Do not teach more and expect greater so that it is harder to get the A. Just do an arbitrary cut off number. Easy, and there is no data to prove you suck at your job.

So Europeans should get the CERN's software free as in beer, not Americans, Chinese, Russians, etc. Open Source has nothing to do with it per se. That's as far as your argument goes, no further.

You can still get one of those yummy diseases from one, and you will have no warning that it has your name on it.

or build a delicious juicy battleship and watch it go poof in any real war. It is as though la Presidenta will have painted a big "Sink Me" on them when those dumb things get built.

Yeah. That interview made the CEO look like an incompetent, greasy villian.

The EU is about to pass the digital safety act where the OS (including Linux) will have to verify your identity on log-in. To do this, since all things PC are American, including OS, the Netherlands will sell to an American company DigiID and Mijn Overheid, the software we use to do our taxes and much more.

So, all of you EU cheerleaders here...pathetic and uninformed you are....pathetic!

If you look at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu..., you can see just how parched is a good portion of the U.S. They have a pull-down menu up at the top for comparing this week's with last week's.

According to https://www.washingtonpost.com..., roughly 60% of the U.S. is under drought conditions.

I can print to my Bambu printer locally by using LAN only or an SD card, not sure why you think I need their cloud to print at all.

Also https://orca-slicer.com/ is not offline, some kind of a fork of it is offline.

Completely disagree. 100% disagree. If I need something that my printer from Bambu cannot do I will get another printer. For what I need it though it is great and keeps me from *wasting* time. My time is what is important to me more than money.

I like their products. I just want printing without fuss and without having to learn every detail about leveling, etc. Their product works for me and I do not care about its openness, it is about as important for what I need it as my headphones being open sourced (not at all). So this product is for my use case, not for people who want to control every aspect of their printer and every software feature.

IF they decide to make it prohibitively expensive to operate their hardware, then I will go back to a less capable hardware kit.

I think what you are pointing at is that AI has a closed world assumption built into it. The reason is that it cannot know your context, but without that context, one doesn't even know of what a solution would consist. By closed world assumption, I mean it seems to operate as though it had all the relevant information and can confidently proceed on that. Put another way, it doesn't know "that it doesn't know" (not "what it doesn't know", that would be a contradiction in terms).

If the above is correct, we can dismiss all the AI-Jive about "solving" nuclear fusion. To "solve" it requires new physics, i.e., new physical theory adjoined to what we already have). AI does not do "new" in that sense. It can rearrange the deck chairs faster than we can, but that doesn't make it intelligent or all-knowing.

Amazon is like a lot of companies....leeches. They've created nothing new, just looked around an found markets they could cannibalize.

Says the fellow who doesn't live in rural area with few roads and wonky internet. Your "solution" only works for high density metropolises....unless you have no problem charging rural people $30/letter. You must be a Republican, no sense of the common good, everybody for themselves, lusting after a dog-eat-dog world where we are all armed to the teeth.

It is worse than you imagined:

U.S.-Iran Negotiations Report

Ahmed from Pakistan: Welcome Iran delegation, please make yourselves comfortable in our bin Laden suite here at the Hotel Pak.

The Iranian delegation does just that.

Ahmed from Pakistan: Welcome U.S. delegation, please make yourselves comfortable in our Mr. P suite here at Hotel Pak.

The U.S. delegation does just that.

The Big Time arrives and both delegations are seated at a conference table.

Ahmed from Pakistan: Okay Gentleman, what brings y’all here?

Ahmed from Pakistan spent a lot of time in Texas during his formative years.

Iranian Delegation: We were attacked while minding our own business never bothering anyone.

Ahmed from Pakistan breaks out laughing.

Ahmed from Pakistan (repressing giggles): Uh, okay, U.S. delegation?

U.S. Head Delegate: Our Mr. Pee said to say a Mr. Pee sent us.

Ahmed from Pakistan: I believe you meant Mr. P.

U.S. delegation: No, he said to refer to him as Mr. Pee, we’re sure of it. Although come to think of it, he was fondling his new Golden Arch at the time, so he might have been a bit distracted.

Ahmed from Pakistan: Iranian delegation, what are your demands.

Iranian delegation: The U.S. is to give us all their nuclear weapons, pull out of the Mid-East, kill Netanyahu with a 1000 deaths, and give us an inexhaustible supply of water from the Mississippi River.

U.S. delegation is busy conversing amongst themselves.

Head Delegate: Okay youse guys, what do we want?

He goes to sit down but another member pulls the chair out from underneath him and his butt lands square on the floor.

Second Delegate: Hehehehehehe..nyuk, nyuk, nyuk (he skips backwards on one foot).

Third Delegate: That was FUNNY!!

Head Delegate gets up: Oh, a bunch of wise guys huh? (He pokes the Second Delegate in the eye, and boxes the Third Delegate’s ears).

Second Delegate: Oh, so that’s how you want to play, I’ll murderize you (and runs at the First Delegate but the Third Delegate trips him and he hits his head on the table).

First Delegate: Stop it! Now spread out.

Iranian delegation, being good little Shi’ites, remain stony faced.

Ahmed from Pakistan: Gentlemen, we must come to an agreement.

Iranian delegation: Why, we won the war, we own the Strait of Hormuz, and the U.S. just destroyed the world’s economy. We have all the agreement we need.

Ahmed from Pakistan: U.S. delegation, is there nothing you can offer the Iranians?

Head Delegate: Mr. Pee says to offer to split control of the Strait of Hormuz. We’ll both charge fees but Mr. Pee gets to keep our half for himself.

Iranian delegation heads for the exit. The U.S. delegation starts poking each other with pens, hitting each other with chairs, smacking their heads on the table.

Ahmed from Pakistan: I’m going back to Texas, at least all they do chase each other with guns.

You can thank the GOP, aka the Retardican Party, for that. Decades of not letting teachers teach and demanding "teacher-proof curriculums" that kowtow to fake white-supremacist history, young-earth creationism, and other DumbRetardedFuckery.