serious evil, those that carry it out often use misdirections like it's just not practical.