If consumers don't want the big gas guzzler SUVs and pickups, they are free to buy smaller more fuel efficient cars like the Toyota Camry, Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Honda Accord and others (some of which are even made in the USA)

Remember during the 70s oil crisis when everyone started buying all those new fuel efficient cars from Japanese companies like Toyota, Nissan, Honda and others because the US manufacturers wouldn't (or couldn't) make cars that were competitive?

The industry is no doubt scared of a repeat but with Chinese EVs if those consumers who don't want what Detroit wants them to buy (i.e. the big SUVs and pickups that are the most profitable for the big 3) choose China and EVs instead.

Is there any car on the planet (other than a few prototypes and "robotaxis" that are all tightly controlled on how and where they can operate and that normal people can't get their hands on) that is actually capable of Level 3 or higher driving?

Will this actually happen or will the companies in question simply tie it up in court action long enough to get a more favorable administration?

I use exactly this and I haven't seen either an ad or a YouTube ad-blocker warning/message in ages.

The theater I normally go to (and all the others I have been to in Australia) have signs saying "no phones" and "no talking" (the one I normally go to actually runs a thing on the screen before the movies telling everyone about it) and I don't experience problems.

Why don't theaters in the US do the same? Put some signs up in the lobby saying "no using phones or talking loudly during the movie, we reserve the right to kick out people who break the rules" and kick people out who cause problems.
 

There is no home theater setup on the planet that can come close to the picture and sound quality of a good digital cinema setup (even with a 4K Blu-Ray disk).

I regularly go to Cineplex here in Brisbane, Australia (its a local company with no relationship to the North American business using that name) and not only does it have cheap tickets and cheap food (my last movie ticket cost me less than the normal menu price of a Big Mac at the nearby Golden Arches) but they have high-end Barco laser projectors and a great surround sound system. The seats are comfortable and I have basically never had issues with idiots talking during the movie or otherwise being a distraction.

I have always wondered if the kind of "data haven" talked about in the excellent book Crypronomicon could work in the real world.

Find a country that doesn't give a stuff about western IP and other laws and is willing to host all the crap western companies (and governments) want gone.

I did some more googling and found the patent numbers. 7,233,978, 7,103,640 and 7,814,170 seem to be the 3 patents in question and they seem to have something to do with distributing a database across a bunch of machines on a network and how you find and retrieve data from that database which seems like something Amazon would be doing with their cloud operations.

I am sure there is an expert out there who can explain why this isn't as simple as that (especially with 3 different patents involved)

The MBAs didn't write the flawed code but they were the ones that chose to use this particular BMC implementation and chose not to green-light an update for it on the affected hardware that fixes the flaws.

The myth perpetuated by Hollywood that every pirate download means a lost sale is BS. How many of the people who pirated the new Ghostbusters (for example) would have (had piracy not been an option) gone to the cinema to see it? (and therefore do in fact represent lost revenue for the movie studios)

How many of them pirated it, liked it and then went to see it in a cinema after that?

Anyone who uses the services provided by the FAA in some way (be it an airline, private jet, private pilot flying for fun, private space company launching a rocket, government plane, TV news helicopter, charter plane, NASA launching a rocket, military aircraft or anyone else) they should pay for using those services.

The question is not what the climate might have been in the past but what the climate is now compared to what it would have been now had humans not introduced industrialization, factory farming, mechanical means of transportation, electricity and the other CO2 emitting things humans have been doing for a while now.

If you look at the places where new players (Google, municipalities, co-ops etc etc) have entered the market and provided fibre and other high speed internet options, its forced the dinosaurs to improve their service as well in order to compete with the new guy,

Get rid of all the laws, rules, agreements and other things that artificially limit competition in the market for internet access and let the free market sort it out.

And in areas where there aren't enough customers to make things viable in a purely free market, offer subsidies (with strings attached to make sure they actually get used to build infrastructure).