Some do like it, but I'm with you; I skip the logo'd clothing.
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A band is not the same as a luxury fashion brand.
One is exploited by massive corporations, gets a single digit percentage of the profits they generate, gets known by word of mouth (or T-shirt) among fans, and creates a piece of culture.
The other is a (usually massive) corporation, exploits low paid workers, is a status symbol for the rich and the people who want to appear as rich, and sometimes they make an item that could technically be considered a piece of culture.
Advertising for and/or showing your support for them are very different things that imply different things, for different reasons.
Wearing band merch implies support for their musical stylings, a connection with the creative output of the band, and possibly their world view.
Wearing a logo-festooned piece of couture clothing implies wealth and status, and (often) complicity with sweat shops.
While the two previous paragraphs seem to be similar, because of the first two paragraphs, they are quite different.
I'm always hearing about enhanced privacy laws that only apply to government workers, leaving the rest of us out in the cold. In this case, even those laws are being violated, but when its us being tracked, its fine and dandy.
The Chinese owners seem to discourage all communication between writers. They did however just acknowledge the difficulties the writers face with this platform tool.
This whole operation just smells to me like Chinese work ethic (work them till they jump out the windows, then put nets under the windows) to me. There have been two "supervisors" in the past 16 months that have come and gone. They used to buffer requests and pish to open submission on time, but then they resign without word.
Ty for the reply.
Not comfortable sharing location info, and I know state laws vary. I do know that our state has a law on the books prohibiting withholding pay based on time entry, because my union rep pushed back when I kept not getting paid because a supervisor was forgetting to approve time.
This is similar, because its the final approval process, but the work has been done, taken out of her hands and finalized. Not to mention, she waits weeks sometimes for them to get off their hands and allow her to upload.
No known contacts in the field other than her coauthors. This is her second year doing this, which is her dream job, and its opening doors for her.
Definitely, it could be automated. But part of the problem is the text box that handles the pasted data inserts characters that are not present in the final work. We've tried dumping to plaintext several different ways and looking for hidden characters, but it still occurs. Thus, it would still require human review. Double quotes could likely be filtered, but who gets paid to develop the automation? She wouldn't know how to debug or validate the code, and she shouldn't have to.
She knows this isn't her ultimate dream job, but she is getting paid to write, and getting your own stuff published is a lot of work, luck, and who you know. She's meeting lots of insiders, but struggling with these constraints.
You can make your own decisions, but if you just grab any random arguments, you'll find a reason to doubt everything.
Agreed. Especially if your source is Dessalines. 🙄
I used to participate in (what was then) the largest and most active automotive enthusiast forum for a specific brand. They had forums for each major model run, and classifieds, etc. I'd go there for how-to's, detailed info, reviews, tips and tricks, and of course, to tall with like-minded people. Meet ups even spawned from these groups, and friendships were forged.
As it really picked up steam, though, the forum creators decided to monetize, as every large website grapples with how to sustain their growth. Unfortunately, they decided to implement ads, subscription/pay wall, and within a month, there were five competing websites. The majority of us left in the first two weeks.
Now that forum still exists, but the content is gone, deleted by users who didn't appreciate their content being monetized (sound familiar, June 2023?). The replacements? Some struggle on, and one or two are vibrant, but mostly, it imploded. There was one glorious pair of years though, when I (and thousands of others) spent hours every day on the forum, and every topic was covered.
In hindsight, the downfall was more than just the advertisements and pay walling. It was a few non-admins that were treated as defacto mods, and they had bad attitudes. Flaming anyone who asked questions that were asked before (this was before Google made searching easier), and also holding their own practices as the only way to maintain their cars.
The reddit versions of the forums were not remotely the same, with people coming and going and not really sticking around. The best place for the info is still forums, though I think they struggle with server upkeep and costs. It's sad to me, but all things change. I'm glad for archive.org.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has refused to sign into law a bill approved by parliament last month that rights groups and many opposition politicians say drastically curbs the rights of the country's LGBT community.
