The "low cost" in Ultra-Low-Cost-Carrier refers to the operating costs to the company, not the cost they charge for goods and services. Though they usually come in tandem.

Some of that lower cost in Europe is down to jet fuel being tax free, as well as the US having multiple mandatory taxes on plane tickets.

The cost of EU passenger rights payouts is vanishingly small on the average ticket if almost all of them arrive as advertised.

The safety card thing, and lack of seatback pockets is mainly to speed up turnaround after everyone's off the plane. (planes only make money when they're in the air)

After they made this change years ago, they said so explicitly in their marketing around continuous improvement.

Do they have enough redundant fake entries, to prevent someone comparing two or more lists to find out which entries are fake? (either multiple lists supplied to the same person, or lists supplied to different people)

> the screen has to be bonded to the glass for capacitive touch to work and the glass to the frame so there’s still some glueing involved

Why? That might make alignment easier, but I don't think the screen plays any role in the touchscreen digitiser working. I've even seen videos of them still working when separated from the display.

> There's some weasel wording there ("if they provide ..."), so I'm curious how the courts are going to interpret that clause.

Motorola already seems to be testing this interpretation of the law.

https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-eu-software-update...

Does that happen in places like Europe, where software patents aren't a thing?

> Does the US enforce Japanese copyrights

Yes. Due to the Berne Convention.

> did Konami also register it with the Library of Congress so it had protection here

I don't think that was required in 2001. Everything copyrightable is automatically protected in the US for years now.

> I wish both Mastodon and Atproto supported opt-in pull-based, static sources.

Bridgy web (brid.gy) does that somewhat. Converting static sites into site.standard atproto records and whatever the corresponding activitypub format is.

It is a popular benchmark for military spending though.

Debt to tax revenue would make more sense as a metric.