Certainly creatively focused jobs can be downsized a bit.

Need a slogan for a new food or car? Ask ChatGPT for 10 slogans and then brainstorm with those options as a starting point.

We'll still need creative people. But less of them and they can use their time more effectively.

And it's not just the color. Pantone apparently contains the definition of how the color looks in different lighting conditions and also at different angles.

At first I was disgusted that Pantone "owning" a color is even a thing. But what they own is the formulae of how a certain color will look like on certain substances and in certain lighting conditions at certain angles. *That* takes a lot of trial and error and experimentation, which is why there is no adequate open source replacement for it. They put the money down to do it, so they get the formulas they created.

Of course.

The OP wanted to know what law (not necessarily for the complaint, but the previous OPs post), so I provided one possibility. That's why I said it might be a good place to start. Not definitive, not a precident, not right, not wrong, but a possibility.

Well, the suit claims "The conspiracy Plaintiffs challenge is unlawful under Section 1 of the Sherman Act" (page 4, lines 23-24).That might be a good place to start.

The actual rents charged (as specified in individual lease agreements) are probably fairly reasonably considered private. Advertised rental rates are not, but actual rates may differ from advertised rates considerable.

Consumer protection laws often dictate how different corporate entities can set prices. Natural competition between different companies should result in lower average prices, while collusion will artifically raise them. Reading published ads and setting prices *after* is ok. Robber-Baron-1 calling up Robber-Baron-2, Robber-Baron-3, Robber-Baron-4 and Robber-Baron-5 and all agreeing on minimum prices before-hand may not be, though I'm no lawyer, don't play one on T.V. and didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express anytime recently.

Obviously video games is the number one use...

But maybe a video screen replacement can be of use? Imagine putting one a VR headset that allowed you to see everything around you (so you're not blindsided) but also see a desktop video screen right in front of you. You pull out a keyboard and start working on the subway with way more screen real estate than you have in any laptop. And if someone comes up next to you, you still see them because the screen appears in front of you and not taking up all of your visual field.

That being said, why limit it to the subway? Why not in the cubicle at work as well? Put it on and believe that your desk is located in green fields... but you can still see the people walking around you. Just not the cubicle itself.

Frankly, the work cubicle could be a killer app for VR.

I am a physician in a rural area. The hospital I'm at can't hire enough physicians, of pretty much every specialty. And it's located less than 100 miles from New York City. I can't imagine how bad it's like in the middle of nowhere.

As for how much I need Organic Chemistry in a normal year? Roughly zero percent. For the life of me I can't remember a single thing I learned in the class. I'll go so far as to say it's the most useless class to me as a practicing physician.

Yes, it was used to weed out people from medical school. But the fact is the U.S. needs *more* medical schools, not less. It's the choke point in the system. You get more medical schools, you'll get more physicians.

I thought Paul Eggert was in charge of world wide time zones. I hope he's still okay. The world still needs him.

It's time to sell the company to Elon and retire.

Just be remembered for Facebook and amihotornot, as opposed to a dystopic VR system with Nintendo 64 graphics, and retire with your reputation as intact as it will ever be.

Maye they can get Lennart Poettering to take a look at it. I mean, what's the worst he could do?

"Updates are distributed as a complete image, like they are today with Android or iOS. "

Well, if those are considered examples of Images based systems, then I can't think of any better proof of why *not* to do this. I'm not about to RTFA, but IOS updates are only successful because Apple rabidly controls the hardware. Google does not control Android hardware, and as such Android updates are among the most nororiously farked in the industry. Slow up dates? Lack of updates? That's android for you. If either of those scenarios are likely outcomes of non-package based update systems, then, whoo-boy, keep that nasty shit to yourselves,

If that was the case, why isn't Russia asking for more sanctions?

It's the Golden Age of TV. So many excellent shows. It is diluted as it's on multiple different streaming services, but it's available.

It's also the Golden Age of Radio with Podcasts giving Listen To On Demand on just about any subject.

Movies are just being squeezed out.

(And having cheap 1080P TVs are inexpensive sound bars doesn't help. Nor does extremely easy access to Pirated videos.)

I Am A Cardiologist.

For those that may reply that you must have had pre-existing heart conditions (There was a reply that vanished. That's strange.)...

We all have pre-existing vascular conditions. If you do an autopsy of any adult in the U.S. or Europe (or likely any other part of the world), you will find streaks of cholesterol in the arteries. Those streaks start to build up in our teens. They may lie dormant for decades. Then some sort of stress (ie: a bad infection, an extra puff of smoke from a cigarette, a fight with a spouse) causes one of the streaks to suddenly erupt and become a blockage. If it's a minor eruption, it may become a 10% blockage and you don't notice it. If it's a 70% blockage, you may notice that you're a little winded with exertion (if it's an artery of the heart). If it's a 100% blockage, you get an heart attack. Or maybe it's an artery in the brain and you get a stroke.

My point is, when they do autopsies of people with the flu or Covid-19 or frankly any other cause of death, they will find heart disease, and will put that down as a pre-existing condition. So, yes, the people who die from the Flu or Covid-19 at young age have a pre-existing health condition. They have streaks of cholesterol in their arteries. Just like everyone else. The only difference is that they were unluckly enough that on or more of those streaks erupted and caused an obstruction in an artery.

There's a reason why cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. Everyone has it.

Except the U.S. is a special case for at least a couple reasons.
1 - It's the currency of international commerce. (For now, yes. But I don't see this changing in the next few years.)
2 - U.S. Bonds are considered very valuable because the U.S. does not default. U.S. bonds are a store of value world-wide. The U.S. wants to create more bonds (how it borrows money)? There will be a long line of individuals, companies, pension funds, and other countries that will buy.

U.S. bonds are a liability to anyone who owns them. They want the US to remain solvent so that they can cash in at some point in the future. That includes foreign superpowers (ie: China) who own US Bonds.

Hopefully they will get a sternly worded warning about doing something like this again.