I am going to use a term that is hard to measure: authenticity. A lot of TV programming today, not just for kids, but in general, seems to just pander to the audience rather than tell it as it is, with genuine struggle and strife. There are exceptions (The Bear, most notably). But a lot of it just seems like pablum and slop generated to attract eyeballs rather than to tell a story. Kids sense, and dislike, condescension.
Old skool "Sesame Street" was engineered to attract eyeballs, too. They had kids watch an episode and if their attention wandered, they changed the episode. It wasn't pablum, though, so I don't think one implies the other.
"Future generations are gonna look back at us for our treatment of animals, especially farmed animals, much the way we look back at our slave owning ancestors."
I predict that in the next 100 years, or less, consumption of animal products will be much the same taboo as tobacco consumption (in the USA) is today.
Yes, they will still be around, but if you enjoy them openly, you will be a bit of a social pariah in many circles.
"And it also uses the Bill of Rights to essentially ban even the most popular laws if they infringe fundamental human rights."
paraphrasing George Carlin: There is no such thing as Rights. Only privileges which can be revoked on a whim.
"The product of the railways is the successful arrival of passengers at their chosen destination."
Clearly, this was not written in the USA. With a few exceptions (NE corridor, Wolverine route), Amtrak is forced to share rails with host freight (goods) railroads who could give a hoot about the expedient delivery of passengers. The Big 4 (BNSF, UP, CSX, NS) would rather just let their freight have priority and pay a minimal fine. Sadly, this will continue to be the case where Amtrak does not have their own right of way (NE Corridor, Wolverine).
If you are looking for offshore proof employment it is worth noting that defense contractors are scrambling to find qualified help.
3 conditions:
1. Work on site typically 100% because classified systems are not 'net connected.
2. No drug use. Not even THC, even if your state "legalized" it. Still illegal at the federal level.
3. No criminal history, at least in the last 10 years.
4. Must pass a FBI background check and clearance interview.
I own an older Lexus RX350, which I upgraded the stereo head unit from an outdated cassette/CD player to an Alpine unit with Android Auto/Apple Car Play. While it certainly packs more features, needing to look down to do things like frequency search is inherently dangerous because it takes my eyes off the road. Compounding the matter is if I hit a bump, and it makes my finger bounce and I end up hitting the wrong button and spending MORE time looking at the screen to make a correction.
I do my best to use voice recognition while in motion, but sometimes it just doesn't work.
For routine items like fan, temperature, volume, etc, hard buttons make sense. But things like updating maps are much harder to do via hard buttons.
There's an easy solution to this: just move hosting to and register in the Marshall Islands where there is effectively no copyright enforcement. It is difficult to threaten someone with a lawsuit when the law they cite is not enforced.
Ha I'm sure their internet connectivity is excellent. And even if it was, you think a country with a population of 42k is somehow immune to political pressure?
The forthcoming "Block BEARD" act in the U.S. will soon enable rights holders to apply for foreign sites to be blocked (at the IP level I believe) on piracy grounds.
But hosting it there long-term would still have value even if U.S. users couldn't easily get to it. Access would be legal when copyrights expire and everything becomes public domain.
Therefore, above, long-term means long-long-long-term: enough time for all U.S. copyrights to expire under the current law, which would be about 250 years. This of course assumes no U.S. copyright reform, no expansion of the current copyright law, and that U.S. law/authority/power continues to exist in its current form.
Do you think such an archive could be kept alive that long? Here are some potential issues:
- Literal piracy (e.g. pirates coming to shore)
- Storage of data for 250 years (metal rusts, dvds melt/warp, paper is not data dense)
- Climate change
- Undersea cable cuts
- Nuclear war
- Technological evolution (will networking and storage look the same in 50, 100, 200 years)
> Storage of data for 250 years (metal rusts, dvds melt/warp, paper is not data dense)
I would think: LTO tapes are like 20ish years if stored properly, so you'd only have to copy them 10-15 times over the course of 250 years although that cost/effort decreases over time with ever more modern standards.
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