I have to ask - If you actually know that there is a difference between Unix and Windows line breaks, that suggests you at least have some kind of minimal knowledge of Unix. Why. are you not just using dos2unix or unix2dos to deal with the line breaks, with said programs being installed via Cygwin on a Windows box? Makes me think you've never heard of Cygwin either.

OK, I know it's fun to say big mean corporation (Paramount) loves to screw over the fans because they just don't get fandom, but it's being alleged elsewhere that there is a very good reason why Paramount went after this website. As stated above, Paramount came out with some pretty draconian rules for Star Trek fan films. This was because one very successful fan film had its producers decide to leverage the success they had raising money into starting a production house that would produce more things in the future, not necessarily Star Trek related. They got sued because they sold coffee mugs, t-shirts and so on with logos from their Trek project, so essentially they were making money off Trek, if somewhat indirectly. It's worth noting that the main guy behind this fan film ended up publicly admitting he was in the wrong as part of a settlement with Paramount.

So why would Paramount go after this "free" book? It's being alleged on Reddit that the website had a Google form asking people if they would be interested in paying for a print copy of the book. That is what got them the takedown notice.

My guess before reading this was that it was Rand Paul. Why?
1. He's opposed to everything that costs money. That's not a joke.
2. He's sort of opposed to everything, period. Also not a joke.
3. He gets a lot of personal satisfaction out of being "That Guy", the one who is always a dick.

Aren't we really way beyond the point where one senator should be able to stop anything? Why isn't that stopped?

Based on my decades of IT experience, I would say I'm sure that's right and that everybody who works on it is either based outside the USA in you know where or they are all H-1B workers if they actually have US based workers responsible.

That''s a gross understatement. Less than 10 years ago I got rid of a car that I had put over 250,000 miles on. That's over 400,000 kilometers for you non-Americans. The car was 18 years old when I got rid of it. I never had the engine rebuilt or replaced at the time I got rid of it, but I consider myself lucky for that amount of driving. I replaced the transmission twice. That was not fun or cheap. In fact, in desperation I actually leased an Nissan Leaf (all electric) for 3 years to take daily driving miles off the old car. I enjoyed the Leaf quite a bit and used it as my daily drive to work car (21 miles each way or around 34 km) and really cut back on the old car to mostly use it for driving long distances. At the time I had family who lived about 120 miles from me. Even severely cutting down on the miles put on my old car and making most of those miles highway miles rather than city miles did not stop the repairs. Not at all. In fact, my frustration was that despite driving the old car far less, I was still having to repair it at a level not much different from when I drove it every day. Sure, for the early years you will get by with cheap maintenance, but as the car ages and the miles pile up, the repairs cost a lot more. The only guy I know who basically kept his car forever with only cheap, routine maintenance is a guy I know who drives less than 10 miles a day on average.

So most people here probably have seen Star Trek and know what the transporter is. The transporter is a device that converts matter into energy, sends the energy to a distant location (There are distance limitations although Star Trek isn't exactly clear on what exactly they are.) and reassembles the energy into a perfect copy of the original matter. If we can ever get that working, we can also build what Star Trek calls "replicators", which are devices that use some kind of source material input and convert it into something else as output. For example, a replicator could give you a new guitar. Some years ago somebody figured out that if you can get the transporter working, the same principle means that a replicator could be made. In the future where Star Trek takes place, earth stopped using money because replicators basically meant nobody had the lack of anything so people hold jobs for personal fulfillment, not to survive. If we could get a transporter and replicator working, it would change everything on this planet. But how long would it take to build those/. Could we ever built them? Quantum computing is exactly like that. Hey if you ever get it working where it can do actually useful stuff, it could change everything. But we may never get it working like that. Know what the current fastest quantum computing program did? It factored the number 21. Know what those factors are? They are 3 and 7. And they had to cheat to be the champ - they had to write a program that could only factor 21 and do nothing else. Some people say "Quantum winter in coming" which means people are going to decide that quantum computing is a waste of money and time and they are going to abandon it as being as unworkable as the transporter and replcator.

I've been to over 20 countries on travel and I've used a lot of guidebooks. Here's my quick guide to travel guidebooks.

The best overall are Rough Guides and Lonely Planet. I've been leaning a bit more towards LP in recent years but have used both and gotten really good info out of both. Be aware of one thing. Some of the recommendations can be highly subjective for smaller hotels/hostels though and one writer's "This is the greatest hostel on the entire planet!" may be your "This is without a doubt the worst hostel I've ever been in". Independent research on smaller hotels/hostels might be a good idea to confirm that a place the guidebook raved about is actually as good as they claim.

Below that I would rate the DK books. They have tons of photos, which can be extremely helpful in figuring out what to do, but these guidebook often lack basic "How to get from point A to point B" transportation information and their restaurant and hotel recommendations tend to be higher end. I would really not recommend these guys as your only guidebook but they can be helpful in conjunction with RG or LP guidebooks.

Below that are Fodor (Really aimed at rich people and last time I used one, no photos at all) and Frommer's, but there are places a bit off the beaten path where they may be your only choices. Everybody else I'm a bit leery of, but as long as you aren't getting a self published book that's just a Wikipedia dump, you should be OK. I wouldn't buy anything that I couldn't return and for no name publisher books, try to find reviews as other customers will tell you if it's just a Wikipedia dump or AI generated.

I'm not even going to read what it's about. If those 2 nitwit Senators are both for it, it can't possibly be a good idea. I'm against it, whatever it is.