The so-called "family values" bill was pushed through parliament by the ruling Georgian Dream party on September 17 in an 84-0 vote, which was boycotted by the opposition while rallies were being held by protesters outside the parliament building.
In line with the provisions of the Georgian Constitution, Zurabishvili refused to endorse the bill and returned it to parliament without written comments, the presidential administration **confirmed **to RFE/RL on October 2.
The move highlights the dramatically polarized political landscape in the Caucasus nation ahead of national elections in October.
Parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili, a co-sponsor of the bill and member of the Georgian Dream is now expected to sign the bill into law and publish it within five days.
Can proton know what I'm browsing?
Absolutely. Your VPN provider is in a position to know what you're browsing. It's up to us to determine if their track record and public statements align with our values. Ideally, the VPN doesn't log this info.
In the case of the ideal VPN, the rights holders would likely not even have access sufficient to determine if the VPN is connecting to "illegal" sites. That would require the ISP to provide this information to rights holders. In this case, it would seem the onus would be on Proton to take the report and look at their logs -- which don't exist -- and then report the clients (found in their nonexistent logs) connecting to that service to Italian authorities.
My understanding is that this changes nothing for VPN users. The real question is how Italy can enforce it. It seems they would need additional legislation to block access to non-compliant providers, likely at the ISP level. Slippery slope.
Important excerpt:
“Introducing a scanning application on every mobile phone, with its associated infrastructure and management solutions, leads to an extensive and very complex system. Such a complex system grants access to a large number of mobile devices & the personal data thereon. The resulting situation is regarded by AIVD as too large a risk for our digital resilience. (…) Applying detection orders to providers of end-to-end encrypted communications entails too large a security risk for our digital resilience”.
My reading of the article is that providers are "made aware" by the rights holders, not by general monitoring of communications on their network.
It’s true that Article 15(1) of Directive 2000/31 prohibits the imposition of an obligation on an ISP to carry out general monitoring of information that it transmits on its own network.
Sounds to me that, in practice, rights holders will notify providers of suspected infringement, triggering their requirement to report to authorities, and it goes from there.
I'm not sure how this would work for a VPN provider. It seems that rights holders could only notify them of suspected piracy websites, as client traffic would be invisible to them. I also wonder how Italy can enforce their laws on the providers outside their jurisdiction, beyond compelling IP blocking to all non-compliant VPN servers in the world.
I have only performed a cursory, sleepy reading of the article, and I didn't follow the links to the relevant legislation. Happy to be corrected.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/21412303
Water shed map of the Great Lakes
Edit: to be clear, I mean the original post. Thx for anyone checking
Stats
Age - ~10yrs
Weight - 10lbs
Claws - present and trimmed twice monthly
Disposition - Alpha male, but gets scared of his 7lbs sister when predator mode is activated
Favorite food - spicy chip crumbs
Intelligence on 1 to 10 - 6 (kind of derpy but knows about twenty words and does tricks for food)
History
Charlie was a wild feral trapped in 2017 by a shelter in Maine as part of a spay/neuter program (hence the missing ear tip). When they prepared to release him to the wild again, he had come down with a respiratory infection, and had to be treated for over a month. During that time, he became docile toward some people, so they decided to try to adopt him. They named him Banana. Prospective parents didn't like him because he was indifferent at best or hissing and growling at worst. He also didn't get along with other cats. We're suckers for cats with hard stories, so we scooped him up and brought him home as our only cat (for a time), where he quickly became my buddy. He was 13 pounds when we brought him home, but he's a much more lithe weight now. He lives with a 7 year old female tabby who is tiny and forever kitten. She and Charlie play a lot, and no matter how much he bullies her, she always gets right back in his face and doesn't back down. When he can't find her, he cries; not from loneliness, but fear of where her tiny sharp teeth will come out of hiding from.
I'll be sharing fun pictures of Charlie and his sister from time to time. Enjoy your weekend, Lemmy!
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