Saying it "gave us our next-level language abilities", but it does seem necessary for them. I really doubt that it is sufficient. (But we could insert one into a Chimpanzee or Bonobo to check.)

That one can probably be handled (temporarily) just by using a longer key. Which can give you time to do the switch.

The problem is that there's a lot of stuff already recorded that can't be protected that way.

That said, what quantum computers should really be good at is material design, quantum modelling, etc. But they need to be quite a bit stronger. (OTOH, DWave sells a specialized quantum computer that's reported to do a decent job in it's particular niche. It's just not a general computer. IIUC, it only handles relaxation problems.)

Literally every other kind of created media has research institutes, such as the Paley Center for Media which archives and studies television. Every Broadway play is taped on VHS and kept at the New York Public Library, which is incredibly helpful 30 years later when someone is doing a revival of a show and wants to see what the original choreography, sets or costumes looked like. Newspapers are put onto microfilm ... and you say aha but newspapers document the news ... but no, all of it gets saved including the classified ads.

If you think that videogames, which employ perhaps a million people worldwide, are of such little value that it's completely fine if they are utterly lost to the future, I don't know what to tell you. What is unique about videogames that makes them culturally worthless to you?

A long time ago television was seen as disposable, which is why for example most early Doctor Who was lost, and that view is seen as crazy today.

Anyway your point about "property rights of creators" begs the question, i.e., you assume that preservation violates the "property rights of creators" when in fact such a conclusion about preservation would make it a unique status among copyrighted works and you have done nothing to support that conclusion.

FWIW, people for the most part evolved without cooking their food. We've been evolving since long before the dinosaurs.

OTOH, they didn't actually decide that "burnt food kills you", they decided that it increased some risks. I've never seen any evidence that this was wrong.

"Left the labor force" means you are no longer employed or looking for work. Example - you retired. Or became a SAHM. Or took disability. Or decided work just wasn't for you anymore. While not having a job is obviously a predicate for not being part of the labor force, normally people who are laid off immediately begin looking for work because it was an unplanned exit and they still have bills to pay. Hence, they are still part of the labor force.

Now, those people at Microsoft who took early retirement, I guess they lost their job and are no longer part of the labor force, but it was a voluntary choice and clearly they have the financial wherewithal to do it.

I think it was actually a reference to Revelations, though IIRC, that was supposed to be a mark both on the forehead and on the wrist.

YOU might think of it as a boycott, but I think of it as "self-protection". I avoid Musk's products for self protection...that I also hope it harms him at least a trifle is a minor additional bonus...and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.

However, Florida is a small enough part of the global problem, that what they do locally will have essentially no effect. They couldn't fix the problem with local actions, and they also probably can't make it measurably worse.

Note that the US is not such a small part. That's a large enough fraction of the problem to make a measurable difference. Scale is significant.

... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.

It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.

Most of Virginia doesn't get all that cold. 30 kids in a room with limited air circulation should suffice, even without lots of insulation. Air conditioning, however, might well be a different matter.

IIRC, there's a decent link between registered gun ownership and the suicide rate. However, a lot of gun ownership is unregistered, so that's probably not reliable.

I might well agree that the current administration is worse, and scale does, indeed, matter. But judging scale when one side is crippling state governments and the other side is removing individual rights isn't clear. The events are too different.

One can say that "morally the crippling of state governments to enfranchise the disenfranchised" is better, but it's still a centralization of control.

To be fair, both sides have uniformly supported measures to increase the government's control over the citizenry. They tend to support different measures, with different arguments, but both do it. This is basically because people act to make their jobs easier. The differences are because they have (sometimes only slightly) different goals, or "centers of power".

Note that this applies to the Warren Court and the civil rights decisions as well as to the current more blatant authoritarianism.

*Alleged.

Seeing how copyright cases being fair use or not are IIRC decided on a case by case basis, that's really all that can be said until the litigation runs its course.

There are huge differences, but it *is* a reasonable analogy. It's certainly more like that than it is like "copying", even though copying, in the extended sense, is involved. As it is in all learning.