Udo_Schmitz

That may be so, but with Vizio there are other problems:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/24/vizio-ipo-inscape-acr/

For frying I recently decided to try clarified butter (german: Butterschmalz) as recommended in a classic cook book and am very happy with the results.

I love his stuff, and for me—being in my mid-forties—he is around since forever. A few years ago I got a book I had read as a kid and when I saw his space installations again I had to find out who did those. Was surprised he is still around and still working.

So, are people in Sweden, Norway and Finland–where you have access to your fellow citizens salary–more unhappy?

They don’t. To quote Marco Arment: "Those metal parts are the hinges, subject to the most wear, that need to be most durable." See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-CkZ71iz68

Sure. Make up a name and address and load it with gift cards bought with cash. Done.

To be exact: eBay Kleinanzeigen with the domain kleinanzeigen.ebay.de

Absolutely. The main reason is the abysmal typesetting of e-books, I don’t think there is a solution yet for having beautifully set type in a responsive electronic document. The library on my iPad is getting larger then my physical one though. Lots of scans of books that are not available anymore. And the amount of media we are able to carry around in electronic form still amazes me.

That entry has a link to http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml#Exceptions

“The U.S. government may assert copyright outside of the United States for U.S. government works.”

Too bad :/

I’m not sure I understand your comment. I’m a graphic designer and would love to incorporate NASA* pics in my work, but—except for personal projects—can’t, because I would put my clients at risk. Was hoping someone knew something I don’t or that the US government had addressed the issue in the past.

Edit to add:*Or other agencies. Few months ago I went to an exhibition in Berlin of Walker Evans’ photographs. Some of those he did for the Farm Security Administration in the 1940s. And I was thinking about the copyright situation. This thread was a welcome chance to pick hacker news’ minds …

The creator can give a perpetual license but never gives up creators rights. Germany actually has public domain (Gemeinfreiheit) but according to general professional view this can only apply after copyright has expired.

I’m in Germany where you can’t give up your “Urheberrecht” (literal: Creator’s right, equivalent to copyright) so technically NASA’s (or other US government agencies) photos are copyrighted here—even if they're public domain in the US. Anybody ever looked into that?

> neither do we know what they actually do

Actually, if you click through on the GPs link Apple provides information in two links with further links to PDFs and FAQs.

https://www.apple.com/recycling/gift-card/

This just brings me to Googles homepage with some stuff added after https://www.google.de/

Is it because I'm in Germany and they have the .com --> .de redirect?

Also recommended: "Monopoly Is Theft" from 2012 by Christopher Ketcham

http://harpers.org/blog/2012/10/monopoly-is-theft/

Don’t know about this program, but I use this on OS X Safari:

http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/

Helped to get rid of Flash, although I have Chrome in my programs folder for sites that are still flash only.

Good to know I’m not alone. Found the video link in the source: http://link.theplatform.com/s/PhfuRC/media/pNlQpKi2lOU0 Plays fine in Safari, so it must be their ”player“

A.S. Neill actually talked about that in a book. It’s the parents that mostly prefer traditional schools and only consider alternatives when something goes wrong with their kids.

Happened to me 20 years ago while sanding wood flooring (the edges). The angle grinder got stopped by a brick and flew out of my hand. I'm not a strong person but seriously doubt anybody could have held to it. Moved totally erratically through the air and scraped my knee just so, but I still can feel the shock. Taught me to respect even small power tools.

I know that Gruber is pro Apple. But what I like about his comments is that he has got his facts straight. Like in real hard numbers and statistics. Whereas the NYTs writing about Apple in the last years smells like hit pieces and/or click bait.

For another totally unbalanced and very hard to dismiss comment (because he's got his facts straight) I'll quote Mr. Dilgers latest piece:

“Unsurprisingly, the article's authors Matt Richtel and Brian X. Chen have to admit early on that Cook "declined to be interviewed for this article." It's not hard to understand why.

Richtel may be best known for his bizarre hit piece castigating Apple for working to sell iPads to schools in 2011.

Chen even more famously skewered Apple for even attempting to sell its iPhone in Japan, where he assured his Wired readers that the nation hated it. He even crafted quotes from people in Japan saying how "lame" the iPhone was, even if those quotes were actually completely fabricated.

Then of course, there's the New York Times itself, the publication Richtel and Chen are currently writing for, which printed its "iEconomy" series exclusively blaming Apple for everything wrong in the industry.”

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/06/15/new-york-times-see...

I think Jim Dalrymple aptly phrases it in his comment to the linked article: ”I found this profile frustrating, vexing. The tone is objective, but the prose manages to be damning at the same time, working in all the standard, shopworn stereotypes the Apple community has gotten used to having thrown their way.“

http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/06/15/the-new-york-times-sun...

This article has another story from Heidi Roizen which may offer some perspective (seventh story „A Friend In Need“):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2012/10/03/untol...