With Youtube and the DMCA, they don’t have people in the loop. That system is completely automated. Someone who claims to be a rights holder makes a claim, Youtube pulls down the content and informs the account holder, and if the account holder thinks the claim is BS they file a counter-claim and free content gets put…

Yes, what constitutes nudity is stated clearly in the rules. It's even in the article above. It's genetailia, nipples, and the buttocks. If a body painter is wearing pasties and has some type of bottom on, the shouldn't be breaking the nudity rules. Legally, a person could walk down the street in New York City wearing…

This is true. However, a few high school economics teachers went beyond the limited requirements of the curriculum and also taught personal finance. My teacher back in 2001 even had those of us with jobs bring in our W2's to teach us how to do our own taxes.

Technically, it is. I know that my state (Michigan) has required a semester of economics for decades. 

In a video he said that it’s currently parked at a station in low-sec space and he plans to leave it there for the foreseeable future.  Given his audience, he might be able to put together a large enough temporary alliance to move it somewhere safer eventually but, it’ll be dangerous even then.

It looks like he got it!

I’ve been reading everyone’s comments about cloth diapers and, now that I think about it, I have no idea how my mother did it even with a diaper service. I know that she used cloth diapers with my younger brother in the early 90's (I don’t know if she used them with me and I’m not too interested in asking). I even…

Until a guy with a gun (or knife) shows up and steals your cash. It’s been over 20 years since that happened to me and, fortunately, I didn’t have much on me but, it’s still not good.

This introvert will point out that escalator manufacturers recommend standing in the middle of the escalator with your hands on both rails while riding one.

If one doesn’t inform a company that their product doesn’t meet one’s tastes, how does one expect anything different in the future? That is to say, if enough people complain loudly, there will be change.  Even if the way some people complain is...poorly thought out, I don’t disagree with their choice to speak out.

My primary care physician is in the Ascension network. I didn’t specifically mention my depression or anxiety when I met with a new neurologist. Their EHR system potentially (it might have been caught by my pharmacy) prevented a rather bad interaction between my depression and a new medication. I can’t see this as a…

Doctors miss things. This is a case of using technology to suggest care changes. For example, if there’s a patient who fails to list all of their medications on the intake form at a specialist’s office and that specialist prescribes something that interacts poorly with one of the medications that wasn’t listed, this…

Some schools are being more careful about having students in the building during days when they have to let strange adults in than they were when you or I were in school. At both of the elementary schools I went to we just ate lunch in our classrooms on Election Day but, by the time I graduated high school, the entire…

Since my router blocks the more...obnoxious ads at the edge of my home network (the few static ones that exist are still allowed since I understand how sites make money), I hadn’t noticed how much worse the pages had gotten or why. Thanks for dropping those names so that I could learn what’s going on.

This article seems to be slightly misleading concerning the purchase structure of royalty-free music. Many of the royalty-free composers still require that you legally acquire (usually through purchase) their music the first time. They simply don’t charge you per use when you use it in your own work later. Which is…

The Creative Commons, and other F/OSS licenses, are extraordinarily useful for those of us in the programming arena. If I contribute two lines of code to some open source project, I shouldn’t be able to bring the entire thing to a screeching halt because I decided to remove the rights to use my contribution.

In Michigan we elect judges. If EcoTechPowah lives in their district, he can vote against them when they come up for reelection. 

As a reminder, we elect judges in Michigan. So, if you live in the district of this court, remember this ruling when these judges come up for reelection. 

Until he acts on it and hurts someone, he most definitely is allowed to have that opinion. Fortunately for everyone around him, he’s stated that opinion out loud and, if the impeachment occurs, the authorities can be watching him for any violent outbursts.

Depending on the state, you can get a tattoo either with or without parental permission at 16. Some allow you to do so with permission even younger.