The latest/last trilogy started out fairly strong but went downhill from there.

Force Awakens was a well made and directed movie that was too safe and little more than a remake of Star Wars.
Last Jedi at least dared to try something new and was enjoyable enough to watch in theatres but it just didn't treat the characters well and didn't work as the second part of a trilogy - throw everything away and replace it with almost nothing is not a good idea.
Rise of Skywalker was a shitshow, exhausting to watch and just a nonsensical mess.

After FA, I had some vague hopes it would do something interesting. Like having Rey start to fall to the dark side while Kylo Ren steps back from the edge and returns to the light, perhaps this is where Luke would come in. Then in the third movie, Kylo Ren saves Rey from the dark side and they defeat whatever the ultimate evil is. So they would essentially switch places and in the end balance out. Instead we just got a mess and a main character that can't make mistakes.

Rogue one was pretty good.
Solo: you could tell there was a decent movie in there somewhere but it was ruined by the change of direction and directors mid-production and now it didn't know what it was anymore

So if there is someone out there who looks exactly like him, what then? If that person is older, does it count as prior art? If they are younger, what then?

Remember, in order to keep a trademark you have to defend it. But if that other person actually exists, you can't defend it (or the dystopian nightmare is really here in full force).

Will this also then apply to say the police and speeding tickets? Because its the same principle - you only go to court if you don't accept the fine.

The faster it pops the less damage it will do to the economy and after it pops, the industry has a chance to get on a more sustainable track without the overhype. But for sure it will not go away.

No consensus is needed. See https://www.nato.int/en/what-w...

Invade can mean several things, but in a military context it does usually mean when an army makes an incursion on to another country's territory for conquest or plunder. In any case an invasion is an act of war.

The US government statements don't really help, Trump indeed says they are in control but in reality this hasn't happened. The Venezuelan regime just swore in the vice president as the new president and nothing else changed. Rubio said that it was a law enforcement action and not a military operation so if we go by his statements it was not an invasion.

My opinion is that they are both full of it, but a quick in and out doesn't really count as an actual invasion and two people doesn't really constitute plunder. However the bombing and blockade are acts of war regardless and nothing the US says can change that. The only thing that prevents it from actually being a war is that Venezuela officially declare that their country is at war due to the attacks of the US (alternatively the US congress can also declare war on Venezuela but that's not going to happen at least at this point).

In Finland in the early 90s we also had to read complete novels. You could pick from among options or propose your own to the teacher. The tests were not questions but you had to instead write a 2-3 page summary of the book including a short review, and then briefly present it to the class. Since most pupils read separate books, I think the concept was different from the US concept where I assume there were then discussions about the books in class?

I remember reading Catch-22 and Crime and Punishment this way. Crime and Punishment was a chore but I rather enjoyed Catch-22.

Taxation and the fact that the money to fund all this expansion has to come from somewhere.

Yes this was a very bad misstep that Germany did - overreacting to Fukushima and also generally the Greens taking forever to realise that while nuclear isn't perfect, it's still way better than coal. Especially concerning climate change.

It's a rather wild leap of logic you did there. What is is about land area that makes renewables impractical?
If anything, there is less need to ship huge volumes of fuel around like with coal.

Green hydrogen projects are being implemented with the target of replacing natural gas usage in industry, like in steelworks or kilns. The target is to use excess of solar and wind energy (e.g. in the summer) to make hydrogen out of water and then to burn that instead of natural gas.

Porsche was founded in 1931. The Nazi party was founded in 1920.

Two of the Porsche founders (one was Ferdinand himself and the other his son-in-law) joined the Nazi party after the company was founded. The third founder was a Jew who was later attested for "racial crimes" but saved by a colleague bribing the Gestapo and was able to flee Germany.

Does this mean the company was founded by Nazis? Probably not, because many prominent businessmen were basically given the choice of joining the party or having their business confiscated. Could Ferdinand have shown some backbone and not joined? For sure yes.

You can also just pay the $30 for another year of support while mentally preparing to move to Linux

Software the come with their own implementation of course don't depend on the OS. Like every Java application.

So when AC said "which the computer does not understand" we all have to settle for your cherry-picked definition of "understand"? Why not ask him what he meant by "understand" instead of deciding the most convenient option for you?

I mean I can say that is not how definitions work because I've picked definition to mean "the formal proclamation of a Roman Catholic dogma" and then call you a dipshit if you try to object.
(see https://www.merriam-webster.co...)