Not to forget the fragility of the solution: these mirrors can become a military target far too easily. And the other way around is also troubling. Align the mirrors to irradiate a smaller target area et voila: fried enemies.

So indeed, bad idea on multiple grounds.

Somehow your post is now +3, Funny, but if I had mod points I would certainly go for 'Insightful'.

I have not used a linux desktop for quite some time, but judging from gp and from your post, things do not look good.

The question is not why anybody should 'want the same option for digital works', because that option is actually created out of necessity: with for instance a painting there is only one instance. So having ownership of that one instance is actually quite a thing. You have it, and nobody else has it. So you _need_ ownership here to handle the economic scarcity of that one painting.

With digital artwork every instance or copy is indistinguishable from all of its siblings. Which means that there is no scarcity, which means that economic constructs like 'ownership' are not needed.

What it basically boils down to, is that with NFTs you artificially create scarcity for something that is not scarce at all.

And if 'bragging rights' are all that important, just become a patron to an artist and give that artist money. No blockchain needed to do that.

Did you consider that it might have something to do with Angela Merkel? Probably not.

The Nuremberg Code is quite clear. So now you need ask yourself the chicken/egg question.

Slashdot went downhill a long time ago. You're at the tail end with comments like that.

If you still believe that your elections are fair, I've got a bridge to sell you.

This depends on who is doing the overthrowing. The truckers or party from Davos. Perspective is everything.

There is a certain irony to the fact that a U.S. billionaire is paying to handle a bridge here in the Netherlands (for his half a billion yacht), while in his home country bridges are collapsing. Seems priorities towards taxation and maintenance of common infrastructure are somehow unbalanced.

This is how hydrocarbons are made. Forget the rotting vegetable matter theory. Abiotic is where it's at.

CO2 is needed in the water to get the process working.

It is not "survival of the fittest" Never has been. It is "survival of those who are fit enough to procreate".

Warez groups have been archiving this stuff for decades now.

I live in The Netherlands. No troubles here. Building materials have risen in price, but that is a global thing. No problems with petrol, no empty shelves in supermarkets. No bad news coming in from France or Germany, only bad stuff about the UK.