Last time Congress got together to make laws on this topic, we got the DMCA. Right now they're considering an extension of the terms of copyright. Congress doesn't represent you on this topic.
If you embed a tweet with a copyrighted image, and make money off it, someone will sue you. Doesn't matter (according to this judge) that the tweet image was served by Twitter. If you drive someone's car you've gotta pay the rent.
But I have often wondered if the later Picasso could still paint like younger Picasso if he had wanted to
He almost certainly could have. His eye was clear, and his hand was steady. The shame is that he didn't continue his work on realism......he could have reached or surpassed the skill level of Monet, but he didn't.
Does anyone have one of their laptops? How is the durability? I got a Dell laptop recently, and the durability of the case is miserable. There are so many parts made out of plastic, and the hinge is not strong at all. Makes me miss the metal Apple cases (but not the lousy keyboard and weird bar).
the problem is pre-existing conditions. The current administration is allowing Texas' challenge to the ACA's pre-existing condition mandate to proceed unchallenged. It is very likely to end with the law being declared unconstitutional (elections have consequences and all that rot).
If that actually happens, we'll have the worst of all worlds: people with a mandate to buy insurance, but no one will sell it to them. Result is they'll be sick, and have to pay a fine because they can't buy insurance.
It kind of makes you wonder why Obamacare didn't make Medicare an option available to everyone as the public option. Seems like that would have been a relatively simple thing to do, and politically easier to defend than "death panels." Don't make it a public option, say it's a private, free market choice option: "anyone has the option to buy Medicare."
People who are more secure in their jobs, are given ample vacation time, aren't required to work 50-60 hours a week on 40 hours of pay
btw, I don't know if this is really true. When I talk to French people, they either feel trapped in their jobs or are unemployed. On the other hand, being unemployed, I can confirm, is great for life satisfaction as long as you don't run out of money and food.
I don't remember smoking sections on most US trains in the 80s, but it was common in Europe.
I don't know about trains, but smoking sections in restaurants were common in the US, even in puritanical places like Utah. In California, that sort of thing finally stopped when employees were able to start suing restaurant owners for second-hand smoke problems. Like many other things in America, it was decided by lawsuits.
MS has too many ways to script OS-related stuff. They have the command window, power-shell and there are different-but-similar API's and languages they support (or half support).
Choice can be good, but it can also confuse and dilute resources
Not only that, every time I have to write scripts in DOS cmd, I would rather stab myself with a fork.
Now a few UI folks can fix it, having spent decades fixing the rest of their stuff.
It's more than a UI problem, that's not a normal window. It's like some kind of bizarre DOS emulator, built for windows95 which requires (required) the screen to be a specific width. The source code is so ugly and messed up, no one dared to touch it. But now someone seems to have been working at it for a year or two, and they're cleaning up the code without breaking things (hopefully).
Picasso could do realism. Here is one from when he was a teenager. That might not be your thing, but if you do want to understand Picasso, a way to start is by examining the lines. See what is in there. That will lead to more understanding.
Hitler's painting is realism, but he hasn't surpassed the level of Bob Ross, he uses a combination of colors, as if it had been assigned to him, without awareness of whether those colors would be appropriate or not. He doesn't have any understanding of the emotional impact of colors, or even an idea of how the eye works (even on an intuitive level). Because he doesn't understand the elements, he isn't able to combine them in any sort of compelling composition.
As for "degenerate art", in the 50s and 60s a lot of it was made by people with a sense of humor, and if you look at it, it's actually hilarious. This point seems to be lost on artists of the last 20 years, and a lot of the lightness and interest is gone, it's just degenerate as you call it. But insisting on realism is missing a lot.
Yes, 30 years ago, Americans smoked more relative to the French, and now as a result, older age groups smoke more than younger age groups. However, since that time French youth are smoking dramatically more than Americans, so it is expected that health outcomes will reverse, as the populations age and those smokers start seeing the health problems that come with smoking. This assumes people don't get smart and switch to vapor, of course.
Proper health outcome studies consistently show that the US is middle of the road in the world, and lags behind the modern social democracies.
The last 'proper' study I saw attributed the differences to smoking rates in the countries. Overall measuring the quality of a healthcare system is not easy because there are so many factors involved in outcomes besides just the system. What 'proper' health outcome study are you talking about? Did it adjust for lifestyle of the participants? It's not an easy question, but we can say that people from the US sometimes prefer to visit Canada for treatment, and sometimes people from Canada prefer to visit the US for treatment. It's not straightforward, it's complex.
when they could learn Powershell instead? Powershell has full Intellisense nowadays, access to the full.NET Framework library, comprehensive built-in documentation, and thousands of commands that can reach into every part of the system.
Powershell redirect < doesn't work and redirect > can corrupt your files. Furthermore creating new CLI programs that integrate into the Powershell system is a pain. Powershell is great for administering Windows tools, but other than that, it's kind of crap.
For a large automation project like this, it's better to start with something you know works. That is, a human assembly line (or a mix like all factories have these days). Then instead of redesigning the whole thing from scratch, replace one humn component at a time. Then you have minimal risk. (That may notbe the best way to do it, but it is a way that works)
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Yes. Worth mentioning newspapers are among the biggest proponents of copyright because they own a car factory.
Last time Congress got together to make laws on this topic, we got the DMCA. Right now they're considering an extension of the terms of copyright. Congress doesn't represent you on this topic.
If you embed a tweet with a copyrighted image, and make money off it, someone will sue you. Doesn't matter (according to this judge) that the tweet image was served by Twitter. If you drive someone's car you've gotta pay the rent.
