This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Provided you ignore the AI summary at the top.

And mp3s average about 1 MB/minute. So a data CD with a 700 MB capacity will hold 700 minutes, or about 200 songs.

Like I said, the capacity is a lot more.

Plus, a music CD will hold maybe 7 or 8 songs, but most CD players can play mp3s, and a 600 MB CD will hold a hundred or more of those.

I recall a news story about a contractor who severed the major fiber trunk line between Los Angeles and Las Vegas with a backhoe because he didn't call Dig Alert. He was facing life in prison, and millions in fines.

It's odd when the US is ahead of the curve on something like this.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

So you haven't been to a theater is at least 40 years? Cuz they've had both for at least that long.

There are countries where the average yearly income is less than four times the cost of a single game. Why do you hate people in poorer countries so much? It is racism, or do you just need to feel superior by making it impossible for them to kick your ass in World of Warcraft?

Or it reflects that reality that some countries have an average annual income of nearly $200,000, and some have and average annual income of $220.

This could have been even funnier if, instead of French for "Viva la revolution", you used the Esperanto "Vivu la revolucio!".

Indeed. Now go look at the profit margins for their suppliers.

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

At least he read the summary:

You do understand that DNA changes are, in fact, genetic? Don't you?

Don't you?

Once they master gene modification sufficiently to fix whatever genetic cause is behind it, very likely, yes.

And I suspect they're already working on that, but those things tend to be cause by multiple genes, and thus very complicated.

It's not really type 2, either. Bad diet makes it worse, but isn't the cause.