Adding this to the very, very, very long list of reasons never to have children.

Are you smoking yet

Have you tried using a blockchain though?

Fortunately there is a 100% natural plant based alternative to vaping.

You can spent 10 seconds googling: Source

Boiling water on a stove? What year is this?

In the US it’s cheap but unregulated

It’s the exact opposite actually.

US sunscreen is way worse than sunscreen in other parts of the world like the EU. It doesn’t block the harmful radiation as well. The reason is that it’s more strictly regulated in the US. IIRC it’s not considered a cosmetic product but instead it’s a medical product.

As such it’s subject to much stricter regulation and requires much more (expensive) testing before being allowed on the market. Due to this it’s considered too expensive to introduce the newer, more advanced sunscreen products in the US so you’re stuck with the older, crappier sunscreen.

Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.

No need to remove the skin. It’ll just melt in your mouth.

It’s not raw, it’s cured in brine.

I see flirting as banter to make sexual/romantic intentions known.

That’s basically what it is. It’s not there to make someone develop feelings, it’s a way to safely make your feeling known and see if they are reciprocated. It’s basically lowering the risk of rejection, if the feeling isn’t mutual and you don’t get a response you can just write it off as a harmless flirt. If (s)he flirts back you can dial it up a notch.

To add to this: The EU is developing this and it’s supposed to be available to all EU citizens at the end of 2026. From that time government services should also be able to accept it. (Not sure if they’re going to make it, the standards are still under active development).

It’s all based on OpenID Connect (OIDC). Everything is being developed in the open, as open source software. You can find the github project here.

If you want to take a look at the draft standards themselves, search for OpenID4VCI (standard for issuing of credentials to a wallet) and OpenID4VP (standard for presenting credentials to 3rd parties).

No. I own that copy. It’s not a license to anything. I own it. It’s mine. That’s what the money was for.

Yeah that’s not how copyright works. You are either the owner of the IP (i.e. the company that paid for developing the game) or you need a license to be allowed to own/play a copy. There is no third option here.

Don’t play corporate word games with concepts as basic as having things.

It’s not word games, it’s the law. You and I may not like it but that doesn’t really change anything.

Sure, sell. But there are still limitations. You aren’t allow to rent it out or sell copies, for example.

Just because the license is a bit more permissive doesn’t make you the owner, it’s still licensed software, not owned software.

The only thing you own is the 2 cents worth of plastic the disc is made off. The actual content on the disc is licensed.

That’s as close to ‘owning’ a piece of copyrighted material as you are ever going to get.

Not true at all. Pretty much all of us own loads of copyrighted material, as in actually own. For example: every single photo you take is your intellectual property.

First sale doctrine gives you some rights, but it doesn’t give all the same rights you would have for any other physical object that doesn’t include copyrighted work.

If I buy 100 chairs, I’m free to start a chair rental business. If I buy 100 copies of a game, I cannot start renting them out without permission from the actual owner of the game.

The fact that the law entitles you to a slightly broader license doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still just a license and not ownership. The only thing you own is the physical media (e.g. the plastic disc) not the contents of that disc.

First sale doctrine gives you some rights, but it doesn’t give the all same rights you would have for any other physical object that doesn’t include copyrighted work.

If I buy 100 chairs, I’m free to start a chair rental business. If I buy 100 copies of a game, I cannot start renting them out without permission from the actual owner of the game.

The fact that the law entitles you to a slightly broader license doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still just a license and not ownership. The only thing you own is the physical media (e.g. the plastic disc) not the contents of that disc.

Exactly. You own the physical paper, you don’t own the text on that paper, you only have a license to it.

With physical games the disc or cartridge acts as your license key, which they allow you to sell to another person. Doesn’t mean they couldn’t have sold you a non-transferable license, it only means they chose not to. Probably because it wouldn’t be cost-effective to do so.

Also, just because you can do something doesn’t make it legal.

That’s the difference between license and owning.

No, when you own a game, you can make copies and sell them. That is because owning the game means you own the copyright to the game.

If you are not the owner of the IP (which you aren’t, unless you own the company that made the game), then the only way to legally play the game is for the actual owner to provide you with some kind of license. If you don’t have a license then the default copyright rules apply which means you aren’t legally allowed to have or play a copy.

Your license is also limited and doesn’t allow you to ‘do whatever you want’. Try selling copies and see how quickly you get sued. You can’t even do what you want with your single copy. Go buy a bunch of physical games and start a game rental business. Or buy a bunch of physical games and open a game cafe where people can play ‘your’ games. Your license doesn’t allow you to do that.