Entries tagged with piracy

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Interesting Links for 09-12-2023

1. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing: (tags:piracy intellectual_property drm )
2. Doctor Who | Over 100 people complain about inclusion of human being in The Star Beast: (tags:bigotry UK transgender bbc drwho )

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Interesting Links for 20-09-2023

1. The Ancient Times of TV were weird: (tags:tv weird history comic funny )
2. I'm pretty sure that this is where the search for consciousness is headed: (tags:consciousness funny comic )
3. No evidence people have bank accounts closed due to political views, regulator says after Nigel Farage row: (tags:politics banking )
4. Less than half of fresh produce sold globally makes any profit: (tags:business food doom )
5. Right-wing ideologues can't work out who broke Britain, so let me explain: (tags:uk Conservatives doom )
6. Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable: (tags:earth environment doom )
7. Facebook is Blocking Canadians' Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India's Government.: (tags:india canada facebook censorship )
8. The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary: (tags:birthday piracy piratebay copyright )
9. I was furious at the idea of a 'male menopause' but I was wrong: (tags:men hormones age )

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Interesting Links for 28-02-2023

1. Edinburgh Labour councillor quits, says that Labour head office banning coalitions with Greens or SNP has caused a shambles: (tags:labour scotland OhForFucksSake )
2. This is my favourite recent computer game review: (tags:games review )
3. A Stroke Of The Pen: A Collection Of Rediscovered Short Stories By Terry Pratchett: (tags:terrypratchett short_story )
4. I am actually pretty impressed at how much the UK managed to get in the new deal over Northern Ireland: (tags:NorthernIreland trade Europe UK Ireland )
5. Rez on the PSVR 2 uses eye tracking for locking on!: (tags:VirtualReality games eyes amazing )
6. Aurora Borealis. Edinburgh, 26 February 2023. (I couldn't see from where we live, but I do appreciate these photos): (tags:auroraborealis edinburgh scotland )
7. The Jewish influence on Good Omens: (tags:judaism neilgaiman )
8. Elon Musk defends racist tirade by Dilbert creator Scott Adams: (tags:racism dilbert ElonMusk )
9. TikTok's new face filters are very impressive, and make people feel awful about their real faces: (tags:faces photoshop video )
10. Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites: (tags:copyright amazon piracy wtf publishing )
11. Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility: (tags:exercise fertility men )
12. Eggs and margarine drive food inflation to record 17.1%: (tags:food inflation economics uk eggs ukraine doom )
13. Two in three Britons want new political party to take on Tories and Labour: (tags:politics UK )
14. Study finds video games are not harmful to children's brains: (tags:videogames games brain children )
15. 25 years after the MMR vaccine autism fraud, we're still dealing with the consequences: (tags:fraud autism mmr vaccination OhForFucksSake history )

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Interesting Links for 09-03-2022

Replace saturated fats with unsaturated ones, not with carbs and sugars: (tags:fat heart health diet carbohydrates sugar )
The most complete family tree of all of humanity has been created: (tags:humans family genetics )
Gender pay gap bot lets you know how hypocritical employers are on International Women's Day: (tags:women pay inequality viaSwampers bots )
Some polling on whether Russians support the Ukraine invasion: (tags:Ukraine Russia polls war )
Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic: (tags:antarctic history ship )
'Genius' Twitter 'bot' reveals gender pay gaps of brands celebrating International Women's Day: (tags:gender pay inequality funny )
To understand Russia, you need to understand that it's a Mafia-run economy: (tags:russia crime mafia economy viaDanielDWilliam )
EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017): (tags:europe piracy copyright business )
Scientists reverse ageing in elderly mice by rejuvenating their tissues: (tags:age mice )
Mouse born from unfertilised egg - without sperm - survives to adulthood, gives birth to healthy pups: (tags:childbirth biology mice )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3969916.html

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Interesting Links for 13-12-2020

2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy: (tags:piracy Disney streaming TV )
When you suddenly remember it's a video meeting: (tags:funny video )
A magical story of bringing a little light and happiness during the pandemic: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337598289080770561.html
(tags:happiness fairytale children pandemic )
Republicans are trying to restart the civil war.: (tags:USA civilwar republicans OhForFucksSake )
Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher: (tags:cryptography murder history USA )
Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can: (tags:art photography timelapse )
I rather liked this fan edit of The Hobbit movies.: (tags:TheHobbit remix )
Highlights from life as a flight attendant: (tags:flying jobs )
Autism spectrum — Large study supports discarding the term 'high-functioning autism': (tags:autism )
New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night: (tags:speed safety driving cameras )
Any port in a perfect storm: UK container trade is grinding to a halt: (tags:trade UK Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3770141.html

