Pokemon is almost 30 years old. Patents expire because they are meant to promote innovation by giving inventors a competitive advantage over anyone who lurks about waiting for other people to do the R&D for them, and not stifle innovation by giving inventors a permanent veto over who gets to iterate on their invention. So a lawsuit on those grounds years after any such patent would have expired is clearly invalid.

We can agree it's not a sport. I can't comment on whether it's any good as a form of dance.

Fuck moral relativism. The deaths on both sides of the Ukraine-Russian War are tragic, but the only good Islamist is a dead Islamist.

Your last sentence is incorrect. If the pagers were spontaneously combusting then using a battery as a pyrotechnic device would be more credible, but if you've watched any of the videos it's clear that they're using some kind of high explosive.

Personally, I'd attribute that to the three adopted kids having such a terrible home life that being adopted out in primary school is a lesser evil. You don't need vaccines to explain why pound puppies aren't well adjusted.

Good on her and good on Salvini for defending her.

Why wasn't it more powerful?

Because a pager is small, so you can't hide a very big grenade inside it. It might also have been a deliberate decision since you're just trying to kill the guy with the pager and not the entire room.

and why were they targeting a random cashier?

They weren't, the cashier ran off. It was the customer who dropped to the floor after the pager exploded on his waist.

And just one day later one of her supporters has tried to create justification for this ban with an attempted assassination against her political opponent.

You're correct. "Assault rifle" means something. "Assault weapon" is like wanting to ban cars that look fast.

Open border libertarians are short-sighted individuals who do not understand the need for preemptive defence. The first requirement of a libertarian state is that it is able to defend its libertarianism - if China can skip the One Child Policy by sending all their surplus population to the United States, you'll soon find you've been outvoted and are now a Chinese vassal state.

The United States entered the war because Japan attacked it. Japan attacked it because the United States cut ties with them. The United States cut ties with them because they were acting like subhuman monsters. Neither refusing to support a rampaging death cult nor going to war with said death cult when it turned on them was incorrect, and we shouldn't start acting like dindus in the death cult's defense to own the Democrats.

That's how you get cane toads. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

I'd take that to mean that the @watchTENET alias has been disassociated from the channel. So instead of pointing to the channel and returning the "this channel was removed" message, it's gone back to being an unassigned alias pointing to nothing.

If you're going run this kind of unsanctioned online library, the bare minimum requirement is that you don't lend out more copies than you own. You can't copy one book and lend it out to two people at the same time, and you can't lend out the copy without holding the original in escrow. I have seen it said that Internet Archive wasn't doing this, or else they could reasonably argue they were acting in line with existing case law (that copying media you own for backup purposes is permitted) and the spirit of the law.

• The Independent literally being owned by a former KGB officer.

I didn't realise the character was meant to be trans. The voice acting probably would have made it obvious if I was going by more than a screenshot, but I thought it was intended as a woman with 80s shoulder pads and not a glow-up for a delusional man.

Also...24-34 current players.

For a 5v5 game. Meaning there are going to be times where people can't start a third match until one of the other two finish.

Unfortunately it doesn't count until AfD has more votes than every other party put together. It's not enough to be the biggest, you have to be bigger than the entire anti-German coalition they'll form to stop you.

What makes you think these are normies?

Would anyone even buy them on discount? I was able to get some Black Series figures for cheap back in the day, but who in The Acolyte even has a character design you'd want? At least Ahsoka had the Dark Jedi guy.

He reminds me of the henchman who gets doused in caustic chemicals in Robocop.

It's a shit proposal twice over because both the income and the wealth are only estimates. The only appraisal that really counts is the one made cash in hand.

You would be correct. There's a lot of shared data, but that's your source code for everything - you've got to know how to make proteins, blood cells, bones, etc.

Somebody needs to remind Charles that "Defender of the Faith" does not refer to Islam.

It's not our definition that is the issue, but the regime's. The best that could come out of this is counting coup against the enemy, and in return the enemy gets to have him murdered.