Mars has a very thin atmosphere. There'll be next to no drag on it so it'll probably remain in orbit pretty much forever unless perturbed by something or deliberately crashed at some point if comms are ever restored.

If a dept in NASA is using a NASA facility the actual cost is zero to NASA though obviously accountants love all the internal dept budget costings but in reality they're meaningless.

Meat is delicious, but a vegan diet is perfectly healthy.

I don't follow the NFL that much, but don't they have some kind of subscription service where you can watch all of the games without having cable or satellite? MLB has had that for a while and if you just want to watch one team it may not be the best value, but it's great for anyone that wants to watch a variety of games on demand.

If there's a football game I really want to watch I can just go to a friend's place or a sports bar. Both are arguably better viewing experiences as well.

That's nice Adobe, but why do I need any of your products at all if I can just use a LLM to generate the image I want or make the requested modifications to my existing image directly?

If AI manages to kill this shitty company and their shitty business model, I wouldn't shed a tear. GIMP has gotten surprisingly good over the years while Photoshop has tread water or regressed for completely bullshit reasons.

My brain isnt the broken one. The legislative branch promising to over turn agency decisions (you dipshits belive are supposed to be independent, but we all know that is only when your guy aint in charge) is not the same thing as talking about overturning a legislative agenda. It is also not the same thing as an outsider saying it. If say James Carville, said it I'd take no issue.

Imagine if a bunch of Senators lines up and said just wait until we get party member in the White House, we are putting all of you in Detroit on notice, the EPA will be eliminating fuel economy standards! You would have cried foul too, and you fucking know it.

Promising to over turn lawfully executed anti-trust decisions by the currently ELECTED administration isn't just opposing agendas it is a direct attempt to undermine the credibility and ability of the current government to execute policy.

Much xenophobe

So Trump

Wow

This is just economic terrorism.

I should not be tolerated. Republicans should push to censure everyone one these people.

If they're being honest (fat chance of that) about it being random then the only input is repeated refreshing until you get a lower price.

If it's tied to anything external all you can do is try to hide your identity or pretend to be whatever gets the lowest prices. Really good tracking or detailed profiles might be hard to get around, but I suspect most approaches are still rather naive. This isn't anything new. Some years ago there was a big story about airfare prices being different depending on what browser someone was using and even before that I recall reading about how customers using a iPhone were charged more than Android users on some website under the presumption that they were more wealthy on average because they had bought a more expensive phone.

I doubt that the companies doing this would allow you to identify as Filipino for the purpose of getting eggs for $.07 cheaper. That rather defeats the point of what they're trying to do. Even if companies could implement this perfectly it's still pointless as any significant price disparity just creates room for a middleman to engage in arbitrage. The store will only sell bread to the blind Cuban woman with gout who gets the best price and then resells all of the bread she buys to everyone else at a rate lower than what the store would have charged those other customers. So even if there were money to be made using this kind of technology, the store won't be the ones making any of the money once other people catch on to what they're doing.

How did you get out of high school without knowing the difference between a hypothesis and a claim?

Right MCD is just looking over at KO and going us too.

A few loud people online and embittered animators are complaining about their ads. That handful of people might be mad about it. Meanwhile in terms of numbers that matter everyone else going out of their way to watch the ads, like seeking them out, just to see what all the fuss is. So they get tons of free ad impressions, and if they are lucky a few of those people say "gee haven't had a Coke in while, sounds pretty good, maybe I'll buy a case."

I haven't met anyone in IRL who is actually mad at Coca-Cola for their AI ads, but they are talking about them. Even if the sentement might be 'the old ads had more soul' it isn't changing their opinion of the product or the company really, and it is bringing it to top of mind. - Just what the ad men want..

Hard to image every other corporate marketing department isn't trying to figureout how to get in on that without appearing a little to 'us too', the funny part is that last part really does not matter either probably, they only worry it does.

If Elected I Promise to direct the State Department to issue all official correspondence in Comic Sans MS.

I believe strong this will help inject needed levity into maters of State and help anal retentive diplomats the world over not take themselves so seriously, allowing for more open and dynamic conversations.

Now about my Nobel Peace Prize...

My point stands, they did a reprint but it also labeled 'anniversary series' and it has not value. I stated a re-issue would have no value.

I don't collect cards, I agree with you in principle; but I can also acknowledge how the market works. People assign value to the originals, its like art where a skilled painter can make a nearly indistinguishable forgery / copy, some of which can stand up to quite a lot forensic scrutiny. Honestly there is no reason one of Eric Hebborn's Rembrandt's should be worth less than an actual Rembrandt. Its just people rather arbitrarily decided their should be.

The trouble with Pokemon cards is I don't believe there is nearly so much consensus on what is an original issue, when one goes out of print and when they start printing them again. Which makes the whole idea of assigning value much more difficult.

"The Venetian atmosphere is corrosive to many materials but it isn't toxic"

Oh really? Go suck on some SO2 and see how you get on.

"On Venus there is no need for radiation shielding"

BS. There's no ozone and at the height these balloons would float the UV and assorted stuff from the sun would fry you in seconds.

"holes in your balloon are not fatal"

Wtf re you smoking? Archimedes principle holds on Venus just as on Earth. Lose your lifting gas and you sink and on Venus you'll soon start to cook.