The printing press is a very new invention in our universe. Before then books were for the rich. Often too history is written by the victors and so it missing a lot of important details that might or might not matter.
Come to think of it intelligent life such as could write books seems to be new. (but we have no ability to detect life elsewhere if it exists so who knows)
In the 1970s some car makers advertised that there would be no damage to the bumper/car at all at 5mph.
At what speed? At 5mph - walking speeds - I’ll take the 1970s car with the 5mph bumper any day. However at more realistic speeds the 1970s car will still need expensive repairs - it will be a lot cheaper repairs than a modern car, but it still will need significant work. Meanwhile the modern car means I’m much less likely to need major repairs which often cannot be done at any price.
I have long said software needs to have a lifetime warranty for security. You don’t need to add new features but if someone is still running windows 95 it needs all security holes fixed.
I don’t have a choice. Either you defend Iran for funding everyone who wants to kill the Jews, or you defend the US and Israel for attacking Iran. There is no middle ground, either way you are defending genocidal maniacs. I hate both options.
Nobody knows what the spring offensive will be or look like. Some Russian planers have an idea, but Ukraine has been forcing Russia to make hard decisions. ISW thinks it has already started, other observers say it is still coming.
it uses the Hebrew calendar which is completely different from modern systems. It is always exactly the same day every year. That Catholics and orthodox sometimes use different days is historically correct usage of the Hebrew calendar. First full moon after the spring equinox is an easy simplification (and likely what the ancients were trying for desbite not having modern astronomy) - but it isn’t correct.
There are lots of options - if you have a few million dollars to pay the lawyers. If you win you get that back. Sometimes lawyers will accept cases on pay only if you win - but generally only if they are sure of winning which this doesn’t seem to me. Still check with a lawyer if you want to consider it.
Or you can make war and kill innocents. Or you can turn your back and watch them kill innocents.
there are other variations, but I have yet to see an option that isn’t awful.
I do not know how hard it is to get access to this. That is a good question to ask - but also read the fine print if you get access as it may not be any better than the legal process for you.
Legislation that requires giant trillion dollar companies actually employ living breathing humans who can perform a task rather than automate it despite that not working and then just not caring.
They do. If you or I submit a claim it will go through the process. They have an automated process for the “big boys” that is not the legal copyright process, but it is faster and cheaper for both - it looks like the process, but it isn’t.
On what grounds? Google’s terms of service say they can take down anything they want for any reason. If someone starts a copyright case you can go go court, but all this is carefully/legally designed such that there is no downsides to “mistakes”
Copyright claims are under penalty of perjury - you can go to prison for making them in bad faith.
What Patamount/CBS/etc are doing is not a copyright claim, it is a backdoor google has given them - but not you - that lets them bypass the legal process and get things taken down - but if they are wrong there is no legal issue for them. From the outside it looks exactly like a copyright claim, and in spirit it is - by legally it is not a copyright claim in important ways.
Yes, but they are quiet. You probably have some friends who are - but you don’t know it because they don’t talk politics with you. This goes for all movements - the vocal people who end up as the face of the movement are rarely nice people (there are exceptions). The left has tankies that are not nice people either.
No he isn’t. He is putting a few brakes on in places but there are too many ecconomic tail winds and so green energy is being added despite his efforts. There are only a few places his position even has power, most green energy is a state permit only.
saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)
Maybe. The average driver is spending just under $200 per month now on gas (14000 miles per year at 20mpg, gas $3/gallon - you can adjust numbers as you want, these are reasonable but some cars better fuel ecconomy) if you drive more than average it is possible to make payments on fuel savings in some cases.
or in my case the old car was going to be replaced anyway. Paymets were a given, so saving over $100 a month in fuel was a nice bonus. There are a lot of people who are buying something different anyway who care about their budget.
Reserection is tied to passover, which in turn is tied to the spring equinox. Bunnies and many of the other things done then have pagan roots, but the date has a real meaning anyway.
Which sects? Some of them are very combined. Some of them are not. The puritans refused to celebrate Christmas because of the paganism influences.
As a parent, most of the worry is just unreasonable fear. If you want kids have them. Sure they are expensive, but they will take so much time you won’t be able to do a lot of the other things you were spending money on before. I find it well worth the costs (this is of course a matter of opinion)