No unlocked bootloaders, so I guess the e-waste will continue until conditions improve
Unfortunately, the Internet Archive is probably going away at some point soon. The problem is that they're mass violaters of the law.
It isn't about books (though their case where they lent out more books than they physically had during covid didn't help), it's about stuff like copyrighted movies, ROM packs including every rom for entire consoles, copyrighted music, and the like. They try to go "but we're a library", but libraries have to follow rules too.
Libraries end up following certain rules, and perhaps internet archive thought they could get away with it because they saw Google getting away with it on YouTube, but as much as people complain about dmca takedowns or ContentID, they're the reason that site can host so much -- the content owners consent and get paid. Something like a file with every Wii game ever made isn't going to even be licensable like that -- dozens of publishers would need consent to give up content that's incredibly new. On YouTube, such a file would be immediately taken down just as full length movies are often taken down.
It isn't about books (though their case where they lent out more books than they physically had during covid didn't help), it's about stuff like copyrighted movies, ROM packs including every rom for entire consoles, copyrighted music, and the like. They try to go "but we're a library", but libraries have to follow rules too.
Libraries end up following certain rules, and perhaps internet archive thought they could get away with it because they saw Google getting away with it on YouTube, but as much as people complain about dmca takedowns or ContentID, they're the reason that site can host so much -- the content owners consent and get paid. Something like a file with every Wii game ever made isn't going to even be licensable like that -- dozens of publishers would need consent to give up content that's incredibly new. On YouTube, such a file would be immediately taken down just as full length movies are often taken down.
It'd be funny if someone stabbed him in the back the same as he stabbed Liz Truss in the back.
The Canadian left just put a hedge fund manager in charge of the country. That's how stupid Canadians are.
As far as I can tell, this decision has made sure that we will become the 51st state. Just like Carney's Brookfield asset management became a US company under his leadership.
As far as I can tell, this decision has made sure that we will become the 51st state. Just like Carney's Brookfield asset management became a US company under his leadership.
Apparently Canadians love tent cities, siezing dissidents bank accounts, Internet censorship, and American gangs.
That isn't Trump's fault. Apparently Canadians chose that for themselves.
That isn't Trump's fault. Apparently Canadians chose that for themselves.
Yes, and the contemporary concept of liberalism (classical liberalism) is a modernist concept dating back just a few hundred years. That doesn't mean freedom didn't exist, but the idea of liberty as a totalizing framework is quite new because totalizing frameworks are themselves a quite recent invention. Unfortunately, even conservatism got caught up in the modernist totalizing impulse and so became just another totalizing ideology one could follow. What was conservative in the modernist period did not truly resemble what came before. Other alternatives also are built on the same foundation -- socialism, fascism, they're just different outgrowths of modernity and it's totalizing impulse.
Even postmodernism quickly collapsed into a modernist ideology because it's simpler that way.
Really interesting to realize what happened to all humanity around the time of the French revolution.
Even postmodernism quickly collapsed into a modernist ideology because it's simpler that way.
Really interesting to realize what happened to all humanity around the time of the French revolution.
ngl, the "male loneliness epidemic" isn't really about women, that's just the thing people focus on.
It's about the image talked about in the 2000 book title "bowling alone" -- without cultural institutions that bring men together in real life, you see men going through life alone -- not as in they can't find a woman to date, but as in they can't find any person to talk to who isn't in an online message board.
There used to be *something* besides work and home -- the local pub, the church, social clubs, sports leagues, and over the past few decades those things have largely been eroded and so the loneliness epidemic isn't about men not being able to spend time with women per se, but with anyone man or woman.
It isn't a "conservative male loneliness epidemic", it's really part of everyone moving forward into a postmodern civilization that's cut away everything frivolous by pointing out how frivolous it is.
To be honest, women are facing similar pressures because there's a reduced number of opportunities for social gathering for them as well. I've seen it first-hand, women who are just lonely because there aren't many opportunities to meet people if you just moved somewhere. The forces causing this affect men more acutely, but it's a chronic issue for both.
There will need to be a sea change in how people think about their relationship to the world before we see things improve. Something other than the state and the market, a rebuilding of community culture, viewed through a different lens than those two options.
I've written many times about "living in ghost world" -- the fact that I go to the park with my son several days a week and am usually alone there with him. That's not just "no men", it's nobody period.
This weekend was interesting in that it was a vision of what things could be -- parents brought their kids to the park (probably because it's the first really nice day of the year), and both my son and I had positive social interactions that we really didn't see over the past year. If only they'd choose to keep coming to the public commons.
It's about the image talked about in the 2000 book title "bowling alone" -- without cultural institutions that bring men together in real life, you see men going through life alone -- not as in they can't find a woman to date, but as in they can't find any person to talk to who isn't in an online message board.
There used to be *something* besides work and home -- the local pub, the church, social clubs, sports leagues, and over the past few decades those things have largely been eroded and so the loneliness epidemic isn't about men not being able to spend time with women per se, but with anyone man or woman.
It isn't a "conservative male loneliness epidemic", it's really part of everyone moving forward into a postmodern civilization that's cut away everything frivolous by pointing out how frivolous it is.
To be honest, women are facing similar pressures because there's a reduced number of opportunities for social gathering for them as well. I've seen it first-hand, women who are just lonely because there aren't many opportunities to meet people if you just moved somewhere. The forces causing this affect men more acutely, but it's a chronic issue for both.
There will need to be a sea change in how people think about their relationship to the world before we see things improve. Something other than the state and the market, a rebuilding of community culture, viewed through a different lens than those two options.
I've written many times about "living in ghost world" -- the fact that I go to the park with my son several days a week and am usually alone there with him. That's not just "no men", it's nobody period.
This weekend was interesting in that it was a vision of what things could be -- parents brought their kids to the park (probably because it's the first really nice day of the year), and both my son and I had positive social interactions that we really didn't see over the past year. If only they'd choose to keep coming to the public commons.
tbf, it's complicated. Objects that are light but with a large surface area will fall slower than heavy objects with a large surface area due to the force of air pushing back. To run the test properly you need a vacuum, and I'm guessing ancient greeks didn't have a lot of large hard vacuum chambers kicking around.
Meanwhile, people clap like trained seals for new projects that are going to hasten that collapse.
I'd be the first to admit that this appears to be an election between the people who love Canada and the people who hate America, but the real change is dumping Trudeau, who had become absolutely radioactive. Bring in a boring hedge fund manager and apparently all sins are forgiven.
Discord is like the dread pirate Roberts combined with a used car salesman. "I'll probably kill you tomorrow, you should buy nitro"
Until a few years ago I wouldn't have recognized the reason for the different colored limbs on the player character sprite. (not sure if the animated gif shows up properly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF0NzfsbIeY
I love watching people trying to recreate our technology. This guy is trying to build an engine, and he's got a milling machine so he's trying to build a 2-stroke engine.
I think we're already starting to see why we need to have the competence to do things, because those factories we built overseas to get another 1% profit might become unavailable imminently.
I love watching people trying to recreate our technology. This guy is trying to build an engine, and he's got a milling machine so he's trying to build a 2-stroke engine.
I think we're already starting to see why we need to have the competence to do things, because those factories we built overseas to get another 1% profit might become unavailable imminently.
If the liberals win, I will no longer believe that democracy is a good idea for Canada because we lack the capacity for self-rule.