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Hollywood Burbank Airport

Its the only airport I’ve ever flown in or out of that lets you board an deplane from both the front and back doors on a 737.

Baggage claim is actually outdoors! You get your bag and are standing about 30 feet from the arrivals pickup road.

Its a fun small airport with a prime location.

Bottom of keyboard? Are you out of space on your monitor to place additional Post-its with user credentials on them? /s

I’m not sure I’m understanding what you’re saying.

Are you saying you’re having trouble with dry & sarcastic humor or are you saying the events of the days we’re living in are so farcical that you’re having difficulty determining truth from fictional statements someone says to you?

You’re right, but I didn’t want to dive too deep with a throwaway internet comment. I’m using the word “profit” here loosely not to mean only dollars. The act of distribution can negatively affect the rights holder if the person violating the copyright/trademark dilutes, tarnishes, or misrepresents the rights holder’s IP.

I touched on this a tiny bit with my comment in there “or negatively affect the profits of the rights holder with your work using their name.”

Your thesis missed one important element right here:

As if the ability to restrict the creativity of others is a natural right like the freedom of speech.

Practically or legally speaking there isn’t a restriction of creativity. Its a restriction on the ability to profit from that creativity or negatively affect the profits of the rights holder with your work using their name.

If you call yourself the Burger King in your kitchen, there’s no trademark infringement there. However, if you start selling you food and calling yourself the Burger King, then that is a trademark violation. If you want to write Twilight fan fiction using the characters and story lines from the books, you’re free to do so. There is no copyright violation. However, if you want to profit from your expansions to another author’s work, you have to rename the characters and setting and call it “Fifty shades of grey”.

There is a reason respect for copyrights is at an all time low.

I’ll agree with this though. Large rights holders have been able to get changes to law that exceed the original IP mandates. This means extensions wildly beyond what was reasonable before, or getting things protected by IP law that are questionable at best.

Unless the CEO also sits on the board of directors … but at least they won’t be making the decision unilaterally.

Exactly, and even then the CEO isn’t the final all-powerful boss.

The person that holds the office of CEO can also be as high as holding the Chairman of the Board role, which would give them incredible power in the organization. However, even then their decisions can be overridden in extreme cases by the rest of the board. I’ll admit that is pretty rare though.

It doesn’t work the way you’re describing for a bunch of reasons.

First, while everyone thinks the CEO is the boss, they aren’t. They are hired and fired by the Board of Directors. The Board has a strategic objective for the company and has tasked the CEO with making that strategy reality. So in your hypothetical, the Board may not be interested in developing new features or putting lots of resources into R&D at that time. Its also possible that the Board is wanting to pivot the company into a different business segment where that new features isn’t attractive to that customer base.

Lets assume for the moment the Board does have interest in the result $NewFeature might provide.

CEO does something like this:

• Contact Marketing and confirm our customer base would want this $NewFeature that $competitor developed. Also, we’ll need pricing strategy fairly quickly to know how much we will net out of implementing this $NewFeature or how much of our customer base we’ll lose to $competitor if we don’t have it in our product. Also, Marketing will need to come up with a new name for $NewFeature under our banner.

Those number from Marketing will give us an idea of our budget for building this $NewFeature

• Contact Legal and confirm that $NewFeature is not covered by any filed or pending patent or copyright claims. Take the name that Marketing came up with and search for existing copyright and trademark claims to see if we can use the new name or if we have to come up with something else. If there is existing IP covering the functionality, we need a breakdown on what that is to see if Marketing and CTO can make something else that does all or some of what $competitor’s $NewFeature does. Depending on how important $NewFeature is, don’t rule out licensing the IP from $competitors

• Ask CTO to work with the Project Management Office (which probably works under the COO) to come up with a rough Work Breakdown Structure and folding into a Project Plan with identified Milestones and rough release date. CTO will also need to provide a Resource Allocation (how many people, how expensive of people, and for how long) to complete the development of $NewFeature. This Resource Allocation will be folded in with the additional development costs of tools, etc, and compared against the number Marketing is providing to see if this is a good business decision to even pursue making $NewFeature.

There’s a bunch more, but this is a taste.

Could you use dental wax/silicone to cover the post for now? This is commonly used to temporarily cover for orthodontic brackets in your mouth to prevent gum/check irritation. The stuff is cheap too. $2 will get you a pack in the dental section of your local pharmacy/grocery store.

