I think everyone still on this site; understands this quite well

Because the real credits are just as much BS.

Hey look we bought the side of the mountain that nobody would find reasonably to economically developer for 50 years or more anyway; we promise we'll keep it forest for 50 years - now we can sell some carbon credits.

If you are selling indulgences might as well not pretend they are something other than exactly that.

That remains the challenge here. These tools are going to force a redefinition of 'what is a create work'

The cat is now out of the bag society and industry are just going to have wrap their heads around it. Nobody is going to pay a livable salary to someone taking weeks with special use studio equipment to do what a machine can in a couple hours. At least not unless it gets way more expensive to build to operate the machine - but I don't see that NVIDA chips and data center cooling might be cheap and the power budget might not be small; but neither is that of a recording studio.

Make that: I wonder if we'll see anti-SLAPP actions by Trump, Giuliani, or Fox News if they win an anti-defamation suit or appeal of one?

On Thursday, in a unanimous decision, a four-judge New York Supreme Court appellate panel ordered the case to continue, keeping the Dendrite issue alive and also allowing us to proceed in seeking damages based on New York's anti-SLAPP law, which prohibits "strategic lawsuits against public participation."

Hmmm...

I wonder if we'll see SLAPP actions by Trump, Giuliani, or Fox News if they win an anti-defamation suit or appeal of one?

Most states and towns in the USA do not have building codes for residential off-grid battery storage.

I thought that was in the National Electrical Code (NEC) section on solar, at least if they're on the 2017 version (or some earlier versions). Most jurisdictions adopt some version of the NEC (and occasionally move to a later version - my county is on 2017 as of a year or so ago) and then maybe add a few changes, rather than write their own electrical code.

Main remaining downsides, if you want to keep your fire insurance, are finding listed (by an NRTL such as UL) systems (there are a few, even some that are rated for elevations over 1,500 meters - about 79 feet short of 5,000) and that the code now requires a cert for solar systems installers, so if you want to install it all yourself you have to drop a couple hunderd bux on a short online course or hire a pro to make the major connections and maybe do some of the design for your install.

Problem is that gas is often byproduct of oil extraction, and very difficult to transport since it's a gas and disperses, unlike oil that is a liquid and can be stored in a simple container.

So use a thermoacoustic liquefier. Bunch of plumbing and a burner regulator on a par with a water heater, which contains the only moving part. Burn off 30% of it and use the heat energy to turn the rest as liquefied propane (LP) Gas, ready to haul away. One model, about the right size to haul in on a flatbed semi, can output 500 gal per day at that efficiency.

Buybacks signal there is nothing better you can think of doing with all your cash.

Or that you have a lot of cash and other assets and a market mob madness has depressed your stock price to where it's a really good deal to spend some of the cash to take some of the stock out of circulation and concentrate the company's value in the rest of it.

Possibly it's even such a good deal that some rich outsiders could buy up controlling interest, sell off the non-money assets, take that and the cash pile, and come out ahead. That leaves the current employees out of a job and with their unvested options worthless. Better to spend the hostile-takeover bait making the rest of your stock more valueable now, and keep the company running, than wait until the hostiles are buying and screw up the company and its stockholders with poison pills and the like.

This was my thought too -The guy wants to turn the iPad into MacBook without a keyboard.

The is nothing less 'portable' than something with pile of external dongles, adapters, etc hung off it just to make it useful.

USB-C or a conventional proprietary connector type-y docking station or port-replicator works for the desk but it does not travel. Nobody wants to walk into the conference room of the coffee shop and assemble and squid like array of thunderbolt gadgets, only to tear it all down (and probably have to close or restart half the apps using the stuff) 15min later.

Indeed; Windows 3.11 + Norton Desktop 3 - was a better UI than we have today on any platform.

I ran NDW (not Commander) on 32-bit Windows for years until the lack of LNF support and the fact the rest of the world have moved to actually using long filenames made it unworkable.

However in terms of a cohesive way to find and working with everything on the system nothing has duplicated it since.

STFU

Imagine the reaction the Chinese government if the US State Department or a large US business - so deliberately tried to circumvent and displayed such contempt for the intent of Chinese law. Bad actors are bad actors. Just because our own behavior isnt perfect does not mean we must just ignore problem behavior.

It might mean that we should exercise some discernment and proportion in our degree of judgement and condemnation but we can at least 'talk' about dilberate attempts to violate our policy without being 'racists'

I agree it looks bad. Given the MIC and deep state ties here where Boeing is concerned; I have no difficulty believing that anything *could* be possible.

However what *should* happen absent any evidence whatsoever this wasn't a freak medical condition?

Remember every event is coincident with some other event if you don't restrict the topics of the other event or allow enough time. Should we blow a bunch of tax dollars launching investigations into people who might want Boeing's critics silenced? Where do we stop, the Officers, board of directors, large share holders, Generals pushing for military contracts, Congress person with Boeing facilities in their districts, YOU with the mutual fund?

Just about everything in nature is either growing or dying. I don't know why you'd expect a naturally emerging system like a free market place to work any differently.

Well the reality is no matter how you slice it the USA has contributed more to Ukraine in terms of actual goods than the EU. That should be looked upon as entirely unacceptable.

You are right though, for the most part this is a great way to pump a bunch of money out of the public treasury into MIC and its owners pockets. Funny how everything that touch Ukraine turns out to be money laundering scheme when you zoom out a bit.