When there's a law about this, the law usually has a more solid definition than mass media has. In this particular instance, hate speech is not what the accused is being charged with, but what the accused tried to frame his boss for (framing him in the social circles). Which means that for this story, the definition of hate speech is utterly irrelevant, the accused may as well have used AI to generate a fake phone sex recording of his boss.

And that's fine for those people. While it lasts. But it's a signal to Apple that they are losing market share. And when Apple decides to do something about it, that something might be to make users of older iPhones lives a bit more miserable.

Seriously, I've felt that way for about 15-20 years. Although they do sometimes keep it at a high level through the entire article.

Trademark owners have to protect their trademarks, or they lose them.

Allowing unlicensed works without permission would be a de facto donation of the trademark to public domain. Thus, they have to protect it by asking unlicensed works to not be distributed.

Now, if Nintendo wanted to be cool about it, they could give some kind of license to Garry's Mod and it would still protect the trademark as it would be a licensed work. But my guess is that a takedown notice is a lot easier while maintaining exclusive control over the IP and it's use.

Playing "devil's advocate" for a moment, consider that if a company knows about unlicensed use of their trademarks and doesn't protect those trademarks, they are in danger of losing those trademarks to public domain.

Consider what it would mean to Nintendo if they lost their trademark on Super Mario Brothers or Legend of Zelda. It's a multi-billion dollar risk that they can't risk.

Past discussion has stated that basically every large PRC Chinese company operates under a charter that allows the government to basically influence or take over the company at will.

Stop thinking of China as a Communist state. Start thinking of it as one giant company where the Politburo is the board of directors and the Inner Party are shareholders, and all of the people in China vary somewhere between employee and liability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service

The true information gleaned from this article is that Ford actually makes some EVs...

The documented process is to never answer the phone.

Probably because Netflix is getting more expensive.

Seconds?? Wow, and they were complaining about my two minute average...

I think you mean that more women don't want to put up with abusive men anymore.

You can't blame them for wanting to be near their mother when being born.

Right, but it's worse with Chinese because of the vast number of symbols, even with the mainland Siimplified Chiense. For a long time it was assumed that a practical Chinese keyboard could not exist, but once one was invented it's been a long sequence of improvements and competing methods. There are even contests for the fastest typist, and the winners tend to be the ones using predictive text, and the best predictive text will be going out to the internet. Younger people are using these systems over the older methods (and just like everywhere, older is uncool). So the choice often ends up between using the system that uses the internet and type quickly, or use the system that old people use and type slightly less quickly.

We don't need to rely upon the internet to type English, German, Hindi, or Japanese, even on smart phones. But there are a lot of Chinese who need this if they aren't practiced on the older input methods.

And average intelligence of the US would see a correlated increase once a hundred million people aren't being made dumber through their ADHD-enabling 20 second "spicy takes" from random fucking morons in an endless scroll.