It keeps minds engaged and searching for a different solution.

It's the Dead Poet Society march of consolidation.

Sort of like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

I did not say anything about whether data centers have a point. The subject is whether having everything in the data center accessible to the entire world is a good idea. IMHO for AI it is not a good idea.

Care to link a citation for that claim?

It's nice to allow anyone to use something so powerful or capable. But then you must remember when people think they are anonymous with no repercussions they really are not nice to each other and revert back to their underlying animal behavior.

A small town can have nice things - a global town can not.

Instead of building out data centers we could be giving everyone a computer capable of local inference. Obviously you need to show proof of citizenship to buy the computer - what could possibly go wrong!

Sometimes you have to prove to the common ignorant class that YES IT CAN BE DONE and we can do it. It's how you gather support from the less educated.

What is practically useless are all the airplanes in the air at any one time, most of which burn more fuel in one flight than it takes to heat a 200 homes for an entire winter. We need electric aircraft - badly.

Fools and their money are soon parted.

Does someone need a therapist?

But this is 2026. At least Win 95 got the actual year right.

The term originated in California - go figure.

If such a law were to pass all that will happen is that your one-time game purchase will be 'lifetime subscription' - once the game's life is over (server is shut down) your subscription is over. Nothing will change.

and what happened to 16-25?

The Prius and all such planetary gear set 'transmissions' are nothing like the 'pancaked electric motor' of the Ford trucks.

The Prius type design is so good that to make it a plugin all you need to do is increase the battery capacity and add a charging port.

If that isn't good enough for you and you really want that small booster engine that can't really power the car at highway speed on it's own, look into a used BWM I3.