Literally anything other than the three you list? I mean I could name 7 other brands one of them being OPPO which is the same company as OnePlus.

headline would make me spit coffee on my screen and laugh, instead of today when they make me throw up a little in my own mouth.

One company suddenly increasing in size to the tune of 7 figures is not just "4 major studios instead of 5". One company is literally buying an insane size of the market along with a lot of IP.

The market is far better served letting Warner go bankrupt and having the company divided and the 4 major studios equally getting to bid for parts of the business.

The end result of this is that Spirits time slots and assets are bought by a variety of airlines. Yes that's exactly where we want to go. You're not served by pretending there is competition simply because one company has two different coats of paint on their planes while they overnight massively increase the amount of market coverage, and dominance in the industry. This does not benefit the consumer.

And yeah it sounds bad, company goes under, jobs lost... I suppose millions of Americans just decided to no longer fly now? Except that's never been the case with any airline going bankrupt in the history of the airline industry. In reality consumers still fly, companies still want to serve consumers. Airports are all effectively running at full slot capacity. The end result is those people who lost their jobs get jobs at various competitors who fill the whole. The planes and assets get bought and reused by various competitors. The flight slots get taken up by various competitors.

You may see the key word there: "various". From a market point of view and from a consumer competition point of view, having one company go out of business is MASSIVELY preferable to having the company "saved" by being bought by another company. The former process preserves competition, the latter creates consolidation.

Industries in trouble need to be blocked from mergers. Allowing them can have worse outcome than market competition.

On what basis?

So the industry doesn't need mergers then? Just let it go away? I'm struggling to see what point you're making, your post is inconsistent. Do we consolidate power in a monopoly or let an irrelevant industry die?

The cable industry has a FUCKING HUGE influence on the world, especially in America. Media are king makers. It's anything but a waste of time worrying about this. Unless that is you want every show in the future to be some variation of "Ow my balls"

Yep, let's go with the latter. If they are going to be reduced than their assets should be divided up and sold individually, not making one of the 4 companies fucking massive compared to the other.

Mergers of that size should be prohibited. You are not well served by a massive monopoly on media. You're far better served with everyone in the competition getting a slice in the firesale.

Worth noting we've already done this. ReCaptcha has used input characterisation for a long time now. Again I didn't disagree it'll be worked around, just that it won't be as easy as people think.

There's a difference between capturing and replaying data (something that will be easily detected, humans are biased but still have variance), and properly generating a human looking input. This is harder than people think.

The rest of the world laughs at how the greatest country in the world suddenly dies because it's not light outside. Maybe that's why Trump wants Greenland? To teach Americans how to use light switches?

Indeed. Now how do we do this on a societal level quickly and easily in a way that everyone remains in synchronisation and there's minimal confusion and no requirement to adjust signage / information?

The idea that opening or working times are a choice are a delusion by someone without kids or without an employer (contractors can chose their working hours).

I agree people complaining have no clue. The idea that peak hour follows the sun is just stupid, as you can see by the wide WIDE differences between summer and winter sunrise / sunset times. Add to that the insane amount of road maintenance that is done overnight in NL and your post ends up with only one point left: You think it's annoying.

But the Netherlands is the Netherlands. The entire country thinks everything is annoying at all times. The rain is annoying, the sun is annoying, the cold is annoying, the heat is annoying, the wind is annoying, the lack of wind is annoying, etc, etc, etc.

Dark at 10am? People up north laugh at you.

How do you figure?

CBS along with the other main 3 broadcast (ABC and especially NBC) are heavy left leaning....CNN is very left leaning, but not so much as MSNOW (used to be MSNBC).

So far, it appears the new lady in charge of CBS has indeed tried pulling them to at least center left rather than far left.

She herself is NOT a right leaning person....

We need some balance....everyone LEFT with Fox New being the sole Right leaning news in the US just doesn't work....I'd rather them all be center but at least balance out the left and right if that's the only option.

Yeah but you're a greybeard Slashdotter, hardly a representation of a normal person ;-)

Also clearly a lie, we've heard that GenZ doesn't spit out kids, so grand parents can't possibly exist before their midlife crisis.

I doubt it was RAM prices. Oppo the parent company still makes phones and OnePlus will still be available in some of the world's biggest markets.

The brand just had virtually zero market presence.

Yep..never heard of OnePlus nor Oppo before in my life......so, no wonder they're not a success in the US if no one knows the brand or what they do...

It could. The problem is that you're using present performance in a rapidly changing industry to predict the future. It could burst, but it also could improve (to be clear I don't think it will and I really hope the bubble pops) but I'm sceptical of making any predictions of the current day cost/benefit of AI in a field that as recently as last year still couldn't count the fingers on hands.

We haven't come close to seeing the true cost of AI settle at a stable market rate. Neither have we settled on AI capabilities. I suspect a reasonable future is one where the costs come down, the datacentres stop getting billed out, and people stop chasing that magical 1000 gazillion parameter model and instead delivery specific purpose AI tools to customers at a reasonable cost.

That will likely still cause a significant amount of job reduction, but then every technology or rather every tool advancement in history of our race always has. The question is, will we use the new efficiency to invest in growth (creating more jobs as it always has in the past) or will we stagnate.

The non-Fox-News viewpoints of CNN seem to me to be worth preserving. And it's doubtful they would be if Paramount takes over Warner's portfolio, which includes CNN.

Look at what happened to CBS, in particular 60 Minutes, when the Ellisons' Skydance Media took over. One of the most venerable investigative-journalism shows in history has been run into the gutter.

Yeah..sad to see a lesbian liberal take two networks of "news" and try to make them more center based and less left leaning and try to report all news fairly....how dare they.