Next record companies will go after rappers from the 70's and 80s for using AC/DC vinyl records for scratching.
That's actually a pretty thoroughly litigated area, so the guidelines are well understood. I don't recall what the numbers are, but there are well-established guidelines for sampling, and IIRC, scratching doesn't count at all as long as the rhythm and tune are unrecognizable, which is the case with most scratching techniques.
If only it was an iPad. Most manufacturers put zero effect into decent UI / UX for those things. And they pinch pennies on the hardware. It feels more like a Windows Vista tablet.
That sucks, but I think we should distinguish between bad design (i.e. touchscreen doesn't make sense) and bad implementation (a good touchscreen implementation is fine, but it's done badly).
FWIW, my Tesla Model S has almost no physical controls that aren't directly related to driving, and I have no problem with it. The touch elements are large enough that they require no more attention than buttons (people who believe that they can operate physical buttons on the dash without looking are fooling themselves), I've never seen any significant lag, and the UI is easy to navigate for the things you need to do while driving. If for some reason I really can't look away even for a moment (e.g. bad weather), I just tap the right scroll wheel on the steering wheel and use voice commands.
Because we all hate it, and that's the one thing that unifies us as a nation. If we got rid of it, there'd be nothing for us all to hate together.
I don't hate it. I don't really like it, but I think it's the best solution we have to a fundamentally intractable problem.
I'm speechless to see how many people wish the launch to fail and how happy they are to see the engine explosion. If this was 1969 they'd be crying but now they're cheering. The only difference is the man running the program now does not share their political affiliation. It makes me sick! I wanna spit in their face for their un-American hatred.
I agree that it's silly and sad to want SpaceX to fail just because of its CEO's politics, but it's also not the case that it's just because he "does not share their political affiliation". Trump and Musk are wiping their asses with the Constitution, and that's a truly anti-American action that should offend all Americans. Luckily it looks like enough of the Supreme Court still honestly cares about he law to shut this stuff down... assuming Trump's administration doesn't just ignore the court. They already appear to be simply ignoring lower court rulings they don't like, it remains to be seen if they'll abide by the Supreme Court's word.
Until this launch I watched every Starship launch live in sheer admiration of what the engineers there have accomplished. Then Musk went full nazi. Nobody wants space nazis. Nobody. Hope every launch explodes until he's bankrupt. I just feel sorry for the poor engineers working for that tyrant.
I disagree completely. I'm extremely unhappy with Musk's political actions in the last few years, but the work SpaceX is doing is really good and really important, and I very much want it to succeed. Starship promises to reduce the cost of delivering cargo to space by two or maybe three orders of magnitude, which will be great for humanity.
The schadenfreude from the Leftists here is amusing.
What makes you think it's from leftists? In your world does criticizing SpaceX indicate leftism and SpaceX support indicate rightism? If so, that's hilarious, because hyperpartisan people would have thought just the reverse a few years ago.
While I am also concerned by the 51st state rhetoric, that seems less likely than a much more problematic possibility. Recently Trump has been telling Canadian officials that previous treaties defining the US/Canada border are invalid. My concern is that through executive action he will redefine the border to annex portions of Canada, similarly to what Russia has done in Ukraine. After the stupidity with renaming the Gulf of Mexico and various mountains, it seems shockingly possible.
Annexing part of Canada would (still) be an act of war. It would trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty, and surely result in the USA being expelled from NATO, if it hadn't left on its own already.
Congress passed legislation during Biden's term that prevents the president from withdrawing from NATO without Congressional action, which seems very unlikely to succeed. Maybe this is plan B to get out of NATO...
In a sane world, of course, a US president doing anything of this sort would trigger instant impeachment and conviction, but the GOP has abandoned any pretense of holding any principled positions and just goes along with whatever Trump wants, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
I fear the rise of CO2 may lead to war, but not in the way you think. Rather, it will render currently-populated portions of the planet uninhabitable, and affect the viability of crops. Limitation of resources leads to war between groups who are competing for them.
And hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing for safe places with food and water.
Maybe not, but the endgame is in sight.
Not anywhere near it. There's research. AI's can do some of that, as long as a human is there to clean up the hallucinations and generally supervise.
Sure, as of now. Give it a few years.
Why else do you think they donated to the inauguration and renamed the Gulf?
To be fair, renaming the gulf was just application of longstanding, globally-applied policy. Google Maps always shows the government-specified geographic names to users within that government's territory. So as soon as the Federal Geographic Data Committee's database changed the name, so did Google Maps. In the event the government-specified name is disputed by the rest of the world, the policy is that Maps adds the world's name as a parenthetical, which Google Maps does for the gulf. That last part isn't universally applied, though, mostly because China gets very snippy about some of the disputed names it applies, so Google occasionally caves by not adding the parenthetical. They didn't do that in this case, though I notice that Google Maps does not show "Denali" as a parenthetical on Mt. McKinley (another renaming Trump ordered).
nearly all of those are Tesla's thanks to heavy duty subsidies
They would nearly all be Teslas even without the subsidies. Tesla would have to accept a smaller profit margin. The other EV makers would have to accept even larger losses (unless the subsidy applied to them, but not Tesla, in which case they'd stick with their current, smaller, per-unit loss).
If we go into a war situation we are going to take those car factories and convert them into factories for building tanks and jets and other weapons we need.
This isnt the mid 20th century anymore, this conversion would not work out very well. A simple retooling is not going to give these company's the ability to work with modern targeting systems and composite armors, Modern tanks are too complex nowadays for this to work.
Okay, now how would it work if you not only had to significantly retool but build the factories from scratch? Having some heavy commercial industry to use as the basis of your wartime industry is better than not having it.
The wealthy are getting a lot wealthier and the poor are becoming destitute.
Not really. That's a 2023 analysis of the 2022 Fed data, 2023 was even better and 2024 will probably prove to have been even better yet (wealth estimates are difficult and the reports lag by nearly a year). It's possible that Trump's tariffs and welfare and tax cuts may reverse this trend, though.
As you will see, I told them, in no uncertain terms, to see Figure one. -- Dave "First Strike" Pare
