The AGI won't need to identify us. It doesn't even need to keep score. All it needs to know is see human, shoot human.

But it isn't. It's easy enough to use stereo vision to measure the distance to an object and then determine whether or not it could get into the drop zone even if it started moving at top speed with no acceleration time. Also, if it was "worried" it wouldn't drop things from such a height.

Why would anyone pay for a web browser? Seriously, why? In 35 years of web browsers, only dopes paid for them.

Last I heard, the trade policy was set to deter importing cars made in China into the United States. BYD having been blocked from setting up a factory on United States soil and hiring United States residents to produce cars for the United States market is news to me. The interview that Wikipedia cites states only that BYD isn't planning to build in the US or Mexico for the US market, not why that's the case. Searching DuckDuckGo for "is byd blocked from setting up factory in usa" didn't turn up relevant results either.

They probably can't move the movie up. Knowing Disney, they'll probably still be doing reshoots the week before.

So to buy a car, you have to first buy a house, or at least buy out the rest of your lease in favor of somewhere to live whose parking could support a charger.

Consider the case of buying a car and then changing jobs. How practical is it to choose where to work based on whether the office has a charger?

Not to mention that a lot of ICE car drivers aren't rich enough to afford a new car, only a used car. And a lot of ICE car drivers live in the United States, where BYD has chosen not to build a factory, and have an ethical disagreement with the leadership of Tesla.

... and with all their mass-firings probably AI slop too.

I prefer the small rural theaters with a dozen people at a matinee.

Big and Loud will appeal to the Zoomers who aren't broke. That's about 10% of them.

These are the new Intolerable Acts.

There's a reason you learned how to be a Marine. "Foreign and domestic."

Iranian and Venezuelan oil was on the market before the conflicts started by Trump. We still had $5/gallon gas back then due to Trump's shitty economic policies.

I've driven EVs since 2016. I've only plugged my car into the wall with no special charger. I plug in when I get home. My car completely charges overnight. When I leave in the morning, it's completely charged. My office is only about 10 miles away. So, I never use a full charge during the day driving to work.

It's clear you've never owned an EV and simply want to demonize a technology it's obvious you know little about.

They came out here first, at a time when they were still useful. CDRWs were very expensive and/or slow. Most of the old ones were SCSI, and most people didn't have a SCSI interface in their PC. As I was a nerd with a Unix and Unixlike background I did, and my employer kicked down a Philips CDD521 with the 2x upgrade that they had been using to write masters and had only recently obsoleted with a 4x Plextor. This is sometimes said to have been the first CD writer, but I think I read somewhere that there was a Sony drive first that came only in a rack mount case.

Minidisc is a true Magneto-Optical drive and is very very cool technology, but unfortunately Sony really strangled the shit out of it in the name of copyright enforcement. There were a couple of models of PC interface, but you couldn't do audio with them. The audio devices didn't allow doing high speed copies, and would respect the copyright bit. If you were a nerd you could get the decoder and encoder chips and just not connect that pin (srsly) and strip out protection but you couldn't just buy a device like that off the now ubiquitous usual suspects^Wservices because they didn't yet exist :)

Needing to unmount was a property shared with other operating systems, but early Unixlikes used to have silly problems. For SCO Xenix I was advised (by a SCO employee) to shut down using the following formula:

sync
sync
haltsys

The second sync didn't do anything the first sync didn't, it was because on that platform sync returned immediately instead of blocking until the unwritten blocks had all been written, and it was there to slow you down. You didn't want to halt too soon...

I was used to doing something before shutting down on DOS though, because my first PCs had ST-506 interface disks and those usually didn't park themselves. You had to send them a command to ask them to do it, which most people did with PARK.COM. ATA interface disks would generally self-park. Some earlier SCSI disks would not, but of course eventually they all did. Almost no MFM/RLL disks would park themselves.

Before iomega's Zip there were the Bernoulli and SyQuest drives.

Bernoulli drives inflated under spin and the head made an air cushion to push that inflated package away from it to avoid crashes. If the disc spun down, then the media moved away from the head. I have no experience with these so I don't know how well this worked in practice.

SyQuest was just a removable HDD platter. It had pretty poor read and write times because the head couldn't be as close to the disc as in a real HDD. They were however very reliable. They had 44 and then 88MB versions in a 5.25" cartridge, and then 135MB and 230MB in 3.5". Then I think some other larger capacity as well before the market chose iomega because it was cheaper, then rejected it because zip drivers were flaky, and went to CD-R which was also becoming cheap.

This is reminiscent of Sega v. Accolade. Do they have published requirements for the use of their logo? In which case this license requirement would be an attempt to graft those terms onto the AGPL?