It seems that the meaning of the word âoeleaseâ must be shifting in some places to imply a capital lease (full life of product or bargain purchase option, therefore consubstantial with a sale on an installment plan). Historically it has just meant a rental agreement.

I hold an MLIS and have contributed records to WorldCat in the past (I now work outside the library business). I can't speak to any of the copyright technicalities, but I can confirm that the MARC records are generally created and enhanced by the employees of participating institutions. The idea is that if the book has already been accessioned by another member and they've uploaded the record, you can use most or all of their work (descriptive work, subject headings, classification) and get your new acquisitions out on the shelf faster. If something's wrong or missing, you fix it and share it back, along with new records you create. (Non-participating institutions can get canned MARC records from the Library of Congress and other libraries that make their OPACs available over Z39.50, but the quantity and quality on WorldCat are better) I always assumed that the participating institutions are either assigning the copyrights or, more likely, granting OCLC an assignable perpetual license.

Will they have a British accent and end every report with "Ananova dot com"?

Why is Tesla on the list? Is a car company. How is the entire company that is trying to combat global warming and move to a sustainable future a threat to democracy?

Or are they just talking about its CEO and tarring the entire company for him?

If they hate Musk, X is a more appropriate thing to list. But Tesla?!

I work in a central business district, in the office most days of the week. People being back even 3 days a week, and especially 4 or 5, seems like something you see in big companies, with tech and finance being the strongest sectors - the ones that have deeds or long-term leases for a whole building or several floors of one. Small and medium businesses have been far more likely to either give up the office or downsize it. It's a distinction between being stuck in a long lease and trying to make the most of it versus having a shorter lease that you can eliminate to cut your fixed costs without losing employees.

What does this have to do with bookmarks?

That's fair enough though. If you buy a stolen car you don't get your money back when the police take it back. Sandisk are hardly going to guarantee something they didn't make - that makes absolutely no sense.

Whatsapp is shit though. If you use it on more than one device you can see how often messages have incorrect sent/delivered/read status, appear out of order or simply don't show up at all.

"But then, I have said the same thing about Amazon and others, that people should simply stop buying from them, but since that is so simple to do, it won't take place."

People don't not do things because they're simple - they don't do them because they don't have a problem with them. I like Amazon - the prices are good, they don't fuck me around if there's a problem and the whole process from ordering to delivery causes no problems.

Likewise, if you don't like reddit or think they should be tolerating people scraping data or accessing APIs for free forever, don't go to reddit. But I couldn't give a fuck about all that - I just want to follow a few subreddits from time to time. This protest was obviously going to fail because reddit would have lost money if they did, and no normal person is going to be remotely interested in APIs or third party apps etc.

How many more times am I going to read a "universe older than previously believed" story?

I think FTX has the corner on the market for crypto perps right now, from SBF on down...

And indeed, that's why the good programmers get paid. We all have our comparative advantages and compete in the marketplace by playing to them.

The lights can be useful in limited ways. A backlight can be nice in the dark, like on a MacBook. My Kinesis keyboard can blink or change colors when you hold down the function key, which can be helpful in knowing it's pressed (I suspect you can set up similar for other modifiers like Control or Command, but haven't really played around with that yet). The more elaborate effects do seem like they would be annoying and distracting for work or focused gaming, though.

We see a reference to a typical lifespan of 70 years, or 80 with good health, in Psalm 90 of the Hebrew Psalter as well. We don't have an exact date for this psalm but it's probably at least as old as Plato.

It's a statement of fact, not policy. They aren't saying that they will stop anyone from supporting software for EOL versions of Windows, but warning users that it sometimes happens in practice so they aren't taken by surprise.