RAW format is bulky, so I store each terabyte of new images on a 1TB external drive, and maintain a continuous cloud secondary backup to the CrashPlan subscription service. Because I only have one or two of the external drives (I have a whole drawerful of them by now) connected at one time, I keep everything organized in Adobe Lightroom 6. It's the only photo editor/organizer I know of that keeps track of external disks that are not mounted.
My reform would be to eliminate the fungibility of intellectual property. Copyright would be a personal right of the creator of work, held by that person alone and expiring with the creator. Your heirs would have to go out and get real jobs, and no copyrights would get transferred to non-producing middlemen. Anyone making use of your work would have to maintain a contractual relationship with you, rather than kicking you to the curb and taking all the profits for themselves.
"People of this generation seem to think (thanks to the influence of euphemisms from the baby boomers) that stealing isn't always stealing"
You don't seem to know what an orphan work is. Think of it as a hundred-dollar bill you find in the street. If you're a scrupulously honest person you will turn the bill in to the cops and they, provided it's not Chicago, will wait for a specified period until someone steps forward to claim it. Alter some period like thirty days, it's yours.
But copyright law as recently amended by media corporations means that you can never spend that money, under any circumstances. Either someone steps up to claim it, or no one ever does, in which case you have to keep waiting.
It was not so long ago that writers complained about the closed Hollywood shop that kept most of them out of work most of the time. Viewers complained about interesting new TV series being canceled after two weeks of low ratings. Directors had to concentrate their efforts on a few cookie-cutter surefire hits because the costs of production were too high to allow for any mistakes. Even after cable proliferated, the complaint we all had was, "500 channels and nothing on."
Now, because technology has lowered the cost of program production and distribution, we live in the golden age of TV. All we have to do now to end the "glut" is fix the legal problem: make it easier to stream prior episodes of shows over long periods of time. Because we get some episodes soon after air and not others, and those for perhaps three weeks region-limited, and limited to some artificial number of "Verify your cable provider" carriers much smaller than the number that actually air the show, there is a tendency to stop watching a new series after one or two missed episodes so you can wait a year and then binge-watch the season on Netflix. Fixing the distribution problem would increase the current-season viewership of new shows, pleasing the advertisers because they would enjoy a larger, happier audience.
"Yes. Continue promiscuous behavior and see what other diseases will evolve."
Another, less judgy way of looking at this is to think of gay men as the Windows users of the sexual world, encountering all the radical viruses and doing whatever it takes to have fancy cures developed for them, so the rest of us don't have to.
I can tell you what's going to happen. When cars gain the ability to self-drive, perhaps sixty percent of the people will heave a sigh of relief and enjoy being able to sleep, watch movies or read a book while on the way to work. The other forty percent, nostalgic for the Corvette they dreamed of having one day when they were young, will express various degrees of reservation about going self-drive. As insurance companies push up rates for drivers and reduce rates for auto-drive passengers, most of the remaining drivers will admit that there's no Corvette in their future, ever, and go automatic.
As the number of manual drivers drops toward five percent, automatic drivers will start insisting on higher road speeds to get where they're going faster, which the system will accommodate as the technology matures. At some point the superhuman reflexes demanded of the remaining manual drivers will push them out of the system, with the last one percent of "driving enthusiasts" relegated to closed tracks as highway traffic blurs by at a hundred miles an hour.
"Being able to generate a sperm and eggs does not make one sexually mature."
Biologically, it does. But because of the complex nature of modern civilization, another five year or so of acculturation is needed before that adolescent becomes socially mature. Hence that period of development when a young person has physical powers that we can't let him/her use until they can be used wisely.
The idea is that you can cross the orbit of a comet - a flyby - with a lot less fuel than it would take to match its orbit and keep station.
Think of last month's New Horizons mission. Imagine harpooning a long tether into Pluto at the closest point of the flyby, then using it to change NH's trajectory enough to put it into orbit with less fuel. This wouldn't work because of the huge delta-V involved, but at the lesser speed of a comet flyby, perhaps.
And vegans will be affected even less. This means that generations from now, all of humanity will be smug, peachy, insufferable feminine hygiene products. When the first PBS signals of this change reach and are interpreted by other intelligent civilizations, they will send a special fleet to wipe us out.
Lots of people in "awe of life" use contraception. They just aren't in awe of every single sperm and egg in their bodies. They want some control over how often these get together. As science develops, they will also want to control specifically which sperm and eggs meet, to avoid genetic disease.
Instead of recycling or incinerating waste paper, let's retort it into charcoal, which can then be added to farm soil to enrich it while sequestering the carbon for as long as if it wee in a landfill.
