I wish someone could have helped him. By most accounts, he was a lovely person and a clearly talented musician, but he took the loss so personally and I think he really felt vilified.

I feel like the consideration that ultimately made the most difference in deciding in the plaintiffs' favor was this rule about including a "significant portion" of one work within another, or something like that. And indeed, the notes in question make up fully half the kookaburra song. But it's so short, I feel like there needs to be a limit. Otherwise you can have people laying claim to whole songs consisting of trivial musical notes or solitary measures. And even if the right short combination of notes can be distinctive, the tune they were fighting over was not the sort that leaps out at you. It went largely unnoticed for 26 years until an Australian quiz show, based on a staffer's original research (as opposed to settled fact), asked contestants to name the similarity.

Moore's Law was widely overapplied beyond his initial observation, but still was a remarkably reliable rule of thumb for many types of exponential technological growth, even if eventually it became aspirational to keep it going as long as possible.

What a life, born the same year Shottky published his findings on semiconductors, and lived to see and help make possible all of this.

Okay, pedant. On your scrotum then. The skin of your scrotum. Massaged into the epidermal layer. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes, perhaps much less to start tasting a garlicky taste. (Note that I am not necessarily recommending this...DMSO has been found to easily carry many chemicals through the akin and even accidental contamination could contribute to a poisoning)

I'd say no, but I imagine technically if you rubbed DMSO on your balls, it would cause you to taste garlic just as it does when applied anywhere else on the skin.

Really? Kathleen Stock, Julie Bindel, and Martina Navratilova all straight? That'll come as a surprise to them.

This is a fundamental problem that arises with intersectionality. A lot of oppressed people turn against each other over minor differences, out of distrust, jealousy, or I don't know what.

Poor thing, looks pretty out of sorts. Hope it can recover.

"Geez...sorry for being born!" - The Toronto Raptors probably

At first, the headline confused me. Like, "His face was banned? So, what, was he posting his photographic headshots on the insides of the stalls and scaring women?"

Please try your Nice Chinese Food With Chopsticks.

(Just shovel down your Nasty Chinese Food With A Spork)

I know when I hear about a dead Alaskan child, my first thought is "How can this profit me?"