I guess such an old edition is in the public domain

really? there are ways of putting music on Spotify that don't involve paying a fee upfront at any time?

Yes, last I checked at least LANDR, Amuse and Tunecore all had plans where you release for free and they take a % of royalties.

Yes, lots.

the film they were using for these pictures allows for way higher resolution scans than 1080p

yeah, but the guys selling the courses were/are all obsessed with being at the beach

I'm pretty sure that being at the beach is really just universal marketing shorthand for "being somewhere that no one would ever expect you to even reply to emails from"

Or more generally, just doing whatever you want. I dont think anyone literally wanted to sit on a beach 24/7 365 days a year. However plenty of people would want the ability to just wake up one day and on a whim fly to a hawaii until they get bored then fly somewhere else.

Working from the beach is much more enjoyable than working from a cubicle in Toronto in January all work tasks being equal.

Much cheaper too, ridiculously enough.

If you pay for beach accommodation instead of a dwelling in some higher-priced metropolitan area, sure. As an add-on though, still more expensive.

I'd wager that most people are working towards a home base in the lands they're used to, then go on trips every now and then. Selling your metropolitan home base gets you the permanent beach lifestyle for sure, but permanently removing oneself from more densely populated areas is not for everyone.

that sounds like somebody's dream job

Friend of mine, a brilliant sysadmin with PLC licence, would jump on it in a heartbeat :)

for which society? the American society, maybe? they get to feel good about themselves

for the societies all over the globe that have been the targets of such policies for more than a century, I think it's better to call a spade a spade. the non-American politicians and aristocrats that benefit from US imperialism get to hide much better if the Americans are "the good guys"

No even for other societies, it would be far worse if American politicians felt no imperative (moral, political, economic, or otherwise) to not behave like raving lunatics.

This is of course what we're seeing today, where Trump is just discovering his taste for utilizing American military power to achieve his whims.

Hopefully we get bogged down in Iran enough not to continue, but obviously as soon as we started the Iran conflict, the GOP was already talking about "Cuba's next" etc, which is obviously the start of an infinitely long list of places to "liberate."

This situation is far worse for everyone than the one where the US is mostly benign (despite mistakes) relative to its incredible power.

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia is about his experience in the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938. He was there between '36 and '37 I think. It's pre WWII, and I found it very interesting for the same reason you say here: his account doesn't have the benefit of hindsight. The civil war wasn't even over when the book was published. It's very interesting to see his perspective, what things he saw coming, and what things he didn't.

What I find most amazing about all this is that this is literally the market that Tesla was aiming for. Affordable EVs for regular people was their whole thing, they were years ahead of BYD, already had an established brand, they just had to keep doing what they were doing, adding cheaper models to their lineup, and they would be much stronger competitors.

They've been on this path for a while now. The reckoning has to come at some point right?

At this point I don't see a solution to the arms-race of autobesity besides regulation. Cars that represent a larger threat to other road users need to have that externality internalized onto the driver.

Because otherwise we just get things like the Hummer EV which is literally over 9000 lbs.