" Now when a fire gets started it burns decades of pent up fuel, it burns hotter and higher, it spreads over larger areas and kills EVERYTHING"
Here in Arizona, as in many other forested places, the Forest Service burns strategic areas of built-up fuel in the offseason, to limit catastrophic fires. But whenever they do this, there's a local controversy as small towns wake up to valleys full of smoke for day after day, complaining that they were "promised that this week's winds would be blowing the smoke in a different direction." A direction, of course, in which there are still other little towns that will complain.
"Jimmy Carter put a presidential order with a permanent moratorium on any and all power reactor construction."
Not so. Carter's order was against the US building a recycling plant for nuclear waste. And yes, there is a huge separation between deaths from nuclear and from the next runner up, but it's in favor of nuclear: http://www.the9billion.com/201...
"There is no need to just have a monoculture when it comes to power."
Wind is not just an energy monoculture. The real problem is energy sprawl. To generate usable amounts of power from wind, you need a lot of turbines, each set of which has to be installed over the dead bodies of still another group of yammering NIMBYs who have nothing constructive to do with their meaningless little lives. Then each turbine that eventuallly gets built needs to have its intricate set of nacelle parts kept in good condition, and protected from metal thieves.
I would rather go carbon free by fighting the NIMBY battle once, and putting in one security perimeter and service protocol, for a single bigass nuclear plant than to have to worry about ridge after ridge of turbines scattered over the whole region.
Does Android have some equivalent of Apple Airplay, so that you can beam the display of your phone over the local WiFi network to a bigscreen equipped with the appropriate streaming box?
" If one was found, it used said exploit to take enough control to put a system level dialogue box "
Your reclassification by the multitudes as a feminine hygiene product was occasioned by the fact that every scareware spammer out there begins by displaying the same dialog box you just did. Grandma User has no idea that you might be actually fixing her machine, rather than following up with the usual non-negotiable demand to send Bitcoin ransom to some Tor node in the Peoples' Republic of Ongabonga.
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RAW format is bulky, so I store each terabyte of new images on a 1TB external drive, and maintain a continuous cloud secondary backup to the CrashPlan subscription service. Because I only have one or two of the external drives (I have a whole drawerful of them by now) connected at one time, I keep everything organized in Adobe Lightroom 6. It's the only photo editor/organizer I know of that keeps track of external disks that are not mounted.
My reform would be to eliminate the fungibility of intellectual property. Copyright would be a personal right of the creator of work, held by that person alone and expiring with the creator. Your heirs would have to go out and get real jobs, and no copyrights would get transferred to non-producing middlemen. Anyone making use of your work would have to maintain a contractual relationship with you, rather than kicking you to the curb and taking all the profits for themselves.
"People of this generation seem to think (thanks to the influence of euphemisms from the baby boomers) that stealing isn't always stealing"
You don't seem to know what an orphan work is. Think of it as a hundred-dollar bill you find in the street. If you're a scrupulously honest person you will turn the bill in to the cops and they, provided it's not Chicago, will wait for a specified period until someone steps forward to claim it. Alter some period like thirty days, it's yours.
But copyright law as recently amended by media corporations means that you can never spend that money, under any circumstances. Either someone steps up to claim it, or no one ever does, in which case you have to keep waiting.
Cycling as a recreational activity is good for you. As a pro sport, it's as dangerous and dope-intensive as any other pro sport.
It was not so long ago that writers complained about the closed Hollywood shop that kept most of them out of work most of the time. Viewers complained about interesting new TV series being canceled after two weeks of low ratings. Directors had to concentrate their efforts on a few cookie-cutter surefire hits because the costs of production were too high to allow for any mistakes. Even after cable proliferated, the complaint we all had was, "500 channels and nothing on."
Now, because technology has lowered the cost of program production and distribution, we live in the golden age of TV. All we have to do now to end the "glut" is fix the legal problem: make it easier to stream prior episodes of shows over long periods of time. Because we get some episodes soon after air and not others, and those for perhaps three weeks region-limited, and limited to some artificial number of "Verify your cable provider" carriers much smaller than the number that actually air the show, there is a tendency to stop watching a new series after one or two missed episodes so you can wait a year and then binge-watch the season on Netflix. Fixing the distribution problem would increase the current-season viewership of new shows, pleasing the advertisers because they would enjoy a larger, happier audience.
"Why are we humans entitled to dictate nature and kill species this way? "
Because humans like coral reefs more than nature does.
I'm a human supremacist. Greens can bite me, though I have to warn you that would not be vegan.
Furthermore, the crown-of-thorns starfish is able to sense white privilege and feed on it.
"...have you ever met a rich gay guy?"
http://www.eltonjohn.com/
"Promiscuity is only a problem for followers of the anti- sex death cult known as Christianity."
Or do you mean that other anti-sex death cult that's a lot more of a problem in the present day?
