Comic Tropes just released a video about this sort of thing.

Two Japanese manga artists, one accused of plagiarism and the other not. Both copy poses from fashion magazines and photos of famous artists, but one traces them directly while the other takes inspiration from them and then draws his own version from scratch.

A subtle distinction, but an important one.

To be fair he has developed a lot of other people in the industry, and created the Beats brand that was sold to Apple.

There is always an element of luck - right place, right time, or born to wealthy parents - but he does seem to have some talent and understanding of the industry.

Arguably this is a demonstration of that. In the end people won't care if the bass line was made with AI, that's not why they listen to the kind of music he produces.

There's nothing particularly interesting or surprising about it. The barrier is there to protect the robots from damage, and to protect the spectators and the stadium from damage. These are experimental machines and weigh enough that they could cause damage or injure someone.

The stretchers are for the same reason, basically. The robots have to be autonomous, with the only remote control being a kill switch to make them inert, for safety reasons. To prevent the teams having to go onto the track to recover their robots, they simply stretcher them off. Saves time, and helps control human access to the track. Similar to motor racing where cars are recovered by track staff, not the teams.

These are all long established safety rules for any kind of event involving machines, or even equipment like swords and javelins used by human competitors.

There isn't any reason for them to rush. They are on track, and the manned missions aren't affected by the delay. They certainly would be affected if it failed though, as they would need to build new hardware and repeat the mission to find a suitable landing spot.

First, I thought everyone knew about this, the same as using the HTML canvas and CSS to do fingerprinting. I'm sure they aren't the first to do it. That's one reason why audio permission has defaulted to off in my browsers for as long as I can remember.

Second, even if you for some reason trust Amazon and the like more, AliExpress is how you avoid getting shafted by middle men. 90% of the stuff on Amazon is just AliExpress resellers and a 1000% mark-up. Boycotting them is going to be very, very expensive.

If you could call it thinking, maybe.

More likely this is posing and nothing else.

If it is something else, it's a threat, solicitation for bribes, or both

Beat feet, give food

They can't do that until they finish destroying the ACA

Given the price increases on the former and the price drops on the latter, soon it might be feasible

You ignored vulture capitalists buying the starter homes and the Airbnb epidemic

There are people starving on the streets NOW

This is, of course, capitalism-worshiping nonsense. Corporations are legal fictions. Having bought one, you have become the owner of the entire fiction, including the name. They are SCO now in every sense that matters, and I say that as someone who used to run SCO software and who knows several former SCO employees. That SCO is dead, hopefully this SCO can also die soon, but they are legally the same SCO.

False. As a hosting provider Microsoft doesn't care what OS people are using, they just have to host it. But as an OS provider, Linux is still competition, so they still have a reason to attack it.

It's a crap argument anyway because the point was to keep Linux from becoming relevant on the desktop.