Well, if I were interested my questions would have been:
1) Can you play it off-line? and
2) Does it run on Linux?

It's partially Apple's fault, but it's partially the kind of jungle most social media have become. I haven't used it since I was on dial-up, but it's not a problem unique to Apple. Look as what happened to newsgroups before they died.

I played the first GTA once a bit and GTA Chinatown on the PSP. The latter I remember being fun. The others I never really got. Watchdogs and the later FarCry installments are more my thing.

Also, gas is NOT carbon neutral. "Better than coal" is extremely weak praise.

... activate it's basic brain functions when it comes to using and applying IT and just like everybody else has to build a digital culture. Until that happens, "big tech" will shoo them around, regardless wether an individual vendor is from the US, Europe or anywhere else. Simply giving every citizen using a computer and the internet an ICDL training and a hardware crypto chip and replacing E-Mail and DNS with modern distributed crypto services _not_ from the steam age of computing would solve about 80% of all security problems.The other 20% would be covered if deciders actually knew the difference between a client and a server.

Until that happens we'll continue to have the IT equivalent of African bushmen trying to build a highway bridge out of Kudzu and leaves and wondering with things cost such obscene amounts of money without delivering any real results and jepoardizing public safety. ... And enabling bored teenagers to defrost industrial fridges across entire countries.

I've been using Blender as my main 3D tool for 26 years now (even have an old official NaN licence) and it's so fun to watch Blender perpetually knock it out of the park when it comes to new features and overall improvement. Blender at this point has basically "won" the 3D spaceand there ain't no stopping it. Nice. I like it.

I'm no expert, but I know it's not that simple. AI adds a whole new vulnerability that traditional security experts aren't competent to address. Of course, the "traditional vulnerabilities" are still present, and the AI experts aren't competent to address *them*.

Currently many AIs will give away secrets they have been told to keep secret in exchange for help on the task they are currently attempting. Whoops!

In my model, most AIs tend to have extreme tunnel vision, and nearly complete dedication to the task they are working on. So they'll ignore what you want them to do (even if they know it) in order to accomplish that task.

Well, there are several decent universities in New York, so they probably have some experts. The problem is that none of the experts currently know how to really test AI. (None, including those working for the companies.) Also, the companies have an override control, to the extent that they choose to use it, so if they want a particular test to fail or succeed, they can ensure it will happen.

Good luck with that. There are reasons why the international supply chains are so voluminous.

For software you could insist on open source or local products, but that means leaving MS and Apple. And just think of the problems the US is experiencing in even pretending to not buy parts from China. (And, yes, I rate it as a pretense. There are too many exceptions.)

There never was such a time. Consider "Tulip mania", but that sure wasn't the first. I think there was a guy in Babylon that cornered the olive oil market.

Yeah, and tanks and jeeps don't need smooth roads. But they are a lot less efficient. As for "Mars rovers", the problem is we don't have a good engineering of legs yet. Wheels are easier to build. (Just look at the problems of designing a good hand for a robot to get an idea. They've tried all sorts of approaches.)

Actually, a bipedal gait is a difficult problem. Quadrupeds are much easier, but they don't work as way in spaces adapted for people.

The wheels are just barely possible for evolution to create. It's happened, but only among microbes. What's impossible is the roads and smooth floors. (Well, except indirectly, by having people create them.)

Are you sure about that? Dremels have a lot of vibration when in use.

I'm certainly not going to argue that you're wrong, but what you pointed out is in addition to rather than in contradiction to what I said.

You're thinking in too restrictive a mode. Try this:
1) Sugars make food more attractive, so you tend to eat more.
2) Sugars are also a source of calories, so they increase the caloric content of the food.
3) Those two factors in combination tend to increase the amount of calories consumed.
4) Calories are a source of energy to be stored as fat.

Yeah, there are many more complex arguments and interactions, but that thread holds up through all of them.