I’m just this guy. You know?
Pretty sad. I do wonder what a healthy population looks like though, since they only exist on one island. They are decreasing, and have been for a while, so probably not 250. Also, they are barely different enough from common raccoons to qualify as a separate species, so i think they are a hard sell to expend much effort on.
Truly, this is the end times.
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If they reprinted those scanned books and sold them or even gave them away, they would be in more trouble than you would by sharing on limewire by dent of numbers. That isn’t what they are doing with these books. In fact, they did get in trouble for using the books they didn’t buy.
When a bookstore goes out of business or just can’t sell a book, they don’t return it to the printers, they tear off the cover, return that and by law have to throw the rest of the book in the trash and destroy it. So books are already destroyed by the millions. When I was a kid our hometown bookstore went out of business and I watched them throw away 2 metal dumpsters full of coverless books. If they were destroying ancient texts or valuable copies, that would be more something to get excited about. I doubt that they were doing that though.
I feel like it would have been nicer for him to vomit on the ground instead of in a decorative pot or somebody’s chimney.
The brick hammer is great for everything up to Snes and GBA. It is my most used device of 7 or 8 that I own. It isn’t good for n64 and up, not because it won’t play them, but because it has no joystick. Even so, for Snes, nes and GBA I really believe that there is no better platform to play them on.
I mean, really, you probably have $0 worth of damages to worry about. If something in particular happens, like corporate espionage hurting your business that causes real damage, then you have the freedom to sue for that particular thing. (Supposing you aren’t locked out by the settlement.)
These are civil cases, buying your way out is all that happens in the best of circumstances in a civil case. It is just a matter of how much you have to pay to buy out. Punitive damages might do some extra justice, but what would that be? In the end you have to imagine that some radom person has sued you unjustly and decide how you want an innocent person to be treated, or perhaps they sued you with some small real point to their lawsuit, do you want the default to be that you are ruined? Maybe you didn’t intend harm, but want to either make amends or at least get past the lawsuit so you can get on with your life, do you want no recourse possible?
In the end, if Google was forced out of business, many(most) of us would be way worse off. That is not the ideal outcome. Ideally, the case brings enough money to the plaintiff to right any hardship caused and, in the case of punitive damages, does just enough hardship to the defendant that they are dissuaded from pursuing that course of action, but you aren’t trying to kill them.
Good gravy. 1984 wasn’t a guidebook.
Settlements only happen with the consent of both parties. I don’t see that as a problem. If you really don’t want a settlement, then opt out of the class action and bring your own case or do what you can to make sure the lawyer for the class action won’t settle. That I suppose is unlikely, as the lawyer will do whatever ends up being the most likely win case scenario in their opinion and the number of people in the class action will probably mean you have no individual say in it (not sure how that particular piece works but no class action suit that approached me gave me any options for what I wanted out of it).
I never heard anything about Joe having contact of any kind with putin… I just looked it up and there is no indication anywhere that he has ever had contact with putin. He did say some stuff that made Ukraine a bit mad, but it was mostly focused on keeping the US out of forign wars. That might have been short sighted in the case of the Ukrane war, but has nothing to do with russian influence…
I just ran a list of all the politial comentary guests to check their standing, and it seems pretty even between right, left and libertarian left, leaning towards libertarian. I haven’t listened to him lately, but I never got the impression that he was much of a right winger from anything he has ever said on there while I was listening. Of course, I’m not interested in political interviews, so I would have avoided shows with purely political interviews… Everything he does seems to lean far left. He is a meathead and easily influenced by fad diets. But he also seems to like everyone and not sort by politics. That’s just the impression I get.
His podcast was already big before it was on Spotify, wasn’t it? I haven’t listened in half a decade, but I remember being sort of mad that he went to Spotify and removed the feed from where I was listening.
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Hmm. Why organize with those fiberoptic wires at all when all programming is done by organizing isolinear chips in a grid?
(Also, as easily as those chips pop out, every time the inertial dampeners fail just enough for the crew to feel hull damage but not enough to turn them to paste, they would all fall out and require Data to reorganize them.)
From what I read in the 10 minutes I was interested in it, it seems like the people who spend way more time on that than us aren’t 100% sure that they are a distinct species and only came to that conclusion fairly recently. I like raccoons in general, so I would like to see that distinct family of raccoons protected. I’m not going to argue much that they aren’t a distinct species. They do apparently have a different number of teeth now than their mainland kin. Mountain folk have a different number of teeth than city folk too, but that doesn’t make them extrahuman.