Ben Carson is such a great example of how the concept of raw intelligence doesn’t exist, and that people can have wildly varying types of intelligence. This man is the best brain surgeon in America. Possibly the world. He invented a new way to treat seizures. He separated conjoined twins in a surgery that everyone else said was impossible. And he thinks going to prison makes you gay. He thinks the pyramids were grain silos built by the biblical Joseph.
So maybe you suck at something because in one area you’re Ben Carson The Politician but in another area you might be Ben Carson The Neurosurgeon.
this is tremendously inspiring and utterly horrifying at the same time
The idea that film piracy “costs” anyone anything is fallacious, because it assumes that for every film you download, you would definitely have paid for it otherwise. Which just isn’t true. In most cases, you just wouldn’t have seen it.
Like if I download some film from 1974 that sounds cool, they’re assuming that I would have bought the DVD. But I wouldn’t have bought the DVD, I just wouldn’t have seen it.
And what about when you download foreign films that haven’t even been officially released in your country, how much does that “cost” the economy?
As a film student (and soon-to-be film graduate), I can confirm this.
as a film student
(and soon-to-be film graduate)
i can confirm this
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The thing is that the lengths media companies go through to combat piracy likely costs them more than if they just let piracy happen. Look at Nintendo, they’ve been trying to combat emulators for years because it allows people to play their old games for free. But they don’t fill the demand for retro games to its fullest potential. Their efforts as yet to fill that demand have been to add virtual console games on their systems at exorbitant prices and releasing glorified plug and play systems with engineered scarcity. They don’t realize that if they made these games affordable and accessible they could make much more money and save themselves the time they’d be spending shutting down emulator sites.
The solution to piracy that most companies don’t want recognize is to play by the pirate’s rules. Spotify and to a lesser extent Crunchyroll have already figured this out. Instead of fighting piracy, companies need to change the way media is distributed. Spotify has literally changed the music industry in such a fundamental way that people don’t even think about music piracy anymore. Why pirate songs when you can download Spotify and listen to all the songs for free with a few ads?
The film industry needs to understand this. Old films become scarce and people can’t afford to go to the movies all the time so the best solution is streaming. But sites like Netflix and Hulu don’t have as many movies as they should and the ones they do have are subject to removal, that needs to change. How am I supposed to watch all of the Mad Max series if it’s not on any streaming sites? Well I’ll just pirate it of course. Can’t find that Studio Ghibli film you like, pirate it. The film industry can’t fight it, piracy sites will always come back, but what they can do is engineer a entertainment industry that’s more accessible so that people don’t resort to piracy.
People don’t do piracy for piracy’s sake. I don’t watch shitty copies of movies at the risk of my computer getting a virus for kicks. Piracy exists because there are people who want to watch movies and the only people willing to help are bootleggers.
Everyone is panicking over TOS-es right now as they find a new home as Tumblr gets flushed down the toilet. I don’t like those random TOS breakdowns because the analysis is always wrong.
Anyway this is what people pay me to do and I will now do it for $0 because I’m tired of everyone spreading misinformation. This post is not a substitute for legal advice etc. Reblogs are appreciated because I literally see TOS nonsense on my dash every day.
Any more experienced copyright lawyers please feel free to weigh in – it’s part of my field yes, but my wheelhouse is more film production COT rather than derivative works.
Google doesn’t have rights to do whatever they want to files you upload to Google Drive
Their TOSes are annoyingly broad in drafting but essentially boilerplate clauses that they need to host your work, use google translate on it, make it searchable etc. They cannot steal your fanfic. They cannot modify your art and use it for whatever.
Your work MAY be threatened (that is, deleted) thanks to FOSTA/SESTA, which imo is a clown provision signed by a clown that sent safe harbour down the toilet. This and this has more information (I’ve skimmed but not perused both), but the tl;dr is: similar to Tumblr, there was a ham-fisted attempt to protect victims of sex trafficking and all it really did was make cloud based services start deleting user files whether relevant or not.
Uploading work to dA doesn’t give them a license to sell it to Hot Topic. This post is incorrect. Debunked here and corrected by the artist himself here. Your art is safe.
There’s a breakdown of the TOS in there that’s pretty much wrong on most points, if someone wants me to do a not-wrong version, ask. This may help.
All you really need to know is that like Google, I checked it over and nothing in there puts you at risk for dA asserting ownership over your work or selling it – they need those rights for thumbnails, search functions, resizing etc.
Yum. I like this one. Easy to read and clearly explained for most people with basic reading comprehension. Section G – What We Do With Content will tell you everything you need to know.
Basically, they have the same clauses about you granting AO3 a license to modify/etc your work, but they take the trouble to explain to you exactly what that means, and how they use it to improve accessibility etc.
No history of content purges as far as I know. Explicit content is allowed with limits eg. no child porn.
Same deal – you’re looking for 1. WordPress – Responsibility of Contributors, with the exact same thing as everybody else. They also do a decent job of explaining what they use the license for (though once again, it’s standard), albeit not as beautifully as AO3.
Same old standard licensing clause, again doesn’t let them steal your stuff.
Incredibly…open content policies…you can basically do whatever you want so long as you don’t break laws or commit fraud it seems? If I’m wrong, feel free to correct.
Hope this helps. Feel free to force me to read and explain any other site TOS documents. Again, more experienced copyright lawyers, feel free to correct me if I clowned up somewhere.
The post that circulated a little while ago re: google compliance with sesta/fosta is about 8months old. I remember it also came up very close to the incident with a google bug that locked some users out of files they owned.
(I backed up most of my crap because of the incident with the bug, because that can happen to anybody at any damn time.)
So, to be clear: backups good is a universal truth, but for google in particular, the above contains details on what their tos actually says.
Cherenkov radiation is the result of the experiment.
A nice reminder that, contrary to the sickly green you usually see in fiction, glowy radiation is usually a lovely blue. But what’s happening? Well, something’s going faster than light! I’m not a physicist, so i might be getting some details wrong, but this is as far as i understand it:
See, the speed of light is a universal constant, the c of e=mc². But that’s only in a vacuum—so much of physics is based first and foremost on activity in a vacuum—and the speed of light through matter is often significantly slower. Instead of 1 c, light moves through liquid water at about 0.75 c. That may still be ludicrously fast, but it’s still slowed down enough that charged particles like electrons can exceed that speed within the medium in question. Exceeding that speed does all kinds of weird, somewhat terrifying and very exciting things to the electromagnetic field of the medium, including the creation of a shockwave in a manner very similar to a sonic boom.
In other words, that bright blue visible radiation is what happens when a particle exceeds the speed-of-light-in-water and creates a luminal boom.
Oh. So THAT’S what my favorite color is
SCIENCE WOOOOH I QUITE LITERALLY JUST WENT OVER THIS IN CHEMISTRY A WHILE BACK IT’S SUPER COOOOOOL
“Luminal boom” is a term I wish I had encountered much earlier in life.
This is also why Godzilla glows the color he does most of the time.
Monsters and Stuff 