Want to know something fun about US parents??

Patents don’t really protect new inventions. They give people a right to sue for financial damages and there is no criminal force of law (this is a generalization and I am not a lawyer). So courts don’t really go “hey, stop using invention ABC, someone else has a patent on it.” They just say “hey, that other guy invented it first, give him some money.”

Patents (not other forms of IP) are made to be wildly public so people can invent things on top of previous inventions.

Does it always work like that? No. But it’s one facet of US federal law that I find interesting, and a little bit hopeful.

Narrator: It’s the DS9 episode we always talk about

Don’t fuck with my emotions like that.

There are so many not on this list, it’s kinda laughable. Seth McFarlane is the first to come to mind.

There are so many things wrong with this article. The one that bugs me is the omission of SNW’s amazing honoring and modernizing the OG Enterprise. They somehow brought it from the 60s to today so elegantly. They made her fan-loved, believable without a goofy retro aesthetic (ref: Trials and Tribulations). She feels futuristic but also familiar.

Real artists, the designers on that show.

That Green Lantern is my guilty pleasure. I love it.