I'll fully support their actions when we go back to a 20 year copyright instead of the ridiculous 140 years under the current system. It is obscene that photos and recordings of WWII won't be freely available until generations that haven't even been born yet are adults.
LOL! In 20 years they're going to extend it all over again. God forbid that Steamboat Willie should ever enter the public domain.
(or maybe what we really need is for copyright owners to pay to extend protection beyond a certain time, eg. if Disney wants perpetual copyrights on its stuff then they should pay a yearly fee for it. Any stuff that isn't making a useful amount money will then enter the public domain automatically)
why bury shit in the ground when you can send in on a 10000 mile journey on a ship powered by hydrocarbons, and leaking tons of oil in the pristine ocean to be buried overseas?
Because it feels goood to put stuff in the container marked "recycle".
I'm glad China has decided to stop being the world's dumping ground. It will put the spotlight back where it belongs - on the whole consumer process (and on the consumers, too).
Oil, gas, and coal companies are not owned by select few industrial billionaires. But owned by millions of Americans as shareholders. Only a about 3% of shares are owned by corporate management.
So? Those 3% are The Donald's buddies and they need looking after.
Planet heats up as a result and causes a disaster? Not their problem, right?
When it all starts, I say we go up to their mountain mansions and shoot them all.
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What's needed is cigarette packs with a butt-compartment on the bottom - so the fabled "non asshole smokers" can take their butts home with them.
But let's not forget they're not all arseholes.
I never met one yet that thought twice about throwing the butt on the floor when there's no ashtray within eight inches.
A few years ago, a Japanese probe missed Venus, an however easier target...
What about the Mars orbiter that mixed up metric/imperial and thrust itself into the planet instead of going around it? How amateur was that?
(and what sort of country still uses imperial units in the 21st century?)
I'll fully support their actions when we go back to a 20 year copyright instead of the ridiculous 140 years under the current system. It is obscene that photos and recordings of WWII won't be freely available until generations that haven't even been born yet are adults.
LOL! In 20 years they're going to extend it all over again. God forbid that Steamboat Willie should ever enter the public domain.
(or maybe what we really need is for copyright owners to pay to extend protection beyond a certain time, eg. if Disney wants perpetual copyrights on its stuff then they should pay a yearly fee for it. Any stuff that isn't making a useful amount money will then enter the public domain automatically)
Yep. If it doesn't go via the blockchain then it's open to fraud and hacking.
(eg. how many "exchanges" have already disappeared with a lot of money?)
However good old physics shows that an electric motor may be able to spin and rotate a space craft
What do you mean "may"? Doesn't physics tell you things like that for sure?
It's not the power, it's the wavelength.
Sigh. You really need to watch more George Carlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You meant 'courageous', surely.
Trump derangement syndrome in action. A completely unrelated topic, and a sufferer just *has* to jump in and change the topic to Trump.
"Government" is warranted because they're they only people with the power to make a real difference.
The Trump government has shown that it doesn't give a toss about the the environment or the future so I guess that's relevant, too.
why bury shit in the ground when you can send in on a 10000 mile journey on a ship powered by hydrocarbons, and leaking tons of oil in the pristine ocean to be buried overseas?
Because it feels goood to put stuff in the container marked "recycle".
I'm glad China has decided to stop being the world's dumping ground. It will put the spotlight back where it belongs - on the whole consumer process (and on the consumers, too).
The problem with bitcoins is that they are too volatile.
I'm sure Microsoft can manage a sufficiently fast price update rate using DirectX 12.0.
That's not the problem. The problem is that there can only be half a dozen Bitcoin transactions per second IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
This means the Bitcoin transaction fee will cost more than three times what the coffee is worth.
Serious question: I wonder if anybody at Starbucks or Microsoft actually knows how Bitcoin works?
Even better: Log the user who does each SIM swap and let everybody know about the new policy.
Problem solved overnight.
$100 doesn't seem a lot of compensation
I assume they'll do more than one.
Yep, while the car depreciates the parts don't get any cheaper.
Neither does the insurance premium.
Smart people are often also affluent. They can buy a Tesla. That's what I did...
And... Trump's fixing it so your electricity comes from coal.
Yep. Some people seem to think they can have EVERYTHING.
Nope.
Even in second-world Spain I have 300Mbit up/down for 30 Euros/month.
They didn't check people who don't use a sauna at all.
They're comparing once a week with four times a week.
If you don't have at least weekly access to a sauna, you wouldn't be part of the study.
Duh! That's because almost everybody uses saunas regularly in the countries under discussion.
the homeless might not have saunas but this is not so big a problem in Nordic countries.
Because very few of them make it past two winters?
Nor do you have to be rich - some of the older BMWs can be surprisingly good value for the money.
There's a reason for that: The running costs for some of the older BMWs can be surprisingly high.
So why did oil companies spend so much time and energy spread misinformation about climate change then?
That's an easy one: So the stupid people wouldn't buy more economical cars.
Trump's now fixing it so the smart people can't buy them either.
Oil, gas, and coal companies are not owned by select few industrial billionaires. But owned by millions of Americans as shareholders. Only a about 3% of shares are owned by corporate management.
So? Those 3% are The Donald's buddies and they need looking after.
Planet heats up as a result and causes a disaster? Not their problem, right?
When it all starts, I say we go up to their mountain mansions and shoot them all.
you can use any number of spaces in Python.
Just hope that nobody who prefers tabs tries to use your code.
I was going to mod this "insightful" but it hardly qualifies.
It should be obvious to anybody with two braincells to rub together.
All those oil billionaires who financed Trump's campaign are getting their payback.