It’s actually worse than 95 years, that’s just for corporate owned copyrights. For individuals, it’s life + 70 years. If someone writes a novel at 20, then lives to 100, the novel will remain under copyright for 150 years.

Yeah, I really appreciate that his heart was in the right place and he was trying to help, but stopping in the middle of two lanes wasn’t a good idea.

You’d think that, but all evidence suggests a significant chunk of the population cannot (or probably more like will not) learn that lesson.

For the little kids the big plush one like they have at the Ghibli Museum works wonderfully. It was awesome seeing all the kids happily crawling all over the thing. I’d like to see an animatronic one myself, the idea sounds awesome.

I don’t know about all of Disney’s Ghibli DVD releases, but I remember that Laputa’s subtitles were not the same as the dub. That was particularly memorable because the dub was soooooo bad that my mom asked me to switch to subs and Japanese language. She never does that, she has trouble reading them quickly enough.…

Can you imagine how horrible it’d be for any kids who’d seen Totoro watching that? They’d be crying for days.

There’s an easy solution, at least in this case. He’s already community manager for two games, so have two community managers covering multiple games and don’t allow them both go on vacation at the same time. Adjust the number of games covered in total by them until the financials work.

Doesn’t everyone love a cellular peptide cake with mint frosting?

For that quantity of cards, he probably had to spend more for a good portion of the sets. Still an insane amount of money.

He’s a guy that appears on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series. Pretty much every single time they talk to him, his dialogue boils down to “I’m not saying it’s aliens... but it’s aliens.” Not worded exactly like that, but it’s what he’s ultimately saying. That combination, plus his hair being so wild, led to…

Depended on version, I got a brand new Dell laptop straight from Dell with Vista Home Basic and it always sucked. It was the version of Vista, not the laptop, as eventually I put Win7 on it and it’s still pretty decent with that. (It was purchased in 2008, so it’s 10 years old and still decent as long as you don’t want…

Depended on the version you had. I had a Dell laptop that came with Vista Home Basic and Vista was never decent on it. Shortly after buying it I had to upgrade to 4GB of RAM because Vista would go into disk-thrashing swap mode where the OS would entirely freeze up for a minute or more. (No exaggeration on time there,…

That doesn’t get the point across either, because the city pays it (or rather, the city’s insurance company pays it) and the police officers involved don’t see a dime of that money taken from them. And the courts nearly never remove their qualified immunity, so you can’t sue the officers individually. It’s almost desig…

He got fat beforehand, he was on the Jenolan traveling to a colony to enjoy his recent retirement from Starfleet. While he was in the transporter buffer 75 years, TNG takes place roughly 100 years after TOS and that episode took place in the sixth season, adding another six years into the timeline.

Patterns of foods and materials aren’t stored at the same level of detail, think molecular level versus sub-quantum level for the beings the transporter transports. This makes the storage requirements vastly smaller. If you tried replicating a human at the same level of detail you’d get a human-shaped dead object.

My guess is that one of the victims was in the Air Force, discovered they had been filmed and reported it to the base security, then Homeland Security took over. Homeland Security would do so to make sure this wasn’t someone from another country trying to create blackmail material to force members of the Air Force to…

Even if AdBlock plays a role, it’s not entirely due to it. They do that to me in Pale Moon, a Firefox fork, but if I load the same pages in Chrome, they display properly. Both browsers use uBlock Origin and the same filter lists.

Plus this type of fraud actually isn’t the fault of Supercell & Kabam, because selling of accounts is basically always against games’ Terms of Service. Some developers look the other way and don’t do much to stop it, but they also won’t help you if your purchased account turns out to be stolen. All support will do is…

Nope, you have to basically guess if it’s valid or not. The good news is the vast, vast majority of coupons are legit, most people don’t try to defraud retailers. As for the small portion that are fake, a lot of them nowadays will be downloaded from online and printed. You don’t even have to be hunting for fake…

The bar code will scan on photocopied coupons, and that’s a large source of real coupon fraud, so you can’t rely solely on whether or not the bar code scans to determine if the coupon is fraudulent. If he’d simply said “This looks photocopied, and company policy is not to accept photocopied coupons,” it would have…