It's recently come to light that UMG had a fire in 2008 that destroyed the original master tapes of many classic artists, which even includes Tom Petty from the list of artists in the summary. UMG is being sued for mishandling of those properties as well as being challenged over lack of payouts to artists. The original masters from Chuck Berry, Nirvana, Aretha Franklin, and many other important songs from other artists are now lost forever in a situation reminiscent of the Library of Alexandria. UMG is arguing that since there are derivative commercial copies in existence, that nothing of value was lost and so they shouldn't be held accountable. Publicly announcing the publishing of these "remastered" music videos is an attempt by UMG to demonstrate this position to cover themselves in court for their upcoming inevitable legal issues.

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You shouldn't have to rethink that position.
There's a difference between speech/belief and BEHAVIOR.
Laws and courts already make that distinction.

In order to have an open, free, and just society, we need to protect the right to speak openly, even if those ideas are considered stupid by other people. The point is not to protect stupid positions of individuals, the point is to preserve openness of society. Ideas being "dangerous" is not sufficient justification to pay the heavy cost of being a closed society, especially when better education is an alternative.

But in terms of behavior, this is a good case for law being a solution. True libertarians (i.e. not anarchists in disguise using the "libertarian" label to avoid being dismissed immediately) believe in Occam's Razor of government intervention: that laws do have a purpose, but government should get involved only when there is genuine need, and in the degree and proportion necessary to solve the problem, where there is the problem, and only if government is actually capable of doing so rather than finding excuses to soak up tax payer money and infringe on liberties despite knowing they can't solve the problem.

In the case of diseases and epidemics, it is no longer an issue of personal choice and responsibility of an individual, because literally a single irresponsible choice can lead to the deaths of millions who were not given the opportunity to make a choice for themselves, and the damage can continue INDIRECTLY. This is quite unlike any other risk-factor people are usually afraid of (even guns, where attackers must be in the direct vicinity of the victims, and there are ways to increase security and defense).

So the solution is that in terms of beliefs and speech, yes you are free to openly, strongly disagree with vaccinations. But in terms of behavior, you and your kids are getting vaccinated anyway. You can disagree all you want while you are getting your mandated vaccination.

You joke, but they're half way there:
https://www.libreoffice.org/do...

The danger is in people believing the Constitution automatically fixes this. It is a disservice, because it demotivates people from taking action, when action and political efficacy are the only things that can fix this.

Originally, the 4th Amendment only restricts the *federal government*. It does not *automatically* affect anything else. In fact, constitutional amendments (including the Bill of Rights) don't automatically apply even to *state* governments. They must be *incorporated*. Most have, including the 4th, but most people don't realize some amendments such as the 5th Amendment have not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But even when rights are incorporated by state governments, the federal and state *governments* have nothing to do with *private companies*. Unless laws are passed that explicitly restrict behavior of private companies, they can collect and sell all the information about you that they want. That's the loophole of the rich and powerful: if government can't do it, companies can. Regular citizens didn't win guaranteed rights due to the Constitution, they simply reduced the total number of ways rights can be taken away. We must still fight for them. Always.

And I'm saying this as a (mostly) conservative. "Republican" and "Democrat" has nothing to do with republics or democracies anymore. If we want to fix our problems, we need to stop the petty party bickering and actually discuss the issues.

Exactly.

Even for Apple we know that the argument for saving space is nonsense. USB-C is 8.4mm x 2.6mm.

A typical 3.5mm analog headphone jack is not much thicker, but even if it is, there is a simple solution to the problem: a 2.5mm analog headphone jack which is even NARROWER and THINNER than USB-C. Headphones already exist for this, and even if they didn't, all existing 3.5mm analog headphones can use a simple adapter that's been around for decades. Plug it on the end of the cable. DONE.

Now that we know the superiority of 2.5mm for solving the space issue, I'm sure a company as "courageous" as Apple will fix their mistake and use 2.5mm instead. Right?

From the article: "researchers note the increasing uptake of chemically processed foods, such as instant noodles and pasta, and the addition of sugar, pastry, and bread to their diets."

The title says "noodles" but neglects that pesky "sugar" and "pastry" part that was also added to their diets (and bread as well). Yet more poor quality news.

