Re: What's a woman?
It is like a man, but slightly upgraded. :-P
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It isn't like there aren't alternatives to all these 'big data' companies already available. Not always as convenient as selling your life up the river to FB et.al. but still more-or-less usable.
I killed my (already seldom-used) FB presence a few weeks ago and I'm only holding off enacting my own Diasporia* pod until I see slightly better data migration across major version upgrades, which I am quite sure is in the works.
I switched to StartPage just today after a fellow commentard in another thread made me aware of it (been using DDG for some time on-and-off but I need images searches quite a bit in some of what I do for both fun and profit).
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Sucks to be a US-based data company today. Really, I honestly think it must!
Of course, said Australian circumventing geo-blocking would only be in violation of any actual law if it was an Australian law (or they were residing in the US and doing it from there).
Australia doesn't directly apply US laws for some reason - something to do with being an entirely different country, I think.
As the article says, the disk also contains Mars-inspired graphic art.
And if you want to engrave your data on silver or sapphire for long life, don't store it in a spacecraft that is designed to burn up on atmospheric entry! (Also in the article!)
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Bothering to read the article you are commenting on - a skill for life!
Of course most people have things that, while not illegal, they still don't necessarily want on record for any small-time power-abuser to access. And that is in a society that (for now - no guarantees for the future, of course) has legal structures to support relative freedom of opinion and activity.
My understanding is that senior Japanese associate whale meat with wartime austerity, when it was the only meat they could get. The stuff apparently tastes rank. Only posh people wanting to prove how posh they are to other posh people pretend to like it. Most gets turned into pet food and cheap school-supplied meals (ie fed to people who have little choice but eat it). The latter is intended to try to generate a taste for the stuff in upcoming generations in the face of the fact that the vast majority of existing adults won't eat the stuff.
So why do they persist in killing whales for heavily subsidised pet-food? The Japanese whaling industry has a long long history dating all the way back to ... WWII austerity measures. And has a powerful political lobby group associated with it.
Friend of mine, new to the English-speaking world, wandered into an 'Adult Bookshop' expecting to find literature targeted at adults. Well, she got an eye-full of, well, I guess some of it may be considered 'literature' one day. And "lots of plastic penises. Lots and lots of them."
Well, she was basing the assumption on the term "children's books", of course. But the terms are not quite opposite!
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Do children enjoy childhood as much as adults enjoy adultery?
My brain developed a reflex add-block many many years ago. My audio and visual system seems to edit them out as irrelevant information, presumably by the same nmtural mechanism it edits out anything else irrelevant in my perceptive fields. It can actually be annoying if I encownter some wanted-information that someone has been idiotic enougr to think would benefit from an advertising-like format.