rmtodd
2yr ago
The terminal end result of harshly applying IP restrictions is preventing someone who has a sufficiently accurate memory of a copyrighted work from conveying any portion of the work to anyone else outside of a 'fair use' context.
Well, we've already had lawsuits asserting that people can be found guilty of subconsciously plagarizing someone else's music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord#Copyright_infringement_suit
rmtodd
2yr ago
well okay she missed the third time but only because octavian was as cold as they come.
Or, more cynically, because the position of "woman who got romantically involved with Octavian to insure success for herself and her son" was already filled -- by Livia.
rmtodd
2yr ago
109 Premiata Forneria Marconi – Per un amico (1972)
When most people think of progressive rock’s attempts to marry rock and classical music, the first thing that comes to mind is probably any of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s ham-fisted attempts at rocking the classics. Or maybe King Crimson’s avant-garde adventures. If nothing else, the spirit of most prog is Romantic; maximalist, emotional, daring. But PFM take a different tack, settling on the Baroque instead; intricate, complicated, sensitive.
Per un Amico is okay, but the real standout album in this subgenre is il Rovescio della Medaglia's Contaminazione (1973).
rmtodd
2yr ago
Lactating women (and aliens) will save the world.
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The last one is in the Ringers' home system
Wait a minute. So this alien species name is the Ringers, and some of them are lactating. In other words, we have lactating Ringers. Are we quite sure the point of this novel isn't just to make a bad IV-fluids-related joke?
rmtodd
2yr ago
That'd be my guess too (although I'd argue "rural", as they spent most of that time living in Vegas and Flagstaff, unless you're thinking of a different reality show/polygamist family than I am). One wonders if the sentiment will shift now that 3/4ths of said polygamist family relationship has now been loudly detonating, catching fire and leaking radiation all over the tabloid press...
rmtodd
2yr ago
Also consider: we have a Drug War in this country. We have lists of chemicals that are banned because of their psychoactive effects. We have lists of chemicals that are banned because they are too similar to chemicals on the first list and thus might be psychoactive. Florida notoriously passed a drug-control act so wide-ranging it banned one of the amino acids in cheese as a controlled substance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyramine#Status_in_Florida ).
Adrenochrome, as far as I know, is not on any of these lists. If people as notoriously paranoid as the US drug warriors never got around to banning adrenochrome, it probably doesn't do much of anything.
rmtodd
2yr ago
Gorillas, cows, etc all digest cellulose. The bacteria in their guts turn that into protein that they absorb.
Um, how can that be? Protein contains nitrogen, and cellulose, being a carbohydrate, doesn't.
rmtodd
3yr ago
Look at a globe. Seriously. The surface of a sphere is one of the classic examples of non-Euclidean geometry, a geometry where Euclid's 5th postulate doesn't hold. The exact description of the 5th postulate is a bit arcane (look it up on Wikipedia if you care), but it turns out to be equivalent to saying that all triangles must have corner angles that sum to 180 degrees. On the globe, if you choose a triangle with these corners: the north pole, 0 degrees E on the equator, 90 degrees W on the equator, that triangle will have all its corner angles 90 degrees, for a total of 270 degrees.
The example that comes to mind immediately for me is Midsomer Murders, with the main character couple of DCI Tom Barnaby and his wife Joyce (in the first half of the series), and later DCI John Barnaby and his wife Sarah (in the 2nd half of the series). I recall an interview with the actor who played Tom Barnaby about how much he liked, and how unusual it was, that he played a detective who was a happily married man and not, you know, some lonely dysfunctional wreck who spent most of his off hours in a bottle or something.
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