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Printer cartridges

dimanche 7 avril 2019 à 02:00

Epson is trying to block compatible printer cartridges by ordering Amazon and eBay to delete offers to sell them.

The complete fix for this is to change patent law.

Tracking passengers' movements

dimanche 7 avril 2019 à 02:00

Uber and Lyft have tracked their passengers' movements for many years. Now New York City tracks those passengers' movements too.

Please do not call what these companies do "sharing". That is an absurd misnomer.

Ethanol from corn as fuel

dimanche 7 avril 2019 à 02:00

US farmers are still pushing the idea that adding ethanol made from corn would reduce vehicles' consumption of fossil fuel.

The flaw in that approach is that growing corn the US way uses up fossil fuel — too much of it.

Refugees and forests

dimanche 7 avril 2019 à 02:00

Refugees in Uganda are cutting down forests to make houses and to burn the wood.

This is a small foretaste of what hundreds of millions of climate refugees will do in a few decades. It will be difficult for any forest to survive if we don't limit the overrunning human population.

Repression of marijuana use

dimanche 7 avril 2019 à 02:00

Repression of marijuana use fails to discourage teenagers from using it.

Regardless of what harm marijuana might do, or not do, repression does not reduce it. So end the repression!