You won't buy a car that shows you ads, but you would ride a bus that shows you ads.

Netflix: We lost the master of the Nick Cage movie.
Also Netflix: We deny responsibility for losing the movie.

A dead channel would have no color burst, so it would be random black and white static.

The bigger question is: Why does a MONITOR need to have software installed? In the past, I have seen monitors ship with a CD-ROM, but it is not required. It usually just contains some software for health and ergonomics to help you adjust the height and position of the monitor, and maybe a timer to remind you to take a break at specific intervals.But you don't NEED to install that. I could also maybe see some sort of color profile installer that would be useful if you're working with photo-realistic images or photoshop or something, but that's just a single file, and not an exe file. These were all in the days of VGA analog monitor connections, so I may be out of date here, but I have never even installed any software for my HDMI or Displayport connected monitors. What gives?

It sounds like these lovelorn Chinese should trade in their AI for a weighted Companion Cube. The Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak.

I second that emotion, but have some serious practical concerns.

All the options are "Bolt-On", as in you can just add them during construction, or as an afterthought. In fact, each of the body panels has a bolt hole where it is secured to the frame.

If it's so easy to add the options with a wrench, it's also easy to remove them. Park your truck in a bad neighborhood and see how fast it gets stripped.

Also, those bolt holes are just asking for water intrusion, inviting rust and corrosion. I wonder if this truck has been tested in wet/salty climates for extended periods of time.

He needs the Trillion for child support.

Look at that greyish-white balloon shaped object in the sky... It must be an ALIEN!

What about Bob-Omb?

We have recently been acutely aware that billionaires do not think or care about the welfare of ordinary people. So why would they want UBI for them? I can assure you, it's not out of kindness.

Sure, they *SAY* that they care, but we already know that they do not.

My response to their request for UBI would be to ask how many workers they expect to lose to AI, and ask what the average salary is of those workers. Then, add 25% (because, you know, billionaire CEOs are also liars), Multiply, and then tax the company that much to make it not worth their while.

I would like to see the 1982 Tron Movie given its due rewards, but the judges thought that since a computer rendered the picture, that it had no creativity, so it was denied any awards.

Maybe GameStop took all the junk that they got from the "Trade-In Anything" event, put it in a warehouse, and are calling it "inventory", and using it as over-valued collateral.

How does Motorola know that the claims of exploding phones are false? I personally knew someone in the U.S. with a Motorola phone that inexplicably caught fire.Since there are a Billion possible customers in that market, it's possible that the numbers of faulty phones could be much higher.

Google says IPv6 adoption is up to 50%, But it's not the only IP stack on those machines. They are also still using IPv4, which is freeing up nothing.

If they won't play ads before the movie, then that means they will play them DURING the movie, and nobody wants that.