More of the power put in goes into the food, so watt for watt, they are better at heating everything.

I don't disagree, I'm just not in so much hurry that I can't wait another minute.

I had a mediocre drip maker from Proctor Silex, it made okay coffee but the carafe could only be poured at a very narrow range of speeds or it would piss all over the table.

It died, but it lasted OK before that, so I bought another one. They managed to make it even shittier. They "fixed" the pouring problem so it would pour okay at low to medium speeds, which actually was an improvement. But the new unit could only be filled with water through a hatch, and you could only fill it very slowly. And then the water came out too quickly, so it made shitty weak coffee.

I returned it and got a $100 espresso machine, which I get a better result from than going out to a chain.

Most cheap espresso makers aren't really espresso makers. They don't make enough pressure for full extraction. However, there is now a ~$100 DeLonghi pumped unit which does a fine job. Sadly it has a stupid milk steamer, but it's otherwise pretty good.

We can have 220/240V outlets in the USA. We have standards for them at a variety of current carrying capacities. I've installed the 240V@20A outlets (on new circuits from a subpanel) before. Then we could slap a US style plug on one of your kettles and run it just fine.

However, my inverter microwave does a fine job of heating water, to boiling if I want. Also, an espresso machine is available for $100 (from DeLonghi) and produces a better result.

The decision as to whether something is copyrightable doesn't depend on whether it's art, or whether the person who wrote the prompt can be called an artist. The copyright office has no involvement in that argument at all. It's based on whether there is sufficient human input for it to be considered a work by a human, because the purpose of copyright law is ostensibly/allegedly to protect the creators of works. What they're saying is that he cannot be considered to be a creator, not whether he is an artist. It's not only artistic works which are eligible for copyright protection, so that argument doesn't matter and he's wasting his time by having it unless it makes his art sufficiently notable to make it worth something.

One definition of art is anything which is designed with aesthetics in mind, by which definition LLM graphics output can obviously qualify. And the common definition of artist is someone who creates art, so by a reasonable definition he is an artist. But that still doesn't make any difference in whether he can get a copyright on LLM output.

Yes, two important things have happened since it was good. One, it was sold to DICE which was indifferent, and sold again to B!zX which is malicious. They put "Nazi" in the word filter to protect Nazis from being insulted; they eventually took it out but "Re!ch" is still in there, so they can protect the institution of Nazism even if they don't protect individual Nazis. Two, Donald Trump became president. Perhaps you missed one or both of these occurrences.

Thanks. The 2A guys have been a lot quieter since Trump went full fascist and they failed to respond, so maybe we have a shot at solving at least one of those things. Trump also said he wants to take away the guns first and look at going to court later, but the ammosexuals seem to have blocked that out, so unfortunately we won't have their help removing the trump tumor from our body politic.

You obviously do not, and now you have doubled down on not understanding it. Why are you determined to prove that you're a schmuck? You do that with every post, no additional posts are necessary.

Well, that tracks. You're citing Godwin's law incorrectly, so indeed, you clearly do not care what Mike Godwin thinks. The only remaining question is, why are you attempting to cite Godwin's law (and failing) when you don't care what Mike Godwin thinks?

Look, this man has a problem with... one of the most awesome sounding names of all time? Rhodesia Ransom? Kickass.

Cute, even with the unironic discussion of irony self-contradiction.

We had the market deciding for decades and a zoo of incompatible chargers. Then the EU stepped in and mandated micro USB and things improved a lot. After almost a decade the EU changed the mandate to USB C.
Long story short, the distant commitee of people who are answering to the general population is far better than dozen even more distant committees of people who answer to a bunch of enshittificating CEOs.

Let's think practical about this new "ice".....

As in...will this keep my cocktail cold longer?

Will this keep the beer in my ice chest colder for longer?

;)

It just sounds like the greatest nation in the world is incapable of doing what other smaller nations do

We just don't want it...nor need it.

Then I travelled the world and actually looked at how things work and now I'm just sad that I lived with my own narrow minded view. Stay ignorant buddy, you'll kick yourself if you actually experience something that changes your world view, it's not a nice feeling

I've been to Europe and some other parts of the world.

While visiting I had fun and thought it was "quaint".....but it's not how I would like to live.

As I've mentioned before, I don't want to share walls with neighbors or live in tower apartments....

I like to have a yard to enjoy....I've always owned FUN sports cars and motorcycles, I love to drive them....every time I jump in my car or on my bike, I get a big stupid ass smile on my face 'cause I'm off on a new adventure.

I think much of the difference is due to mindeset of nations. The US has long been a country of the "individual". Places like the EU are more group think...."the needs of the many".

And those differences lend themselves to different lifestyles.

Different strokes for different folks.

And again...in the US, if you don't like the lifestyles,, laws, etc of where you live...you CAN move to where things more align with your life preferences.

Here we don't have to depend on one size fits all....and, isn't choice the best thing?

You know what is unreliable? Cars. I have no idea what traffic will do. Will I be there in 35minutes or an hour and 10mintes?

Sounds like poor road design if that's your problems.

I rarely run into "traffic" that is in anyway bad ....it's not something I have to plan for...and I can get to where I want door-to-door in minutes anywhere in the city.

And I live in New Orleans....so, quite often there is going to be drinking involved, and in my older years, I just don't bother driving after adult beverages anymore, so I just call an uber for those times....again, door-to-door.

No needing to deal with the elements walking to a train station, etc.....we might not get THAT cold down here, but a large part of the year is very HOT and HUMID.....and at times you really wanna limit your outdoor time, especially if you are dressed nice...otherwise you show up at your destination as a sweat stain.

Public transport...it just really isn't a thing here, nor in most cities I've lived in in the US, but I'm not felt my life has suffered in the least because if it.

I've always had a car or motorcycle that is FUN to drive and I hop in and enjoy it....

1) Godwin's law is that as the length of a USENET thread grows, the probability of someone being compared to Hitler approaches 1. You do not understand Godwin's law any more than most people understand Murphy's Law. (Both are fine examples of Murphy's law.)
2) Mike Godwin explicitly said that comparing Trump to Hitler is apt, not that this is relevant to Godwin's law, which doesn't refer to aptness of comparison.

It seems like you are ignorant on every topic.

Obviously even Americans prefer walkable cities.

Obviously we don't....if we did, we'd either have more of them or would have more in the works.

That just isn't our mindset.

We generally don't like to be clumped all together, we prefer more open spaces and elbow room.

I prefer to have a yard where I can, in the back, set up my large log burning offset smoker to do BBQ, or set up a large 100 gallon pot for crawfish boils.....and have friends and neighbors over to enjoy a nice day with me.

And going out to see things?

I live in the New Orleans area....we only have 52 weeks a year, and there are FAR more fests (music, food, etc) that you can attended if you tried annually.

And yet, I don't live in "walkable"....nor do I want to.

I have my nice yard, my friends have places to park their boats and we go out on them fishing or just for fun....and again BEST of all, I do not share walls with anyone. Over the years I put a LOT of investments into building my AV system and I occasionally like to exercise its decibel range....with no shared walls, I don't disturb the neighbors and they don't bother me.

I do walk my dog...daily and meet my neighbors as I do...the nice thing is...it's not all concrete like an urban city where you have limited green space.

And guess what - they serve wine on all those occasions.

LOL, I live in fucking New Orleans....we have wine....beer and hard liquor cocktails anywhere here you want, 24/7.....no open container laws either.

Try THAT in your urban paradise.