That doesn’t really work. The URL is an inherent part of the CC license. Archive.org might do link replacement but that does not change the license.. it merely corrupts/misrepresents the license. Users of CC-licensed work are still bound by the actual text of the license. IIRC the URL was to refer to something that changes over time, thus making the license dynamic when archive.org works off of snapshots.
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I vaguely recall Richard Stallman bad-mouthing public domain in favor of free licensing. I don’t recall the details but I imagine the artist would at least want attribution, which I doubt the public domain ensures.
Of course if we could have predicted his death there are many trivial ways we could have ensured his will is expressed and executed. But it may not be a lost cause.. whoever controls the estate would likely know or believe that he wanted to liberate his work.
One annoying limitation is that the last page and a penultimate page cannot have different behavior in the picturecommand
option. I thought I was fucked for ½ a day. But hacked around that by using the pagecommand
and nesting \ifthenelse{\AM@page = (penultimate page №)}{\begin{picture}(0,0)\put(50,-50){…}…
inside the pagecommand. Makes me wonder what’s the point of having the picturecommand
. There is a picturecommand*
which only executes on the 1st page, and apparently no equivalent for pagecommand
-- but we can test the internal variable anyway.
Someone tells me “look into \scantokens
instead of rewriting to a file”. After a brief look, I have to say: No. Fucking. Way. That looks like a rabbit hole that leads to the center of the planet. No thanks.. I don’t need to spend weeks more on this digging through (what looks like) the most raw low-level code that makes assembly languages look like tinker toys.
Low level TeX code really seems like a strange beast. Something you should learn in your early teens while the brain is still highly plastic. I wish I learnt it because I would better understand all the bizarre and obscure glitches I run into with LaTeX. But I think I might be past the point where benefit outweighs the pain.
It is exactly that.
There are ~95 pages of rights and obligations covered in EU Directive 2015/2366, as well as EC Regulation 593/2008. Have you read them, or anything else to substantiate your claim?
You’re trying to solve the wrong problem.
There is no such thing as a “wrong problem”.
You do you. This thread is not about your problems. Start your own thread if you want a different problem worked. In this thread, you can either help solve the problem at hand, or fuck off.
There was a story about a German guy insisting on paying his radio licensing fees in cash. He setup an escrow account and paid his invoices into that, so that the state could not claim he was just using cash refusal as an excuse not to pay. I don’t think I ever heard what came of the legal case.
I heard postbank was eliminated in Germany but post office banking is still an option in other countries. I doubt any post office banks stand on their own. The one I’m aware of is just a proxy for another crappy bank.
Many elderly people can’t use a smartphone so smartphone only options definitely sound like a no go.
It’s somewhat convenient that tech illiterates are in the same boat with the streetwise (who are tech saavy enough to distrust commercial tech that’s being pushed down our throats). But there are efforts to divide us. Elderly folks are getting social helpers with tech, which will shrink those resisting enshitification of everything to a population that’s easier to marginalise. I also don’t suppose it will be long before the tech illiterate elderly are no longer with us anyway.
at least in Germany companies and state are not anymore required to accept cash for invoices
Yikes. That’s a shame. There is the EC Recommendation of 22 March 2010 (2010/191/EU) which wisely states:
A debtor can discharge himself from a payment obligation by tendering euro banknotes and coins to the creditor.
I am surprised Germany has gone against that. I thought cash was loved by Germans.
Glad to hear you’re standing up for yourself, and others. And glad to hear an analog option is still possible. That’s by far the most important option. If you can do everything offline, then you can escape whatever garbage tech they try to push. Essential services like banking and utilities should always have an offline analog option.
The thesis is: what are our rights? Knowing your rights is a good idea /before/ you go off and try to solve a problem.
It may very well be that we have no useful rights and the choices are: be bullied, or find a different bully. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Other banks are garbage too, so it may be better to improve the bank you have (if possible through legal actions and exercising your rights) then to make it someone else’s problem.
you should probably just keep the money in cash
Of course. Cash would solve the problem. But creditors are refusing that now and also refusing cards at the same time. Otherwise the bank card could get cash out of the ATM and pay the creditors.
It depends on which license you look at. E.g. from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.txt:
It was a while since I looked at this but IIRC the BY license was fine in its early versions but none of the others were. Then I vaguely recall seeing links in later versions of the BY license as well (but that may have been hasty reading on my part since i'm not seeing it in the BY 4.0 ATM). Anyway, it’s a mess.