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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@MrL I suppose the species might vary, but (river) trout is the usual one here. They prefer colder clean water, are quite sensitive to contamination, and are bred for food, so easy to get.
: What's for lunch today?
: Trout.
: Again?
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@TimeBandit Such fast service does come at a price...
Epstein said the ad cost him $10,000 (not $1,100 as originally stated). "I chose the only route that I know. There are other people that know how to get up on social networks and voice their complaints," he said.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
On a more serious note, within margin of error all of this stuff comes from China.
Eh...3M definitely makes them in the US.
Beginning in January, 3M ramped up production of respirators and doubled its global output to 1.1 billion per year – including 35 million N95 respirators per month in the U.S.
Now, globally, you're probably right, but I suspect if you're in the US (like the story) then a 3M mask has a decent chance of being manufactured domestically.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Eh...3M definitely makes them in the US.
And I live about 10km away from a big German manufacturer (of the materials, not the masks). I assume P&G and KC have US capacity too, but don’t know what products they produce for. Still, I said “within margin of error”. All the shit they sell here has random Chinese names on it, all different.
But you’re right, the original article did talk about 3M masks.
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From yesterday, but I just heard about it tonight:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/fort-worth-wreck.html
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
From yesterday, but I just heard about it tonight
OMG! The NYT reported something truthfully!
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Fascinating. And could also spectacularly backfire on the police besides the obvious problems: As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Fascinating. And could also spectacularly backfire on the police besides the obvious problems: As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
Hmmm... and most record labels are pretty liberal...
(stage whisper): Yo, media companies. You might want to check into this!
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eBay won an online marketplace competition recently. With an average score of 6.4 out of 10. How fucked up is it that a score that low is the best score? Every marketplace in that competition, eBay included, should be embarrassed.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
I don't think what they're doing could really be called "public broadcasting."
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
I don't think what they're doing could really be called "public broadcasting."
The RIAA has gone after people for less.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
I don't think what they're doing could really be called "public broadcasting."
You’re basing your assessment on a sane interpretation of “public broadcasting”. That’s not what the copyright holders in question normally do.
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Aliens!
(Please jeff to the appropriate topic)
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
I don't think what they're doing could really be called "public broadcasting."
The RIAA has gone after people for less.
Have they? That's an honest question.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
You’re basing your assessment on a sane interpretation of “public broadcasting”. That’s not what the copyright holders in question normally do.
I mean...yeah, but the police didn't post the video. It's just a guy playing music on his phone. Are they really going to say that a person can't listen to music on a phone without it being "public broadcasting?"
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I mean...yeah, but the police didn't post the video. It's just a guy playing music on his phone. Are they really going to say that a person can't listen to music on a phone without it being "public broadcasting?"
If you get sufficiently lawyery about it...he was intentionally broadcasting the music so it would be heard on the Internet (via the livestream) in order to trigger the livestream copyright system. That sounds like "intent to broadcast" to a sufficiently rabid RIAA attorney (which is all of them).
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
to a sufficiently rabid RIAA attorney (which is all of them).
Who should be dealt with the same way one would deal with a rabid dog (but with less compassion).
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
there’s probably debate over
Not yet, but threads are free. Just don't hold your breath waiting for someone to defend random searches of phones just because they are within a 2-hour drive of a coast, border or airport.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
there’s probably debate over
Not yet, but threads are free. Just don't hold your breath waiting for someone to defend random searches of phones just because they are within a 2-hour drive of a coast, border or airport.
Well, if nobody disagrees there's not fun it it.
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Four pigs - Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory - were trained to use an arcade-style joystick to steer an on-screen cursor into walls.
Next step, instead of the cursor being steered directly, the joystick will be used to pull down birds in slingsh... oh wait, never mind.
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pigs could learn to be gamers
Why would you want pigs to be dumber?
To make a killing with RGB troughs?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I suspect they might be approaching this pig-boring thing from the wrong side.
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Gorilla Glue II:
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
An extremely reasonable step to game the snow plow system
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Article @GuyWhoKilledBear posted in In other news today...:
Man if it was a mere $5 for false police reporting...
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Is that Covarr @Covarr I wonder?
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@Zecc Wonder no more
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https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-new-version-of-microsoft-office-without-a-subscription-launches-in-2021
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
perpetual license
What an amazing, novel concept.
It's too similar to a headphone jack, it will never work.
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Saw the headline on my local news station's site and my first thought was "I'll bet the byline reads 'Kari Steele'." She's famous for this kind of hard-hitting journalism.
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while those who just want to buy a copy outright and use it for years to come are still using Office 2019
Uh no. We're still using 2016 and 2010 and 1 piece of 2007.
