Yeah, you don't get terminated with cause unless they have something that could be defended in court as illegal behavior or a gross violation of contract. This isn't about AI.

You're right, but you're also trying to imply the wrong thing.

The handing out money has been in the form of cheap debt for the past 14 years, since 2008. Housing market inflation came first, and now we're seeing that inflation hit commodities, food, etc. The trickle of money from the pandemic stimulus was nothing.

The root issue here is banking regulation, which led to 2008's crash, which led to "too big to fail" quantitative easing, a massive injection of cash into the banking system and the resulting failure of the market -- if broken things don't die, they keep being broken. The moment the government props up the financial system as it did, the inflation we're seeing now became inevitable. The fact that it took this long is the surprising part.

And don't, even for a minute, blame this on the poor who needed a few thousand extra dollars to survive. That is exactly the type of talking point that the banks want, because it makes the people the problem - not them, who have somehow during this inflation, been showing record profits. I wonder where all the money is going?

Gravity is promiscuous at the best of times ;)

Seriously though, gravity is quite predictable all the way to the centre of a uniform solid sphere (not that Earth is entirely uniform). In any case, these guys are only going about 19 km down on a 6378 km journey. The vast majority of Earth's mass is still inside their location (all the heaviest stuff having sunk to the core). 19 km is about twice as deep as the deepest ocean trench, and we know gravity is not funky to at least that depth. (19 km is about the height Concorde flew, and gravity was not funky there either.) Pressure, temperature, and chemistry will be a problem long before gravity.

The "moral rights" are the rights held by the author/creator of a work to be identified as the author/creator, that the work will not be falsely attributed to another, and that the work not be used in a way to bring disrepute on the author/creator. These generally cannot be sold. The right to reproduce a work can be sold.

So, for example, the Aboriginal Flag was designed by Harold Thomas. He licensed it to WAM Clothing for use on clothing, and another group for flag production. Moral rights are what prevent WAM from claiming they, or Krusty the Clown, created the emblem. WAM, on several occasions, enforced the exclusivity of this license against the uses of the emblem on clothing. This license, in the minds of some, meant the flag was not "free". The government has essentially bought the rights to the use of the emblem on clothing from WAM, and some other rights from Harold Thomas. Unlike the US, this does not make anything "public domain" and, as is de rigueur for the present government, they have oversold the "freedom" involved. No permission is required for non-commercial use on clothing, but royalties may still be payable to the government for commercial use. These funds will go into channels that benefit Aboriginal peoples (remains to be seen).

The whole thing is a mess.

That depends on your definition of "reused". The space shuttle cost over $450M to refurbish for each flight - disassembling and replacing large chunks of the orbiter. So, while you are technically correct (the best kind of correct), it was horribly inefficient in comparison to what SpaceX is currently doing. In fact, to refurbish a single orbiter, you could launch literally 4 fully loaded Falcon 9s, and throw them away afterwards and still come out on top.

That's a pile of crap.

They're ending software support for their OS. And they're saying "it might not work properly afterwards this date." What do you expect them to say? Hey, this thing is 10 years old, and we're not supporting it anymore, but it will keep working fine? Of course they're going to say "might not work anymore!"

Old software dies; full stop. Go try running anything else from 2010 that's reached end of life, and see what happens if you have reliability problems. In fact, Microsoft released Windows 7 in October 2009, and EOL'd it in 2020. Does it still work? Sorta. Maybe. Depends on the use case. Want to keep using it? Pay a crapton to Microsoft for extended support. And that is Windows 7, probably the single most ubiquitous operating system of all time. This is BlackBerry OS, something that was nearly obsolete a year after it's last major release.

Like the ssh client that is included in Windows 10, and enabled by default since circa 2018, with an equivalent command line interface experience to telnet.

Here's the upside. You are on a voice call to 112/911 for a trauma. The operator currently has to ask you to verbally describe the wounds in order to assess which, if any, is life threatening. People are notoriously bad at this, often because they are directly involved and shocked. A photo or short video of each major injury could be useful in prioritising the response and also guiding a first-aid response. A continuous stream of someone involved in the trauma could be used to determine if a response needs to be escalated or changed at time passes. The first responder(s) can send in imagery that can be passed, or made available, to the receiving medical centre(s). Lots of useful reasons.

As for the butt-text and pranks. The system could be designed to only accept SMS/MMS from a number that is currently on a voice call to 112/911, or from a number associated with an active incident, or from numbers pre-registered as, for example, belonging to someone with a disability that impacts on the ability to use voice. That is, the voice communication remains the primary first contact and everything else follows. In any case, the emergency services often have access to the phone or phone system's idea of its location (GPS if available), which makes pranking a more traceable proposition.

The qualifying attribute of "The L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Awards" is that the recipients are, "rewarded for their important contributions to the progress of science, either in Life sciences or in the fields of Physical sciences, Mathematics and Computer science." Are you saying that the UK should not try to attract such simply because they are women? Would you apply the same criteria to Nobel Prize winners, about 97% male, because the UK already has a great collection of cocks?

Judged by the colour of its waste products? I thought that was a more pleasing Cherenkov blue in the spent fuel holding tanks

470MW to "power approximately one million homes". UK homes must be truly miserly electricity consumers at approximately 470 watts per home.

In Rolls Royce's 2017 SMR brochure, the figure was 220-440MW. Marketing inflation is alive and well, but the 470MW figure seems roughly consistent. I guess there's an unstated, "ten reactors per power station," assumption. At 2 billion per SMR they come in around the 20 billion mark, just like derided figure attached to "large scale nuclear."

Non-fungible Token. Prepare to enter a world of make believe if you research further.

Maybe Unimatrix Zero? Brought to you by another ruthless mob

Fuel costs are so incredibly tiny - like we're talking less than $500k for a falcon heavy. Rocketlab's stick launches for $5m, and negotiated re-flying a used falcon 9 places a flight around $50m without any exceptional costs.

While this is still a small amount of money on an SLS scale, $87.5m would get your satellite to space on a falcon 9, or probably half a dozen launches on Rocketlab's.

It won't get you to orbit on either ULA or Blue Origin though - as ULA costs too much, and Blue Origin doesn't have an Orbit-capable rocket.

For me it does help the web page that the AC linked carries the classic red flags: a block in which they account for the number of Tweets, blogs mentions, Facebook pages, number of news outlets, Reddit mentions, videos, and reads in a proprietary reader. There is some citation info if you dig a little. I had to dig a lot more to find mention of peer review.