An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: In one of the biggest wins for the right to repair movement yet, the U.S. Copyright Office suggested Thursday that the U.S. government should take actions to make it legal to repair anything you own, forever -- even if it requires hacking into the product's software. Manufacturers -- including John Deere, Ford, various printer companies, and a host of consumer electronics companies -- have argued that it should be illegal to bypass the software locks that they put into their products, claiming that such circumvention violated copyright law. Thursday, the U.S. Copyright Office said it's tired of having to deal with the same issues every three years; it should be legal to repair the things you buy -- everything you buy -- forever. "The growing demand for relief under section 1201 has coincided with a general understanding that bona fide repair and maintenance activities are typically non infringing," the report stated. "Repair activities are often protected from infringement claims by multiple copyright law provisions." "The Office recommends against limiting an exemption to specific technologies or devices, such as motor vehicles, as any statutory language would likely be soon outpaced by technology," it continued.
Professor Stephen Hawking believes Zayn might still be in One Direction - in a different universe
The important thing about this is that Stephen Hawking well understands the fact that you can enjoy and/or be upset about frivolous things while simultaneously enjoying and/or being upset about important things.
He also turned this into a massive encouragement for girls to become female scientists as they age.
I fucking love Stephen hawking he gave this a serious answer instead of trivializing teenage girls like most men (esp. highly intelligent nerdy men) do
All the gin joints in all the towns in the world have got nothing on the the Sourdough Saloon, located inside the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon. There, you can drink a "Sourtoe Cocktail”—a shot of whiskey (or whatever else you'd like) with a preserved human toe floating inside. As the cocktail's official site explains, "you can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips have gotta touch the toe."
This past weekend, though, all this fun was interrupted: Someone stole the toe.
As the CBC reports, the suspected thief, who came to the Downtown Hotel from Quebec, "had earlier boasted about wanting to steal the toe." He managed to convince a new staff member to serve him a Sourtoe Cocktail outside of the designated toe-drinking time, which normally spans from 9 to 11 p.m. He then absconded with the appendage.
"Salted human toe" might not sound like a particularly appealing garnish. But since its invention by local riverboat captain Dick Stevenson in 1973, the cocktail has proven mysteriously and enduringly popular. Over 100,000 people from all around the world are now certificate-carrying members of the "Sourtoe Cocktail Club," drawn to Dawson City by the chance to try to drink. "Stunts like this adversely affect the whole community, not just the Downtown Hotel," 'Toe Captain' Terry Lee wrote in a news release about the theft.
This is not the first time the hotel has lost a toe. The first ever Sourtoe—which Stevenson found in the cabin of a deceased miner, who had amputated it in the 1920s after a bad case of frostbite and stored it in a jar of alcohol for decades—was accidentally gulped down by a guest in July 1980.
In the years since, a number of locals have stepped in to fill the void, donating toes that they have lost to accidents and amputations. But plenty of these have also been stolen or swallowed—as many as three feet's worth—and the hotel eventually instituted a $500 fine for toe theft or ingestion. Even that wasn't enough to stop one 2013 guest, who chugged the toe on purpose and then slapped $500 on the table. (He was an American.) The fine has since been raised to $2,500.
This latest toe was donated last summer, and spent six months curing in salt before it took its spot behind the bar. "This was our new toe, and it was a really good one," hotel manager Geri Coulbourne told the CBC. "We just started using it this weekend."
They feel confident that they will find the thief. Besides his pre-drink boasting, he left his Sourtoe Cocktail certificate—with his name on it—behind. If the toe is not returned, they plan to press charges—which seems like a better deal for the thief than a more Biblical retaliation would be.
In the meantime, the hotel assures guests, the cocktails will keep flowing. "We fortunately have a couple of backup toes," Lee writes.
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“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”
Look at her STRUT!!! She is dragging that endorphin for filth and using that filament as her runway, bitch.
