operating at a deficit for several years

I wonder how that could have happened. I also wonder if their fundraising capabilities are as great as their design skills and their self reflection.

Which is undoubtfully a true crime against humanity. Oh, the ruthlessness, the cruelty! There's poor Microsoft carefully improving peoples' computers with advertising, "telemetry" and unwanted crapware to save their developers' children from poverty and starvation but these ungrates have nothing better to do than changing from one paid license to another. What would Jesus say?!

You're more likely to end up with six fingers.

Microsoft did. More "release" than "post" but they did.

Your "allies" in Europe will do just fine without your occupation troops. Fuck off. Wage your proxy wars elsewhere. Get out. Noone will miss you.

Firefox still provides me with a way to protect my passwords with a master password instead of syphoning all my credentials home to the death star together with any URL I am visiting. So it's still a long way down to Chrome for Firefox.

> Who *needs* music videos? Beavis and Butthead do.

Music videos used to be meant to promote artist's actual records. Or their music, generally. Now, finally the media industry has created -with lots of help from their law-making friends and three decades of permanent, omnipresent propaganda- the generation of consumers willing to pay premium fees for what is basically advertising. Moo!

He's not. Even if the volume of "all the nuiclear waste" (who has exact numbers anyway?) would be smaller than the olympic pool it would reach critical mass before the pool was filled.

For 50 years we've been "on the doorstep" to fusion plants and now there's just "a chance" to it? That would by nice but as long as we don't have some magic material that can deal with the massive neutron radiation I don't see any. Call me when we're back to "on the doorstep" so I can remind you to the neutron problem - there's not the slightest chance it will ever be solved. We'll see electricity from pertuum mobiles before that.

Farnsworth... Farnsworth... Something faintly ringing there?

Hate to say so, but if your results are shitty because of lack of talent then your ideas (or designs) will be just as crappy at close look. Because these ideas are what "talent" is, the rest is just craftmanship.

...and a massive overstatement. "Boring" might be true, "music" definitely (as in "by definition" or "literally") not. Lack of imagination wouldn't be that bad there's a lot of music without much of it. Lack of even any theoretical emotion is the killer factor, Music is one of the fine arts and you have to be sentient to create it, If you doubt that, feel free to get a place in the line before the "complaints about Plato / culture / the universe" sign.

Another useless toy to generate random noise that follows certain rules of composition and will be able to filter out the few notes per octave that do not fit into the actual key. You don't need "AI" for this kind of carnival magic, you don't even need a computer for that, The rules are 100-500 years old for western classical music, a lot older for Indian and some other asian classics. You could build a mechanical device that does the job or employ someone without the slightest understanding of music to create scores just by static rules. Algorithmic composition has been done countless times and the result is NOT MUSIC. It's algorithmic noise. Because a piece of "art" created by random without an artistic intention is not a piece of arts. It's a random piece of whatever and it will remain a random thing of no content. Even if you sell it to a gallery or a record label that doesn't make it art, it just makes it [another] expensive piece of trash.

Stupid people trusting stupid software...