Sorry brother. I hope things go as well as they can and that you get some genuine time for you and yours.

As a Canadian, I promise you, you don't want this. Southern Ontario is horrible now.

Horrific. Put in an extra 30 hours into work this week and anticipate another 6 this evening as my boss flip flops, yet again, on the structure of a project that was supposed to be due tomorrow.

I haven't really been able to get into the season because of it and I'm looking forward to time with my family starting Tuesday.

I'm really happy they're fighting this, in principle. My worry is the judge reaffirms the authority and scope of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and says their process and decision are in line with the legislative intent and interpretation of the act. If they do, that means compelled speech is fine in Canada as long as it's demanded by unelected woke bureaucrats.

Sometimes a man has to make his own justice.

Saving Private Ryan. WWII movie where the focus isn't all about Jews, and where some of the Germans are pretty humanised.

11% believed that Jews caused the Holocaust.

LOL!

Now do "non-binary".

I'm surprised this is the first time. As far as I know, it's not uncommon for chipmunks to eat frogs, and they're basically squirrels.

I downvoted for "crime minister," but upvoted for "prise."

You and I have become the perfect crest-trough upvote-downvote wave function. Two equal but opposite halves of a sine wave period, baby.

Article I read this morning claimed she's keeping her seat and running again as of now.

That's correct, at least according to her resignation letter.

I was in the top 10% (older now), and while there have been ego-boosting moments there have also been many rejections. I've had more success than most men, but to imagine a world where I got even fewer spontaneous compliments, flirts, smiles, hard eye contact, opportunities etc. would honestly be soul-crushing.

Same logic.

But it's not. Forced periodic testing for the presence of transmissible illnesses is the "same logic" as a single test to establish parental lineage? So much about this tweet and this bitch is ridiculous.

I watched the first few episodes of Season 1 and didn't understand the fuss. It seems very typical. Only good part was that one actress' tits.

Before I even saw her ugly face I couldn't stand the writing. This really sucks.

Unfortunately, looking at the thousands of normie product-consumers in the comments makes me think this will be popular and go the way of Baldur's Gate 3 despite its obvious problems.

Edit: What makes the uglification worse is that Ciri and Yennefer in Witcher 3 were the first genuinely beautiful CGI women I'd seen in a game.

Doesn't make sense. You can bleed.

Adam here desperately trying to defend his early Funko Pop collection. We see you, homie.

Yeah, and they're a gang of vulturous, thieving cunts using this particular moment to consolidate and "legitimize" their stranglehold.

This is fucking despicable. What an absolute gang of vulturous, thieving cunts.

Hey, you're right. He posted something positive a few hours ago. Right on.

I looked at the thread title and knew it was him or OTP before I checked the username.

How is software "completely abstract" when it constantly affects your everyday life? Even then, that's not what I said, I said software has real world expression and fantasy doesn't. Software is facilitating this conversation. It results in objective and demonstrable changes to almost every single person's life on this planet on an ongoing basis. Fantasy monsters don't do that, they're imaginary.

If you're equating the two somehow, are you saying software is imaginary? Are you saying the logic that underpins code -- the natural mathematical and physical laws -- are imaginary? Bullshit, nothing in the universe exists without those laws. They're abstract but they're also real. You can test for them and you can channel them for tangible benefit. Pokemon are not real. Technology that could only exist if Pokemon exist is not real.

Both software and Pokemon are abstract, but software is real and Pokemon are imaginary. Therefore, all technology predicated on Pokemon existing must also be imaginary. Any patents predicated on that imaginary tech are retarded and unjustifiable. How is this such a sticking point?

What's the point of even distinguishing patent and copyright otherwise? Why don't Paramount/CBS (Star Trek) own all the cell phone patents? Why doesn't Disney/Lucasfilm (Star Wars) own all the laser patents? Making something up that can't exist isn't worthy of a patent, you have to be able to implement it, and guess what, you can implement code. It has UTILITY. It's REAL. Pokeballs DON'T HAVE UTILITY because they AREN'T and CANNOT BE REAL.

What are you talking about? Software has tangible application and real world expression. Fantasy does not. How do you not see the distinction? Digital applications actually exist and are also facilitated by the real-world application of physical laws (ie., the flow of current) to perform actual functions.

Software has utility, make-believe does not. I was pretty clear in that patents cover novel utility.

One major distinction between this patent and others that involve abstract or novel concepts is that those patents can tangibly be expressed in the real world, even if they haven't been. It's not an invention or an improvement upon an invention if it literally cannot ever exist or at least cannot ever exist according to our understanding. Anything associated with throwing balls and catching monsters is imagination and not reality. As intellectual property, it should therefore only be subject to copyright law unless specifically trademarked. Patents generally must represent a novel utility (e.g., the concepts you're talking about) or a novel design to facilitate utility with both needing at least the potential for practical application. That doesn't exist where fantasy monsters are concerned.

Also, I'm not talking about details like screws or whatever, I don't think that's analogous.

I said it last time I saw an article about this lawsuit posted here, but I'll say it again: The very idea that Nintendo could patent something that has zero real-world utility or design is absolutely disgusting. They haven't invented this technology nor created an improved design for an existing technology -- it's all fictitious -- so how the fuck could a patent be issued or justified? This is copyright territory, at best.