That is not only generally false, but this time IS different. Since there is NOT always more work to be done, we have moved over to a service economy, where we CREATE more work to be done. BUT the software is now able to do many of those service jobs, and there's no other sector to move to. ALSO, every major technological advance HAS destroyed jobs, and some of those workers were left behind at every step. A lot of people DID become destitute, starve and even die due to the economic upheaval of the industrial revolution. If you want to invoke history and be taken seriously, you have to account for the parts you don't like, not just the parts you remember fondly.

Those service jobs were only viable because people had money, so as the percentage of service jobs has increased (it's now about 80%) the system has become more unbalanced because those jobs don't pay as well as more skilled jobs. (There may or may not be "unskilled" labor depending on who you ask, but there are definitely jobs which require more skill[s] than others.)

What industry do YOU think the low-talent service job employees are going to move into when there are no longer jobs for humans to read scripts on phones? When there are 10% or fewer jobs in fast food compared to now, because the work truly can be done by a bunch of robots plus one guy who knows how to clear jams in the burger printer and replace parts occasionally?

Copper is not "the last mile". It's the last five meters. If that. When people talk about "the grid", they're not talking about the wiring in your walls. Which you don't have to redo anyway for adding an EV. Nobody has to touch, say, your kitchen wiring to add an EV charger.

"The grid" is the wiring leading up to your house. Those conductors are alumium, not copper. Occasionally the SER/SEU cable will occasionally be copper, but even that's generally alumium these days. And that's only to the service connection point (not even to the transformer - to the point of handoff between grid-owned and the homeowner-owned, generally right next to the house), e.g. after the service drop line with overhead service that descends down to the building. The "last mile" is absolutely not copper. Approximately zero percent of modern grid-owned wiring is copper, and even the short customer-owned connection from the drop line into the house is usually alumium.

Grids are not copper. Period. This isn't the year 1890 here.

And no, grid operators don't make money selling power. They make money providing the grid through which power is sold.

I have never seen a single utility that charges a flat grid access fee to residential consumers, anywhere on Earth.

Distinction can be hard to grasp for someone utterly ignorant on the subject

Says a guy who thinks that there's a mile of copper leading up to your house.

(I think you meant L C D?)

Yeah, that's what I meant by "blocking/filtering".

Passive LCD have poor refresh rate (won't be easy to precisely track a virtual object).

And if you want to have some resolution/precision, when blocking light, the LCD needs to be on a plane that is focused, so you're back at having big clunky optics in front of the eyes which king of defeats the "lightweight normal size glasses," point of the poster above.

Meaning the LCD will most likely be used to shut the whole outside or mask a large part of it (a whole quadrant).

Not black pixels in the view. And thus any virtual layer superimposed on top of the real world is going to be a "floating luminous ghost", unless you go the Magic Leap way and use a special setup room with dim lights (or unless masking the whole outside).

Also, due to how they work (polarization) LCDs will most often block at least 50% (even in pass-through state), so will not be very usable for interacting with the real-world in low-light conditions.

I don't. Electricity grids in the US are in a pretty bad shape overall and have had years of neglect. I question whether this all points towards EVs or not. More likely, the $20billion figure includes maintenance and upgrades not done over the past 5 decades.

I'm not at all surprised. The UK is far more conservative than the US. You're talking about a country which in theory has laws against publishing any BDSM content regardless if the people in it are consenting adults or not. In the US beastiality was shutdown by credit card companies. In the UK the depiction of it is illegal. In fact so is the depiction (real or not) of many things considered obscene. Breathcontrol during porn? Verboten! The law bans the depiction of any act that may result in injury. CNC porn? Verboten! You can't even role play the helpless damsel on film.

The funny part is... the Crown Prosecutor has officially stated they will not prosecute adults for filming / publishing consensual acts under this law, but the law still exists none the less.

Yeah Australian airlines are a shitshow, but that baggage part is not an Australianism. Many airlines are not responsible for baggage and will outsource it to a dedicated logistics business that operates at a variety of airports. E.g. when I go and check in on Monday with Iberia Airlines the second my bag hits that conveyor it will be the responsibility of Swissport AG. It may be on my flight, it may not be, there's no requirement anywhere for the bag to be on your flight, and in fact people are separated from their baggage quite often on multi-leg journeys.

The airlines across the world may be responsible for your compensation, but contractually they have little control over your bag and will always direct you to whomever is responsible for airport ground services. The exception is a couple of airlines, e.g. KLM / AirFrance who run their own ground services units, and indeed outsource to others too, so you may be in a situation where you fly British Airways but when you land and can't find your bag you may get sent to the Air France desk.

