#4 in economy. Thats pretty good.

CA is also:
#1 in homelessness AND #1 in per capita homeless spending!
#1 in poverty.
#1 in highest taxes (excluding property tax the only tax stat they are middle-of-the-road)
#1 in lowest in adult literacy rates

But hey! California's overall high school graduation rate grown over the last 20 years to north of 87%! Something we can be PROUD OF! Too bad only ~37% can perform math at the expected levels. But we are AWSOME with reading skills! Just under 50% can read at expected levels!

I live in CA. We hide failed education programs by elevating grades such less than a whopping 25% of high school grads are ready for college. Third to last! Thank god for West Virginia and New Mexico!

Damn shame we don't fix our problems with that "boast" of a California economy.

I got Google Play Music for my family back when that was a thing. It was the same price as Spotify, had the same catalog, and included any music on Youtube as well. The fact that it included ad free Youtube was just a bonus. These days that has morphed into Youtube Premium, and I still pay for it. I am mostly there for the music, but the ad free Youtube is not terrible.

The interesting thing is that it is pretty clear that most people just watch the ads. Youtube had $60 billion in yearly revenue last year. More than Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, and Warner Brothers combined. Roughly $20 billion of that is credited to Youtube Premium which is bigger than any of its Hollywood competitors.

There's a reason that Peacock is being included with Youtube Premium and not the other way around. Youtube is worth something. Peacock, not so much.

Things have changed dramatically since the heyday when everyone had a cable subscription. I used to work for SlingTV (and then Dish), and I had a front row seat as the whole industry imploded. Every year the television networks and movie studios would sit down and renegotiate their contracts. Despite the fact that viewership was always down at least 10% year over year they always wanted price increases. If the cable providers pushed back (as Dish often did) they would lose access to channels, invariably during football season when it mattered most.

You see, as technology started allowing people to purchase their entertainment piecemeal it soon became clear what parts they were willing to pay for, and which parts they weren't willing to pay for. Hollywood thought that people paid for cable subscriptions to watch their scripted television. It turns out that, for most people anyway, the part of television that they were willing to pay for was live sports.

That's why Disney won't sell you ESPN unless you bundle it with everything else that they sell, and that's also why Disney is suing SlingTV for reselling access on a daily basis. SlingTV's "sports pass" allows you to pay for just the games that you want at a ridiculous price. Disney should be stoked, but instead it has sued because it wants to force sports fans to continue to pay for their other channels.

Almost no one is watching traditional scripted television these days. The few hits that the networks do have tends to be reality TV stuff like "Dancing with the Stars," where the audience can watch people compete in real time. Youtube (not YoutubeTV) has at least half again as many viewers as their next highest competitor (Netflix), at any time during the day, on traditional 10 foot devices (your living room TV). That's not counting people watching Youtube on their phones or their computers. Youtube is killing scripted content on living room televisions, during prime time. During the day its an order of magnitude worse.

Take a look at nielsen.com and take a look for yourself. It's absolutely grim. Look at the shows that are doing relatively well, they are all either sports or sports commentary. That's literally the only reason that anyone watches anything besides YouTube and Netflix.

Apple spent over $20 billion building up a content catalog. At their height they were spending nearly $5 billion a year making shows. They made some great shows and got rave reviews. Amazon spends $1 billion a year for the rights to Thursday night football. That is arguably the worst football game of the week. However, Prime generally gets as many viewers for a single game as Apple has total subscribers, including all of the free subscriptions that Apple gives away. It's not just Apple that is shifting away from scripted television either. Take a look at any of the streaming sites (including Netflix) and you will see that all of their recent moves have been to try and compete for the sports market. That's definitely what YouTube is doing by bundling Peacock.

Hollywood is currently circling the drain. Everyone is up for sale right now. No one is watching scripted television. They certainly aren't paying for it.

There is no next move. Netfilx was buying them for their back catalog. The part of WB that people care about is the part that makes new movies and television, and that part is dead no matter who purchases WB.

If you haven't seen the tour of the Warner Brother's lot, you should do that now. They are still even filming some shows there. My guess is that, no matter who owns it they will probably keep something open there as a museum, but the days of it functioning as a working studio are quickly coming to an end. Heck, they are already living in the past. Most of what they talk about when you visit the studio is shows that they stopped filming over 20 years ago.

Still, it is very interesting to see how shows like "Friends" and "Gilmore Girls" was filmed before computers could be used to create whatever shot you needed.

"They also to an incident (and not almost) didn't smear shit on the walls or kill cops. Your false equivalence here is obvious support for the same child raping president you claim to not support. No one is stupid enough to buy your bullshit here."

What cop was killed on J6? The one who got pepper-sprayed? The one listed as "natural causes" on his DC? What's a reasonable penalty for that, assuming you got the guy who sprayed him?

With the Floyd riots, 2000 injured police officers, with injuries ranging from gunshot wounds, to severe head trauma, to broken bones, deep lacerations, etc... and virtually no jail or or prison time for rioters.

Facts are, in fact "stubborn things" and bias is hard to overcome for many regardless of facts.

