That is complete nonsense. The new implementation will have bugs as well. And because it is far less mature, they will be worse.

The spec is not for competing implementations. The spec is for assuring properties of code. Something critically important in secure coding. Yes, many people do not understand that, but most people do not understand what secure coding actually means. Yes, the implementation may still have bugs, but with a spec you can reliably find out whether something is a bug or not.

Did I claim renewables were "CO2 free"? No, I did not. And they are not.

What a nice lie by misdirection you have there. Protip: By that measure, _all_ energy generation forms can be made CO2 free. You are just pushing nonsense.
In the real world, the one which you do not live in, it matters how much CO2 gets released, no matter why, per amount of energy generated.

What a stupid way to argue. Apparently you are entirely unfamiliar with the concept of "giants die slowly". But a smart person (you obviously do not qualify) can see what will happen well in advance.

The difference is not that large. "Much younger" is a direct lie.

Well, I could go with "shit-hole" for the USA as well. Certainly more and more accurate every day. Although I have to say most shit-holes at least have a dictator in place that knows how to oppress people and steal everything, not some two-bit wannabe that is a failure at everything ...

Indeed. And on top of that they are designed to flatter the person asking the question whenever possible.

THAT is all you have? Do you even begin to understand how utterly clueless that sounds?

I'm amazed that 16% of respondents feel in control. I'm just curious if they know something I don't about countermeasures to take; or if it's a matter of what they don't know.

Is this a serious question?

You wish. Well, an idiot is somebody that does like an idiot. You just nicely demonstrated that concept.

The prior non-core items were optional and relatively clearly marked; but when they decided to go 'AI' that went out the window. Being able to grub around in about:config for anything that has 'ml' in it does, depressingly, put them ahead of the options of some of the competition; but it shipped on by default and without controls in the normal-user UI. Seems like 'AI' really does something to the decision making even of people who should know better.

Kodak's demise is a little overstated just because they have been reorganized several times; and 'Kodak' is sort of the dump entity. There are still a variety of applications for being competent at thin film chemistry, including semiconductor fabrication, just not so much making 35mm film. So Eastman Chemical got most of that. And some of their medical and otherwise higher-end optics and imaging stuff also got spun off, with the business of not terribly optically interesting cameras under heavy threat from apathy and cellphones left at Kodak proper.

They certainly didn't do desperately well; or they'd probably be somewhere more along the lines of Sony in terms of 'who builds CCDs worth disclosing the provider of?'; but the reorgs appear to have been aimed at separating the more viable business units from the liabilities. Probably so the latter could be tied to the pension plan.

The US is a nation of yesterday. It is in a slow descent to the 2nd and in some aspect the 3rd world. And this has been a long time in the making. Arrogance on that level will get you left behind, eventually.

Nice FUD you have there. Makes you part of the problem.