I see you're another wonderful product of the GOP-sabotaged American educational system. Congratulations on falling for the myth of American Exceptionalism even as it's causing you to slit your own throats.
"Hey, you know that giant economy that is deliberately being run into the ground by a government stripping everyone's rights and tearing apart the social safety net? Yeah, you should want to join that dumpster fire!"
Your post has to be among the dumbest takes I've ever read on anything.
1) People who accept climate change is real
2) People who accept climate change is real but promote denial for personal profit
3) People who listen to group 2.
Until we do something about group 2, we'll never make any real headway on reducing the root issue.
This will likely be the most significant reason. After all, comedies are typically much lower budget than an action blockbuster, so even with significantly worse box office performance they can have excellent returns.
Microsoft, like most anyone making money off of computers these days, wants you on a subscription model that requires you to constantly send telemetry to their servers so they can rape your privacy for profit. They don't want you buying and using a product until something better comes out, they want that sweet recurring monthly income. It's evil.
Stupid, however, is expecting a company to sell you a product and then support it forever for free. The only reason Microsoft has to support Windows 10 past what they advertise as its lifetime is to prevent their product from becoming a PR embarrassment and impairing their ability to sell more software. Doing that for too long means lots of extra expense with no additional profit, and that's how businesses fail.
TL;DR - MS evil, lawsuit stupid.
Modeling has always been about some idealized image that doesn't represent real people in any reasonable way. They start with exceptionally attractive people and then use makeup, lighting, and lens effects to make them look even better. And when that's not enough, in more recent times they've been using Photoshop.
The human model has been holding the artists back from the completely artificial image they've always been pursuing.
If it has to check in with a company's servers to function, they WILL either cease support or come after your wallet at some point.
Go with Home Assistant for control and devices that don't need to be connected to the Internet to work. Z-Wave, Zigbee and 433MHz are the things you should look for first before falling back to WiFi devices.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Their extraordinary claim was that somehow known chemistry was wrong. Their extraordinary evidence was 'belief', because the flaws in their experiment prevented any rational conclusion.
Retraction was the correct move.
I don't believe the US currently has the capacity to make a laptop from scratch, even at 20% above Apple pricing. Assemble yes, but manufacture no. If it's possible at all, whatever corners are cut will ensure it's unusable as a computing device.
It's also far more likely this is some kind of investment scam than an actual legitimate business plan.
It had humor, it had a plot, it didn't end with a big CGI 'vs nega' crapfest fight.
It was good enough for me to say that it was an improvement over simply more of the same.
Some times you just want to be entertained, especially when the world seems like it's getting shittier.
I don't need another superhero movie where it spends most of its time trying to depress me. It's OK to go 'full comic', drop the grimdark, and just have fun.
Why not LET IT DO THAT?
Tell everyone no garbage bags, just bins, and let AI-driven robots sort everything at the dump.
I'd like to see stats based on 100% of able-bodied, not-on-mat/pat leave, working-age, non-incarcerated people wanting to work, and then measuring the percentage of a standard work week per capita.
Total hours being worked divided by total available labour-hours.
You think the Republicans, who now control everything including the Supreme Court, who can apparently run masked thugs around the country abducting people, denying them due process, and send them to concentration camps, will limit themselves to gerrymandering and a bit of light voter intimidation and maybe another seditious assault on the government if they lose?
The US is in for some highly corrupt elections, and anybody who complains about it is in for a world of hurt unless they're rich, white, and connected.
>This is the final refuge of the defeatist: âoeTheyâ(TM)re already watching you, so why care?â
Please don't put words in my mouth. Try, "They're already watching you, so you're going to need to find another way to avoid them if it's important enough, and it'll take a lot of work".
If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.
