You are talking about the content of the response, while krial is talking about deviations in the structure of the response. The point is the number of possible states an output can take, so the next step can ingest it and it can be part of a robust pipeline.

The US pressured Europe last time, in 2019, into aligning with their sanctions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade... The Iran situation could have gone better if trade and JCPOA nuclear oversight had continued.

Unfortunately patent offices are using loopholes that reintroduce software patents. Patent law says that a pure software patent is not possible, it has to be combined with a specific hardware application to make it an invention. So they fill in a patent for "XX implemented on a hardware operating on land, in the air, in space, on, or under water.". That's essentially a software patent.

> operating on land, in the air, in space, on, or under water

Thunderbirds are Go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mBUaPsX6o

> So they fill in a patent for "XX implemented on a hardware operating on land, in the air, in space, on, or under water.".

I'm glad my servers are operating in a deep undersea cave.

That sounds like patent trolls shenanigans.