Looking for videos after reading your linked post same-day, one had a clip from a manufacturing test of RAT deployment. It sounded very much like the Air India video.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

That's not why they are called extrernalities. They are called externalities because they are the external consequences of actions. They are very much in our control, and if you are going to price any commodity fairly, to make it reflect true market and societal costs, then you have to price those in. Otherwise what you're really doing is subsidizing an industry.

Couldn't you just save everyone's time by having some sort of automated 'rsilvergun' comment bot that simply blames everything on Trump and Republicans?

You wouldn't have to waste time writing the same bullshit in every comment. Think how much time it would save you!

It's curious that they are talking about all the risks of extreme heat when the general consensus is that cold kills vastly more people.

Nearly all scientific surveys show that anywhere from 7x-20x people die from COLD than from HEAT.

Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/jour...
Cold : Heat 15:1 in US; 20:1 averaged across 13 countries.
SBN
https://www.sustainabilitybynu...
Cold:Heat 9:1

To be fair, NOAA's report had it at 1:4...but was based on MEDIA & WEB reports /nicescienceharharhar
https://journals.ametsoc.org/v...

Aren't we #followthescience on this one?

Why do you suppose the article and the insurers claims are about HEAT? It wouldn't be ideological ambulance chasing, would it?

TDS.

QED.

If it simply let me do a decent fucking search in outlook.

How can they 'roll out' AI to 'assist' us with 'everyday' tasks but you still can't do a goddamn boolean search? And don't even get me STARTED on the asswipe shitshow of Outlook for Android. I'd support Israel OR Iran if they would just include whoever designed that abortion in one of their strike packages.

The argument only makes sense if you completely discount externalities. Once you factor them in, the costs of fossil fuels are absolutely monumental.

I mean, a bullet to the head cures cancer, but I'm not exactly seeing this being proposed as a medical solution.

Ah yes, reductio ad absurdum.

Twelve Angry Men must have driven you insane

You know, I don't have a panic attack if Macbeth is set in 1920, or if they recast Hamlet as a woman. I'll complain if the acting is shitty, but if the actors, whatever their gender or skin color, can pull off a good King Lear, then that's the only thing that counts.

Comics aren't even sacred to themselves. Probably the most parodied aspect of superhero comics is just how frequently "canon" is thrown into a blender, thrown out, and how new writers will just ignore established canon. Every decade or two, the publishers will make a big deal of reuniting timelines, and act as if it was part of some grand plan. The complexity of the textual history of Green Lantern, as an example, rivals the New Testament.

Claude Rains and Peter Lorrie both played obviously homosexual men (Raines playing Renault in Casablanca and Lorrie playing Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon), telegraphed in such a way that it would make it past the Hayes Code. Heck, look at Johnny Guitar, with Joan Crawford playing as butch a character as you will find in the films.

But yeah, Some Like It Hot has so much straight and queer visual and dialogue innuendo running around it that it's absolutely nuts. When Tony Curtis's character blurts out in frustration "You’re a guy, and, why would a guy wanna marry a guy?”, Jack Lemmon's response is one of the great bits of movie dialogue "For the security!" Even the closing line, where Lemmon finally confesses he's a man, the response is "Nobody's perfect", which some regard as one of the great closing lines in cinema history.

Hollywood had to handle things carefully back in the day, and Wilder just as much as Hitchcock was a director who had a bag of tricks to foil the Hayes Code, so sometimes I actually wonder how Some Like It Hot ever got made. But this is the guy that directed The Apartment, so Wilder had a talent for getting blatantly sexual content past the censors.

Not even a Google Search. Literally just talking to it before giving the toy to their children to see if, asked to talk about something harmful, it does so or refuses. Are the parents in your mind too tired to literally speak?

I'm not sure that their bean counters trust LLMs quite enough to let them issue quotes; but they could honestly use an expert system of some kind to cut through their SKU nonsense.

I had just the worst meeting some time back where, despite there being a total of 6 'licensing people' between MS and the VAR, there were a number of points where they were unable to determine(or came to different determinations) of what license you needed to do certain things and how much it would cost(and not 'different' in the 'MS thinks we can do X% off list, VAR thinks we can do Y% of list; totally different alleged list prices, different SKUs in different quantities, and different alleged discounts).

For a company that sells both ERP and CRM software it seems like a bad look to not be able to; y'know, tell a customer who is asking about one of your product lines which model he needs and how much it will run him; and from a bean-counting perspective it seemed wild that at least tens of man hours worth of confusion were actually cost effective.

Maybe I just don't understand the psychology; and some 80k/yr sales person is totally worth it if the customer is in 'fuck it, I want this to be over' mode rather than 'hard nosed negotiator' mode when a premier licensing deal is signed; but it's always kind of a weird experience how the guys who sell consumer widgets can just give me a spec sheet and a price; but 'enterprise' means a couple of chirpy reps, a mandatory reseller, and a huge amount of manual attention.