"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 ..

There's no such thing as gravity ... the whole universe sucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Dec 5, 1994. One of the signatories was the US, who promised aid to Ukraine if it was attacked. While I disagree with most of what Orange Man says, he hasn't actually cut off aid to Ukraine (yet).

If we accomplish and refine the technique for establishing human colonies off-Earth, we greatly increase the chance of species survival. As well, the 'scarce resources' we have could then be supplemented by more resources from the new colony location. Travel time and cost will make things like wars (stealing each other's resources) less practical, but tariff-free trade would probably work

... which is often your worst enema anyway.

You could always read the books ...

Agreed. Bill Gates was once asked for the single biggest success factor for Microsoft, and he credited the 'rampant piracy' of early Windows (extending the user base faster than sales could hope for, and getting users biased towards Microsoft products)

... but not quality. You can't take either human-created or AI-created as gospel, certainly not opinions of what's a good read, but AI certainly does produce more and faster (just not better or more accurate) of whatever text you're producing.

Is JEJ's estate actually a member of the SAG in good standing, dues current and all that? If so, they should fine is estate for "working" during the strike. If not, his estate could be dropped from membership, and the Guild would have no more control of his estate.