"Bullshit"? You're the one with "Poo" in your name, Poo.

"What is the point of posting references to documents you clearly have never even read?"

What's the point of posting to a thread if you don't READ the thread.

Poo: "Trump pardoned all the J6 terrorists via autopen."
Me: "No he didn't. There was a mix of pardon's and commutations"

"Hundreds of police officers were attacked, 140 of whom received injuries at the hands of the insurrectionist mob. Officers have lost eyes,"

And most of the folks prosecuted were beyond over prosecuted for it. One officer lost an eye, yes (ONE! Singular) -- but over 1500 people were arrested and over prosecuted. Things like calling "bear spray" and discharging fire extinguishers "lethal weapons" And yes, one ex firefighter actually threw a fire extinguisher.

Compare that to the over 2000 officers that suffered injuries (including gunshot wounds, broken bones and severe head trauma from thrown bricks) , during the George Floyd riots defending Federal take over and take over attempts as well as state building take overs and take over attempts. The vast majority of those arrested were charged with misdemeanors that were mostly dropped later on and most of those that were charged with felonies were allowed to plea down to misdemeanors with no or virtually no jail time.

"You just demonstrated it by attempting to excuse away the blatantly indefensible with a load of factually incorrect gibberish."

You just demonstrated you suffer from TDS by your in ability to think straight.

And no, I do *NOT* believe J6 was an insurrection but a protest gone riot -- much like the George Floyd riots. They went to protest what they believed to be severe election irregularities. It's their right -- even if they are wrong. it's not their right to riot. Trump TOLD people at the near by "rally" to walk over to the capital building: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Yes, he used the same language earlier on in the rally that BOTH sides use with in their various rallies and calling "fight" for their $_Cause.

"The appellate process not vigilantism is the proper forum for those who believe they have been mistreated in some way by the justice system. "

I don't disagree with this -- but the power of the President and Governors to pardon and commute is also there to quickly resolve an injustice or over use of the justice system as a "fail safe" -- it's part of that system and you are deliberately being blind not to admit that.

Do I believe the pardons were overly broad? Yes. There are some folks who should have served (and some did) more than a year in jail or prison, but for the majority, it was the right decision.

virtually all of them. They were almost to an incident, never prosecuted.

"Trump pardoned all the J6 terrorists via autopen."

No he didn't. There was a mix of pardon's and commutations (time serviced, and still a crime on their record). IMO, what happened then was far more like many of the other federal and state building "take overs" that were happening around the nation at the time and NOT an act of "terrorism" or "insurrection" and the "J6" folks were massively over prosecuted and what he did corrected that.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre...

To be clear, I'm a never Trumper (proudly voted against him in 6 elections -- 3 primaries and 3 nationals). I'm just not suffering for the insanity that is TDS. I swear, if Trump made a statement "Don't jump off a bridge", a healthy chunk of folks would end up wet.

"Get fucked, poser."

Right back atcha, Poo...

Hmmmm... interesting approach. Is the license "permission" to watch it from sony during the duration of their contract, or do I "own" the movie, but not how it's presented through Sony, in this case.

If it's the latter, copy/rip the media.

A short aside:

I have a fairly large audible account. I noticed about 10 years ago, I still have books in my queue, but I'm unable to download/listen to them. Audible explained the licence to me, told me that it should appear back in my "library" eventually but might take years (and maybe never), but here, have a free "credit" (which is basically, another free book).

Had that happen about 6 times over the last 10 years (the most recent was about a year ago. Each time, I got a credit -- and with the exception of the most recent, the book re-appeared in my library. If the pattern continues, I should have it back in my library within 2 years from when it was removed.

I can live with that.

"an awful lot of DVDs only last a decade or two."

If only there was some way to take the data on a DVD and move it to a computer. Maybe "brute force it". We could use the term "rip"!

Then backups with redundancy would turn a decade or two in to a generation or ten. ...if only...

So it's interesting that the summary mentions Geoffrey Hinton, with his 10% or 20% estimate of AI ending the world. In the consensus of the ML community 10 years ago, neural nets had less than a 10% probability of becoming as artificially intelligent as they are right now. Making a useful estimation of risk is impossible when probability is near 0 and consequence is near infinity.

Which is why OP used "cure cancer!" as a joke.

However, much progress has been made. I am alive right now because of a breakthrough cancer therapy that was FDA approved in 2011. (Well after Nixon!)

This fall I am going to get a therapy that mass-replicates your own immune cells in a lab for re-injection. It's so expensive (and has uncertain benefit) that it's not generally available in the UK or Canada yet. Automation will be a key to making it cost-effective.

It's such a complex area, I think information retrieval and computational science / simulation, or AI if you prefer, will help.

... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.

It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.

"Direct to Satellite" tech is coming right along and both the satellites on cell towers and the batteries to power them are going to be obsolete fairly soon.

Latency to LEO is not a dealbreaker for backup usage. 25-50 ms for Starlink.

Granted, your issue about bandwidth still stands and seems hard to fix. They form virtual cells on the ground with beamforming, but I don't know how many satellites are in view of a city at the same time to divy it up.