"Yes. Continue promiscuous behavior and see what other diseases will evolve."
Another, less judgy way of looking at this is to think of gay men as the Windows users of the sexual world, encountering all the radical viruses and doing whatever it takes to have fancy cures developed for them, so the rest of us don't have to.
I can tell you what's going to happen. When cars gain the ability to self-drive, perhaps sixty percent of the people will heave a sigh of relief and enjoy being able to sleep, watch movies or read a book while on the way to work. The other forty percent, nostalgic for the Corvette they dreamed of having one day when they were young, will express various degrees of reservation about going self-drive. As insurance companies push up rates for drivers and reduce rates for auto-drive passengers, most of the remaining drivers will admit that there's no Corvette in their future, ever, and go automatic.
As the number of manual drivers drops toward five percent, automatic drivers will start insisting on higher road speeds to get where they're going faster, which the system will accommodate as the technology matures. At some point the superhuman reflexes demanded of the remaining manual drivers will push them out of the system, with the last one percent of "driving enthusiasts" relegated to closed tracks as highway traffic blurs by at a hundred miles an hour.
"Being able to generate a sperm and eggs does not make one sexually mature."
Biologically, it does. But because of the complex nature of modern civilization, another five year or so of acculturation is needed before that adolescent becomes socially mature. Hence that period of development when a young person has physical powers that we can't let him/her use until they can be used wisely.
And a sexting 14-year-old compares to these offenders exactly how?
The idea is that you can cross the orbit of a comet - a flyby - with a lot less fuel than it would take to match its orbit and keep station.
Think of last month's New Horizons mission. Imagine harpooning a long tether into Pluto at the closest point of the flyby, then using it to change NH's trajectory enough to put it into orbit with less fuel. This wouldn't work because of the huge delta-V involved, but at the lesser speed of a comet flyby, perhaps.
And vegans will be affected even less. This means that generations from now, all of humanity will be smug, peachy, insufferable feminine hygiene products. When the first PBS signals of this change reach and are interpreted by other intelligent civilizations, they will send a special fleet to wipe us out.
Lots of people in "awe of life" use contraception. They just aren't in awe of every single sperm and egg in their bodies. They want some control over how often these get together. As science develops, they will also want to control specifically which sperm and eggs meet, to avoid genetic disease.
Eppuor se muove, crucifix boy
"If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time."
I'm sure they will have IPv6, which is the same thing.
Instead of recycling or incinerating waste paper, let's retort it into charcoal, which can then be added to farm soil to enrich it while sequestering the carbon for as long as if it wee in a landfill.
" Now when a fire gets started it burns decades of pent up fuel, it burns hotter and higher, it spreads over larger areas and kills EVERYTHING"
Here in Arizona, as in many other forested places, the Forest Service burns strategic areas of built-up fuel in the offseason, to limit catastrophic fires. But whenever they do this, there's a local controversy as small towns wake up to valleys full of smoke for day after day, complaining that they were "promised that this week's winds would be blowing the smoke in a different direction." A direction, of course, in which there are still other little towns that will complain.
"Jimmy Carter put a presidential order with a permanent moratorium on any and all power reactor construction."
Not so. Carter's order was against the US building a recycling plant for nuclear waste. And yes, there is a huge separation between deaths from nuclear and from the next runner up, but it's in favor of nuclear: http://www.the9billion.com/201...
"There is no need to just have a monoculture when it comes to power."
Wind is not just an energy monoculture. The real problem is energy sprawl. To generate usable amounts of power from wind, you need a lot of turbines, each set of which has to be installed over the dead bodies of still another group of yammering NIMBYs who have nothing constructive to do with their meaningless little lives. Then each turbine that eventuallly gets built needs to have its intricate set of nacelle parts kept in good condition, and protected from metal thieves.
I would rather go carbon free by fighting the NIMBY battle once, and putting in one security perimeter and service protocol, for a single bigass nuclear plant than to have to worry about ridge after ridge of turbines scattered over the whole region.
And here I was thinking that 'peak wind' just meant Congress.
If we want there to be more wind, subsidize it. Subsidies also get you more of something.
Put Disney on the job: Pleistocene Park!
Does Android have some equivalent of Apple Airplay, so that you can beam the display of your phone over the local WiFi network to a bigscreen equipped with the appropriate streaming box?
" If one was found, it used said exploit to take enough control to put a system level dialogue box "
Your reclassification by the multitudes as a feminine hygiene product was occasioned by the fact that every scareware spammer out there begins by displaying the same dialog box you just did. Grandma User has no idea that you might be actually fixing her machine, rather than following up with the usual non-negotiable demand to send Bitcoin ransom to some Tor node in the Peoples' Republic of Ongabonga.