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@dcon I could really use some 2007. I was employed, married, a homeowner, and happy in 2007.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I could really use some 2007. I was employed, married, a homeowner, and happy in 2007.
liar
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@TimeBandit Mostly. It was a little rough at times, but it wasn't until (this isn't the Lounge, so I'll withhold some details) a few years later that things really went downhill. And when it wasn't happy, mostly I wasn't the one unhappy; she was.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
I don't think what they're doing could really be called "public broadcasting."
The RIAA has gone after people for less.
Have they? That's an honest question.
RIAA specifically? Depends on what you consider "less". RIAA got headlines for going after file sharing.
But certain members of RIAA? Definitely. Remember the Dancing Baby case?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
But certain members of RIAA? Definitely. Remember the Dancing Baby case?
You mean the one where Lenz and the EFF sued Universal?
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
But certain members of RIAA? Definitely. Remember the Dancing Baby case?
You mean the one where Lenz and the EFF sued Universal?
After Universal claimed copyright over another person's original work, yes. But INB4 we start -debating on whether IP theft can be considered "going after", I do admit that it was a badly picked example.
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@acrow Point of fact: Universal didn't "claim copyright" over Lenz's video. They claimed it contained a Universal-held song playing (given that the baby was dancing to that song, we could make the case that the song was pretty important to the video).
Putting a song in a video work (the technical term is "synchronization") is an infringement. This is not debatable - that's what the law says (and Lenz's fair use claim - being an affirmative defence - depended on it being so). Whether going after this specific infringement was a good use of anyone's time is a different story.
Universal filed a DMCA takedown notice; video got taken down; Lenz filed a counter-notice; video got restored. Universal didn't pursue the matter further, Lenz and the EFF did.
From where I sit, the system worked as designed. The only reason there was a case at all is because the EFF (worthless POSs that they are) saw it as a chance to play politics.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
I don't think what they're doing could really be called "public broadcasting."
The RIAA has gone after people for less.
Have they? That's an honest question.
RIAA specifically? Depends on what you consider "less". RIAA got headlines for going after file sharing.
But certain members of RIAA? Definitely. Remember the Dancing Baby case?
I still don't see the connection, no. The guy playing the music wasn't doing anything at all to share it. He was simply playing the music on his personal device. I could imagine punishments for that action, since it definitely seemed plausible that the point was to prevent the guy from successfully sharing the video online, but I don't see how the RIAA or similar would be a part of that.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
As far as I remember, publicly broadcasting music might just cause the license holders of said music to go after the cops in question.
I don't think what they're doing could really be called "public broadcasting."
The RIAA has gone after people for less.
Have they? That's an honest question.
RIAA specifically? Depends on what you consider "less". RIAA got headlines for going after file sharing.
But certain members of RIAA? Definitely. Remember the Dancing Baby case?
I still don't see the connection, no. The guy playing the music wasn't doing anything at all to share it. He was simply playing the music on his personal device. I could imagine punishments for that action, since it definitely seemed plausible that the point was to prevent the guy from successfully sharing the video online, but I don't see how the RIAA or similar would be a part of that.
Legal time:
Knowing that the video was being broadcasted (streamed live, but I assume that they're legally equivalent if the stream is freely available and/or the cop did not know the breadth of the audience), the cop set music playing at volume loud enough to be picked up on the stream. I.e. he knowingly caused the piece of music to be broadcast, without having a license to do so.If the rights holder (or RIAA, I guess) were inclined to do so, they could technically have grounds to sue for the copyright infringement. I doubt that they'd be willing to do so, since the officer clearly did not intend to video-DJ. And going after law-enforcement for a minor thing would be counter-productive in the long run. But it's technically possible for RIAA to go after the cop. Although IANAL, so...
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@acrow I guess it wouldn't be the weirdest legal thing. I'm just skeptical about this conjecture.
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@boomzilla I wasn't the one who said that RIAA'd go after this kind of violation. I hold it unlikely.
If there were a hundred-plus people doing the same, then I could see them going for the herd like they did with the file-sharing stuff. But going after a single instance? They'd have to be very hungry for a precedent for some reason.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I wasn't the one who said that RIAA'd go after this kind of violation.
I know. And you've done yeoman's work in trying to come up with a plausible scenario.
I hold it unlikely.
If there were a hundred-plus people doing the same, then I could see them going for the herd like they did with the file-sharing stuff. But going after a single instance? They'd have to be very hungry for a precedent for some reason.
Maybe. OK, here's an analogy. A movie theater that doesn't kick people out for recording movies (assuming any were open :-P). Granted, the theater is kind of cutting the legs off their own business, too, so not as likely (i.e., the analogy between the cop and the theater breaks down a bit). But maybe. I think it might be a loophole that could convince a judge. Possibly. Assuming the theater theory is legit.