I'd rather but another gaming laptop and install ubuntu myself.
Which gaming laptop?
But I have often wondered if the later Picasso could still paint like younger Picasso if he had wanted to
He almost certainly could have. His eye was clear, and his hand was steady. The shame is that he didn't continue his work on realism......he could have reached or surpassed the skill level of Monet, but he didn't.
: Doesn't jump between network settings as easily as the MBP and only has about two hours of battery life.
Woah.
Does anyone have one of their laptops? How is the durability? I got a Dell laptop recently, and the durability of the case is miserable. There are so many parts made out of plastic, and the hinge is not strong at all. Makes me miss the metal Apple cases (but not the lousy keyboard and weird bar).
the problem is pre-existing conditions. The current administration is allowing Texas' challenge to the ACA's pre-existing condition mandate to proceed unchallenged. It is very likely to end with the law being declared unconstitutional (elections have consequences and all that rot).
If that actually happens, we'll have the worst of all worlds: people with a mandate to buy insurance, but no one will sell it to them. Result is they'll be sick, and have to pay a fine because they can't buy insurance.
It kind of makes you wonder why Obamacare didn't make Medicare an option available to everyone as the public option. Seems like that would have been a relatively simple thing to do, and politically easier to defend than "death panels." Don't make it a public option, say it's a private, free market choice option: "anyone has the option to buy Medicare."
People who are more secure in their jobs, are given ample vacation time, aren't required to work 50-60 hours a week on 40 hours of pay
btw, I don't know if this is really true. When I talk to French people, they either feel trapped in their jobs or are unemployed. On the other hand, being unemployed, I can confirm, is great for life satisfaction as long as you don't run out of money and food.
I don't remember smoking sections on most US trains in the 80s, but it was common in Europe.
I don't know about trains, but smoking sections in restaurants were common in the US, even in puritanical places like Utah. In California, that sort of thing finally stopped when employees were able to start suing restaurant owners for second-hand smoke problems. Like many other things in America, it was decided by lawsuits.
MS has too many ways to script OS-related stuff. They have the command window, power-shell and there are different-but-similar API's and languages they support (or half support). Choice can be good, but it can also confuse and dilute resources
Not only that, every time I have to write scripts in DOS cmd, I would rather stab myself with a fork.
Now a few UI folks can fix it, having spent decades fixing the rest of their stuff.
It's more than a UI problem, that's not a normal window. It's like some kind of bizarre DOS emulator, built for windows95 which requires (required) the screen to be a specific width. The source code is so ugly and messed up, no one dared to touch it. But now someone seems to have been working at it for a year or two, and they're cleaning up the code without breaking things (hopefully).
Picasso could do realism. Here is one from when he was a teenager. That might not be your thing, but if you do want to understand Picasso, a way to start is by examining the lines. See what is in there. That will lead to more understanding.
Hitler's painting is realism, but he hasn't surpassed the level of Bob Ross, he uses a combination of colors, as if it had been assigned to him, without awareness of whether those colors would be appropriate or not. He doesn't have any understanding of the emotional impact of colors, or even an idea of how the eye works (even on an intuitive level). Because he doesn't understand the elements, he isn't able to combine them in any sort of compelling composition.
As for "degenerate art", in the 50s and 60s a lot of it was made by people with a sense of humor, and if you look at it, it's actually hilarious. This point seems to be lost on artists of the last 20 years, and a lot of the lightness and interest is gone, it's just degenerate as you call it. But insisting on realism is missing a lot.
Yes, 30 years ago, Americans smoked more relative to the French, and now as a result, older age groups smoke more than younger age groups. However, since that time French youth are smoking dramatically more than Americans, so it is expected that health outcomes will reverse, as the populations age and those smokers start seeing the health problems that come with smoking. This assumes people don't get smart and switch to vapor, of course.
Proper health outcome studies consistently show that the US is middle of the road in the world, and lags behind the modern social democracies.
The last 'proper' study I saw attributed the differences to smoking rates in the countries. Overall measuring the quality of a healthcare system is not easy because there are so many factors involved in outcomes besides just the system. What 'proper' health outcome study are you talking about? Did it adjust for lifestyle of the participants? It's not an easy question, but we can say that people from the US sometimes prefer to visit Canada for treatment, and sometimes people from Canada prefer to visit the US for treatment. It's not straightforward, it's complex.
For one thing his eye for color was atrocious
You have way too much emotion over events that happened 400 years ago. Spain today is not Spain of then.
"Cultivated" crops can also grow wild.
Corn and beans can not. They need human assistance.
And it's clean. When you type ls /etc (for example) it doesn't look like an unholy mess. You can figure it out.
when they could learn Powershell instead? Powershell has full Intellisense nowadays, access to the full .NET Framework library, comprehensive built-in documentation, and thousands of commands that can reach into every part of the system.
Powershell redirect < doesn't work and redirect > can corrupt your files. Furthermore creating new CLI programs that integrate into the Powershell system is a pain. Powershell is great for administering Windows tools, but other than that, it's kind of crap.
Do you have anything you've open sourced?
Google and Apple and others lost a lawsuit over mutual non-solicitation pacts.
For a large automation project like this, it's better to start with something you know works. That is, a human assembly line (or a mix like all factories have these days). Then instead of redesigning the whole thing from scratch, replace one humn component at a time. Then you have minimal risk. (That may notbe the best way to do it, but it is a way that works)
Now if only we can get rid of ticks........