They clearly like the online-only format because they can just produce it as a movie with a lot of production value, visual effects, etc.
Like you, I prefer the old, live, real, in-person events with some playing of topical videos as long as they are not too many or too long.
I have noticed that every time the price of housing goes down, there is fear and panic in the news. We are wedded to the idea that the home is an investment and its price shall only go up, and that if the price does not go up, something is very wrong:
Now do this to bigger ISPs, and eventually work your way up to Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon, for taking hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a federal program for rural broadband, then lobbying the government to change the definition of broadband to include ASDL (so they could "give broadband" to areas without replacing aging copper lines).
"picture", who is the flasher, her or him?
when they start storing text for bills in a version control system, with every clause traceable to the legislator/staffer/lobbyist who wrote it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
... is "all of the above".
See here.
Good on China for ramping up solar, but they are still increasing their total carbon emissions. The atmosphere doesn't care about per capita - it only sees more CO2 or less CO2.
USA carbon emissions from energy production peaked in 2007, and have been declining (somewhat bumpily) ever since, primarily because we have been replacing coal with natural gas.
... can connect to my house's wifi. I enabled it to see if it would reach out and reset the clock.
Nope - it only resets the clock through OnStar, which I refuse to pay for.
I now see that I should definitely disable that - it does nothing useful, and might be sending data back to GM.
I should crank up Wireshark before turning it off, just to see if it's obviously sending data back.
Has the EU found any companies headquartered in the EU doing similar stuff?
Or from just before "The Adolescence of P-1", there was John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider".
Both of them nailed the idea of migratory programs roaming a network and adding data to themselves.
Ryan's P-1 got the AI part as right as he could have in 1977.
Brunner's "tapeworms" were just really clever coding - the smarts were in the protagonist programmer, which I guess is why the ultimate tapeworm didn't have a name.
Cheap reliable oil bad.
Read up on the term "external cost", then actually think about the implications for more than 750ms.
You should then realize that oil is not, and never has been, cheap, but rather has been monstrously costly, and all those costs are coming due.
is here.
Money quote: But I actually think Google might also have performed a public service, by making explicit the implicit rules that recently have seemed to govern a great deal of decision-making in large swaths of tech, education and media sectors: It’s generally safe to punch right, but rarely to punch left. Treat left-leaning sources as neutral; right-leaning sources as biased and controversial. Contextualize left-wing transgressions, while condemning right-coded ones. Fiscal conservatism is tolerable but social conservatism is beyond the pale. “Diversity” applies to race, sex, ethnicity and gender identity, not viewpoint, religiosity, social class or educational attainment.
My wife is a free lance sign language interpreter. Her ring tone for agencies that give her work is the first 30 seconds of Pink Floyd's "Money".
If all else fails, lower your standards.
