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These collection societies are actually the opposite of the mafia. They collect royalties on behalf of the composers. If the composer has a publisher, the royalties are forwarded t…

What if in the future we could examine the contents of a particular rock from space? Have instruments sensitive enough to detect the remnants of Vogon breath from their visit milli…

This mission is an incredible achievement. The images are as advertised (stunning) and I'm sure all the sciences - and even art - will benefit from the data. What I find a little s…

Spoiler alert - If you were looking for the controversial 'Harold was smitten in the eye by an arrow' scene, its at the '57' mark. I'll leave it for others to decide what killed hi…

They should have explained that copyright belongs to every author and singling out one industry as being worthy of compensation works against the spirit of the treaty. They could t…

> ...used to control politics in three major large democracies Five eyes my foot. As you have noted, three of them appear to be completely blind. If they cannot protect us from thi…

> The way some people are angry at google here reminds of of Brexit. Indeed. Both are the result of flooding the media with specious arguments designed to make people fight over ir…

Quite a few people here think that this legislation exists solely to prop up various News Corp outlets. https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/11/26/coalition-news-corp-fun...

My neighbour used to have a Dyson leaf blower. I would wake up thinking I was in the men's room.

To be fair, the Dyson model claims to heat and cool the air as well as filter it - unlike the DIY purifier.

I've used podman-compose for a few web projects. Rootless means you can't bind to privileged ports etc. but after a bit of fiddling I can now spin up my choice of DB/server/mock pr…

If those damned Argentinians would just mine bitcoin exclusively, we could all get on with our lives. We also need to talk to South Africa about Youtube.

True - and even with this tremendous waste, it pays for itself. We have never looked beyond monetary return to justify the existence of anything and i fear we are doomed to stay th…

I think both the article and this comment miss the point. If we generated power cleanly in the first place, there would be far less environmental damage everywhere. The fact that B…

If the goal is to educate the public on the scale of power involved, a comparison with a commonly used service would help a lot IMHO. Something like 'Bitcoin consumes 14 times the …

Lately I've seen boxes marked with just the penis - no 'Amazon' at all.

If there were one video we could archive to describe the world as it is right now, this would be it IMHO.

Would it make sense for these companies to make bets against their customer's trades? My guess it that the customers are wrong most of the time.

I'm not convinced that a plot formed openly on the internet actually qualifies as a conspiracy. I'm sure things would have worked out differently for Nixon had he distributed a pre…

Its a little trickier in New Zealand, where one pulse means '9' :) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_Rotary_T...

Congratulations! You've just shown us all that the gradient started to shift upwards less than 300 years ago. Seriously, look at some basic calculus. Try to understand what you are…

When someone talks about anything changing over a period of time, they are talking about slope. There really isn't another interpretation.

The data points at the top are at 16.6 year intervals. Recent data is represented by a line. The punch line is not the absolute temperature (as this wanders around a fair bit), but…

I believe the parent is talking about rate of change rather than absolute temperature. Discounting collisions with large meteors, the statement that the average temperature over ti…