And yet all the cool kids love Python and YAML these days, both of which break in fun and interesting ways if you get the indenting wrong.
But that's by design, and is very clearly spelled out. And if you can't deal with Python's formatting rules, maybe you should go back to BASIC. The rest of us are making great stuff with it.
Oh yes; lets give people who often have the greatest access and knowledge of vulnerabilities and flaws in critical that could fetch big money on the black market to people who might need drug money and are not motivated enough to put on button down short and slacks for a paycheck!
That sounds like a great plan - oh wait its not and any actual security professional could tell you that.
Its one thing to look at total MPAA-scope production and say 'see see its about what it always has been in terms of original content' but...
I assume that includes all the direct to video/streaming, barely promoted stuff you never hear about unless you are like "into" a certain art-house or something. Certainly there is a lot more of this now that:
You can shoot a movie all digital rather than on expensive film under very costly lighting conditions and/or in any location where you don't have as ideal conditions as CA.
You can 'get away with' if you are budget constrained doing most of your post production on a couple Mac Pros with a handful of people.
Your distribution and reproduction costs can be near zero.
I would be more interested in how the break down compares if we only look at movies with say a 2024 budget of 130mil+ and compare them against movies with that kinda production budge inflation adjusted to previous decades. Putting a filter like that on it might be a little more realistic view of what the 'industry' is doing.
Also, we are currently in the most temperate time of the year. Wait until you can exceed the demand during winter or summer before running your victory lap... or are rolling blackouts no longer a thing in California?
I guess sure if you are like mentally handicapped that makes sense.
I have filed taxes in at five different states. After you have handful of numbers from the federal form like AGI the state tax forms are mostly a handful of pages and few numbers to copy. There maybe a few additional questions about education expense and certain investments like muni-bonds which might be tax exempt at the state level, plus the usual 'do you owe us any extra sales tax'; and all that assumes you can't file the -EZ version. Which again you pretty much know ahead of time; not to both with unless you are not in school, not military, and don't have non-ira/401k investments.
It probably taxes as long to staple the w2s to the form, stuff and address the envelope as it does to complete. In Ohio you could literally file you taxes via touch tone phone it was so stupid simple.
The ONLY barrier at all to filing state forms for the person who already hasn't got a situation complex enough to retain and account to do it for them in the first place is FEAR. And not don't feed me some bullshit about how people don't have time. Everyone can come up with 20 min once a year.
Its federal filing that is complicated.
I am curious why you think this. I don't see any 'real' competition for YT in terms of place besides traditional network/syndicated media production for content creators.
Steve Crowder is a good example. Love him or hate him he has a fairly substantial audience and they are arguably as hostile to Google as it gets. He uses Rumble on his own site and actively encourages people to watch there, yet he STILL simulcasts on YouTube as far as I know; because people still watch there even though he has to censor half the show...
Meanwhile on the couch potato end YouTube charges absolutely ridiculous subscription rates, They are asking more than Netflix, Hulu, etc, and i assume people must be paying or that they think they can push people to pay to escape the ads and that they will rather than jump ship.
FAKE NEWS.
If fossil fuel lobbying was so effective they would have also been able to lobby against carbon reduction policies in general and take the whole 'electrification' issue off the table. If the USA as matter of policy did not subsidize electric autos or require higher mpg standards or otherwise seek to as matter of regulation limit co2 outputs most of this technology would not exist because the presumption would be there would not be a big market for it.
The reason China ate or lunch is because cheaper labor, lack of NIMBYs, and lower overall environmental standards when it come to rare earth extraction and manufacturing.
You are also making the assumption that trough hours are not used for plant maintenance etc. Which they probably are. Ie keep a couple plants at day-time output while you offline one at night to inspect/repair/etc.
The more you push to round the clock full output operation of fewer generating plants the less flexibility and resilience you are going to have.
Did I say things were better for anyone but the landed-gentleman after? No I did not. Maybe you should learn to read!
Think of how many people could have been fed clothed and sheltered for that.
Think of how significant the 'inflation' is as the costs are passed on to rate payers, which impacts both housholds and producers.
All to replace a gas generated we already had.
Remembering that in the business world, "unsupported" can translate to "legally liable" in the event something goes seriously wrong.
I have a houseful of PCs, but only one will officially run Win11 -- a low-powered netbook that ironically is the least competent hardware I own (its horsepower is on par with my laptop from 2003). I'll give it this -- Win11 does a good job of downshifting to match the environment it finds itself in; Win10 would struggle on that netbook.
Which desktops did you try, and what issues blew it for you?
I had a hard time finding a linux I could live with, and I first started looking over 25 years ago. It's only been about six years now since it's become sufficiently stable and complete. And implementations vary wildly. I prefer the KDE desktop as being the most functional (and least annoying), but KDE on Kubuntu is not nearly as slick as KDE on PCLinuxOS.
But at the far end, IMO current Gnome makes Win10 look stellar.... good gods, who thought a cellphone makes a good desktop??
he is trying to say the American revolution was not about tyranny.
Which is a of course BS it absolutely was. George was no tyrant though not really the parliamentary system back in England was probably as 'liberal and democratic' as any of our colonial governments were at the time.
The fact that the colonies did not have representation there though was a very real and perfectly legitimate complaint. Even if the counter narrative that founding fathers were 'a bunch of rich guys looking out for their own pocket books' is true, and it can be true, without negating the fact that comparatively speaking back in the Old country nothing was going to change as far as the colonies getting a real voice in government. To man influential and monies interests there had captured the system and they very much planned on using the America's as their personal mints.
Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
