It’s like Sputnik! Quite spherical but pointy in bits.

Where I live we are allowed to smile for a driver’s license, but not a passport photo. I think it’s because when you are traveling long distances you are going to look miserable so your passport has to reflect that.

First, I agree with everything you typed. BUT

Second, “a little fortress of solitude and separates me from the public” is kinda the problem we have that leads to the top part of the picture. We in the West in general and the United States in particular have lost our sense of community. My car by myself listening to what I want in solitude is AWESOME, but stopping to sit and be part of a community is probably better for me.

“dyspeptic liver of a brain”

I didn’t know he was a Vogon. It explains so much!

I can agree with most of what you wrote. I’m not entirely convinced the life +70 protections for some things is wrong. An artist should have control over their work, but once they pass things need to become public domain. I’ll go one step further and say that no one should be able to own things they didn’t create or commission. The Happy Birthday story is a prime example.

Ideally I’d just be able to pay you.

Yeah, but think of the calories burned!

Sounds an awful lot like Nebula.

Intellectual Property is abused by monopolies, sure, but it’s not a construct made by those monopolies. If you write a book you should have rights to how that book is distributed. That’s the idea behind copyright.

My argument wasn’t that they are more important. My observation was that the things writers, actors, and musicians produce is being sold over and over and over for other people’s profit.

Apparently my mistake was in thinking that the IT infrastructure created was purely infrastructure in the same vein as electrical, plumbing, or even physical buildings. I didn’t know that the IT systems created to provide streaming services was being sold to other streaming platforms without credit to the designers.

And before anyone thinks I am saying electricians, plumbers, carpenters and the like aren’t creative I am NOT saying that. A family member is a plumber and the stuff he has to dream up to get stuff to work is incredible.

I think I can see where you are coming from here. The difference between your creativity and writers, actors, musicians is that while your work is used by the company you built the system for that company isn’t selling it to someone else. You built infrastructure.

Writers, actors, and musicians work is being sold by the companies they work for as a revenue stream.

This is the part that pisses me off. It should be same crime same time.

I have two go with option B.

One of my favorites. And we’re not alone…

Midnight Madness!

There were several places in the media that had stories of landing on the moon as a real possibility. Almost a forgone conclusion.

This is the problem with people that think in terms of being “management”. Management will always have an adversarial relationship with everyone else in an organization simply because they think they have to. The longer they stay in those positions the worse it gets.

Amen!

Big fan of Spark on both desktop and mobile. I like the feature set of the original app. Haven’t tried the free trial of the new AI feature.

Thanks for the link. That was an entertaining watch! Still, the narrator states that he is sure the original exists on a hard drive somewhere. He also gives a solution towards the end of the video. If you really like something download it.