Don't get your panties in a knot. He's not telling what people in the EU can buy or not. e.g. Eutelsat has bought flights from US companies with no problems. This particular flight is completely different as it is for a satellite partly funded by the French government. So yes they do have a say on what they pay for.

It is really doubtful Ariane 6 will be any cheaper per kg launched considering the design specs. As for Skylon it would take a long time and lots of money to develop assuming it could be made to work at all.

Monaco sure. Luxembourg not really. Monaco has no income tax so a lot of rich people move there. Luxembourg is just a money hole where corporations and banks hide money in shell accounts.

The parent company of Airbus also manufactures the Ariane 5 rockets through Airbus Defence & Space.

As for the 'Diamond Paradox' if water was being sold by the DeBeers monopoly I bet it would be expensive too.

The stock market is not like a regular market. It is just too volatile. Plus the product itself is so opaque no one actually groks what they are buying. See you people keep talking about P/E ratios because you probably heard it from some BS soundbite out of Warren Buffet's mouth. But there is more to it than that. Like debts and assets. When you blindly focus on things like P/E ratios you get BS like hiding corporate debts into shell companies and the like. Which seems to be happening a lot.

Ah but it will be. It will be.

A lot of the "news" are actually newsvertisements or taken out verbatim from another news agency like Reuters anyway.

That is because you cannot get wildly rich in the stock market unless there is lots of volatility in it. The only way to make lots of money is when a company either gains or loses value faster than what is expected. Notice this is the perceived market value not the actual value a company has.

In other words that's billions in phoney baloney market expectation of what Ericsson is worth. The same market which said WhatsApp and Facebook were worth what?

PNG is lossless and supports images with more bits per channel. Plus it has extensions to support animation.

To reduce the used bandwidth. Which is still important and paid for by organizations like Wikipedia.

As for handling animations you can use HEVC for that.

Oh really? They seemed to be fine using flamethrowers in the Crusades. They used siphons with naphtha in combat.

So you want a better lie detector. As if that won't have its own issues either. Even if, for whatever reason, your lie detector actually worked sometimes people think they know some 'facts' when they have been only fed with false information.

Actually OpenCL is a C like language that is compiled into the assembly language of the target architecture. At least that is what happens with AMD, Intel and NVIDIAs implementations of it.