To say nothing of VPNs.

I'll be honest, I'm kinda surprised this is still a thing. It's not 2001 anymore, Napster isn't really around anymore.

i notice your posts always follows his and have poorly worded run-on English sentences. It's as if a N. Korean were using machine translation, badly. Why don't you go out back and dig up a kimchi pot, and chill out with a meal, Kang-Dae?

At some point all of these streaming services will realize they're behaving like the music industry of the early 2000s, with much the same consequences.

Not any time soon, mind you. They aren't that intelligent.

kids who sat on their ass in front of the tv too long had worse health including significantly higher odds of depression, obesity, and poor sleep.

In 1990s joined by kids who sat on their ass with their home computer or game console

It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?

That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus. :gallant bow:

If only we had a CIA that specialized in precisely this kind of dirty tricks. Oh wait, we do! Good thing they don't listen to traitor Trump, he would have told them to stop. He's already trying to force a Ukraine surrender to Russia.

Pry your head out of the sand.

So you never heard say a "black leader" say racist things?

"White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet."

but Oracle has become buggy and with major behavior changes between minor versions, both in SQL and in configuration, an utter trainwreck my employer had to fight with 12C and beyond

Isn't Oracle's major involvement in AI just being cloud provider for place to run it? The actual AI companies would just move elsewhere, Oracle is 3% of that market.

A YouTuber? Seriously? We Americans trust the experts. For those who don't know, the rsilvergun account was recently exposed as being a Malaysian, complete with screenshots of zir other social media. Only foreigners think random YouTube channels are more trustworthy than experts. We Americans went through this during covid. People were eatating horse paste! And refusing life saving vaccinations. Oh, how we all laughed when Herman Cain died.

AS I recall, someone tried using chemical SNAP generators with lasers and Neural Networks in the 1980's or 90's.
The system tried to shoot down the moon. Again. Happened before too, with a straight radar system (the Soviets tried? Might have been the US, I forget).

yes, took 17 years and $12 billion (twice budgeted cost!)

So yes, we could do that, will take massive amount of money.

where were the parents? takes a long time to get to that state.