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As someone from the USA, don’t you know how this works? Congress votes for stuff without worrying about how to pay for it all the time. When there are hard years, you issue more debt. When there are easy years, you issue less debt but still don’t really reign in debt because your constituents demand more stuff and less taxes.

Spider Mastermind is a pushover, Cyberdemon is the best boss in Doom.

The headline about the mayor of New York ordering the NYPD to shoot floodwater if it doesn’t disperse was funnier.

AFAIK the only reason one would rather fight extradition to the U.S. in the UK than fight extradition to the U.S. in Sweden is because one committed a heinous crime in Sweden.

He ran out the clock for the rape charge against him in Sweden? What a scumbag.

Sounds like what you need is a droid that understands the binary logic of moisture vaperators.

Guest payments? Like a PayPal payment without a PayPal account?

PayPal’s been around for like 25 years now. SDF is the sort of organization that sticks to solutions that meet their needs, not switch to whatever new thing is becoming trendy. If you’re feeling all anti-corporate and PayPal offends your sensibilities, they’ve been accepting payments by check for even longer than they’ve accepted PayPal.

But literally any PC that’s within your budget. OK maybe that’s not true, there might still be some crap WiFi cards out there with weird firmware that don’t support Linux very well. Find an older name-brand PC within your budget. Before buying it Google “[make and model] Linux WiFi” and see whether there’s tons of complaints about the WiFi. If not, go ahead and get it, put Ubuntu or Linux Mint on there, start banging out JavaScript projects, profit.

Yes, ha ha, but Arabic Numerals, with a capital N, refers to ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ that’s 9 through 0 read left-to-right because Arabic is written right-to-left. While you can see how the West adopted numerals based on Arabic ones eight hundred years ago (thanks to Fibonacci), we only call them Arabic numerals, with a lowercase n, to distinguish them from the Roman numerals we were historically using. Today they aren’t really Arabic anymore, and I don’t know why you’d learn Arabic Numerals unless you were learning to read and write Arabic.

On Github, when you create a project there's a setting for the license, and that setting explains if you don't set it the default is it's copyrighted and anyone wanting to use your source code would have to get your written permission to use it in their own projects. Which, as Github itself points out on this page, kinda makes Github pointless if everyone's code is copyrighted but no one sets a license (GPL, Apache, etc.) to allow for the use of their source code by others. I think generally it's automatic for creative works by a single person, but for a collaborative medium like film, you don't want it to be automatic. Otherwise the cameraman for each shot owns the copyright for that one shot and to edit the film together you'd need to purchase all of those copyrights. And all the cameraman did was operate the camera, what about the performance delivered by each actor, what about the lighting and the sound and the director setting up the shots and giving directions to actors?

Not everything one writes can have a meaningful copyright. Recipes, for example. Reproducing a recipe is considered fair use, it's just the instructions for creating something like a cake, it's not the creation itself. This is why recipes on websites are always published in the middle of long stories about how the recipe came to be known to the author and experiences the food reminds them of, because that story can be copyrighted even though the recipe can't. So if you write a license, that's just instructions for how a work may be used by others, that might not be copyrightable by itself. But if you write a book with fictional characters who as part of the plot need to come up with a license, and the text of the license is within the narrative of the book, then that might be copyrightable and no one could use that license in real life. I don't know, I'm not a copyright lawyer, but I know it gets pretty weird. If I create a song, and play it for a crowd of people, the lyrics and the melody aren't copyrightable, but the performance is. So someone couldn't record me performing the song and sell it, but someone could walk around singing the lyrics and the melody and eventually perform the song themselves (a cover), then perform that cover for others, and record their own performance of the cover and put it on YouTube. Because songs aren't copyrightable, performances and recordings of the song are. I think.

Creators of a work don't always get copyright automatically. Night of the Living Dead was originally titled Night of the Flesh-Eaters, and had a copyright notice on the title screen. Before it was first released, the title was changed to Night of the Living Dead, but the new title screen didn't display a copyright notice, and since the film was published without one, it's in the public domain. That's why there are multiple franchises based off of it, not just one run by George Romero. https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html