Stunning.

Hope the mystery signed brick will go in along with your own plaque to future humans.

Beautiful.

Some archaeologist is going to find this one day. Be fun to include a plaque with a message for them (and for anyone who uses it after you).

If conditions cannot be guaranteed, the court can uphold his appeal and deny the order.

Whether or not that ruling would in turn be appealed by the US DoJ to the UK Supreme Court is moot. Ditto chance of success if it is. Between impinging on the right to freedom of expression & the horrors of the US penal system, extradition is likely illegal under UK human rights law.

Here’s hoping they prevail & that they inspire others either way.

Do like the slogan on that banner.

That likely explains things. Thank you! Am here via Memmy.

Cheers. That worked. What a spooky coincidence! Can’t think why it would have been blocked.

The word it translates to is not visible for me in your comment.

Could be that it got censored out somehow - there’s a double space between “as” and “which”.

Forgot to ramble earlier, so have this scant link instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_stone#Dry_stone_walls

Looking forward to a photographic journal of learning to build similar walls on LallyLuckFarm.

You know it is going to happen.

Noted.

Even more likely to forget to look at stuff I’ve saved. Think the function does exist though.

Commenting to remind self to return to re-read later.

If someone were prosecuted for pirating research papers which they, as someone who pays tax in a country which funded that research, have any likelihood of success in using that point as a defence? Or if they made the paper available to residents of that country?

Am sure corporate interests & standard neoliberalism would move swiftly to stifle any such angle of attack, but still.

Whatever about anywhere else, within the US, the foundational concept of no taxation without representation could apply here without much stretch.

They’re our structural engineer now, Dave.

Try an image search for “beam connectors” and you should get an idea of the types of things that are available, but a trip to your local builders’ merchant & a chat with the people there may be more fruitful.

To attach wood to an I-beam, you could drill holes in the flanges of the beam, then use bolts. There are also fittings that you can slide posts & beams into, with various ways of securing them to the material they hold. If you’re not using T-shaped fittings, you could bolt fittings together.

Likely going to have to be forced on the industry, by some mix of piracy, legislation, reality & artists’ choices.

Meantime, convenience has considerable sway. For the generations for whom music was expensive & awkward to acquire (& who have the most disposable income now to spend on music as well as the most faith in companies), this still seems easier than pushing back.

Depends whether or not they hide some code to give them the option to remote disable your files after you’ve downloaded them, and if they to restrict your ability to create backup copies & play your files on devices you own.

There’s no reason why they couldn’t make stuff available in ways which buyers could feel confident in.

Assumed OP meant this type of thing, but yours seems more likely as it would be cheaper to buy & to install.

Often don’t need corn starch, but depends on makeup of the paper & what you want for the end use, leave to dry. Can add glues for other effects.

Tear up pieces, soak in water, squeeze out excess water, shape as needed. Adjust size of torn pieces for different structural effects, from slurry you can pipe for definition & brittle strength or compression through to large overlaid sheets for sheering strength & flexibility)