Then you would be wrong. Probably best to recuse yourself from weighing in on this dicsussion.

If you had any idea what you were talking about, you'd know that was a meaningless question.

Still talking out of your ass.

Could have saved yourself a lot of words and just said, "You're right- I should shut up about things I know nothing about."

Sure, but even you admit we're simply drawing an arbitrary line at frequency.

Does the copyright consideration for a human change if they're blackout drunk?

What's worrying is that they all seem to have stalled when it comes to things people really care about - better cameras, better batteries. Google is the same, the Pixel line used to be about the best cameras in the industry, but the last few years they have stalled with only marginal improvements.

Only the Chinese brands seem to be innovating now, with massive camera sensors and better optics, and new battery chemistry to fit more energy into the same space.

Cheap EVs can drive for 4-5 hours before needing a short stop to charge. Before I bought my current one I looked at some potential journeys, like a 9 hour one from one end of the country to the other. It would need 2x 10 minute and 1x 20 minute stops.

Or rather, the car needs fewer comfort breaks than I do. The battery can outlast my bladder.

Outside of some very niche situations, there really is little point to PHEVs. You get all the disadvantages of a fossil, and the smaller battery limits the benefits you get from the EV side. They aren't even any cheaper to make up for it.

They do that in the UK too. It's been over-hyped, as with most stories about China.

I bought my last car "pre reg", meaning that the dealer bought it and registered the car in their name, and I bought it "second hand" with only a few kilometres on the clock. And when I got it, the dealer hadn't even bothered to register it to themselves, so I am the first and only owner.

It's just the way they discount new cars to fudge the numbers, very very common here. They can shift sales into different months, deal with over-stocking issues at storage locations, that kind of thing. Like all retail businesses, sometimes they need the throughput, sometimes they need the higher margin.

Not just that, but if you want anything other than GNOME you are kinda on your own when it comes to compatibility and sorting out the inevitably issues that comes up.

One of the biggest problems with Linux is the diversity. It's good that people have a choice, but with that comes a huge number of compatibility problems. Not just software compatibility, but support compatibility. Something doesn't work, you need to find a solution for your specific configuration, your obscure variant of Debian, and also the specific version because the instructions for last year's distro won't work now.

Even for technical people it's a pain. Go look up how to control GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi. There are multiple APIs, most of them depreciated, multiple CLI tools, and a general level of confusion about the whole thing.

If all the oil wells were properly capped around the world (over 4000 leaking wells in USA alone - goodness how many in Russia), it might make a difference a decade or so later

If its not a potential problem why did Israel/USA bomb Iran's nuclear program and why is there a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to limit weapons? Just needs one nut job to start it off (Putin has already tried to threaten nuclear weapon use).

Ever heard of bad vibes?

The point is that you can't just look for a USB cable with a specific conductor size and expect it to automatically be a good one. Maybe they just stuck a chunky aluminium conductor in there.

Read the actual tests that have been done with calibrated equipment under controlled conditions at the link I sent, and buy one of those.

Image models aren't really fixed for those with the resources to constantly tune them.

Pre-training isn't the end of the story. The SOTA models are constantly being fine-tuned, which is an update of their weights.

That isn't even surveillance. It's much worse.
It's a layer of middle-men misusing information to circumvent constitutional measures that are still very much intact.
This is still absolutely a problem- but it's a very different problem, and also a very solvable problem.

It is not analogous to a diktat from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

You could have saved yourself a lot of words by merely typing: "I'm illiterate."

I followed the links in the link provided to find the technical details- you know, how wiki is supposed to be used. Class dismissed.

No, it's not happening here.

I'm as against this ICE horse-shit as the next guy, but the fact of the matter is, this has been an unenforced law for a long fucking time. It should have been removed. There was always the risk that someone would enforce it. Now you're shocked that someone is, and pretending like they're afoul of the law, rather than the preceding Presidents that chose not to enforce.

Further, these fuckers aren't disappearing.
If they were, they wouldn't be all over the fucking news. Habeas Corpus has not been suspended for them. I do, however, consider that a red line that I wouldn't be surprised if Trump crossed.