However they do it, an edit where all the dialog is replaced by dolphin and porpoise noises with subtitles is certainly called for.

I just replaced my Thinkpad X201 subnote with a used X230 (refurbed, bought through US Micro with Windows 10 Pro). I picked up a $50 (new) docking station since I had one for the older machine, moved the DVD burner from the old to the new dock, and moved the SSD I’d installed in the X201 to the X230.

I figure I’m good…

That would actually require a Supreme Court decision or a Constitutional amendment, since they’ve held that photography is expression, like speech. So you’re stuck with the intent mattering. There could be attempts to broaden out what “harassment” entails, and certainly you could argue that posting it in a forum that…

Releases for street interviews from news stations don’t require model releases. Commercial use - entertainment, for example, does. So does commercial photography (stock use, photos used for ads). The requirement for releases is actually very, very narrow. With photography, editorial and artistic use doesn’t require…

Photography is protected expression, in the US, just a form of speech. Therefore, intent matters, just like with libel, fraud, harassment, etc. It’s cold comfort to someone who’s been targeted, but it’s unlikely courts are going to go the other way on this.

My biggest issue here - aside from the hacker and the scumbags…

No. At least in the US, the picture taker always does, unless it’s work-for-hire. What a model release does is allow for commercial use. By the way, that doesn’t include all money-making enterprises. A published collection of photos, or a gallery exhibit (and gallery sales), selling to a newspaper or news agency…

I’m actually completely ok with Burnham not wanting to open the box from Georgiou. It was going to make her face what she’d done and what she lost. And - since it was obviously recorded well before death, any message was going to be a reminder of her relationship with the captain before she betrayed her - and what she…

He didn’t have to - he has what a lot of guys have - a sense of entitlement that allows him to act with impunity. Thinking about other people’s feelings and experiences was something he’s never needed to trouble himself with. Looking back on the sexist shit from the 1970s - the decade I grew up in - is just amazing.…

The federal government could likely tax the savings from the tax breaks, I suspect, or curtail some kinds of block grants or direct federal payments to states or cities that give breaks. They won’t, but it’s doable.

They don’t actually believe in consent at all. They don’t think consent in any way validates behavior between adults, because that would be admitting that consent is necessary before you touch someone.

All that matters is behavior that they would engage in vs. behavior they wouldn’t, at least that they wouldn’t admit…

People won’t buy art that makes them feel stupid, but at the same time they want to buy art that has some deeper significance - and odds are a fair number of them wouldn’t be able to figure one out on their own. The statement - the meaning - is basically packaging for the art. I’m glad she’s gotten to a point where…

Given that she’s apparently a known artist, represented by a gallery, who has won awards, I’m betting just fine. Using Dickie’s definition of “art”, the artworld has already conferred that status to her work. That definition has its flaws, but it certainly describes what actually happens . . .

That was my first thought. This isn’t a photograph, or even based on one, it’s a different kind of work that happens to use a material that could have been used as a photograph. It’s arguably not even based around one. If this is a photograph, then nearly anything that has elements of a photograph is - an original…

Actually, there’s a split. Paramount (owned by NuViacom) as the rights to Star Trek films, under license from CBS (oldViacom). CBS can make TV shows. In other words, CBS can do what it wants on TV, and doesn’t have to line up with the Abrams stuff.

Whatever they’re paying Sandi Toksvig isn’t enough. She’s a treasure.

She’s complicit. She’s continuing to live/profit off the spoils, she’s a fairly public figure and has done nothing to distance herself from her father’s tyranny. Such a move would certainly cost her dearly - and she’s unlikely to ever make it.

They were inexperienced in not getting caught, and on some level (delusionally) likely believed that they were doing “God’s work” so that justified this. TThey haven’t admitted they did wrong, really.

Whelp, it’s possibly less depressing than having his father die of a heart attack running to catch a fly ball that Andy Jr had just hit, leading him to blame himself for his father’s death and ruining baseball forever.

Went to a wedding like this around 1993, Halloween. The fact that a huge chunk of the guests were under 30 made it just barely excusable. Too much renfair garb.

Yup. Terrorism is only terrorism with certain motivating ideologies and/or the government itself is the target. Note that Dylann Roof isn’t facing terrorism charges.