Wow, Mike, your university experience reminds me of one of my classes. In our Technical Communication department, we had a professor named Phil Bereano. A class he taught was called "Technology Assessment," which seemed...interesting...in that particular department. But one of the reasons I took the class was that the professor himself was fantastic. Sadly, I do not remember must of the details, but much of the theme was largely what you experienced: working to understand both the benefits and costs of technology, now and in the future.
I am sorry your alma mater caved. I can understand, though, what financial pressure does to a university because my department is not gone likely because of it. Back in the aughts, when state governments were slashing education funding, my former Technical Communication department morphed into Human Centered Design and Engineering. And eventually, they stopped offering my degree completely. As best as I can infer, the move was made at least in part because there is more research money in HCI than in technical communication, and the research money was necessary to keep the department afloat. And that's what makes what the current government so insidious: Using the financial pressure of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on a whim to bend individual and institutions to their will at a level never before seen in a federal level is outright cruel. And as we all know with this government, the cruelty is the point.
"One of the craziest bits about covering the systematic dismantling of democracy is this: the people doing the dismantling frequently tell you exactly what they’re going to do. They’re almost proud of it."
You misspelled "actually, demonstrably, deliriously"
A "free educational event" at a library is not copyright infringement.
And Warner almost certainly knows this, but was counting on the legal threats by the Big Bad Company to bully the small-town library anyway.
It's almost as if the C-level folks, with all their claimed experience and expertise in economics and business, ether forgot or ignore the basic demand curve from their Econ 101 classes.
They're only sorry because they were caught.
I'm surprised the terms didn't claim perpetual copyright on any content created about the game. These POS TOSs typically try to grab everything imaginable as a default. Hell, I once had a section in an employment offer say that I grant the company a perpetual license to use my NIL.
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University Classes
Wow, Mike, your university experience reminds me of one of my classes. In our Technical Communication department, we had a professor named Phil Bereano. A class he taught was called "Technology Assessment," which seemed...interesting...in that particular department. But one of the reasons I took the class was that the professor himself was fantastic. Sadly, I do not remember must of the details, but much of the theme was largely what you experienced: working to understand both the benefits and costs of technology, now and in the future. I am sorry your alma mater caved. I can understand, though, what financial pressure does to a university because my department is not gone likely because of it. Back in the aughts, when state governments were slashing education funding, my former Technical Communication department morphed into Human Centered Design and Engineering. And eventually, they stopped offering my degree completely. As best as I can infer, the move was made at least in part because there is more research money in HCI than in technical communication, and the research money was necessary to keep the department afloat. And that's what makes what the current government so insidious: Using the financial pressure of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on a whim to bend individual and institutions to their will at a level never before seen in a federal level is outright cruel. And as we all know with this government, the cruelty is the point.
I believe you left out a word in one sentence
Did you mean: "Disagreeing with Israel’s actions and/or supporting Palestinian independence is not — and never has been — antisemitism."
As Negasonic Teenage Warhead said in the first "Deadpool" movie: "Now there's a stupid."
By "dozens of criminal enterprises" seeking a goon or two completely devoid of a moral center you mean other police departments, right.
He has, many times, dumbass.
The amount of ignorance and stupidity in just two sentences here is off the charts.
Except, it's not
A "free educational event" at a library is not copyright infringement. And Warner almost certainly knows this, but was counting on the legal threats by the Big Bad Company to bully the small-town library anyway.
Econ 101
It's almost as if the C-level folks, with all their claimed experience and expertise in economics and business, ether forgot or ignore the basic demand curve from their Econ 101 classes.
Paging Mike Dunford, paging Mike Dunford
I would very much yearn from Mike Dunford to be retained by ProPublica to reply, to wit: "Bring it on, bitch!"
Lawyers.....
They're only sorry because they were caught. I'm surprised the terms didn't claim perpetual copyright on any content created about the game. These POS TOSs typically try to grab everything imaginable as a default. Hell, I once had a section in an employment offer say that I grant the company a perpetual license to use my NIL.