These are Linux laptops. But yes, they’ll work better if you put your preferred distro on them.

Such a well thought out and reasonable response. Thank you!

I generally do not agree with the law around intellectual property or even private property so we likely would not see eye to eye but I appreciate the chance to understand where you’re coming from and what you believe.

Sure, permission needs to be sought for reprinting. That’s not what we are discussing though. I will just take your word on that second part because as far as I know none of my professors asked author permission before telling the class to read anything.

The issue is artists should be able to opt out of having their work taken and fed into a big project they have no control over.

So in your opinion a should University have to ask each authors permission before using their work as a reference for each study run there one by one?

What is the meaning of “making a function” in your sentence?

What sort of behavior does the salad represent? Catcalling? Something else?

Now do American politicians when an elementary school is attacked by a gunman.

They are humans who have forsaken their humanity.