Well, FTA (or, at least on of the articles), "Around five years have been invested in the development and construction of the AX Visio," so...

There's a lot of nuance to the loudness wars, but you're conflating extra dynamic range with dynamic range compression (the exact opposite). Digital (including CDs) can go full square wave -1 dB (you'll likely destroy your speakers, but the media can handle it), but if you did that with a vinyl, if you could even cut the lacquer, plate them, and press the vinyl, the listener's needle would pop out all the time.

A perfectly pressed vinyl would theoretically have a maximum of 70 dB dynamic range. A CD, on the other hand, is 16-bit, which is 96.32 dB maximum dynamic range. For reference, a symphonic orchestra typically has a dynamic range of around 90 dB. There are plenty of comparison videos (IIRC, Red Hot Chili Peppers's Stadium Arcadium was highlighted quite a bit at the time) explaining the difference in the dynamic range compression between vinyl and digital versions, but they weren't typically because of the medium.

It was typically the mastering engineer who did the work, and, for a long time (even sometimes after LUFS [Loudness Units relative to Full Scale] standards were established) artists and (even more often) labels hunted down mastering engineers who would master anything that could hit the radio loud. By virtue of modernization, most stations don't have turntables, so if the label wanted it loud, the artist would often have their preferred mastering engineer do the vinyl. But part of it is even more complicated and boils down to the vinyl engineer working the lathe, which is why different pressings of the same album (even to this day) sound different.

Please, point to a court case that isn't the court of public opinion. WAME forfeiting could easily just be them not wanting the bad publicity and/or the legal fight. From my understanding, gavron's statements seem accurate.

Check yourself there. ALS effects, "1 in 250 for men and 1 in 400 for women," (source) meanwhile quadriplegic patients account for, "likely to be some 50 per 100 000 population with about 20 per 100 000 completely paralyzed." (source)

I'd say 1 in 400 is significantly more common than 1 in 5,000, but maybe I can't math.

But, seriously, I can only think the earliest customers were the only ones who probably didn't think about the data being stored forever. The moment one big data breach occurs, I often think about what data what company might have from me that's at risk and I immediately thought about genetic testing. Not sure which data breach tripped me to that thought (Sony?), but I appreciate it.

Actively chose Gentoo for my Steambox and my Plex server. They have some of the best documentation still.

Korobeiniki started playing in my head immediately after reading the headline.

There's progress being made. Can't find the source off hand, but I remember reading an article that Apple was subsidizing development costs for Resident Evil 4. That's about the only thing that makes me consider this "push" to actually be a push this time.

Anecdotal agreement from me. I keep my Mac on the oldest (major) macOS that I can for as long as I can until my software flat out requires me to updated because of the iOSification of the OS. My work machine is a Mac as well and the office keeps it relatively up to date. A lot of the cosmetic changes that Apple have made drive me batty when I have to do anything in the core apps/OS.

Fortunately the Terminal app is still not fucked with.

I'm assuming you're confusing tornado watches with tornado warnings. Watches mean the conditions are favorable for a tornado. Warnings mean that there has been either a spotting or the radar has flat out showed a tornado proper (source). Watches, I, personally, take with a grain of salt, but when we get warnings (rare as they are in my area [NE Indiana]), I get my pets and I into the basement.

Your statement is a bold-faced lie. The post office is not mandated by the US Constitution any more than the military is mandated by the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7 merely states that Congress has the power to establish post offices, not that there needs to be one; meanwhile Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 states that Congress has the power to raise armies.