I think people shouldn’t eat drywall on the bus. If you don’t talk about it as much as I do, then clearly you’re in favor of people eating drywall on the bus. Why aren’t you supporting laws banning people from eating drywall on the bus?
These aren’t being pushed on kids. That’s entirely a right-wing fantasy.
Every single case they cite is about puberty blockers, not hormone therapy. Puberty blockers have been used for a long time, and are safe. Stop taking them and puberty goes on as normal. All it’s for is to give a trans child time to decide if they want to use HRT as an adult, because HRT is like going through puberty all over again.
Right–the AAA studios will just consider if they should use Unreal or an in-house engine. They’ll put it all in a big spreadsheet and come to a conclusion.
Indie devs that are on Unity are going to get hurt by this scheme. They’ll also get hurt if you don’t buy their games because they’re in Unity. The choices here aren’t great.
The one thing is Unreal seems to have been preferred for a while now, anyway. Unity was already losing market share, and is now only going to accelerate that.
You joke, but the ES121 screwdriver has an open source firmware. I think it’s running an STM32F10x (based on the file listings in the firmware). People have gotten Doom to run on an STM32F429, so it’s not that far fetched.
Nooooo, the Internet has told me several times over the past 4 years that Disney has a secret plan to push a hidden bill to extend copyright another 100 years. This is the worst thing that could happen, and therefore it definitely will.
Disney is largely protecting its characters with trademark law now, yes. That’s why there’s no particular effort to extend copyright any further than they have.
Now, as long as there are companies in a capitalist system, or even in something closer to market socialism, trademark makes a certain amount of sense. You have certain branding that’s associated with your company (even if it’s a worker-owned co-op), and you don’t want your customers confused over its use by another company. We can certainly think of ways the current system can be approved–wider protection for satire, or easier ways to shut down bullshit lawsuits without spending a lot of money–but the idea makes sense in this context.
Now, if we’re aiming for a more commune-based system beyond market socialism, then no, we don’t need trademark at all.
There is no way that happens at this point. It’s not procedurally possible for Congress to pass one by the end of the year. Even a Congress that can get things done faster than the Congress we actually have would not be able to do it. Disney would have to have started the process 5 years ago.
And there’s a very good reason for that. Since the last copyright extension, Disney can get everything they want with trademark law instead of copyright. They also saw what happened with public outrage over Net Neutrality; the Internet was nascent the last time copyright was extended, but grassroots mobilization would rise up against them this time around. The fight would be expensive, and they don’t need to have it. They can let Steamboat Willy go into public domain on Jan 1 without any great loss.
People seem to be convinced that the worst thing that can happen will definitely happen. It shows little understanding of how copyright and trademark works, how Congress gets things done, and why Disney doesn’t need to pick a fight on this issue. Their lawyers are evil, but not dumb.
That definitely happens with trademarks. In fact, they’re designed that way. You get to keep it as long as you’re using it.
Trademarks can also become so widespread that they become generic, and then the company is in danger of losing it. Kleenex, for example. This is something of a “victim of your own success” problem.
I wish there was a better mechanism for this on copyright and patents. There’s no good reason that a 30 year old video game that isn’t being actively developed should still be in copyright. Patent trolls who figure they can make more money by suing people than by licensing out the tech should be shut down.
Especially when Disney has been going through a bunch of bullshit against DeSantis. His petty fight against the company also means the party that controls the House will be actively working against them just because they can.
If your cynicism needs feeding, then know that the reason is that they expanded trademark protection in the courts, and they just don’t need to extend copyright anymore. They don’t need to pick this fight. Doubly so when they’ve allienated the party that controls the House due to their spat with DeSantis.
You think the toxic (deadly) lithium thermal runaways that can’t be stopped are somehow better? No. They are worse and a deadly underground carpark disaster waiting to happen.
Yup, all those trains waiting to explode in carparks. Nor are we developing better batteries that don’t have these problems. Nope, just leaving things exactly as they are.
Not enough lithium in the world to supply the global suv market . . .
Even if lithium was our only battery option, this is just plain wrong. People misunderstand what “reserve” means in mining. It’s not the amount of something that’s available to be mined. It’s the amount that is available profitably under current economic conditions. Both better technology and other shifts in the market mean more reserves “magically” open up.
Oceanic lithium mining may already been commercially viable, and the amount of lithium we can get from that is basically unlimited. On the lab side, there’s a promising string-based evaporation method, which would substantially reduce costs and environmental footprint–exactly the sort of tech that makes more reserves open up. It still needs to be demonstrated at scale, but the strings involved don’t use any exotic materials or have any difficult production.
There’s a ton of options there besides hydrogen. Flow batteries are far more efficient than hydrogen, and there’s no particular barrier to mass production at this point. Then there’s anything from flywheels, other battery chemistries that are too heavy for EVs, or just pumping water uphill.
We need options there today. We want to be on 80% renewables by 2030 in industrialized countries, and that will require some kind of storage solution. Fortunately, we already have quite a few.
Führer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth— or as close to the teeth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world.
It’s not complimentary. Time’s Man of the Year is based on influence. It’s not saying that influence is good.
Kept their space station going for a while, and then built a new one together. What’s left of Roscosmos and the old Soviet space program would not exist without the US propping them up.
Not entirely for altruistic reasons, mind you. Didn’t want their rocket engineers running off to other countries to make ICBMs. Now that Best Korea has them, though, it’s no longer that important.
The country that industrialized under Stalin at a breakneck pace, and then underwent a massive post-war building program for housing (commie-blocks, which are actually quite good for what they were meant to achieve) now can’t handle building affordable housing?
A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....
And there’s the two-step. Don’t come right out with what you want. Come out with a bad option, then switch over to the option you wanted when everyone complains.
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Water-based battery "safe, efficient, non-toxic" (interestingengineering.com)
Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5555641...
The difference (feddit.de)
Rule: Grrl abs = OMFG Civilization Fail (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Who knew the revolution would be this easy?
This picture kills X bots (lemmy.world)
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer loosens Senate dress code to allow senators to wear whatever they want starting Monday (www.nbcnews.com)
Hydrogen locomotive (www.money.pl)
First hydrogen locomotive started working in Poland.
"All you had to do was stick to oppressing your own people, and we would've kept looking the other way..." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This comic was published less than ten years ago, and it's wild how obsolete it is (xkcd.com)
We can get a computer to tag the birds, answer questions about them, and generate new pictures of them.
Unity will quietly waive controversial fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation service - report (www.eurogamer.net)
A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....
Its sad. . (lemmy.ml)