Eliminate all the hooks into AI.

Ooh. I've always wanted to be a Geocities warlock. Or is that Geocities Warlock(tm)?

But seriously, loving the irony of Elon's petulant rebranding coming back to bite him in the a**.

The fact that twitter.com still exists as a redirect actually strengthens and weakens their claim to abandonment. A mere URL with no content does not generally qualify as use in commerce. And the existence of that redirect without Twitter branding on the resulting site makes it clear that abandonment is willful, because it indicates that the old name is no longer intended to be used, and that they don't have any future product plans with that name (because otherwise they would have a landing page saying that the new Twitter was coming soon).

IMO, X clawing back the Twitter trademark should be rather difficult for them at this point, famous or not, barring concrete documentation created prior to the 3-year limit showing future plans to reintroduce the mark in the very near future.

Whatever happened to Greenfield projects? You've got a pretty good idea that your employees will push back. And perhaps sabotage the program. Start from scratch somewhere else.

Replace it with 5G. We've got that hacked as well.

The way we did it back in my days in the utility biz: We need money for a secure SCADA system. Until we get the requested budget, you will have to keep sending a technician out in person. In the meantime, we'll just keep doing it that way.

They were just asking to get hacked.

That article says that Rattcliffe _did_not_ meet Putin. Which stands to reason, as nobody in our administration, including Trump ranks high enough to deal with more than a mid-level apparatchik.

In relative terms, they're marking it up more. But ask yourself which hurts people's pocketbooks more: the $110 that the cheap Android tablet maker takes as profit or the $400 that Apple takes? Consumers don't care about percents. They care about dollars. And Apple's profit margin on their tablets is almost 4x that of their cheapest competition.

Alternatively that's three spare tablets for when the first one breaks. As soon as you're more than 2x the price of the cheapest competition, unless users absolutely have to have the capabilities of the expensive one, a lot of stuff like build quality ceases to matter, etc.

Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

OTOH, sometimes it's easier to disappear in a city.

The male/female ratio in China isn't that skewed, it's something like 106:100. A lot of it is probably the same thing you see in every other country, where both men and women lose social skills and have unrealistic standards of what kind of partner they are entitled to.

I'll say it again: Canada wants Canadian content "promoted" (whatever that means). They are not directly asking for foreign content (i.e. American content) to be blocked. But this won't work if Canadians refuse to select Canadian content.

The whole licensing argument is a red herring. The only thing licenses can block is foreign content coming _into_ Canada.

You have identified _exactly_ the process by which the Internet operates. Pig ignorant fools who have no point to make resort to mouth-foaming rants.

Do you really think that state regulations would block Mexicans from viewing Mexican content while in Mexico? Or Canadian regs block Canadians from viewing Canadian content in Canada? At any rate, regulations and licenses are responsibilities of individual states, not Netflix. Netflix is more than happy to distribute anything they legally can.

Right-wingers have been loudly cheering the inevitable economic downfall of California for years as its economy continues to grow. It must be so infuriating to them that Commiefornia just keeps getting richer.

"After 9 years as a US citizen, he could run for the US Senate. He would be 76 (or 74) years old.In short, it looks highly unlikely that he could (or even would) run for the US Senate."

Yeah, he would be way too young for our Senate.