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Interesting Links for 04-03-2019

Brexit: Michael Gove admits farmers may never recover from no-deal: (tags:UK europe farming doom )
Honda reveals it had plans to make electric cars in Swindon before plant closure: (tags:UK europe Honda doom cars )
Momo challenge: The anatomy of a hoax: (tags:fake news journalism police children )
Herbalist Who Told Diabetic Boy To Use Lavender Oil Instead Of Insulin Is Jailed For His Death: (tags:diabetes death usa OhForFucksSake fraud )
Women hit back at archaic and damaging views on transgender rights in scathing open letter: (tags:lgbt transgender scotland women )
Women call ambulance for husbands with heart attacks but not for themselves: (tags:women health heart society OhForFucksSake )
China's Ambitious Plan to Build the World's Biggest Supergrid: (tags:electricity china )
The Birthday Paradox, and why hashing algorithms need such a huge number space to avoid collisions: (tags:mathematics birthday )
What's the worst wedding you've been at?: (tags:wedding fail )
Mixing different measurement scales, for fun and, well, more fun: (tags:measurement funny )
Humans don't actually make very good teachers: (tags:teaching psychology attention )
How ebook piracy can destroy the chances of you seeing a sequel to a book you loved: (tags:books piracy business publishing )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3729225.html

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Interesting Links for 03-10-2018

DUP 's Arlene Foster says Good Friday Agreement not 'sacrosanct': (tags: uk NorthernIreland Ireland doom )
U.S. to partners of U.N. LGBTQ staff: Get married, or get out: (tags: marriage lgbt OhForFucksSake usa )
Brexit: DUP threatens to pull plug on Theresa May's government: (tags: uk Europe NorthernIreland DUP )
Immune system's balancing act keeps bowel disease in check: (tags: IBS inflammation genetics )
Nurseries may trump informal or childminder care for kids' psychological development: (tags: mentalhealth children childcare psychology )
Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page: (tags: Wikipedia physics women OhForFucksSake )
As a proportion of the population, the UK has less millionaire households than many other European countries: (tags: wealth europe )
An Italian mayor rejuvenated his town's economy by accepting thousands of migrants – now he's been arrested for it: (tags: immigration Italy OhForFucksSake )
How do I embarrass 18 year olds in 2018? - NoStupidQuestions: (tags: teenagers funny culture )
The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy: (tags: copyright piracy streaming Choice tv movies )
Is the UK heading for disastrous Brexit just because it’s easiest?: (tags: uk europe doom )
Unite to hold ballot on Edinburgh Trams industrial action: (tags: edinburgh trams unions )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3715234.html

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Interesting Links for 14-08-2018

How piracy protects our culture: (tags: history culture copyright piracy )
Julian Assange Went After a Former Ally. It Backfired Epically.: (tags: JulianAssange OhForFucksSake )
France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%: (tags: solarpower france )
Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It’s Having a Major Revival.: (tags: economics Portugal austerity GoodNews )
The Future of Nine Worlds: (tags: conventions )
Jeremy Corbyn admits being present at wreath-laying for Munich terrorists but denies paying tribute himself: (tags: labour terrorism israel )
The Handmaid's Tale highlights the difference between the demands of novels and TV: Do you tell a coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end, or do you just keep going on as long as the viewers will last?
(tags: tv writing books margaretatwood )
Sainsbury's supermarket goes 'till-free': (tags: technology shopping )
Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the USA: a population-based disease burden and cost analysis: (tags: iq endocrine usa doom )
Edinburgh council debating new plaque on monument of former colonial secretary Henry Dundas (who delayed Britain's exit from the slave trade by fifteen years): (tags: Scotland slavery OhForFucksSake video history )
Link between herpes virus and cardiovascular damage: (tags: herpes heart health age )
‘Undruggable’ cancers treated by slowing growth could be 'holy grail', researchers say: (tags: cancer research )
Premier League: 10 of 20 clubs could have made profits in 2016-17 without fans at games: (tags: football money business tv )
Why some computer viruses refuse to die: (tags: virus history computers )
Jacob Rees-Mogg prepares to announce a rival to the Chequers plan: (tags: Conservatives europe uk trade )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3713731.html

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Interesting Links for 09-08-2018

