Iâ(TM)m running Monterey on my 2015 MBP via OCLP. This was mostly so I could run a newer version Lightroom. I also have an external boot drive that I move between this MBP and an 2013 Mac Pro. The Mac Pro natively supports Monterey. I wasnâ(TM)t sure if OCLP would be happy with Ventura or newer in this configuration. Howâ(TM)s the performance of Ventura on your system?

This guyâ(TM)s exaggerating the numbers by ignoring Brexit. The EUâ(TM)s GDP dropped ~13% in 2020 because the UK left. Itâ(TM)s still not great numbers for the EU, but not as bad as claimed. Would be interesting to see the numbers based on PPP too.

When there are 6 PRO's, and say you pay 3 for licensing, how do you determine which works are licensed and which aren't? So your only two sensible options are to pay _all_ of a growing number of PRO's, or not play music at all. And with a growing number of PRO's, the price goes up. It's not like streaming where if you don't pay for Disney+, you can't stream Disney movies. It's more like a situation where you are responsible for paying the licensing of what you watch on TV: if a Disney movie comes on and you don't have a Disney subscription, and don't change channel before it starts playing, you get sued.

Everything serious takes a long time with Mozilla (applies to their browsers too). I wonder if they'll ever announce that maildir support isn't experimental? It would also be nice if they dragged the Thunderbird editor out of 1998 and made writing emails a bit more modern. I use Thunderbird because I've used it since Netscape Navigator, but if I discovered it today, I'd just laugh and move on.

JSON is an improvement over XML and easier to transmit than YAML.

Or possibly customer demand. If enough customers have asked for this, it makes sense for them to do so.

It is important that money is saved in order to pay for Jeff's wedding cake.

Given that: a) Hawkeye's decision would be final if appealed to; and b) Hawkeye can now determine its decision in real time, it makes sense to just have Hawkeye call everything. They haven't got it perfect first time around, and people expect too much. There have likely been far fewer incorrect calls than back with humans and challenges. One time they had the system inactive during a point, and the solution is just to have the system active the entire match. If there was video evidence of a call it got wrong, I'm sure we'd have seen it by now. Another teething issue is making the call clear to a hearing impaired player. Some kind of lights would work for that, kind of like how cricket now has stumps and bails that light up in top flight T20 competitions.

You didnâ(TM)t make it wear a collar with a bell?

Bell Labs (cosmic microwave background radiation, among other things) did its best work while it was a state-authorized monopoly.

I'm pretty sure that parades help, too. Let's not leave those out.

Is to get rid of the evidence. Problem solved. Simples.

No.

USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) plays a significant role in global family planning and reproductive health, providing contraceptive supplies and support to developing countries.

I'm guessing that China is trying to make the US overspend on defence R&D so as to cripple its budget elsewhere. Claim to have mach 12 missiles, even when you don't, and the US then has to spend many millions researching defences against mach 12 missiles. Rinse lather and repeat for many other areas, and the US spending massively dwarfs the cost of fabricated claims of progress.

You were pretty vague ;)

$6 in 1997 was about $8 in 2008.
$12 in 2008 is about $18.

Therefore current prices are only a little over 10% higher. There was a bigger increase over inflation between 1997 and 2008.