Most of the "sales" are just items being sold at their regular price with a fake discount slapped on in an attempt to trick people into thinking they're getting a good deal.

Outside of school, my girls still need a way to communicate with everyone, why would we limit that?

Who said we should? Just keep the phones out of schools. It really isn't that complicated.

so instead of hand waving and instilling pointless fear, lets understand reality still exists.

The reality is that people have been going to school in the US for decades without cell phones. Kids didn't need phones in schools then, and they don't need them now.

No they don't. If someone (who would need to contact a kid at school except their parents?) needs to contact them, they can call the office. If your kids need to contact you, they can go to the office.

How about banning cell phones in schools? They still have the option of going to the office to contact you. Why do parents like you feel the need to be able to reach your kids instantly at any time during the school day? Maybe the solution is for you to quit being a helicopter parent or to homeschool your kids.

Education has always been evolving, but acting like we need to find a way to reach and teach them through their cell phones is fucking stupid.

AI still pumps out better quality than 90% of the slop made by real people that ends up on the radio or on TV.

It's really simple - people want to be paid forever for their work they recorded once .

FTFY

Are those clauses still valid when the software and support for it are no longer available? Can Microsoft audit me over a copy of Office 97 I bought 28 years ago?

I would hope that removing all consideration for one party by no longer supporting the product the agreement is based on would invalidate said agreement. The balls someone has to have to wash their hands of a product by no longer offering it or supporting it and then trying to audit people are still using it.

Does such an agreement continue to exist once the vendor stops supporting the product? Seems pretty one-sided to no longer provide any support yet still have the right to perform audits. I would hope that such an agreement would be invalidated if it was ever brought to court.

What is keeping these customers from simply ignoring VMware and these auditors?

Some people would rather do anything in the world than pay attention to the road while they're driving. And it seems like police have completely given up on enforcing any traffic laws.

These are just copies. Unless you raise the animal in the exact same way under the exact same circumstances, there are likely to be variations in their personality and behavior. They also might not even look exactly the same as their coloration/pattern may still be different due to X-chromosome inactivation.

Essentially a virtual machine; a software implementation that mimics the hardware and "software" of the human brain within a digital space. Now of course that is currently impossible, and a large part of why is that many aspects of the human brain are still a black box to us. It is possible that some day we will not only understand every complex chemical and electrical interaction within the human brain down to the atomic level, but we'll also be able to emulate it digitally. If we were to reach that point, I don't really see why we wouldn't be able to copy the exact structure and all the contents of someone's brain. Perhaps the process would be destructive to the original organic brain like in We are Legion (We are Bob) or Pantheon.

And Texas just completely banned THC despite over 60% of residents wanting it to be legal for recreational use, because governor Sitler wants Texas to be a nanny-state.

Rome was on top of the world over 1000 years. The British empire was around for almost 400 years.

A billion people is plenty and at that level, the strain on the planet is low enough that people back then seriously thought it was impossible for a species to go extinct (like God would just conjure up some more elephants if needed).

We hit 1 billion humans in 1805. The last claimed sighting of a Dodo was reported in the hunting records of Isaac Johannes Lamotius in 1688.