For foreigners who don't know ...
Graham has spent a significant amount of time both kissing Trump's butt and being angry at him because Trump is stupid and dangerous. But most recently he's been kissing Trump's butt.
Warren is so hard left she's insane. She also thinks that because she is like 1/32 or 1/64 Native American that this makes her a full blooded Native American. She's a fan of big giveaways with no way to pay for them and strict regulation on businesses, the kind of regulation that might keep them from actually doing business.

A few years ago, I worked for a Fortune 500 company in a US office. Because of my severance package, I'm not allowed to talk badly about them for a little more time to come. So I can't mention their name. But I can tell you that in my job I had to at times deal with the H-1B equivalents in a Canadian office and all I can say is good luck, Canada, You're going to need it.

I worked in what I would call internal support for a product my employer sold in the USA and Canada. We really just supported the US side, but we had a product under the same name we sold in Canada. Problem was, it really had nothing to do with what we sold in the US. All I can figure is that at some point in the past, a decision had been made to merge this Canadian product in under the US product's oversight and sell it under the same name, although they had completely different code bases. The Canadian product ran under Windows and the US product used Linux, so you can imagine what that was like. I had on call responsibilities at times over weekends and some internal monitoring would trigger for the Canadian product, so I had to call their folks. You could count the number of Canadian born employees who worked on it on one hand. The vast majority of programmers were from India on whatever Canada calls their H-1B visa. Every time I called them it was the same thing. These visa workers would be told what the problem was that the monitoring found and they would screw around for hours "looking into" the problem, find nothing, and then after several hours the alert would simply go away, with nothing being done to fix it and no cause for it ever being found. They seemed to have no idea at all how to troubleshoot their own product. So yeah, good luck Canada. You can have all of our former H-1Bs that you want.

There are other comments after your post about how this is normal, but perhaps more concerning to me would be the possibility that once again, she has used her good looks to get her way. I read one story that said that her husband's family says he is completely under her spell and they don't even know who he is any more. When Holmes was convicted and got over 100 people to write letters to the judge on her behalf, begging for her to just get as little time as possible, one venture capitalist said he would have no hesitation at all to throw more money at her once she was finished with jail if she started a new business. She is going to jail for fraud - major fraud. And she committed that fraud against other rich people, the people who have the money and power to punish you for that. And one of them is begging her to "Shut up and take my money". I think she's pretty, but I wouldn't give her a 9 or 10 out of 10, but apparently she really really does it for some guys and they just lose their minds completely from just looking at her.

As someone who has been to both China and Ukraine (but not actually Russia) a good number of times, I can assure you that in both China and Russia, the government looks at all citizens as expendable if the person/people in power survive, so this won't stop them from doing it.

I strongly agree. It might be interesting if somebody with money wants to press the issue. Arguing that a locked up work is abandoned might possibly work in a US court, but if you lose, it would be really expensive.

In the past, this actually used to happen. People who didn't know that they owned a work (ie. maybe they inherited it from a dead relative but the work was pretty minor and they had no idea they now owned it) wouldn't renew the copyright, so it entered the public domain when the renewal didn't happen. But Sonny Bono changed that with his act in the USA in the 1990s. Sonny wanted copyrights extended and renewals to be automatic for selfish reasons - he wrote some songs that had value in the copyrights, so he wanted them to last as long as possible so he could continue to make money from them. My feeling has long been that if the copyrights are so valuable that they need to renew automatically, the government is giving up a fortune in not charging renewal fees and doing it for free. If the copyrights are so valuable, people need to pay for them to be renewed. If they don't have enough value to justify paying a fee, then they don't need to be renewed automatically.

I'm not joking when I say this, but the proof that aliens aren't here is really simple. Short version - Donald Trump isn't trying to profit off them.

So back when Obama was president, some elementary school kid asked him about aliens and UFOs. Obama told the kid that he wasn't allowed to answer that question, but he could say that as president he was in position to know the answer to that question. That is not surprising, but it is more than we ever had a president say before - the US president does know whether aliens and UFOs are really here or not.

Look, if aliens and UFOs were here and the US government knows, then as president Trump would know it. He can't shut up about anything, so if aliens were really here, he would have already built Trump Spaceport and he'd be loudly demanding that all extraterrestrials use his person spaceport when they come to earth. The fact that this isn't happening means Trump doesn't think aliens come here, so by extension the US government has no proof of them coming here.

GenXer here, who actually worked in IT in the late 80s. I have a really different take on this.

GenZ and Millennials - Vinyl LPs are cool! They rock!
GenX: Records suck. CDs are better in every possible way. Have fun with scratches and skips. That's why my generation gave up on records.

GenZ and Millennials - Cassette tapes rock!
GenX: Sigh. They're even worse quality wise than vinyl records.

GenZ and Millennials: NABU computers rock!
GenX: We moved on from 8 bit computers in the early 90s. Good luck with that.

Let me share my experience with these weird symbols. About 4 years ago I had one show up on my car while about 2 miles from my house. I had no idea what it meant. It looked to me like an exclamation point between 2 brackets. There is actually part of the symbol at the bottom connecting the brackets, but at the time this wasn't apparent to me. In desperation I tried to figure out just what the hell the car was trying to tell me. I noticed that I was actually able to drive the car so I guessed that it probably wasn't something that would prevent me from just driving home. So I went home and parked the car and read the owners manual. The car was trying to tell me that my air pressure in one tire was low. All I can tell you is that if I designed a symbol to indicate low air pressure, that is absolutely not what I would come up with. So a program that interpret those insanely designed symbols that only make sense to the designer would be most welcome.