Actually the EU rules aren't stricter.

EU allows room to significantly change flights without refunds. This new ruling does not and requires a full refund be given.
EU does not force compensation automatically. You said it yourself, you weren't even told compensation was an option on your flight.
EU does not put a time limit on how quickly compensation needs to be processed. It's taken me sometimes months to get the compensation, here they require 7 days.
EU does not mandate compensation for delayed baggage. This one does.

Where the EU is ahead is in the intercontinental flights being 4 hours vs 6 for the US rule, and by specifying the exact nature of compensation.

All you've done is shown you're surrounded by like minded people. You're not an industry trend. See the thing is your opinion (and mine) are irrelevant. Games are still being developed. Hardware is still being developed. Actual people with actual financial stake in the concept disagree with your opinion of the industry. That shows great alignment to the fact that you are the outlier, not me.

The Quest 2 was very limited by hardware. Yeah I agree a lot of the Quest 2 baked in games were novelty toys, but the beauty of it is ... you don't need to restrict yourself to the Quest. PCVR has a world of excellent experiences, some of which are AAA, e.g. HalfLife Alyx, After the Fall, or just some arcade style fun games that don't feel novelty at all like Robo Recall.

Big business should never be held accountable for anything. It's God's will that they should be able to charge as much as they want, do as little as possible for customers, and pay workers next to nothing. And the people who do the real work should be completely disposable. It's the natural order of things.

The only thing that matters in America is making the C-suite as rich as possible as fast as possible. Nothing else is important. The business-speak for this is "shareholder value", but the shareholders are just an excuse to raise the stock price. Since exec payout is a healthy multiple of stock price, the benefit to the execs is the real point. That's what counts.

Given how much money is spent on lobbying and campaign contributions, it's only fair that the law enforce guaranteed executive compensation. And ultra-low taxes at the top end. The one-percent has paid to own the government, and like any investment it must have a high yield payout. If the politicians don't do their job protecting the rich they should be fired like any worker who can't keep up. Inefficiency, or being old or sick is no excuse. Shape up or end up in the gutter where you belong.

Boeing is the ultimate success story in American big business. The upper management had twenty year of incredible payouts while they drained the company dry. They walked away with all the loot and they are now fully funded members of the American oligarchy. They and their decedents will live the high life pretty much forever. No matter what lies you've been fed, the vast bulk of wealth in America is inherited. Once a family gets to the top it's a multi-generational ride. Occasionally someone falls off the gravy train, but the train keeps on running no matter what.

Yes and no. Automatically does sound like a step up, but the "and provide detailed info about the flight" is not a thing. You typically just give them your flight number and be done with it. I've been through this process a few times. The only time it has every been in any way complicated is when I was rebooked by the airline to a non-partner airline which then also turned out to be delayed and then KLM and TAP spent months bickering about who would pay me.

And yes there's lost / damaged luggage rules in the EU as well, maximum compensation limit is 1300EUR. That said this law seems to be more strict with its 12 hour window. AFAIK there's no legal mandate for delayed luggage in the EU, just lost or damaged.

I don't think making it smaller works yet. The focal depth problem is too serious. Until someone comes up with a way to solve it with holograms or something, we're stuck with bulky optics that still hurt most people's eyes. I further think you could use fiber, which would only make the device more expensive. Wasn't that supposed to be on the Firewire roadmap anyway? Hmm, I see they formally gave up on that back in 2013.

He must have had a strange LPT port and/or address then, because normally those wouldn't be in conflict. I've had cards with fairly huge numbers of dip switches, but as long as you could get your hands on some documentation you were OK. Even very cheap ATA multi-I/O cards usually had fairly generous I/O ranges. I had a 120MB Maxtor ATA disk in the 386DX25 on which I first ran Linux, on a $15 no-brand ATA card, and with a 1MB Trident VGA card. That $15 card had pretty decent UARTs, too.

I tried to significantly upgrade the CPU in an AMD-based netbook that I really, really liked... it was 64 bit, but it was single core, and I was just trying to get it into the prior era at the time really and just get it to be a dual-core. And in theory this was possible and I even did it, but it was unreliable AF and I stalled out at the BIOS hacking stage and just got some other used thing. And now I have a $300 HP (I know ugh) Ryzen 3 laptop which... I doubled the RAM and quadrupled the SSD in. Remarkably, it has a combo SATA/NVMe M.2 slot. It's been great with Devuan on it, it's still running version 4 even. We watch youtube on it while we eat dinner, high tech shit. But suspend/resume works reliably, so I've got that going for me.

That's terrible, it means if you buy very much RAM in the frist place you're basically getting reamed.