For years Microsoft and Google were happy to acquiesce to copyright claims from the music and movie industry. Now all of a sudden when it benefits them to break those same laws, they immediately did. And now those industries who served small creators copyright claims are up against someone with a bigger legal budget.

It’s more evident then ever how broken our copyright system is. I’m hoping this blows up in both parties faces and we finally get some reform but I’m not holding my breath.

This is an assumption but I bet all the data feed into Content ID on YouTube was used to train Bard/Gemini…

Probably because the US didn’t do them at a stadium…

Yup that’s the one. Troy was really cool. They have the dig site open to visit for a fee. You then can walk along a raised walkway and there are placards saying what they found in that particular spot. Turns out, there are 9 layers of towns on the spot one group called Troy! After that you can go to the provincial capital close by to see the Trojan horse used in the movie Tory with Brad Pitt which was also pretty nice. All in all, can recommend the visit to that part of Turkey.

When I found out my cousin in Turkey who worked at a major car manufacturer as an engineer made less with a PHD then I did waiting tables in the US is when I realized how messed up it was for young people in Turkey.

He has since moved to Belgium and gets paid quite well.

Almost all freight from Mexico to the US and vice versa gets offloaded at a warehouse on the border and then switched to a different driver/mode of transportation as having a driver eligible to do the whole trip is hard to come by and expensive.

That being said, the rail ramp in Laredo, TX (the crossing point of Nuevo Leon, MX and the US) is active and widely used. Issue is that rail is slow so if your shipment has any urgency, you just use a truck. I use both and while US rail companies suck to work with, they can be very effective cost wise and help keep our total carbon emissions down. But nothing beats a truck in terms of speed and availability in the US…

I imagine it was freezing. Makes sense since the Turkish sailor you can hear yelling is basically saying “Bring me a blanket for him”

You don’t need to be able to know the words to understand the emotions. It’s asking why watch any movies in the original language.

When I went to go see Star Wars Episode 3 when I was overseas, the English version with subtitles was packed while the local language dubbed version had a moderate crowd. People want to see the original because the delivery is usually just better, even if they can’t understand the words.