It expands the definition of “electronic communication service provider”—the entities which the government can compel to assist in surveillance, such as an email service—to include any “equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store such communications.”...
While I will post the link to the tweet be aware that there a like 100 blue check bootlickers defending Netflix here twitter.com/SaeedDiCaprio/…/1699136050331799627
Huh?! This is a shit take and mind bogglingly ignorant. Your logic is even flawed.
How are residuals controversial? In the arts it is standard performers, artists, and writers to get some form of royalty due to their work being so fungible.
If I’m paid to build a barn for a farmer, I’m not entitled to a percentage of the farmers profits every year he uses the barn. It’s his barn, I just worked to create it.
Exactly! It’s a barn and not a fully fungible product like a painting, photo, music, movie, television show, or book. The barns value is easy to determine and negotiate the price of up front. That farmer can’t take that barn the worker builds and copy it literally a billion times depending on how popular it turns out to be with farm livestock. If the farmer wants another barn, they have to hire the worker again.
With products of the arts the fair value of a performer, artist, or writers labor cannot be fully known until after the end product has been distributed and that determination of value is even further complicated by the product being fully fungible.
If I’m the camera guy on a movie, I don’t get residuals for years afterwards. I get paid for my labour and then move on to the next job.
For union projects, the producers, which is whoever is paying the crew at any given time, pays an additional percentage based on revenue into what is called the lAP. This is in addition to their nominal pension benefits.
To quote Mao Tse Tung:
NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK. Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it.
Yeah. It’s not even like software where the value can often be roughly estimated upfront based on features/scope and the end product will always require steady maintenance work to keep in a useable state. A lot of art if successful is an evergreen fungible product, which further separates it from fungible media such as writing by a journalist whose product often only has significant value during the time period of its initial publication.
Especially when you know the history. A comically large number of British intelligence agents during the cold war were secretly working for the USSR. Could totally see them waking up from being frozen and doing this “hooray communism won” bit.
US homelessness up 12% to highest reported level as rents soar and coronavirus pandemic aid lapses (apnews.com)
Obviously just a vibes problem that can be fixed with better messaging…
'I'm not a progressive': Fetterman breaks with the left, showing a maverick side (www.nbcnews.com)
Houthi missile strikes merchant ship in Red Sea: US official (abcnews.go.com)
Lmao. People claimed the Houthi declaration that they would interdict Israeli ships made no sense because they lacked anti ship missiles.
'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn (www.vice.com)
It expands the definition of “electronic communication service provider”—the entities which the government can compel to assist in surveillance, such as an email service—to include any “equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store such communications.”...
China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
Huawei and SMIC quietly rolled out a new Kirin 9000C processor....
Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation (www.vice.com)
sounds like this can only end with lobotomies to make their soliders feel nothing and question nothing
can't make this shit up, lol (hexbear.net)
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Unity bad (hexbear.net)
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Netflix PR Working Overtime (hexbear.net)
While I will post the link to the tweet be aware that there a like 100 blue check bootlickers defending Netflix here twitter.com/SaeedDiCaprio/…/1699136050331799627
Finally those lemmy.world pigs will pay for their crimes eh, comrade? (hexbear.net)