Because authors will run out of renewal money much quicker than conglomerates.
ohulancutash
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So a system that removes all the power from individual authors and puts it firmly in the hands of big corporations with deepest pockets? Nah.
The holy grail would surely be a fully-remastered Citizen Kane. Unfortunately some idiot executive accidentally sent the negative for recycling in the 80s/90s.
Turing improved upon the electromechanical Polish bombe machine and used that for cryptanalysis during the war. Bombes weren’t computers. His war work is often confused with the Colossus computers built by Tommy Flowers also at Bletchley Park, which built on some Turing theory, but with which Turing was not involved.
Turing cracked codes using a Bombe, which is a machine invented by the Polish and is not a computer. His main work in computing came after the war, joining the pre-existing programme at Manchester where he wrote an early program. His achievements are many, and it isn’t necessary to attribute to him ones that were others, or to do him the disservice of misattribution because he happens to be a “celebrity”.
The computing work at Bletchley Park consisted of the Colossus machines, built by Tommy Flowers to crack communications between the German High Command, while Turing was on a separate programme using improved bombes to decrypt Enigma.
Still can’t play the new Lorde album though.
As far as I can tell, Coldplay only have the one song, that they take apart and reassemble in different configurations. They are the musical equivalent of beige, and appeal solidly to the middle-classes. Hating Coldplay has been the thing to do for decades. It’s music for people who know nothing about music.
The film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People was based on his memoir. He wrote of the UK Covid response
spending £350 billion to prolong the lives of a few hundred thousand mostly elderly people is an irresponsible use of taxpayer's money
Some people object to platforming a eugenicist, but you do you I guess.
The Grauniad is notorious for its insane opinion columns. Simply stay away from those and the reviews section.
This is a bad, stupid, reckless, destructive and dangerous idea. We don’t need more echo chambers radicalising people to one pole or other.