Hmm... that is a tough one. Maybe you could print and sell new copies? If it's not worth enough to the copyright owner to make a work available to the public, then why not allow it to fall into the public domain after a decade? Maybe someone else will be able to find a way to bring it back to life and extract additional value rather than letting it sit there and fade into obscurity.

Actually, there isn't in the case of copyrighted works. If the rights holder stops selling and promoting something without re-licensing it for public use, then it is dead and nobody else can legally acquire a copy. This is one of the reasons there should be a requirement in copyright law that the work must be made available or the holder loses their exclusive rights to it.

I wouldn't ask them to watch something from their abuser, but that isn't what's happening here. No one is being forced to watch anything. They're not even being asked to. Worst case is if one of Cosby's victims happened across a rerun of his, they quickly change the channel. The MIT lectures are even less likely to be seen accidentally and the professor's name is clearly listed on it. Are you suggesting that the right thing to do is to eliminate every reference to a person just so that a few people who were hurt won't occasionally stumble across a reminder that their abuser exists? If so, where do you draw the line there? The MIT professor only violated sexual harassment rules and as far as I have seen isn't even charged with a crime. Is that really enough to warrant erasure of his work? What about a high school bully? Are they so tainted that they should never be allowed to participate in our culture again?

Maybe there needs to be a creative commons license that expressly forbids attribution, just for this circumstance. I suggest calling it CC-CYA

Nope, still no challenge there. Deleting all of Cosby's TV shows and movies would still be wrong as they are a part of our cultural history. If the content owners want to distance themselves from Cosby's now severely tarnished image, then they should make a public statement that they do not want any further association and then sell the rights to his work or release it to the public domain.

If the norm throughout time was to erase someone from history because they did something terrible once, we would never have been able to progress to the level where we could even have this discussion. Everything we do is built upon a foundation of knowledge provided by those that came before us and if we start pulling out the bricks which were laid by those we see as evil, the whole thing will come crashing down. We have a responsibility to keep growing and strengthening that foundation for future generations to build upon, which is far more important than a vain effort to erase the mistake of associating yourself with that evil person.

That's a valid option as well as long as you're aware of the consequences and that you're choosing it. Life is full of trade-offs. The real mistake is not understanding the choices you're making.

There's an easy solution to that problem. Don't fix it and tell her why.

Seriously, if someone isn't willing to learn and use the most basic of computer hygiene practices, they will eventually fall prey to malware and will almost certainly lose data to hardware failure at some point. And if you're the administrator of the computer when that happens, it'll be your fault for not protecting them (at least in their eyes).

You could also try explaining it as a car analogy: e.g. "You wouldn't just hop in your car and start driving without learning the rules of the road, would you?"

Wow, it's up to 200% effective!?!?!?!?!

That's the problem with monopolies (natural or otherwise). Still, there is an option to sign up for just the phone plans without wireless data and use wired or satellite ISPs for internet access.

You could also go the route of circumventing the problem (using the methods others have already suggested) with a bit of added effort/cost, but in that case there's no disincentive to help persuade Verizon to stop the program.

Don't use Verizon as your ISP?

Inflation allows the government to borrow at net interest rates near zero or lower. As long as inflation is higher than the interest rate on the loan, the interest costs are offset by paying the loan back in devalued currency.

And I haven't driven a vehicle in the last 15 years that has such a feature. But then all I've driven in that time is a basic light pickup and a Jeep. I know range features are available, but they're more common in higher end domestic or import passenger cars.

Why would someone not know how big their tank is? There should be a clear reminder of the size every time you fill up.

There are quite a lot of people who live in the western US and Canada, where this is true.

Not that my anecdotes best yours, it's just that there would need to be conclusive evidence that a change would be worth the expense incurred and the arguments for gpm style fuel efficiency ratings don't seem (to me) to be compelling enough to justify such an action.

But that's only true when making a decision between different cars. It's far more common (at least it is where I live) to have to quickly calculate whether I need to stop for gas now or if I can make it to the next town that's ~150 miles away in the car I'm currently driving.

It must be the higher dimensionality thing since he successfully converts that to 350 cubic gallons (imperial, no less) a bit further along.

Alternatively, the water produced by this process is cubic in shape which would make it difficult to use with traditional plumbing systems.

Oh, darn. We must be on different wavelengths. Last I heard, they were doing swell.

I guess these sorts of things just ebb and flow with the economic tides.

This is inspiration incarnate. Now we can create any sort of wondrous future we desire and the main project heiroglyph page is all I needed to see for proof. It's marginally functional without javascript!!!!