If you eat noodles, there is no reason to stop.
Healthy living is not a big mystery.
Through the ages the omnivorous human race has lived on varying diets that didn't cause an obesity problem.
Noodles in your diet is not a problem if you balance your diet with other things, in reasonable portions, and if you have an active lifestyle.
The biggest killer is that we sit on our butts all day rather than doing things. THAT is unnatural. Few other species can successfully survive on doing nothing as a survival strategy.

In the case of the "drone slayer", the only reason he even knew who piloted the drone is because they drove up to his house all pissed-off that he downed their drone. If all you do is call the cops because a drone is loitering over your yard, even if you have video footage of the drone, how do you know who the drone belongs to? Who are the cops supposed to arrest? If the drone operators sees you calling the cops, what makes you think they won't just fly off and leave nothing for the cops to do? No, the current legal recourse is NOT sufficient. The law is *supposed* to be on the side of the victim, not the asshole who cause the problem in the first place. You trespass with a drone, and if downing it is the only way to stop the problem or catch the perpetrators, then you're getting your drone downed, sorry. Your rights aren't more important than mine.

Please stop diverting the topic towards irrelevant defenses of entitlement culture and the obsolescence of a responsible public.

The article claims a link between coffee and tea to cancer, but only via the temperature. So the pertinent question is:

HOW IS THIS ANY DIFFERENT THAN HOT WATER? Yes, I actually read the PDF document of the WHO report itself. It does not mention hot water, only that "hot beverages" can have a carcinogenic effect. Is click-baiting the only driving force behind "scientific" articles nowadays?

Here, let me try:
"Study finds water linked to not only cancer, but global terrorism and kittens drowning."
(Notice this is all true, but pointless.)

SERIOUSLY? It's only NOW that you've figured out Microsoft's true colors?

I don't remember a time when Microsoft bad behavior *wasn't* the case. Dude, I was using their stuff during MSDOS and the Stacker/Doublespace debacle. And that was over 20+ years ago. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and shoving things down your throat has been their modus operandi since the early days and every year afterwards. They NEVER stopped.

On the other hand, those DOS days were good times, though. When hard drives were typically maxed at only dozens of MB or less (not GB) and 1.44 MB floppies were the norm, it was handy to be able to use Doublespace to compress floppies so that BMP image files (since JPG et al weren't commonly used yet) would fit without having to explicitly compress with something like PKZIP. I found the idea of compression so interesting that I did crazy things like create a RAM drive using some memory, Doublespace *that*, then use it as storage for running some games (e.g. X-Wing and some D&D games). Not very stable, but it was a fun experiment.

Instead of news media reporting huge Windows 10 adoption numbers, they should take the forced installs into account and make headlines that tell it like it is: "Non-Consensual Windows 10 Installs: Is Microsoft Guilty of Mass Computer Rape?"

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I dunno, doesn't seem to be working.

They point to reduced speeds due to drivers being unsure of lanes. Repeat: UNSURE of the road. They treat this like speed reduction is an end in itself rather than the primary goal of safety. Driver confusion rarely is a good thing.

Here's an example. I know they said "white lines" not "yellow lines", but there is an issue that still remains. Let's say you're unfamiliar with the area, and come upon one of these roads from an intersecting road. Which way can you turn? If there's no immediate traffic to imitate, then you may find yourself turning down the road thinking you're safe only to meet up with traffic later that is moving in the opposite direction. Unless you feel like playing the game of chicken or just like head-on collisions, you need to get off the road ASAP.

Geek Freudian slip?

It sounds like you've been typing make;make install one too many times.

NOPE. Your own link contradicts your statement. The fact that QWERTY was designed to reduce jams is NOT a myth. Reading your own linked article, the actual myth was the claim that Dvorak was demonstrated as better than QWERTY. The evidence that Dvorak is superior is weak at best.

The term "cluster" in generic SQL terms regards having more than database managed by an SQL DBMS. Merely having more than one database in a PostgreSQL install is a "cluster".

I assume you're referring to "sharding" and conflating it with Oracle's vendor-specific RAC (or something similar) as "clustering"? There's nothing stopping you from using something like pg_shard and/or the CitusDB fork to treat multiple installs as a single logical database. There are other solutions, some open-source and some proprietary, but I don't feel like doing your homework.

Replication is not meant to be the same as sharding. They are not "faking" clustering with replication. Just because you've only searched for replication solutions and not searched for sharding solutions doesn't mean they don't exist.

You're going to need to back up your claims that PostgreSQL doesn't scale. The rest of the world disagrees.