"Spread of abilities." At Harvard. Okay, buddy.

I mean, we've all heard of DeVry, USC, and Trump University, but I wouldn't expect teaching at any of those places would make you any more qualified to discuss the workings of elite universities than the students you taught.

This isn't the math either. Advertisers pay for the number of impressions. Impressions are highest when the theater is making the smallest percentage of the box office, and those steadily drop as the box office percentage due the theater grows. Advertising merely smooths revenue- it's far less relevant to whether, as you say so broadly, theaters can cover their costs, than what those costs actually *are*. Did you buy land in a now-filled-in suburb a decade ago, or are you paying a commercial lease in the region's newest premier mall? Sure, they're *both* gonna show ads, but one is far more likely to *need* to than the other.

That's not the math. Generally, the theater occupancy rate of every movie declines continuously from its opening weekend. If you sell half as much concessions when the theater is half full, of course the theater needs a higher percentage as time goes on. Their costs to screen the film aren't really much different.

Yeah, and that's exactly the part where my skepticism kicked in. It takes about 10 hours across two weeks for a human to train a dog about an underground fence. I'm not sure I realized that cattle were so much smarter than dogs that you could just put on the collar and AI will do the rest.

Sure, it's well-known legal strategy to pepper your complaint with unfounded allegations. Judges don't hate that at all.

You pass a statute. There is no common law that Congress can't override.

I don't think it's much of a stretch to find the Claude AI evidence inadmissible for another reason, though judges widely don't do so: undue prejudice. The evidence of typing "how to get away with a crime I committed" isn't being offered for the purpose of showing the defendant did commit the crime, after all, it's being offered to impeach the credibility of the defendant testifying they didn't do it. Myself, I just don't believe juries can separate the two, so I'd never admit such evidence. But as I said, judges generally disagree, which is likely why they decided to try "Claude is a lawyer."

So are you. If an AI can be an author, it can also hold the copyright. 37 CFR Â 202.3(a)(3):

For the purposes of this section, a copyright claimant is either: (i) The author of a work...

Oops, "ring shell firework." No funny mods for me.

Does Greedo blow up like a shell firework in this newly restored version?

Another mechanism for resistance is obviously fine, and I'm pretty sure there are actually zero cases of Monsanto asserting any infringement for that.

As for crossbreeding the "wild" gene, Canada's highest court dealt with that directly and found in Monsanto's favor in that case on the basis of what Canadian patent law actually protects. You can dislike that, sure, but it's no more deserving of scare quotes than my home mortgage interest tax deduction.

Seriously, there should be statues in some hall of shame at a prominent business school for Robert Shapiro and everyone that followed him at Monsanto and Bayer. They had developed and patented some of the best plant gene insertion technology, and instead of creating a ton of wealth, basically destroyed a ton of otherwise unrelated wealth. It almost seems laughable now that they spun off Sygenta in the '90's to avoid PCB liability, only to double down on glyphosate and "glyphosate-ready" seeds shortly thereafter and use the cash flows to acquire a bunch of promising life sciences companies that will lie in comparative ruin. To say nothing of how their failure to effectively manage accusations of replanting and maintain decent PR made them pariahs, both here on slashdot and in the minds of many of their customers.

They can't even come clean in the linked announcement- the "far less funding" of the 2020 settlement was US$10B (US$19B in 2026 dollars) and has already gone out the door. If they put $19B toward the same problem that the current settlement addresses in the next four years, there'd be *way* more money paid to class claimants.

significant portion of a target audience

Well, AC, there's your problem. The vast majority of those in the target audience knew exactly who was performing, many outside of that target were cheerfully willing to learn, and only whacked-out bigots got as upset about it as you appear to be.

Yes, but you rarely see a 24% vig in any market at all.

Hey, if somebody really understands what calculation they're doing to measure "accuracy," I think a brief explanation would be very welcome. I'll admit I gave up when their top-line, explicit example involved a pair of contracts selling for .67 and .57- I'd say spending $1.24 for $1 is the very definition of an inaccurate market.