Not sure. Just when you think you've found it the line slants up again. But humans have limits and Donald Trump is old. His hey day seems to have been in the 80s and 90s. Now he's slowed down and is taking more naps, plus a bunch of his old friends have died or gone to live in group housing. I suppose you could argue that he's taking dirty old man to new heights in his mind.

Not at all. Stock market prices are much more inefficient than academics lead us to believe.

You contradict yourself. A product that isn't easy to use or setup in one or two clicks fails in the market. Hence cloud.

Ah, you have a personal definition of "necessity." I'm sure what follows is going to be good.

Enshitification and dumbing down of everything is done because quite frankly most people are frigging useless when it comes to technology.

the more rope you gave idiots

Most products are unfortunately designed for the commoner, not the techie in mind.

Etc.

I always find it quite ironic when "the techies" on here complain about how it's impossible to change the battery in a phone and bitch about problems that can be solved with an ESP32 and a bit of solder (like the one in this story). Guess there are multiple levels of "frigging useless when it comes to technology."

VPNs are pretty hard when you don't know the name or address to connect to.

Or, follow the glass hole into a quiet alley and smash his face into the wall from behind, then run away.....

I'm not advocating this, I'm just pointing out that there are many more options than you make it out to be.

This time seems to be post-Discovery acquisition pain, and they're going to be selling off a bunch of stuff before they let Netflix acquire the rest. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens to a few more media companies too. They've all been spending money like mad to try and buy streaming customers and also make something they want to watch.

Bullshit. Selling property is selling property. You seem to be distracted by the idea that a corporation is anything other than a group of co-owners. I'm not saying sometimes rights need to be restricted for the common good. They always do. But come out and say it, don't weasel around it with but but corp....

For all their "losses" they were also able to pay down their debt in 2024 with $4.4B in cash flow

WB lost more than $11 billion in 2024, although their debt did go down from $70 billion to a mere $46 billion.

First,mandatory screen time needs to be limited. If they want text books in ebook form, great, but they'll need a way to restrict school issued pads to school work during the school day.

On the flip side, I have more than once heard a parent complaining that homework is being given that requires a computer to complete where a school doesn't allow chromebooks to be taken home. That's equally absurd. Not every family can afford to give each kid a computer, and sometimes computers break. It's not like parents can just grab an extra one at the corner store like they would a pack of pencils or paper. If school work requires a computer and/or internet connection, the school should provide it. If that includes homework, the students must be allowed to take it home.

If the schools don't like that or can't afford it, they can issue text books and homework that can be completed with pencil and paper (yes, that includes accepting hand written essays).

And as for not letting parents view the assignments, that's ridiculous. Of course the parents have a right to see it. If some company wants to claim that to be proprietary information, I guess the school can't use it at all.

It's crazy to complain about students on their screens too much and then have mandatory screen time. It's equally ridiculous to complain that parents need to be more involved and then shut parents out.

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Nooooo! I'm still paying off my 3D television set, you insensitive clod! It makes movies look so real!

Nonsense. It takes years to train up a radiologist. It's supply and demand. Nothing to do with AI.

Why would they want more fuel-efficient vehicles to be built?

Follow The Money.

Dementia is not the problem you think it is.

As long as it gets investigated starting in about 40 years, the Warner employees will be fine.

I'd worry more about Netflix. Didn't AOL buy Warner previously? I don't think that went well for AOL....

It's monkeys with typewriters,

All the way down.

I'm still trying to figure out how that's possible.

Easy. Let's say the NYT article says Trump is a thief. The AI reads the article, regurgitates it to one of its users with hallucinations, like Trump is the antichrist. Now the user thinks the NYT article said Trump is the antichrist because the AI said so, and goes postal with a shotgun.

I don't know what you mean by "free"? But on the off chance you mean "free as in beer" I will point out that the owner of said beers has the right to offer the beer free to one person, while not making it free for another person or even AI for that matter.

Just because the NYT allowed someone to see an article for free does not mean, ipso facto, that *you* are entitled to see that article for free yourself. In particular copyright is not transitive.