Actor unions have standard contracts. This should definitely be part of it. Especially for the low level actors. They get paid a small amount - when the producers feel like it. There are lots of stories of people being screwed by producers.

That alone is good reason for the actors to demand it be put in the contract.

Stop assuming that spoken words only affect people psychosomaticly. The study presents evidence that words magically strengthen us. There is no evidence the effect is just psychological. :D

It is possible to use a Black hole to power a starship. Several authors including Arthur C Clarke have written about them.

This is on par with buying gift cards and reading the numbers over the phone to 'pay your unexpected tax bill'.

If you buy a camera and put it on line and do not have a full time security guy to maintain it, I assure you it will be hacked.

It is incredibly difficult to make money shorting a stock. They charge you rent for the shares you borrow. Unless you get the timing right you lose money even when the stocks goes down.

Capitalism means they sell it at a lower price than expected.

But that also assumes the AI bubble bursts affects all computing. There is the likely possibility that as the AI bubble bursts because it is replaced with an entirely different computing style. In which case, chips will become even more valuable. Among other things, if the military decides they really need more drones, they could easily take all the memory.

You want to sign an NDA to stop your business secrets from getting out? Fine.

But that should not let you refuse to talk to the law.

Imagine a crook that says, "I am sorry, but my NDA with the Cartel prevents me from revealing how we get the Cocaine here."

That is NOT any different from a car repair business saying "I am sorry, but my NDA with TESLA prevents me from talking about the safety issues with their breaks.

Or a cop saying his NDA prevents him from revealing how he suspected the criminal.

No I am saying that no single database should exist for all of their customers.

Amazon does not need to store passwords in the same database they store the sales information in. One database could contain just their encrypted passwords and the emails.

Another could store customers names and addresses.

And each database could be under the control of a different director who gets to maintain their security in a different manner.

Also, Amazon has different businesses. No need for the kindle unlimited accounts to be in the same database as the music accounts. No need for the Whole Foods to be in the same database as the Amazon Fresh. No need for Amazon Medical to be in the same etc. etc. etc.

What is going on is that the businesses are doing things for their own convenience that endanger their customers. NO!

You want to run a business with a million customers? Fine - more power for you. But you do NOT get to run this massive industry in a way that saves you a ton of money but also puts all your customer's privacy in danger.

Just as a small business is required to take minimal steps to ensure the safety of their customer data, you - being a huge business - is required to take HUGE steps to ensure the safety of customer data.

You do not get to use your economies of scale to endanger your customers data.

Trying to increase penalties is incredibly stupid. That only makes things worse. Let me be clear There is NO way to stop this kind of breach from happening again.

The problem is that morons believe they will never be robbed. There is no one with perfect security. The more valuable your data, the more likely it WILL be broken into. Every security professional or database designer (AND their bosses) should be required to sign a statement that says this every year.

AI will only make it worse as bad actors / governments will begin to set AI to find the exploits.

The only solution is to prevent companies from collecting and maintaining this level of information.

There was no need for a single database to contain 34 million people's key addresses and key codes to enter residential building. No need for a database to contain more than keycodes for more than a single building. Even if your company owns multiple buildings or runs security for multiple buildings.

The proper solution is to outlaw the creation of such massive databases. You want to contain information on more than 1 million people? Then there should be massive limitations on what it can contain. No passwords at all for something that large. Name, Address and Phone numbers should already be suspect at 1 million entrees.

If you have 34 stores, then keep 34 separate databases that have a different security system for each of them.

Oh, I long for the day when the US president had scandals about things like pronunciation, spelling, or clothing.

Can we please go back to arguing about the lack of of a flag pin rather than war crimes?

If you are trying to do what is called technical trading - looking at graphs to decide which day to buy or sell - this is why you do not become rich. The people that invented the math based trading 50 years ago have moved on to this super fast analysis and trading.

For those of you that think these a-holes do not contribute anything, they do provide liquidity. It keeps spreads tight - and lets you do option trading in between the bid and ask. (When the bid is 105 and the ask is 115, the technical traders snap up your options trade at 110 - but only if you do the limit order.)

1) Actual cost of electrical charger is minimum. Pennies. The chargers themselves are also cheap. The main cost is installation.

2) The reason electric cars do not reduce the demand for gasoline are the hybrids. Because charging is cheap at home but incredibly expensive away from home, smart people buy the hybrids and get gasoline when away from home. If we can bring down the cost of charging on the road, gas prices will drop.

3) Oil companies cannot stop the inevitable move from gas to electricity. They can slow it down - by driving up the cost to recharge your car. Hence issue 2 above.

4) You are not Subsidizing electrical cars - the electrical cars subsidize you. Trump killed all the minor electrical subsidies - but the current bill has the US government spending $40 Billion to subsidize oil companies.

5) I suggested the apartments, offices, and condos offer charging at cost rather than subsidize them.

You are experiencing "But but me..." Syndrome. When the someone suggests a new project to equalize things, the other people think "Oh, they want a benefit but do not want to give me the same thing".

What they do not realize is that you were ALREADY getting massive benefits, and the new people are just asking for the same stuff you already get. If you want to know what happens a country actually subsidies electrical cars go to Europe - the gas prices are twice that in the US.