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Europe's upload filtering proposal

lundi 14 novembre 2016 à 01:00

Users Around the World Reject Europe's Upload Filtering Proposal.

It mandates censorship on behalf of companies that have far too much power already. We need to make copyright weaker, not stronger.

It is regrettable that the EFF article disparages publications and creative works by calling them "content".

TPP is dead!

dimanche 13 novembre 2016 à 01:00

The TPP is dead!

Champagne party

dimanche 13 novembre 2016 à 01:00

A big fuss is made about a champagne party at a university, for the wrong reasons.

That college students already have an alcohol problem, and drank themselves into unconsciousness, is very grave. However, I don't see anything wrong in having sex at a party, or in jumping in a pond, if you want to do that.

Altered ecosystems

dimanche 13 novembre 2016 à 01:00

Just 1 degree C of global heating has already altered ecosystems around the world. Some animals have evolved to be significantly smaller in just 50 years.

If you imagine that something killed all tall humans, humans could become substantially shorter in a few generations, because shorter humans already exist. But this rapid evolution can only go as far as the existing variation permits. To evolve to be even shorter would require a long time for mutation to make more variation.

Auto industry lobbying

dimanche 13 novembre 2016 à 01:00

Car manufacturers ask Trump to cancel fuel economy standards.

He has two reasons to do it: to please car companies, and to please oil companies. I expect he will do what those companies want.