what could possibly go wrong
They thought this before world war 1.
I mean, yeah, that's kind of my point? Because then we got "the war to end all wars" and the we got a second one.
Russia is fine persecuting its way despite being removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community
Exactly. Russia suffers few economic consequences from attacking other nations because it is "removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community".
Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
...evidence is emerging for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic environment. A regime shift has reduced Antarctic sea-ice extent far below its natural variability of past centuries, and in some respects is more abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than Arctic sea-ice loss. A marked slowdown in Antarctic Overturning Circulation is expected to intensify this century and may be faster than the anticipated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown. The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades...
This is just an example from today, but overall the climate news from recent years scares me more than anything else. Insect counts are plummeting globally, wildfires are getting noticeably worse everywhere, all of the ice is receding, ocean currents are destabilizing as the temperature patterns in the air and the water shift, and crop growing seasons are changing. I get the impression that the predicted climate changes are not only happening now, but are accelerating noticeably.
Unpredictable food production is bad bad bad. If you watch the series Fall of Civilizations, one of the most common elements of collapsing societies is destablised food production (not necessarily no production, just irregular). If this happens globally, everything stops and people start dying in large numbers.
Personally, this is the only political issue that really matters. Every other thing that people argue about is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The single largest obstacle to large-scale international warfare has been international trade. Global trade has made it massively expensive and consequential to declare war on your neighbors - because it disrupts the steady inflow of money. The more trading partners a nation has, the less likely it is to go to war with any of them. It's why the US and China avoid direct conflict with each other - the cost of going to war is too high, both short-term and long-term.
If international trade breaks down, a lot of the incentives for peace go with it. National economies will struggle internally, and some of those nations will look outward for ways to enrich themselves.
Either Trump is an idiot and is risking the entire world for short-term profit (which I wouldn't put past him), or he's intentionally eroding the stability of international trade because he wants conflict.
...a ladle? How the fuck does that work? Do you just pour it down your backside and hope it washes some off?
I fail to see the problem.
Mm, I see, you're one of those people...
You realize that what I'm talking about protects the artist, right? I'm not talking about the RIAA or MPAA, I'm talking about the creating artist's legal ownership of their work.
Certainly, but it doesn't exist yet, and Microsoft has been developing their system for more than two decades. There is a lot of catching up to do to get to feature parity.
Maybe... almost universally, open source software requires more initial configuration work and more long-term oversight to keep operational, so if you're making a statement like this you have account for additional labor costs. Proprietary software is usually sold as an out-of-the-box solution (it usually isn't, but it's usually a lot closer than open source equivalents).
The entry cost for an open source solution might be lower (no licensing fees) but the long-term cost might actually be higher, especially when you start trying to make various pieces of software work together. One of the areas where Microsoft does really well is system administration tools. Active Directory is a full suite of tools that all work together through a unified interface. To replicate AD you would have to patch many different open source projects together, some of which would overlap in functionality and some of which wouldn't quite meet in the middle. As your environment increases in complexity and your sysadmin needs expand, these interoperation problems grow exponentially, which means more labor time and more expertise requirements, less stability and more security holes between the patched-together solutions.
Don't get me wrong, I love open source software, but so far there are no good open source sysadmin solutions that scale well for organizations with thousands of users (e.g. AD for user/ID, domain, and file management + Intune for deployment and provisioning).
That's not how intellectual property rights work.
In the US, an artistic work is automatically protected by copyright when it is created. Displaying the art publicly does not remove the artist's copyright. Only the artist/copyright owner can grant someone else rights to use the work. Again, public accessibility of the work does not degrade the copyright.
That's ok we'll just refactor it with AI.