Yes, the SNP’s dithering is making me angry! (An immigrant speaks): (tags: immigration Scotland snp independence )
UK refuses visas for a dozen Edinburgh book festival authors: (tags: OhForFucksSake Edinburgh immigration uk books festival )
Theresa May has 'no clear sense' of how to handle no deal Brexit: Head firmly in the sand
(tags: UK Europe Scotland doom )
Salisbury Spy Poisoning: US Says Russia Was Behind Nerve Agent Attack In UK, And Will Impose Sanctions: (tags: usa Russia uk nerve poison )
We recently moved to Octopus energy, who have excellent customer service, are cheap, and I have 100% renewable electricity. Save £50 by signing up with this referral link: (tags: electricity uk )
Voters in region critical to Tory election victory swing against Brexit: (tags: polls uk Europe )
Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct: No voting system which can't be manually verified should ever be used.
(tags: voting fail )
Inducing labour one week before due date cuts childbirth complications, ‘game changing’ study finds: (tags: babies health childbirth pregnancy )
She’s the world’s top empathy researcher. But colleagues say she bullied and intimidated them: (tags: bullying research academia )
Turns out you can't just copy other people's photos you find on the internet. Who knew copyright existed?: (tags: copyright europe germany law )
'Elitist': angry book pirates hit back after author campaign sinks website: (tags: books copyright piracy )
How Magic Leap's AR goggles went from a metre across to fitting on your head.: (tags: design Technology augmentedreality )
The EU Spent a Bundle to Unify the Continent. It’s Not Working.: (tags: europe money )
After almost a decade and billions in outside investment, Magic Leap's first product is finally on sale for $2,295. Here's what it's like.: (tags: augmentedreality review )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3703527.html

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Interesting Links for 11-07-2018

India breastfeeding magazine cover ignites debate: (tags: breastfeeding india )
Theresa May will be PM til after Brexit: (tags: Conservatives uk politics )
PETA wants staffies added to the Dangerous Dogs Act: (tags: dogs PETA OhForFucksSake )
Picky Refugee Just Expects To Be Reunited With Exact Same Family As Before: (tags: immigration satire )
The U.S. Abortion Debate Isn’t As Partisan As Politicians Make It Seem: (tags: usa abortion )
EU negotiator Michel Barnier says 80% of Brexit deal is agreed: (tags: uk europe thefuture )
Why Russia is far less threatening than it seems: (tags: Russia economics thefuture )
Please don't pirate books before they've even been released!: (tags: books publishing piracy OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
Psychology, Numeracy and Biases in Brexit Voters: (tags: referendum Europe UK psychology personality )
What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?: (tags: Russia politics usa republicans conspiracy )
Netflix's The Dragon Prince: A New Animated Series From Avatar: The Last Airbender's Head Writer Announced: (tags: Netflix animation )
How peopleare misreading the end of Return of the Jedi: (tags: StarWars )
Brits are a _lot_ more in favour of immigratns than they were five years ago: (tags: immigration polls uk GoodNews )
These Bizarre Glasses Promise to Cure Your Motion Sickness: (tags: sick vision glasses )
Turns out you can fight corruption by informing the populace of their rights: (tags: corruption fraud GoodNews food )
Performing meaningless rituals boosts our self-control through making us feel more self-disciplined: (tags: self-control psychology )
Lesbians have better sex than straight women: (tags: sex lesbians lgbt )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3630472.html

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Interesting Links for 27-09-2017

Rise in household waste being recycled in Scotland: (tags: scotland recycling GoodNews )
Over 2,500 products have shrunk in size over the last five years. Now including Jaffa cakes: (tags: food inflation uk viaSwampers )
Game of Thrones’ first Assistant Director on the challenges of Eastwatch, and how Jon Snow almost ‘turned into a human kite’: (tags: gameofthrones tv )
EU study finds piracy doesn’t hurt game sales, may actually help (hurts films and books though): (tags: piracy business games music movies books money )
Saudi Arabia driving ban on women to be lifted: (tags: GoodNews saudiarabia women cars driving )
Twitter is giving you more characters to express yourself: (tags: twitter )
People think Rick is a really cool guy: (tags: intelligence emotion tv )
Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee (rather than sit in protest): (tags: usa racism protests sports )
Ireland to hold abortion referendum in 2018: (tags: ireland abortion referendum )
EasyJet puts its weight behind plans for electric planes: (tags: airplanes electricity thefuture )
How US kids’ problems with fractions reveal the fascinating link between language and maths: (tags: mathematics numbers language Education )
GM is selling a tiny electric car with 100mile range for £4,000 (in China): (tags: china electricity cars )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3618537.html

