I've used Z-Library and recommend it to everyone I know who uses e-books. For libraries, the cost of e-books (no shelf space, no print costs, no worn-out copies, easier to index, always available, etc) is THREE TO FIVE TIMES the cost of hard copies. https://www.spokanelibrary.org... https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouv... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

Sounds like he has good intentions, but what if Christianity is not the *correct* religion? What about Buddhists and Rastafarians? Druids? Pagans? Satanists? Maybe something we haven't found yet? I think he should find a way to confirm which is the correct religion to promote before promoting it, with proofs.

I've worked in hospitality for years, food costs are (usually) barely covered by pricing but liquor is highly marked up. That's where profit margins lie. Taking food home, people have all the benefits (someone else cooking and doing dishes, delivery) and minimal extra cost (your own beer and wine). Look at the price of a glass of wine at the restaurant ... for two you can get a whole bottle at the liquor store. The restaurant has to either have enough ambiance to keep people there (view, music, lighting, entertainment) drinking at high prices, or should lower the prices so it's not prohibitive to stay and have a couple of drinks there.

If banks are looking for sympathy, I found it in the dictionary, slightly ahead of 'syphilis'. Or perhaps they're considering using AI to actually help customers, because of the obscene profits they already make ?

There's a common business axiom that you can get anything you want if you pay enough money to smart people. Money can't buy wisdom, but it can rent enough wisdom to make more money, and that's the objective of business. If something broke, too bad, it worked when we sold it to you.

Agreed, the documents should not be editable in the first place, there's multiple read-only formats that could be used, but the point here is that the software used is not tied to an American company ... emphasizing that China needs the US much less than the US needs China. China is a separate country and culture, not just a serf of the US. China has supercomputers that match or exceed those of the US. China has a space station that's growing, NASA is taking the International Space Station down. China owns assets in the US, US owns some assets in China, but China has the scientists, the technology, the population (cheaper labour), the assets and resources to get along just fine without the US. The US has more costly labour, and needs to import critical resources from China. China is showing that its software is just as viable, maybe even more suitable in China, than the US products. As Marshall McLuhan said, 'The medium is the message.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message) I would think that trying to get along globally via diplomacy and trade would be the best option, but hey, I'm not a politician and have never run a country. Just my 2 worth

Oh, they love children all right ... just not in the considerate way you may be viewing them ..

Corals will not survive in their current location, but as temperatures rise they could grow instead in waters currently too cold for them ... not exactly a migration, but stop growing 'there' and start growing 'over here'. A little assistance from people might also help that, transplanting corals.

"This law has nothing to do with protecting public health and safety and everything to do with protecting conventional agriculture from innovative out-of-state competition," said Paul Sherman Seems that on a federal level, that's what the current government is all about. Foreign workers, tariffs on everything not explicitly local-produced, all exactly the same protectionism concept; I can't see how this could be considered different. No surprise here.

In reality, whoever holds the data owns it, regardless of who put it there or any payments made. If Microsoft has your data and you're cut off FOR ANY REASON, you can't get it back. They can change terms at their convenience, and as long as they have your data you have to live with it. On the other hand, if you can't trust Microsoft, who can you trust? The government?

He just has a different way of doing business .... bear in mind that his companies declared bankruptcy six times; that'll wipe out their debts. That's his way of doing business (it's worked so far), and his plan for wiping out the US national debt. Side note: He never declared personal bankruptcy, just the companies he controlled.

Technically true, but the universe has been expanding (successfully) for 13½ billion years, so it's possible for all human intents and purposes; we just need to get off the planet. After that, we're good.

If a computer doesn't have to be consistent, it can be anything else.

Of course sales are good, people with Windows 10 are scared of the end of the world in October, and they have to replace their good, working, stable computers with something new and shiny that has TPM for Windows 11. Lenovo could be selling crap (although, in fairness, their product line is not bad) with TPM and sales would still increase drastically.

Great idea! Could it also be enhanced to filter out messages with words matching a (personal) keyword list? That is, I'd exclude all messages that had either the word "republican" or "democrat" or "donation" right away ..