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).

The power stations would argue that they aren't intentionally spewing these chemicals into the air and that it's a side effect of the production of electric power.

They are 2 completely different drugs that do completely different things to the body.

You can't substitute one for the other.

Putting fast chargers in at gas stations seems like a great idea. Gas stations could get more revenue from EV charging (and from people who stop at the gas station to charge and spend money on food and stuff while they wait for their EV to charge) and there are many gas stations located close to the interstates.

Plus having it as part of (or even just located right next to) a gas station makes it a more attractive place to stop (because of the availability of food and toilets and things) than if it was just located randomly off the interstate somewhere.

What about if you had a vehicle with hundreds of trailers attached to it. You couldn't run it on normal roads obviously so what about special purpose rights of way just for these vehicles. You could then use bits of metal to guide these vehicles so the driver doesn't need to steer, just control the speed and brakes. You could even power these things by electricity (provided through an on board diesel generator, a battery system or overhead wires).

What country was Assange residing in at the time the alleged crime took place?

I would love to see a legal expert explain if "New York Times Co. v. United States" applies to the Assange case and if not, why not.

Clearly you never had the experience of being a broke uni student...

I also remember that it's a real pain to fit a desktop PC (with CRT monitor) into a Nissan 350z...

I was recently ona holiday here in Australia where someone else on the trip rented a BYD Atto 3 EV and it worked great, even though we were traveling over 300km each way. We had to stop and charge for maybe 15-20 minutes at a fast charger in both directions (the cost of which was apparently included in the rental) but overall it was great.

Can I run this locally somehow, ask it things and get the same results back as I would talking to the real Grok AI? Does this include all the training data?

Doesn't matter what the law says about repairing the equipment, the contract between McDonalds and the franchisees says that they must only use these specific Taylor ice-cream machines and that they must only get them fixed and maintained by Taylor.

Unless you somehow force McDonalds to remove the requirements from the contracts, any other changes to the law don't matter.