And I also wasn't using proprietary drivers in 2021. In fact, part of the problem is that I needed to manually download and compile an old version of Ghostscript because that was necessary to fix the printer problem using free software (and had been documented as such for years), and they said "sorry, that's an upstream problem, we can't include that, that's *old software*".

If you look at the followups, I reported it again in 2021. Still wasn't fixed.

Old computers aren't remembered because people stared at the specifications and wondered "what would this be like if it was 40 times faster but still 8 bit". Old computers are remembered because of the software that big game companies wrote for them for sale to the general public. Putting out a better C64 40 years after game companies have stopped supporting the C64 will be useless.

At best, people are going to use it to run standard Commodore 64 software 99% of the time, and you'll get one or two geeks putting out one or two homebrew games and trying to port Doom to it.

And there are better platforms even for homebrew. Anyone can burn a Sega Dreamcast game, Dreamcast is much newer, and the install base of Dreamcasts is orders of magnitude higher than it will be for this. Why would a substantial number even of homebrew geeks write Mega C65 software?

This was not my experience.

And sure, you can tell me this was a single unusual case, and that printers generally work fairly well, but using Linux is full of one off unusual cases like this that nobody else is having, and they all add up.

If other countries think the rebels are endangering the world, they can use diplomacy to try to get them to stop. If that fails, they can bomb the rebels until they allow the ship to be properly cleaned up. (Optionally declaring war first, if they think the rebels are a legitimate government, but they probably don't.) . That's what you do when another country is doing something that's a danger to your country.

If it's not serious enough a problem to do that, it's a local problem. (Maybe with an exception if the rebels have nuclear weapons and could hurt your country from long distance, but I doubt they do.)

1) In the case Capitol Records, Inc. v. Naxos of America, Inc., a court ruled that even though recordings expired in their home country, they were still protected by state copyright. The Music Modernization Act, which I mentioned earlier, replaced the state copyright system for recordings (everything else is already covered under Federal copyright, state copyright for recordings is a relic of an old system).

2) The Supreme Court case of Golan v. Holder specifically ruled that it is legal to retroactively make something public domain copyrighted.

Under the classics protection part of the Music Modernization Act, sound recordings from before 1923 are under copyright until December 31, 2021.

People here seem to think that sound recordings fall under the 95 year limit. They do not.

That letter up there is a lot more sleazy than just supporting RMS. Go read it. I'd kick the writer off too.

The number you get depends on exactly how you count power plants (or from another point of view, how power plants are consolidated). If things were exactly the same but every power plant above a certain size was labelled "east tower" and "west tower" and you counted them as two plants, the top 5% would magically turn into the top 10%. If every backyard generator in some third world country counted as a power plant, that would affect the result. If you combined them into a single item "backyard generator total" and counted that as a single power plant, you'd get a different result. If you also counted backyard generators that were turned off as "turned off power plants producing no emissions", that would increase the emissions of the top 5%, not because anything changed, but because of the way you count.

Also notice how this says "that emit carbon dioxide at rates well above..." and then goes on to talk about figures that are not rates.

From the White House:

Notice how the arstechnica article is carefully worded so as to be literally accurate while misleading. It says that rainbow trout are harmed by hot water (true) and that the plant produces hot water (true). It doesn't actually say that the water is dangerous to the trout; it leaves it to the reader to falsely conclude that, when in fact, there isn't enough hot water to be a danger.

Also notice the quote from someone claiming that "the lake" is like a hot tub. That's true in the sense that they quoted a person who did in fact say those words, but the quoted statement itself isn't true unless "the lake" means "the tiny portion of the lake next to the plant, that I tried".

Landlords take risks. Sometimes this can pay off, as in your example of a train station that increases their gains, but sometimes it causes a loss. And that's how risks work. The "unearned" gain is part of a set of possibilties that averages out to a smaller gain or to nothing because it includes an equally unearned loss, and you're not proposing to compensate landlords for unearned losses.

If I were to flip a coin, and on heads you pay me $100 and on tails I pay you $110, it would be absurd to claim that, if you happen to get $110, theentire amount of $110 is unearned.

People expect "doctor" to mean that you have a degree obtained by graduating with it. If you call yourself one and you haven't gotten a regular degree, you are claiming to be something that you are not.

This is another case of "geek thinks that he's found an exploit in the source code of the real world". The world is not a literal genie and "I have an honorary thing which is called a doctorate, so I can call myself a doctor" isn't truthful regardless of whether the exact words seem to let you do it.

And it doesn't matter whether you think you deserve the prestige associated with "doctor" or you've done a lot of doctor-like stuff either. People don't interpret the word "doctor" to mean "I deserve prestige", they interpret it to mean "graduated with a degree".

This is untrue. Sound recordings were believed to be in the public domain because didn't have Federal copyright. But they fell under state copyright rules, which were different from state to state. Some of those state copyrights never expired.

The Music Modernization Act changed this. Now recordings have Federal copyright. Recordings from 1923 finally expire at the end of this year, even longer than the 95 year limit for other things.

If your monthly income is 10K+, your outgoings are thousands, and $1000 is deposited into your account by mistake, yeah, you wouldn't notice it, but you also wouldn't be spending so much that you won't be able to give the $1000 back. Why would someone with thousands of outgoing dollars in money each month spend down to the last $1000 of their account?