Trademark means that they can't use Mickey Mouse in a way that would confuse people into thinking they are Disney.

You are legally allowed to use someone's trademark. For example, the word "Boston" is trademarked, but we can use it. We can use the word Pentium, and even say "Pentium sux", but you can't fill a box with AMD chips and use the Pentium logo to convince people it's from Intel.

People can and do service their own transmissions, in particular doing a fluid and filter change is generally a pretty easy job. There are also modifications and upgrades to transmissions. You can buy "built" transmissions which include heavy duty parts which can handle larger power, torque, and/or shock loads than stock ones. There are "kits" of aftermarket parts which either address wear over time or even correct design deficiencies like either lazy or excessive engagement of clutches.

What's the measurement? If it's "GDP" then sure, the economy is booming. But GDP is itself meaningless to sustainability, which is the most important thing to measure in anything you hope to keep doing. If you want to keep having an economy, for example, you have to keep having consumers who have money so they can participate in it...

Hardware, yes. But what will you do with it? It's only really good for a few types of task. Where it's GPU-based, as all the Nvidia stuff is, you could use it for lots of different types of tasks. But Services? Energy needs to get a lot cheaper for that to be feasible, because providing services on this hardware is predicated upon using a lot of energy.

A bubble is "a good or fortunate situation that is isolated from reality or unlikely to last". What's good about it, profit for those who are profiting. Why's it isolated from reality, all three of those reasons. Why's it unlikely to last, reality is inexorable, no amount of ignoring it will cause it to change.

One bubble, at least three reasons why it's bubbling. Probably we could identify a bunch more, like nerd fantasy. One of the consequences of techbros being in a position to decide what society does with itself is that they will send us on tech-related wild goose chases.

The goal of making ourselves obsolete is typically self-defeating when we can't even agree to let humans have free time when they don't need to be working.

Been watching the news lately? "Never" is a long time.

C4C destroyed mostly old shitpiles with poor efficiency, so it was effective in reducing hydrocarbon emissions.

I suspect a lot of these machines will go to the third world and get refurb'd into PCs there, so people will benefit anyway. In fact, a significant percentage of them will probably get Windows 11 installed on them using the bypasses...

Microsoft put the same telemetry they put into 10 into 7 and 8 via updates. Some of those were "updates" that included nothing but telemetry, sometimes they bundled the telemetry with actual updates so if you wanted one you had to have the other. There are scripts and other tools to remove those updates, but if you are not using those and you have been doing updates, they all spy on you.

Is the world is more complex than your childish understanding of it. Also Trump fucks kids.

In general democrat-run states have better schools. There is however several factors that make it tough for them to be perfect. For one thing there is still a little bit of the old nastiness involved in funding schools through property taxes. And is a little bit of the old white flight and other bits of nastiness.

Now the Democrats could fix a lot of that but they don't generally get supermajorities they get small majorities and here in america, and I get it wherever country you're from you don't understand this, but we set up our system to make it very very hard for regular working people to improve their lives by requiring super majorities for just about everything so that the wealthy land owning elites (corporate nowadays but when the shit was set up they were landowning) could effectively exercise veto power and that the regular rank and file citizens would need a super majority in order to override The veto of the ruling elites.

This means the Republican party can and does sabotage anything the Democrats try to do even in places where the Democrats are technically in charge. Because the word technically is doing a lot of work there.

This is before we talk about the effects of automation and process improvement on middle class jobs and the tax base but I think that's probably a bit over your head.

I don't think you actually want to learn but if you ever do look up a book called The People's History of the United States. You have been lied to your whole life. Also look up newt Gingrich and the contract with America.

Or if you are you don't know our history. They started slashing the funding and all the other really nasty right wing shit after Barry Goldwater lost in the mid 1960s. That's when they figured out they could trade racism and bigotry for economic gains.

You're right we don't each get our own truth. The reality is that this is been going on for decades.

Donald Trump is the culmination of 50 years of right wing extremism and a slow descent into fascism and dictatorship.

It's like boiling a frog only the frog is actually smart enough to jump out of the fucking water.

And yeah orange man bad. He fucks kids. Generally speaking somebody who fucks kids is pretty bad to me but your mileage may vary.

Is from property taxes. Like a lot of things it goes back to classism and racism. It's a way for rich people and white people to avoid paying for the poors and/or minorities to have school.

The other 38% of your funding comes from state level and federal money. That money is there very specifically to try to correct what's wrong with using property taxes to fund schools.

As an added bonus it maintains the suburbs that do not have a large enough tax base to fund their schools.

I am guessing though that you are not in a very well-off School district because the better ones with more money have plenty of supplies paid for by the district. Better food in the cafeteria too.

It's not a scam but it is a little bit of nastiness leftover from darker times.

"Payable on delivery."

It makes sense. Rockets are heavy, that's why they are expensive. Having helium 3 will make the rockets lighter (since helium is lighter than air) allowing the rockets to float to the moon at a much cheaper price point than with solid fuel.

If NASA had thought of this, they could have gone to the moon much more cheaply. Typical government waste.

That's what I thought: you are making things up and wishing they were true. Worst kind of idiot.

If you want performance, you choose C. That's what the data shows.

People like you don't want to use Rust, they want other people to use Rust.