There are many people in the world who simply can't get high speed connectivity or at least not for an affordable price. Many connections are also metered, so you have to add the cost of data on top of the cost of the game.

No it's more like a ticket that allows you to return to the cinema as many times as you want to watch the same movie again. Once you get bored of watching the same movie multiple times, you sell the ticket to someone else.

Your analogy of seeing a movie with a one off ticket is closer to an arcade where you pay per play.

It's more like seeing your neighbor wearing jewelry, and then crafting your own piece that looks the same. Your neighbor still has their original jewelry.

People do this kind of thing all the time, they see their neighbors get something and then copy them - wether its a paint job or landscaping, or a new car etc.

From the summary:

IOW, they're sticking with their marketing pitch.

That's no longer the American Way (if it ever was).

I'm going to make a radical suggestion: how about we leave it all in the ground, and continue to enjoy living in a viable biosphere instead?

But by the time you get that, she'll be over 50, and not at all as appealing.

What you don't understand is the Python is often used as a method of invoking libraries that are written in more efficient languages. And for the layer that it handles it doesn't introduce unacceptable inefficiencies. E.g., you wouldn't want to do ray tracing in Python, but it's fine for calling a library that does that.

I'm quite sure quantum computers are valid. Whether they're useful is another question. I'll agree that it's not clear that general purpose quantum computers will ever be useful. (I won't agree that it's clear they never will be useful.)

OTOH, specialized quantum computers are already useful. DWave sells one design.

There really are good use cases for fission reactors. Solar can't handle everything, even combined with wind and the grid. (But close.)

E,g,, I think that the case for fission reactors on the moon is sound, though any particular implementation may be quite questionable.

Thanks, that article left a lot out.
Britain runs from approximately 50 degrees N to 59 degrees N with most of the population at the Southern end of that.
In N American terms, that is Winnipeg / Medicine Hat / Kelowna to Skagway / Uranium City / the southernmost tip of Greenland (yeah, but there's F-all else up there, and for a reason).

Wind is part of the cause, but the GS itself is an ocean current.

Only a couple of weeks ago I was reading about how the collapse of the Gulf Stream due to climate change is going to turn Britain into a frozen wasteland.

Either you misunderstood what they wrote or the writer - deliberately or not - misrepresented the process.
The Gulf Stream is a wind system starts some place around Florida, then heads NW across the Atlantic towards Britain and nearby countries, then onwards to Scandinavia before circling westwards and then S along the E coast of Canada and the US.
The air stream which arrives in Britain has been warmed up (winter) or cooled down (summer) on its way across the Atlantic, it has also accumulated a lot of moisture on the journey. This is where Britain's reputation for wet weather originates, although that applies more in western areas (Ireland, Wales, W England and W Scotland) than on the E side of England and Scotland. The high pressure systems affecting Britain and Western Europe are leading to more extreme weather with less precipitation. There is a high pressure system affecting the weather in the region right now and it has funnelled hot, humid air from N Africa to the region. Hot and dry, apart from the occasional thunderstorm. This is supposed to peak this coming weekend and drop away at the start of next week - it should be a lot cooler with some much needed rain.

The reported drop ins SpaceX is understandable given the recent IPO.

As for most of the others, is a 2% drop significant?

In a free country, "too big to fail" is to big to be allowed.