> Or are we seriously going to say slavery isn't a problem as long as as it isn't in our own backyard? So slavery in the 1800's was a problem but we can live with the fruits of modern day forced labor since we want our cheap iPhone?
Modern day forced labor is still allowed and utilised in the United Stated - it's mandatory for all able-bodied inmates in federal and most state prisons. For an additional kicker, US is also leading the world in both absolute and percentage of population measures of people incarcerated and has for decades.
The difference with what is happening in China is how targeted it is, what the conditions of labor are and how eager various US corporations are to directly use fruits of said labor - but it is just as immoral.
This is false. Work programs in US prisons are almost always voluntary. Only a few states have some limited Penal labor if it is added as part of the sentence by the court, but they are uncommon, and does not happen at the federal level at all.
Learning to work at a job, if done correctly, can be part of a constructive rehabilitation program. ...though I'm skeptical the degree to which that occurs.
That's assuming it does not issue ATA Secure Erase to the drive - whilst WD drives of the era were using absolutely atrocious controllers for the most part, it would be enough to thwart testdisk.
It is pretty hard to imagine any particular set of conditions short of total planetary surface destruction that would make all extremophiles go extinct - and as long there is enough of them, they will start spreading again.
Any particular species, including humans that lives on Earth is unlikely to survive catastrophic changes - but life will come back and spread into the newly freed and opened niches, just as it did before multiple times.
> On other hand Earth is just tiny thing in solar system, which is tiny thing in galaxy which is small thing around general area which is tiny thing in great scale of things...
Don't go down that route - down that route lies the Total Perspective Vortex, and that is something you don't come back from.
We would do better with methane (100-year GWP 25), or even better with nitrous oxide - with added bonus that both N2 and O2 to produce it can be taken straight out of atmosphere (100-year GWP 298), though they would not last very long.
To add to this, in the US, registering is also necessary to sue for infringement (since the 2019 Fourth Estate ruling in SCOTUS) and it determines if the statutory damages apply or not - registration must come before infringement. It's not at all required to file a takedown notice, though.
My understanding is that registration is not required before infringement occurs, but it is required before a copyright lawsuit can proceed. That is, any lawsuits with regard to a unregistered copyright will be paused until the copyright is registered.
The lawsuits regarding unregistered copyright are and were expressly forbidden under Copyright Act of 1976 - 17 U.S.C. 411 [0] (with the specific exception for the case where all procedures were met, but registrations has been refused), but some districts used to consider the mere filing of the papers as sufficient to sue under, and some did not. SCOTUS resolved it in the Fourth Estate case by reaffirming that you are required to hold a registration of the work to sue for copyright infrigement of that work. [1]
THe "infringement before registration" does not affect the ability to sue for it - it only affects the ability to get statutory damages [2], which is where the huge figures are coming in, as you do not have to prove actual damage - but it does mean that any lawsuits filed before registration is obtained are to be dismissed due to lack of standing and of course statute of limitations also applies.
There are some othe exceptions but they consider unpublished works and/or works within 3 months from publication, so they don't often come into play.
Even if you had plenty of DNA material, going with multiple labs comes with a risk that one of them comes with a "no match" result - and that is something that is supposed to be disclosed to defense as potential exculpatory evidence - and is a nice source of reasonable doubt for a jury. It's something that is terribly inconvenient for the prosecution when someone has already been charged with the crime...
Earlier reports put the mass at explicitly "4 metric tons" [0][1], so it is a bit of a guess either way.
> I'm not sure about the SI conversion of the semitractor-trailer units.
Are we talking Arizona trailers, normal NA trailers or international-compliant sizes to begin with?
[0] https://www.space.com/spacex-rocket-crashing-into-moon-crate... [1] https://www.livescience.com/spacex-rocket-to-hit-moon