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Interesting Links for 22-09-2017

This is what happens when you ask Twitter to buy the drinks: (tags: birthday Twitter alcohol funny )
Acclaimed French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars: (tags: food reviews france stress )
Why Is Payroll Software Hard: (tags: software design money tax law )
IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to total $185M: (tags: computers money ibm epicfail )
Council agrees business case for extending Edinburgh tram to Leith: (tags: Edinburgh trams )
Another problem with “we’ll just hire the best.”: (tags: diversity psychology work )
EU paid for report that failed to prove piracy is harmful– and tried to hide findings: (tags: Europe piracy copyright OhForFucksSake )
Individualized diets for irritable bowel syndrome better than placebo: (tags: food IBS )
Babies learn benefits of hard work by witnessing parents persevering with difficult tasks: (tags: psychology behaviour children parenting )
In favour of an opt-out organ donation system: (tags: organdonor law UK )
Why Wages Aren’t Growing: (tags: economics wages )
Weather forecasting is better than it’s ever been.: (tags: viaFanf weather )
When Amazon recommendations and dodgy journalism lead to a moral panic: (tags: Amazon journalism panic OhForFucksSake )
Uber London licence not renewed: (tags: London taxi )
Female film casting same as 100 years ago: (tags: movies women UK viaSwampers )
What do American college students think about the First Amendment?: (tags: usa freespeech university polls )
More details on Uber losing its license: (tags: London taxi regulation )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3599084.html

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Interesting Links for 18-07-2017

A List Of Times Doctor Who Was Ruined Forever: (tags: drwho funny )
Scientists marvel at creatures' precise body clock: (tags: time genes life )
Taiwan woman divorces husband who ignored her messages: (tags: communication relationships divorce marriage )
Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare: (tags: love relationships viaSwampers race uk )
Custos startup uses bitcoin bounties to make pirates rat on one another: (tags: piracy copyright bitcoin )
UK students should not try to pay off loans early: (tags: tax students uk )
Pay-per-mile road tax plan wins £250,000 Wolfson economics prize: (tags: tax cars transport economics viaSwampers )
Humans hardwired to lean to the right while kissing the world over: (tags: psychology romance kissing )
Manchester’s bike-share scheme isn't working – because people don't know how to share: (tags: sharing society bicycles UK manchester )
Flow battery developer ViZn Energy says it can pair solar and storage for 4¢/kWh: (tags: solarpower batteries electricity )
Generating random English place names: (tags: geography names AI England )
Doctor Who: We regret to inform you that you are still legally a man: (tags: drwho law lgbt transgender uk )
“Board game of the year” goes to Kingdomino (my copy arrives today!): (tags: games )
A brain implant turns “loser” mice into aggressive fighters: (tags: mice brain aggression personality cyborg )
Programmers discuss "What's the worst thing your code has done?": (tags: fail programming )
Smoking in the UK now down to 15%, government aims for 12%: (tags: smoking uk )
Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes: (tags: advertising stereotypes gender uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3596084.html

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Interesting Links for 11-07-2017

Facebook’s and eBay’s monopolies are very different from, and scarier than, Google’s. But what about Amazon?: (tags: monopoly business Amazon Google Facebook eBay )
What happened when Walmart left: As much a symptom as a cause. Population in the county dropped by 90%, and loads of businesses shut.
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How to make a friend fast - the scientific method: (tags: relationships friendship psychology )
EU Prepares "Right to Repair" Legislation to Fight Short Product Lifespans: (tags: hardware Technology europe )
Major rail disruption looms in August as stations are closed: (tags: trains transport rail uk )
Running a hospital at full capacity costs lives and money: (tags: efficiency hospital healthcare )
New way to predict when electric cars and home batteries become cost effective: Interesting conclusion about nuclear
(tags: nuclearpower electricity thefuture )
15 Years Later, Here's Why A Gamer Was Duct-Taped To A Ceiling: (tags: gaming funny history meme viaSwampers )
Sex Ed for Pirates: (tags: piracy sex Education funny comic )
Every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime: (tags: sun thefuture )
Gangnam Style is no longer the most-played video on YouTube: I've not seen the most-played. Or, in fact, seven of the top ten. I may have to rectify some of that.
(tags: music video youtube )
Taylor Review: UK should end cash-in-hand economy: (tags: jobs money uk )