Posted on 05/31/2019 12:30:48 PM PDT by grundle
Um, the bloggers aren’t FReepers.
Do you like “FReeper” Sean Anthony’s” posts of the Canada Free Press where he allows a 20 word excerpt from that rag? That asshat is sucking up FRee Republics bandwith and the “person” never replies to the threads HE posted! Screw those guys!
Count me confused. They post here I thought they are FReepers.
How much time do you think it takes?
While at least he did not simply provide a mere excerpt, what he did provide is hardly substantive or warrants going to his blog (which does solicit money), though he provided the link to the NYT article. Yet here is some general advice from the Admin:
Your contributions are appreciated but many here correctly assume that when you post an excerpt to your blog that you're looking for hits for financial gain, especially those of you who rarely comment. A suggestion from this moderator: Post full text from you blog and ask nicely for a hit to your link. Freepers will treat you much more kindly if you heed this advice.
I think it is 30 words but I do not think there should be a limit as long as attribution is made.
Since he provided the link, and less text than "fair use" copyright law would allow, I see no theft here. Instead, he actually increased NYT readership.
What would Jesus say?
Well, if it was one of His own who was in full time service for Him, then I think it would be, "freely ye have received, freely give." (Matthew 10:8)
However, whether typing code or swinging a hammer, the laborer is to be considered worthy of his hire, and accordingly there are copyright laws (though I think some go too far into the future).
Indeed and body heat can melt it. But this was said by a 18 year-old kid who perhaps had no container.
Actually he did provide the link to the NYT article and his brief comment made me want to read more, and which is quite substantial and informative. If this was MSNBC or WaPo, they made have found a way to blame this in Climate Change.
May 26, 2019 NEW DELHI — Ed Dohring, a doctor from Arizona, had dreamed his whole life of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when he summited a few days ago, he was shocked by what he saw. Climbers were pushing and shoving to take selfies. The flat part of the summit, which he estimated at about the size of two Ping-Pong tables, was packed with 15 or 20 people. To get up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the next, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop. He even had to step around the body of a woman who had just died.
Fly-by-night adventure companies are taking up untrained climbers who pose a risk to everyone on the mountain. And the Nepalese government, hungry for every climbing dollar it can get, has issued more permits than Everest can safely handle, some experienced mountaineers say.
Nepal has no strict rules about who can climb Everest, and veteran climbers say that is a recipe for disaster. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/world/asia/mount-everest-deaths.html#commentsContainer
And the problems at Everest correlate to what the unreasonable "open borders" demand would result in, but worse, yet even Everest requires permits.
From article: But despite complaints about safety lapses, this year the Nepali government issued a record number of permits,
It is sort of confusing, but these hit and run posters out up a half dozen articles a day, with very short excerpts and they don’t reply to any posts on the threads THEY started. They only care about clicks to their blogs.
Thanks grundle.
Nothing fires me up like the prospect of climbing up through a charnel house.
According to one recent article, prior to 1996, the death toll was about 1:4; that year saw a huge increase in the number of climbers, and the death toll dropped to about 1:7. The current figure is a bit more favorable than 1:15.
Due to the sample size, it appears that the figure is probably about right, and won't improve.
As long as the bodies keep getting blown off by the high winds, it'll continue to barely be necessary to step over any of them.
See, you just posted that, and now I'm feeling bad that I don't feel worse about laughing.
People get all devil-may-care when they visit Death Valley (an experience I've not had, or wanted to have), and whole families have just vanished. But it's nothing compared with the attrition on Everest.
UPDATE: Deadly human traffic jams on Mount Everest may result in new rules for who gets to climb
05/30/19 12:30 PM EDT
By Nicole Lyn Pesce
https://www.morningstar.com/news/market-watch/TDJNMW_20190530459/update-deadly-human-traffic-jams-on-mount-everest-may-result-in-new-rules-for-who-gets-to-climb.html
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