6 inch heels…..she walked in the club like nobody’s business…..godam…..she murdered everybody and i was her witness
I laughed, then laughed harder when it dawned on me that looking at this had triggered the effect I was looking at.
GUYS GUYS WHAT IF EVIE IS A ‘LIBRARIAN’ AND THE ONLY ONE TO SUCCESSFULLY RETIRE
Fifteen years in the field. Fifteen years serving the Library without a whisper of complaint, without a single word about how difficult it could be to work her way into secret societies that closed their doors against women for no reason, without ever once giving in to the urge to hit someone with a chair. Fifteen years.
“We’ll find your Guardian,” they said, over and over. "The call’s been sent. The Library is looking. We don’t know why he isn’t answering.“
She knows why, thank you very much. "He” isn’t answering because “he” is a man, and no man she’s ever met would be willing to let a woman set the score the way she needs to. The Library can call as much as it likes. Any man with the skills to Guard will keep refusing to listen until he knows he’ll get the chance to be in charge.
Fifteen years.
And now here he is, this man with his stupid face and his stupid hair and his stupid eyes and his stupid letter from the Library, which he thinks is trash and carries anyway. "Figured it couldn’t mean me,“ he says, when she finally asks him, and he shrugs, and if she hadn’t just put so damn much effort into saving his life, she could kill him.
Russia takes the worst excesses of capitalism to the extreme, so here's a vending machine in a mall for buying Likes for your Instagram pics pic.twitter.com/ZZt189opgd
Boxers are more than just musclebound brutes who learn how to pound people into the ground with their fists- they're skilled fighters who train hard in order to learn how to best use their fists as weapons.
They train to hit faster, strike harder and punch with precision, as well as learning how to avoid or block as many of their opponent's blows as they can, but above all they learn to master the art of hand-eye coordination.
Dogs are obedient by nature, born and raised to follow their pack leader and remain loyal to the pack, and if you want to see the true extent of a dog's obedient nature you have to see a dog trainer work their magic.
The trainer in this video trained her dogs to wait at the gate until their name is called, demonstrating how well dogs can tune out distractions and follow commands even when they'd rather be playing with their pals. However, there's one rebel in every pack, and in this pack rebellion is named Nacho.
One of the most consistently entertaining features of the video game streaming platform Twitch is the series of “Twitch Plays” videos that allow users to work together to beat a game. Today, a software developer who is either a genius or a fool launched StockStream, a channel in which users are trying to beat the…
Outrage and harsh backlash has unfolded as a video was recently uploaded of a spoiled teen using a dog to polish one of his fancy cars. A million dollar iconic 6.0 litter Maserati MC12, to be exact. The post was shared on an Instagram account @Richkidslondon, with the caption "The only way to wash the iconic 6.0 litter Maserati MC12 is with 100% natural puppy fur ensuring a proper polish."
Friends, when it comes to online recreation, you've got a lot of options. You could watch an intricate candle carving video, for example. Or watch slime being made. Or watch a nice clip of waterfall. Or watch a teen pour a bunch of Orbeez into a pool. And there's fidget spinner porn now! It's all right there!
Today, I'd like to throw another internet activity into the mix for your consideration: semi-truck parking videos.
These clips, which feature massive vehicles slipping flawlessly into parking spaces, fall pretty firmly into the "oddly satisfying" category. The truck drivers, for many of whom this is standard practice, are an inspiration for bad parkers like yours truly, who failed her first driving test (passed the second, though!) and has literally never parallel parked in the wild. Read more...
NASA published the following media advisory moments ago: NASA will make an announcement about the agency's first mission to fly directly into our sun's atmosphere during an event at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 31, from the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. The mission, Solar Probe Plus, is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2018. Placed in orbit within four million miles of the sun's surface, and facing heat and radiation unlike any spacecraft in history, the spacecraft will explore the sun's outer atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old questions about the physics of how stars work. The resulting data will improve forecasts of major space weather events that impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.
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