Comment Re:DMCA notices are not at the jury court level of (Score 1) 70
They are if you contest them and then get sued.
They are if you contest them and then get sued.
COX weren't hosting the content. They just provide transit services. The seeder of the torrent was hosting it. The DMCA notice should have gone to the subscriber. If you stick a movie in an S3 bucket, the DMCA notice will go to AWS, not Amazon's ISP.
No, it's just about inertia and how much energy it takes to change your velocity vector.
If an ATM accidentally dispenses you an extra $1000, it is still stealing to keep it. If a software platform accidentally lets you do something illegal, then you still broke the law.
If the lender's platform gave this guy an illegal loan that he should have known was illegal, it's his problem, not the lender's.
There is a time skip between books 1 and 2. It's taken as a given that he has conquered the galaxy from the very start. It's also strongly foreshadowed throughout book 1.
Same, especially since he plans on going past the end of the first book. She's massively important in the next two books.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
The only thing that affects the climate is tons of CO2 emitted. It does not matter what the per capita numbers are, that is totally irrelevant. All that has any effect is the total tons emitted. China is emitting more than double the tons the US does, and so its emissions are contributing more than twice as much to climate change.
And they are rising. And it mines and burns more coal than the rest of the world put together. Again, how much per capita is irrelevant to the climate. All that counts is the tonnage.
Ok, now image China were split up into 50 tiny countries. In absolute terms, each one has a small fraction of total emissions, so we shouldn't worry about it at all, despite the same amount of total carbon emanating from that region, right?
Even if China's electricity generation were like 70% renewables, they still might be near the top the list in terms of total tons just due to their absolute size. That's why we user per capita. It's a meaningful way to compare how well differently sized countries are doing in terms of limiting how much CO2 living in that country generates.
not our problem mate, seeing as we arent the cause. how about industry sort it out
That's like refusing to get a fire extinguisher because you are waiting for the arsonist that lit your house on fire to sort himself out.
I, like many others, actively vote OUT politicians that try to alter my behavior with taxes or other means.
There is almost no politician or party that doesn't encourage certain behaviors or prop up certain industries with tax incentives.
How do you expect society to function without fertilizer, plastics, concrete, steel and many more other irreplaceable ingredients of a technological society that require emissions to produce? Go without means mass starvation followed by extinction-level human casualties and subsistence survival for the remaining small percentage of the population.
If we just used oil for a feed stock and stopped burning it for transport and electricity we'd be fine, climate-wise. Same goes for coal if we just used it to smelt steel.
The food issue is thornier, because it's not just hydro-carbons: it's also water from non-renewable aquifers and phosphates from non-renewable mineral deposits. I think we'll have to worry about the latter two being exhausted long before the oil runs out. I don't think anyone's yet cracked sustainable farming at a level that supports the current wold population. So far I think our best hope is that the natural population decline that comes with industrialization shrinks the population enough that sustainable methods become tractable before those non-renewables are exhausted.
And yet....people are pushing us the hardest to curtail our modern lifestyle, do without or less....when we by far are not the worst.
It terms of carbon emissions per capita, we are around 14th-16th depending on whose list you look use at ~14.5T/person/year. Most of the higher per capita countries are middle eastern countries or small island nations which presumably lead us because they are mostly burning coal or oil. However, they are so small they don't make a huge dent in absolute terms. Because we have a lot of people, and because our per capita energy use is also very high, a small reduction per capita for us makes a huge difference world-wide. Australia and Canada are both right above us, having higher per capita CO2 output, but significantly smaller populations.
However, I don't think it should be on individuals to change their CO2 output. These are for the most part systemic issues and need systemic solutions that are out of the grasp of individuals to enact, but we know the general sketch of what it needs to look like: more renewables in the electric grid, electrify home appliances, emphasize rail shipping over trucking, build better cheaper and more convenient mass transit systems, etc.
Unless your hardware lacks TPM...
Do you think "we" should clean out the garage on Saturday?
Undersea cables have optical repeaters to regenerate the signal every 100km or so. I would think these would need to be upgraded to work with the additional bands.
We want compulsory licensing for TV and movies, like we have for music.
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