No olive oil, no cheese, no wine, no chocolate, no BMWs, no Ferraris, no scotch, no Irish whiskey, no Paris, London or Milan fashions. Enjoy your idiot President America.
Hi. 😊 Swedish dude here.
When our children get sick, we have 60 paid days per year to stay home with them.
Per parent.
They're separate from my 25 paid vacation days.
Meaning I don't have to use my own paid sick leave.
If I'm a single parent: 120 days.
If my child has a chronic illness: 120 days
If my child is hospitalized: unlimited days.
These days reset every January.
By law. every year until child is 18.
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Despite the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, neither my family nor I have been provided with adequate security so far. Due to continuous threats, I am genuinely afraid for the safety of myself and my family.
Several false cross-FIRs have also been lodged against me in different states. I fear that these cases may be used to force me to travel to places where I could be subjected to a life-threatening attack.
I am a Class 10 student and have my Board Examinations this year. However, due to the constant threat to my safety, I am unable to attend school or tuition, which is seriously affecting my education and future.
I therefore respectfully request that the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court be implemented immediately and that adequate security and necessary protection be provided to me and my family without any further delay.
@DelhiPolice@Uppolice@adgzonemeerut@dgpup
Whosoever this baba with the plucked eyebrows maybe....remember, you live in a democracy. We will eat and enjoy whatever we choose to, whenever....and WHEREVER
The BJP looks discombobulated as their undeserved run for 12 long years nears its end. Thoroughly exposed as the worst government in political history, panic has set in. Two recent examples:
A violent video targeting #DimagiNaxals which included Rahul Gandhi and GenZ leaders.
A cheap C grade Bollywood style video targeting a woman: misogyny and patriarchal sexism at its lowest.
The party is over. Expect them to become more vicious and vulgar.
Game up!
Banning Rapido, Uber and other cab aggregators from plying in Chandigarh city is ill-considered response that inconvenience citizens who depend on affordable, convenient transport and, more seriously, take away the livelihood of thousands of self-employed drivers..... 1/2
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
3 of the biggest academic publishers in the world sued a photocopy shop.
The shop charged 50 paise a page. It sat inside a university campus in Delhi and had 1 owner.
The case ran for 4 years. The shop won, and the law changed.
His name is Dharampal Singh.
He set up Rameshwari Photocopy Service in 1998, in a small licensed space inside the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi.
The work was simple. Professors would prepare a reading list. For a course like Agrarian Sociology, that might mean 33 different readings, scattered across 33 different books, most of which cost more than a student's monthly budget and some of which the library had 1 copy of.
Singh photocopied the relevant chapters, bound them together, and sold the bundle. It was called a course pack. The price was 50 paise per page.
That is less than 1 American cent.
He explained it in 1 sentence. If a student needs 33 readings for a course, he said, it could take months to collect them from different books. I make life easier for students by giving them all the material in 1 pack.
In August 2012, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis filed suit in the Delhi High Court against the shop and against the University of Delhi. They wanted a permanent injunction.
By the end of 2012 the court had granted a temporary one. A commissioner was sent to the shop without warning, made an inventory, and seized copies.
Then something unusual happened.
Students organised. 2 groups, one of students and one for educational access, formally applied to join the case as defendants, on the side of the photocopy shop. The court allowed it.
In March 2013, 309 authors and academics from around the world wrote an open letter to the publishers asking them to withdraw the case.
33 of those 309 had written the very books whose copyright was allegedly being infringed.
The authors were siding with the shop copying their books.
On 16th September 2016, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw dismissed the suit entirely. He wrote that copyright in literary works is not an inevitable, divine or natural right conferring absolute ownership on authors.
The publishers appealed. On 9th December 2016, a 2 judge bench of the Delhi High Court delivered the final ruling.
It held that reproducing copyrighted material for the purpose of educational instruction is not infringement under Indian law, and that no licence or permission from the publisher is required for a course pack, however much of the book is copied, as long as it is justified by teaching.
Then the publishers withdrew from the case entirely.
The shop is still there.
The next time you are told that intellectual property law always favours whoever has the most expensive lawyers, remember that 3 of the largest publishers on Earth spent 4 years trying to shut down a photocopy shop charging half a rupee a page.
And lost.
Let me get this straight... OpenAl was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. "To benefit humanity." Then he raised billions of dollars. Then he closed the source code. Then he converted to for-profit. Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone. Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models. Now he's on stage saying you'll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter. He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he's going to bill you to use it... Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they're not even hiding it anymore...
@InnoBystander It was a fine decision, considering the rain probability. It is just that they have got totallyfoxed up with SL's batting approach in a nothing to lose scenario. Couple of wickets, and who knows, just an under 100 lead for them.
Today, Canada is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein as we won’t be doing business with pedophile rapist presidents any longer.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. - DB
@afidelf He tilted a bit when Jaiswal pushed him with his helmet, but I can be incorrect. Anyways, it was still less aggressive than Styris Johnson butthead incident. There as well, no suspension then. So, ICC itself setup the precedent for this sort of case and this is not a good thing.