It comes with a safety tag: "Not for use with bicycles"

If you ban SUVs people will drive converted full sized vans and large cab pickup trucks.

My suggestion is not ban SUVs entirely, but require additional permitting heavily discouraging of consumer use. Restrict who can drive them when and where at what speed, and what for purpose. You may need an expensive permit, And take additional training to certify to a higher class large vehicle driver's license, for example.

Full sized vans and large cab pickups for personal use outside licensed work trucks or delivery vehicles etc would carry same restrictions tied to vehicle size and risk levels.

It still needs approval in other jurisdictions that might actually care about consolidation in the media industry.

To deal with the affordability crisis. It doesn't work because if you get hit in one of those by an American SUV you might as well have gotten hit on a motorcycle.

That's a reason to ban "American SUVs" not the Kai cars. One of the flaws in the crash safety rating for personal passenger vehicles is we are only considering how well vehicles protect their passengers, and not how much risk vehicles pose to other vehicles in a crash. We should be banning or limiting the speeds and restricting highway use of personal vehicles that are overweight or pose a danger.

Considering that for the one-time investment of $150 and a half hour of your time you could not have to do that any more? Hell yes, you're crazy.

It seems Warner can't catch a break. Time Warner's financials were in dire straits in 2004 as well with a load of debt from the AOL merger. That time, they paid their debt by selling Dire Straits and the rest of Warner Music Group to Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Until such time as someone actually files a patent lawsuit over AV1 or names specific patents that AV1 infringes on, I am inclined to treat what the likes of Sisvel has to say as a load of BS.

Huh am online paument system needs you pank login, yea that sounds suspect, unless that is a very odd way of sating up autobill or similar. But thean again I'm probably spiled by the ease of witch we do it here in norway, when i receve the first bill forum a new service (in favt that is an e-bill) it pops up in my banks interface/app i acceot it and get promtid if i want to activate autopay ( called auto giro) if I do i get prompted to sat a max amount and that's all I ever have to do untill the day I the bills start to rreqularly esceed that ammount, then it's just a few clicks/taps to adjust it. And the partu billing me needs 0 access to my bank logins.

No because the account is incidental here, the agreement you "signed" when you subscribed to the service gives you (ans dossibly the moebers of your houshold (as in registered with permeant raciness at the same address) access to use the services. Technically you can give a backup copy of your user id and passwoerd to whomecver you want as long as they don't use it to stream any content

Samsung is collection of several companies and if you've ever spent any time working with them you quickly realize that they all prioritize other Samsung companies below other customers. I don't know whether it's because of anti-trust concerns, or market strategy, or just rivalry, but I've never seen any Samsung company that operated any differently. I worked quite a bit with Samsung Mobile and S.LSI, who are even quite interdependent (though S.LSI depends more on Samsung Mobile than the reverse), and they constantly ignored and even dissed one another.

There's no way your driver's ed class failed to mention that traffic is required to stop for school buses with their red lights flashing, and I think it's unlikely that your written test failed to include a question about school zone and school bus rules. Mine (Utah) certainly did.

In rural areas, like where I live, there aren't any marked crossings, and there really isn't any reasonable place to put them. If you mark a crossing it would only ever be used by the one or two houses near it, and only by school children, because there's really no need for anyone to walk across the street otherwise. The school buses stop directly in front of each child's house. There aren't any locations where a bus could pick up multiple children without making them have to walk an unreasonable distance, so each kid's house is a stop.

Also, the speed limit on my road is 45 mph, and cars routinely drive 55 mph... so having the "huge yellow beast" with flashing red lights and a flipped-out, flashing red stop sign is definitely necessary.

If Megacity existed, I guarantee you they'd have at least one of the judges in statue form looming over it.

The problem for the west with this sort of philosophy is that there is great profit potential is selling weapons to both sides in combat zones, and nothing creates a combat zone like insanity run amok. This is reason #2 that the entire middle east is one of the western world's obsessions. Reason #1 of course is oil. And while Israel may not be a provider of #1, they're damned good to the military industrial complex when it comes to #2. And let's face it, we long ago decided that profit comes before any other concern. In fact, we play a part in keeping the insanity stoked high and wide, because it's far more profitable that way.

CHA-CHING, baby. CHA-CHING.

AI investment is growing exponentially and has been for some time. Meanwhile, AI productivity is already slowing, and shows further signs that as we move forward it will slow still more. While tech companies are attempting to shovel more of it at the businesses and end-users that rely on them, there's only so much the current LLM driven systems are going to be able to accomplish without some massive change in basic operation that, thus far, doesn't appear to be happening. And while they continue to rake in investment money to continue to build out infrastructure for the fantasized giant leap forward in productivity that LLM driven systems are supposed to provide us, even *IF*, and that's a might giant if, but if they managed to accomplish *EVERY* goal the companies behind them are promising they would be able to accomplish, there is still no chance at all that they will be able to generate enough revenue to ultimate pay for the expenditure.

Do I think there is some potential in the current LLM obsession to create future productivity gains? Yes. Do I believe that anyone involved in it is holding a realistic view of how far that productivity gain will actually take us? Absolutely, positively not. This is a bubble. A bubble built on fantasy that has a foundation of bullshit mixed heavily with snake oil. And when the "correction" comes, it's going to be so much like a bubble popping that most will not be able to tell the difference.

I know, our world doesn't much care about reality these days, but reality has a funny way of reasserting itself in the most brutal and cold ways. And the longer and harder people try to fight it, the more implosively it collapses on them when it finally does come back to them. At the rate we're going, attempting to tie up the entire economy in the hype cycle, we're gonna make the economic implosion make the Titan Submersible look like a kid's game gone a tiny bit wrong.