En français s’il vous plaît !

and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.

That’s a very brave act to do to someone in building full of guns within arms reach.

“You’re on trial for shooting a co-worker to death. What is your defense?”

“He intentionally stuck a hypodermic needle in my penis”

“Case dismissed, you’re free to go.”

Gotcha, on a re-read, I agree with you.

You know they’ll boost it after just a few months of timely payments, right?

Just to dismiss this myth. How many times you put charges on a credit card or how many payments you make has ZERO bearing on your credit score. The only thing you have to do is, when you have charges, pay on time. There isn’t even a measure for “you paid on time” there are negative measures of “you didn’t pay on time” though.

FICO score is only 5 things and they aren’t a secret. Its published right on their website for all to see.

source

Credit scores at total bullshit in the first place.

Credit scores are mostly fine. They do only one thing. They provide a good measure of how likely you are to pay back a loan. Thats it.

What other companies decide a credit score means and how they use that is bullshit.

You did more damage by canceling the cards than getting them and keeping them. In the end, had you kept the cards, it would have improved your score (even if you never put any charges on them because having the space counts positively toward your debt-to-credit ratio in FICO).

she thinks i’m disgusting or inferior because of my disabilities.

If she said this to me, this bit right here is the “full stop” where I would have cut ties with her and she’d be gone from my life. At best she may be younger, and this may have been said as a tantrum of someone too young. She may grow out of it, but its not my job to “fix” her. There is much better use of my time, effort, and empathy with anyone else but this person. Its also possible this is who she is.

The result is the same: I’d simply never interact or talk to her again, and move on with my life. There are literally billions of other people in the world that aren’t this person. I’d like to get to know those other people instead.

“Your printer is low on magenta.”

“Fuck you, HP, I’m not printing. I’m playing my Steamdeck”

“Not without replacing the magenta ink cartridge in your printer, you’re not”

Smaller updates, 4g immediately.

I don’t think this wasn’t my experience. The most notable OTA recall I can remember is when the font size for indicators (including speed). I do not have wifi configured on my Model 3 and when others had received their update (via wifi) I still had not. Days (weeks? months?) passed and I came out to my car one day with the bigger font. I remember a noticeable time delay between the update being released to others and it finally being force over 4G to me. This is anecdotal though, and I’ll concede my memory isn’t perfect.

For NTSA software recalls, Tesla will eventually force the OTA update down via 4G if Wifi never becomes available. I don’t know how many weeks/months they wait to do that though.

OTA updates default to wifi first. If you don’t have wifi configured to a site, you’ll still get notified of an OTA update via the 4G. If enough time goes by they will force the OTA update to download over the 4G then nag you whenever the car is put in drive to apply the update.

So yes, leaving wifi unconfigured (avoiding superchargers with free wifi) and disabling the 4G will prevent any future updates and the car still functions.

With the boycott for Teslas seemingly going strong I was wondering if anyone has successfully removed the proprietary software off any of the models

This will be a herculean effort.

or removed it from the Tesla network?

This one should be fairly straight forward. There are a number of radios in the car. Some could be disabled or neutered fairly easily. Others would require workarounds to preserve require functionality.

As far as I know there are four radios:

• Mobile phone network - (AT&T in the USA I think). This is not required for the car to function. Antennas could be disconnected and shorted at the board connector
• Wifi - this is pretty easy. Simply remove any configured Wifi connections configured in the car. The one exception to this is I’ve heard some Superchargers have “free wifi” which means if you’re in range of one of these, your car could attach to it as these may be preconfigred
• NFC - this one isn’t really a risk as its such low range, and as far as I know, its only used for key access to get in the car or put it in drive when Bluetooth auth isn’t detected. No modification needed to this, and no risk to keeping it in place as is. bluetooth LE
• Bluetooth - this one may be the most difficult because its used by most users as the keys to unlock the car. These radios are also capable of high speed data transfer at decent range up to 100 meters. While I don’t have any knowledge this is used currently for data transfer outside of the car to the Tesla mothership, it certainly has the possibility of doing so with software changes in the future. The antennas for these are in the rear view mirrors, so they could be disconnected/shorted to neuter it.