A failure of judgement or lack of expertise on the part of the contracting organization doesn't mean they were engaged in fraud. I think we can apply Hanlon's Razor to this:

That's not how the rules of debate normally work. It's up to the person making the claim to support it.

Would you care to expand on that? This article from the Journal of Hand Surgery says that nerve grafts were invented in France, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the history goes back further.

This sounds obscene until you see what it costs to educate people in the public school system. New York City is paying $42K per student.

New York State is paying about $33k per student. In the listing linked below, the states with the highest tuition rates are for the most part, blue leaning states. I note that the state I live in, North Carolina, is near the bottom of the ranking. In my experience our expenditures track with the outcomes.

https://worldpopulationreview....

The rights that you are asking about are primarily copyright protections. If the work was written by the employee of an organization, the right to copy would belong to the employer first. Otherwise that right would initially belong to the author. Of course, copyrights can be bought and sold, so we don't know who actually owns the copyrights at issue. But I don't think copyright matters in this case. Not that it's irrelevant, but it probably doesn't come into play.

Trademark law doesn't let you create rights out of infringing use, so if McConaughey were violating someone else's copyright, that could be a problem. In this case, though, his use of the phrase is presumably lawful under copyright law, and trademark protection would be based on whether consumers associate that delivery and recording with him - not on ownership of the original script.

What would be protected here would not be just any use of the phrase, but one that imitates his own unique delivery. Trademark law would not prevent anyone from using that catch-phrase. It would only prevent its use in a way that implies McConoughey as the source or endorser, and that triggers consumer confusion. It is the likelihood of confusion which is the core trademark test.

I'm not a lawyer, so this is just my understanding of the laws at play.

This isn't a moral problem. The company challenged the journalists to break their box, and they did. I don't think it will ever be possible to trust an AI system, and maybe that's a good thing. It might force people to learn to think critically.

For $1000? It may be a technical disaster but it's fantastically effective PR.

Is that what this means? It's very common for a program to have components in a mix of languages. Are they really saying that the entire program has to be written in Rust, or are there just specific files that have to be there for integration purposes?

According to Statista 53.76 million Americans traveled internationally in 2024. That's 15 percent of the population. Besides the pure numbers, business travel matters to our economic prosperity. Isolation is bad for business.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statista.com%2Fstati...

They don't need anyone to watch it. Just to talk about it.

Mission accomplished

According to the page linked below, the annual cost of work-zone accidents is estimated to be $38.9 billion, so on big projects it's probably worth the money to protect workers. But yes, it seems like this could be done cheaper. The bumper truck just has to roll down the road at low speed in a pretty much straight line. It seems like all you need is a large electric vehicle operated by remote controls. The full autonomous technology seems like overkill especially since even this expensive solution has to be monitored by a technician. OTOH, if someone can do the task cheaper you'd think they would have tried.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.workzonebarriers.com%2Fwork-zone-crash-facts.html

Maybe that would work for California, but not on the east coast. Here in Eastern North Carolina the fire is in the crawlspace. A lot of wetlands have been drained, sometimes just to harvest the peat. Our peat deposits have built up over millions of years, long enough to hold massive amounts of fuel but not long enough to turn that fuel into oil. Once peat is drained it's vulnerable to catching fire. A peat fire can smoulder deep underground for months and even years, slowly releasing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere.

What your wife experiences is different from those of us with a chronic sinus infection. Saline rinses only flush out the passages between the nose and the mouth. They don't reach the tear ducts or the sub-mandibular glands. For people like your wife, saline rinses are very effective. What I have is a latent infection that cannot fully heal. It's not the same thing.

I've had sinus infections for 30 years. When my sinuses are inflamed all the drainage passages close off. For about 20 years my sinuses flared up approximately every 7 days, with a 3 day recovery for each flare. After having surgery on my sinuses I got it down to every two weeks.

I now have a routine involving moist heat, regular cleaning of the ears and gargling twice a day with Listerine (original, not the sweet stuff). If everything is stable, the Listerine gargle creates suction that draws out fluid. When my sinuses do get inflamed, I have one last resort. That's when I use a straw to drip Listerine directly into my nose. It hurts like hell but also causes all the glands in the head to release at once, flushing out what a saline rinse can't.

Let me be clear about this. This is what I do, and it is not medical advice. Every doctor I've talked to has looked at me flabbergasted when I tell them about this. There are serious and valid concerns about accidentally ingesting a form of alcohol that is not intended for human consumption. On the other hand, the doctors don't have a treatment that can fix the problem.

We'll be lucky if they don't run it again tomorrow.

That the Trump administration intends to launch a mass deportation that will involve concentration camps isn't hyperbole. It's his stated agenda. If you think otherwise it's you who needs to pay better attention.

The question is not whether Trump will try to do these things, it's whether he will succeed. Moderates who might once have resisted have been pushed out of the Republican Party. The GOP will have majority control of both houses of Congress and a compliant Supreme Court.

I'm somewhat hopeful that when Trump starts his trade war the economic consequences will be so evident that the Trump administration will step back from the edge. But, there is very little standing in Trump's way except his own incompetence and the GOP's lack of discipline.