The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XL

[Synobun]

Question: While sorting out some books, I found an abridged "for children" copy of an out-of-copyright book. However, the copyright page said that it was copyrighted to the person who abridged it. Is this even allowed?

Why would it not be allowed? Once a creative work is out of copyright, it can be freely altered and its derivative works published. Those works are copyrighted to their creators.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...rth-of-works-just-fell-into-the-public-domain

 

[Takhisis]

Perhaps a question worth it’s own thread, but I can’t be arsed to write an op.

In the UK the cops shoot c. 2 people a year. In the US the cops shoot c. 1000 people a year. Adjusting for population that’s 1 - 100. There are a bunch of differences, but WTH - two orders of magnitude?

US police are armed and descended from a mixture of anti-Injun militia, slave-catching patrols and first line of defence against the Mexican invader, plus, in towns, strikebreakers.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Perhaps a question worth it’s own thread, but I can’t be arsed to write an op.

In the UK the cops shoot c. 2 people a year. In the US the cops shoot c. 1000 people a year. Adjusting for population that’s 1 - 100. There are a bunch of differences, but WTH - two orders of magnitude?

Most Americans are uncivilized when it comes to disorder or guns or both. We have 250+ years of shooting people and not being prosecuted. Law and Order includes killing.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

US police are armed and descended from a mixture of anti-Injun militia, slave-catching patrols and first line of defence against the Mexican invader, plus, in towns, strikebreakers.

I listened to an interview with a historian on the history of the Texas Rangers and holy cow I had no idea they were that bad. They were in effect a racist murder gang at times and remained effectively as armed thugs right up until modern times even if they had stopped rounding up boys to execute.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

first line of defence against the Mexican invader

....didn't the U.S. essentially steal Texas from Mexico, though?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

According to Wikipedia:

Many immigrants openly flouted Mexican law, especially the prohibition against slavery. Combined with United States' attempts to purchase Texas, Mexican authorities decided in 1830 to prohibit continued immigration from the United States.[92] Illegal immigration from the United States into Mexico continued to increase the population of Texas anyway.

 

[Takhisis]

Yes, exactly as I said, aimee, the Mexicans were aggressive.

I listened to an interview with a historian on the history of the Texas Rangers and holy cow I had no idea they were that bad. They were in effect a racist murder gang at times and remained effectively as armed thugs right up until modern times even if they had stopped rounding up boys to execute.

Also remember that, as reposted to CFC by Lexicus (from Twitter IIRC) the KKK was in the habit of having sheriffs in their pocket who'd deputise armed white men to legalise their killings of black politicians whenever any did get elected to the local and state legislative bodies in the former CSA during the Reconstruction Era.

 

[Synobun]

Is there a thread here where people post pictures of the food they've made? Not recipes or discussions, just photos. I want to live vicariously through others.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Does it have to be here on CFC? You know there's a whole phenomenon called "food porn," with plenty of websites to fulfill this desire.

 

[Synobun]

Does it have to be here on CFC? You know there's a whole phenomenon called "food porn," with plenty of websites to fulfill this desire.

On Reddit and Imgur, yeah. That stuff is often good, but I find they drift into the absurd frequently. Food actually consumable by an average human being is better.

For example, I saw this on Imgur last night: https://imgur.com/gallery/vqiUg49

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I find it interesting that no matter how good food looks, it always comes out the other end of the digestive system looking the same.

 

[Synobun]

I find it interesting that no matter how good food looks, it always comes out the other end of the digestive system looking the same.

My IBS disagrees.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Spoiler :

(source)

 

[Lemon Merchant]

My God, that is diabetes on a plate.

 

[Synobun]

Spoiler :

(source)

You can't forget the colour spectrum.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Would a spacesuit work underwater?

 

[Takhisis]

I've heard they sometimes actually train underwater.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I've heard they sometimes actually train underwater.

If memory serves me correctly, they do it to simulate partial weightlessness and working in a space suit in that sort of environment.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It's less a simulation of weightlessness than just an alien environment. Whether you are in vacuum or in water the common point is that nothing moves the way all of your experience says that it 'should' so you have to actively think about every movement. Most people would be really surprised at how much of their physical activity is running on a sort of autopilot. Water training allows them to find that out firsthand.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

That's good to know. I always assumed that it was something to do with buoyancy and compensation for the weight of the space suit. I learned something today.