Or authors could preëmptively declare their works to be in the public domain upon their death.
I wish Creative Commons had a license like that. Something like CC PDD (Public-Domain-on-Death) which would activate upon the creator's death, allowing them and publishers to freely monetize their work while they're alive, but which would release the work into the public domain immediately after.
It might even incentivize music and book publishers to get their artists health insurance. 😃
don’t let them slowly re-consolidate in the following 20 years
I too remember how AT&T was broken up only for most of its Baby Bells to remerge back into Ma Bell.
To prevent this for future breakups, I say the content and services sold by big tech should be made competitively compatible and interoperable via nullification of DRM laws; people buy music and movies and cloud storage; let them legally move their purchases to any competitor and big tech companies will break up naturally as local competitors emerge from people who dislike big tech for their own reasons. Monopolies cannot be trusted to lower prices for content and services. Legally nullifying DRM is like the FCC telling customers in 1968 that it was finally okay to ignore the “Bell equipment only” legal warning that had kept them locked into leasing their telephone sets for usurious amounts from AT&T for decades. A few years later, in 1982, AT&T was broken up. AT&T is almost a total monopoly again, but phones remain interoperable.
Expected behavior: The file is not composed of null bytes.
Actual behavior; The file is composed entirely of null bytes.
A “Deez nuts” joke involving two nuts (fasteners) welded together to resemble two testes.
Keyboards were so nice when you wanted to accurately input characters without putting your faith in auto-correct. God help you if you need to input something not in its dictionary like someone's name.
I am fond of a partial shuffle algorithm I wrote in Bash for my music playlists that often preserves neighbors of the input list in the output list.
The result is like skipping through my media library in order but occasionally randomly enabling shuffle to jump to a new place. Since the input list clumps albums together and since albums often have a similar vibe, if I want several similar songs of a particular feel to play one after another, I just have to manually advance through the outputted playlist until I hit a song that has what I'm looking for; then I can let the playlist continue automatically since each subsequent song is likely to be similar to the previous song (until another random jump occurs).
Gross.
Reminds me of Mori Calliopeʼs 2021-12-22 primal scream over Adam Sandler jokes. “That was a blood-curdling scream. 大丈夫？”
The Seattle police officer in the video didn't hit the woman with his cruiser. One of the people in his police union did, of which he is vice-president.
I imagine more people would use Tor if they could get paid to provide bandwidth (like Orchid as described on FLOSS Weekly 633).
It is Kefkaʼs Tower, according to “Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive, Volume 1” (2018). Dark Horse Books. Page 259 of 335. ISBN: 978-1-50670-644-3. OCLC: 1043915833.