China has not caught up on MBAs with the USA yet! Give them time... we probably need to help encourage them because they seem too shrewd to repeat out mistakes.

You are a sucker. Good research funding has been undermined and corrupted since at least Nixon and it has not been shifting to social science it has been going DOWN hill. The war on education began during Nixon but didn't get momentum built up until Reagan. It's been a long time coming but it's now a downward trend and doesn't look likely to stop.

There are endless areas to study and many are not as practical; however, it's popularity does the most to control it's size. Gender studies, etc. becoming too large because students want an easier degree and then a bunch of graduates trying to find a use for that study, to carve out relevance is a problem. It's not a huge problem but it's an easy target and one of a small minority so it is ideal to become outrage bait. Having some classes that discuss critical race theory, etc. is harmless and actually beneficial... even Marxism needs be brought back because censoring ideas doesn't kill them and it can cause mistakes of history to be repeated. Such as basic study of Fascism needed to be universal to prevent today's on going fall into Fascism (USA, Italy, Russia...not that Russians really had any choice.)

Unlike the others you mentioned, Bill Clinton succeeded on his own merit; which includes his social skills. He made his own connections and impressed them on his own. He is a bad example because very few people are as smart and charismatic as he is. He wouldn't have done better if he was born with connections.
Citing the 1 in a billion people who get to be US president is an extremely poor example for anything but to represent the quality of character of the majority of the voting public; which teeters on good/evil.

You mean we didn't have an old moon base already from 1999? But I saw that show on Fox News!?

It sounds fine to me; they should get no special treatment when they setup themselves as the gatekeeper store. The change should be either be like everybody else or allow permissions to be company based instead of app based.

This punishment is like a speeding ticket to Apple. Furthermore, if you give them an inch and at the discretion of a judge or simply their own judgement, it's just asking for abuse at some point. They are 1 bad CEO away from self destruction, being a US company (which has idiotic corporate laws, allowing the board to be stacked by the CEO, relocation to circumvent the law, with loopholes and judges for sale.)

system 1 sees more than system 2. You can detect higher frame rates and notice things are unnatural and off with system 1 but system 2 is too slow to recognize much which is why subliminal images can be picked up but not noticed.

The blur of reality vs a fast rate slide slow don't align with how we live; plus there is a visual blanking humans do when our eyes dart around in our heads and the misalignment between framerates and device blanking (or strobes to hide LCD blur) is likely to sometimes bring out stuff that could go unnoticed otherwise. blinking might bring out things too. I don't know of any work on this area; other than measuring the visual blindness humans have while there eyeball is in motion which is our form of shutter.

Peripheral vision picks up things differently as well. I've had many situations where I noticed something from the side view; especially in the dark. I certainly do not like high dynamic range within 1 shot where I don't have time to adjust my eyes to see the full range. 24bit RGB is plenty for an output format.

Dances with Giant Smurfs
Not that it matters, but it felt strongly like a sci-fi version of Dances with Wolves, with it's main purpose of focusing on indigenous peoples with a nature integrated lifestyle. Not sure why he picked giant smurfs... perhaps it was the smurf socialism and how any of the many forms socialism is attacked by the greedy? Not daring to get into economic politics aside from greed.

When was roomba made in the usa?? replace our MBAs with their MBAs? don't care. Going Chinese might lower credibility of the failing product that was less innovative than American auto companies. As for privacy, there wasn't likely going to be any either way and for now, I'm more concerned about Amazon invading Americans' privacy.

THE SYSTEM IS BORKED! You can't reform / repair a problem in a foobar system without it making worse

What an idiotic thing to write. You are trolling or either think you understand something you clearly do not.

Yes, until he finally gets canceled. Nobody is doing more harm. AI is just hype now; the damage it's going to cause hasn't really started yet.

AMZN should have got them so they can waste more of their money; that would be just.

This IS the better outcome for consumers. nobody should buy their pet shit spreader.

Not odd at all!
1) It fits with their narrative lie
2) they have to pay his contract either way
3) he actually does make them money; more so if he has a long good bye.
4) minimizes backlash
5) gets him to behave; maybe tries to renegotiate, old show or new shows etc.
5.5) they can shut him down immediately if he raises too much trouble and shut the door on future negotiations
6) test the waters while they plan to fire every "DEI" person. Gale King was just fired.

The network agreed to pay Colbert 14 million back in 2017? they obviously thought it was worth it... the 50 they made up is bunk. So they only have 2million viewers... PER NIGHT and they only film 4 per week. Plus if you've worked in TV, you'd realize staff overlap between shows at bit (but they could reduce staff, the band could be laid off, like Seth Myers had to do.) Re-negotiations usually happen; not this time, and that is the ODD part. These shows can be run much cheaper and they have been before; one would wonder how any TV shows were possible in the past or in other countries if 2 million viewers is not enough...

The people of AI is lame and they are quite behind the time on that one.

When people looked at the thing, then it got people talking- now, the only time we hear about TIME is their time person of the year and nothing much is READ about why; which is where they could inform and provoke thought. Neither of which, is done by the majority today.

It should be Trump. Nobody has been fucking up more of the world than Moron Mussolini (an accurate label) and his cult of retards (remember he projects.) Next year? Trump even more so. Nobody is on more people's minds.

If you want an influential and informative pick that could do some good with people reading about the justification, you'd pick the technofascists.

SpaceX exists only because we fucked up NASA long ago and SpaceX is based mostly on the old work of NASA and what they did could have been done by the old NASA; possibly faster and certainly decades sooner. We had to build an idiotic shuttle which had parts made in every state. Rotating leadership too often is also foolish. They kept/keep trying to funnel money into contractors just like the military does flushing their money.