So much WTF here.

1. How can the FCC legally block this just because they don't like the company's hiring practice or internal training?

2. Verizon sold a ton of stuff to Frontier. Now it is buying them. That's more funny than WTF; as it isn't totally uncommon. Sell a business for millions, buy it back for pennies.

Pump+Dump Don.

Just like with $TRUMP and $MELANIA;
He's probably just planning to make bank for his people by using insider trading information.

Again. how does this put China in a losing situation?
How will anything they are doing convince our allies to start a matching trade war with China?

Instead we are getting our allies to re-consider if they should buy American.

This is not Fucking China.

Sure.

But how is anything the Republicans are doing fight China?

Seems to me like they are empowering China, while removing the USA as the only competing world power.

Totally slashing our soft-power? That will boost China's influence and access to third-world resources.

Fighting with allies? Weakens our hard-power.

Trade war with almost everyone? We don't make much that other nations can't source from China or Europe.

I was thinking the same thing. Did this happen during the test drive.

Assuming that the dealer could disable the ads during the test-drive - would a consumer be able that then use that as evidence that this is a bait-and-switch?

I wonder if CS2 counted as a 'new' game for this statistic. Since, it was released in 2024 (I think?).
It is just an in-place replacement for CS:GO, which is very old, but it is technically new.

I think early detection is the only really viable solution.

If someone wants to break something, they will break it. All we can adjust is the time and effort it takes to do so.

If making the cable harder to break also makes repairs harder, at what point is it just not worth it.
Maybe they could make the cables easier to repair, but no harder to break?

I kind of feel bad for them. The universal runtime fee was a stupid idea. But, from my (very limited) understanding, The goal was to get level the cost between free-to-play games (that make Billions (Genshin Impact, etc) from add-on fees) and traditional games that make money based on units sold;

That they make SOME %% from a 60$ game that sells 10million copies, but make almost nothing from a FTP gatcha game that brings in 3billion$.

They obviously didn't look at the full impact of the changes they made and faced the consequences.

Agree.

From simple parsing of English the phrase is clearly an example, not a constraint.

Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" has this distinction between AI and Non-AI interpretation of the same material as a very important plot point.
I guess that's a bit of a spoiler, but not much of one.

Yes, this is very confusing.

I wonder if VZ is making a profit or loss on the deal to buy back the assets they sold.

It's failure paved the way to the acceptance of a movie with the title "John Wick".

no different from what happened years ago with pay-TV.
Was there a term for that? just price hiking. not really a monopoly in this case or cable's case; as, even with pre-streaming cable, there was still the option to get back to an antenna for OTA tv.

Maybe the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit would be precedent for the RIAA to actually win this, as opposed to just putting pressure on the AI firms.
Though, that decision was a bad one, it is still on the books as a win for 'similar sounding' music to be found as violating a copyright.

Neither system is followed;
How exactly is free-market Capitalism "being followed" when there are government bailouts and subsidies propping up so many otherwise failed and failing companies.