This law as written doesn't require a confession or proof, but only suspicion and not of a crime, but of the law's definition of 'child abuse' which at its broadest defines abuse as "...injury of a child by any person under circumstances which cause harm to the child's health, welfare, or safety,..." It also has a specific carve out for members of the clergy requiring them to report it even when they suspect it only from privileged conversations.
Mandatory reporting is nothing new. Applying it to the confessional is. But I really don’t see a reason for the state to consider a confessional to be privileged in a legal sense. The religion’s views on its rituals carry no legal weight.
Those would iridium, platinum, mercury, and thalium. For varying definitions of "early", these alchemists only knew about mercury and maybe platinum (there was platinum in Egyptian gold, but it isn't clear they knew it was in there or thought of it as anything more than an impurity). Mercury they did try to turn to gold. They thought of it as an ur-metal from which all other metals came.
But as the sibling poster states, no, they didn't know.
I think that Gold/Platinum alloy is one of the plot points of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, and it's in relation to Newton's alchemical experiments.
It's an incredible story and deserves to be told. 1500miles at sea in an overloaded open lifeboat using stellar navigation and managed to save more than half of the people aboard. So they were sailing rather than rowing but other than that I had remembered it substantially correctly.
(18) "Member of the clergy" means any regularly licensed,
accredited, or ordained minister, priest, rabbi, imam, elder, or
similarly situated religious or spiritual leader of any church,
religious denomination, religious body, spiritual community, or sect,
or person performing official duties that are recognized as the
duties of a member of the clergy under the discipline, tenets,
doctrine, or custom of the person's church, religious denomination,
religious body, spiritual community, or sect, whether acting in an
individual capacity or as an employee, agent, or official of any
public or private organization or institution.
> since switching won't get them any better service
It will, but as you note it will cost more.
As someone who has extensive experience with many vets due to rescuing and fostering with multiple orgs and having animals of my own, I'll take the local firms any day of the week. Although there are some bad ones, and although it can be hard to get your foot in the door, local vets as a whole offer better availability, a more timely experience, a lack of upselling, someone at the front desk, and generally more competent vets.
Experiences I've had with the other places make it very clear they're paying their vets bottom dollar, want to extract every one of my dollars possible, don't care how much of my time they waste doing it. Strangely, although they always want me to review my experiences, they never seem to take the criticism to heart.
Copyright is defined in law and as the original poster stated, whether this is 'copying' as defined by copyright law is legally ambiguous.
Copyright doesn't protect against all forms of duplication. For instance, you own the copyright to your post and grant HN a license to offer copies of it. I have no direct license from you to copy the content of your post; but I can copy it to memory, copy a cache to disk, and make a copy appear on my display.
> For instance, you own the copyright to your post and grant HN a license to offer copies of it.
It’s not a good example, because if you grant a license you give them the right to make copies. The problem is not when Meta got licenses, it’s when they did not.
Both definitions are correct and are regularly used.
Personally, I find 'human readable' to be a better term for your definition and use 'plaintext' to mean either unformatted text (except perhaps with whitespace), or the non-markup text within a marked up document.
Wiktionary suggests that the divide is contextual, with your definition being the 'file format' definition and GP's definition being the 'computing' definition.[0]
To me it's something like "the target language does not differ from the expressing language"?
A .txt file for notes is plaintext, because the language I'm using doesn't have to be compiled for my goal. Programming languages are not, because the expressed language is compiled into some other target language (machine code).
Markdown is not, because it's compiled into HTML.
A .txt undergoes no transformations from my writing, to its storage, to my later usage of it.
I’ve had some luck asking ChatGPT “How does AppX make money?” I’ve also asked it to find me games based on genre, style, and control constraints “without ads or with removable ads” and it does a fair job.
I don’t need no-questions refunds. I need fair transactions.
Apple is too powerful in this relationship to provide it. If I have a problem with a merchant I can go to my credit card company about it. If I have a problem with my credit card company I might lose out on that one transaction but I can get a different credit card.
If I have a problem with Apple (or Steam or Nintendo or…) I either have to take the abuse or lose past “purchases”.
And the merchant themselves can do no questions asked refunds anyway.
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