... the people they ban will form a new splinter group, who will in time start banning another subset. They're really all just as mad as each other.

It's not vehicle owners they should be compensating, it's all the pedestrians who were ever passed by one of their cars.

There haven't been any significant solar flares in the last 6 days. In fact the X-ray flux has been unusually low for this point in the solar cycle.

"users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them"

I don't want advertisements that are relevant to me.

I don't want to see any ads - and mostly don't, because I use an ad blocker. If ads get through, I'd prefer them to be irrelevant to me, so that I won't inadvertently pay any attention to them.

Funnily enough, my view was widely held at the time.

with a ridiculous plot and stupid characters. It was rubbish in 1977 and is still rubbish now.

If China holds out against Trump, they will be seen as the reliable power, and even Europe will be thanking them.

Cartography and transport terminology is not the English language.

We already get energy from the earth's rotation. where do you think tidal energy comes from, for example?

"Every company has embarrassing secrets. Why would a company want to hire people who will turn around and spill all their secrets?"

Why should a company be able to get what it wants?

It's not that this is a backdoor at all. There are undocumented functions, but you need to have some malicious software already running to make use of them. That's true of the documented functions too. The linked article reads more like an advertisement.

"If OpenAI can demonstrate that their product was used improperly then they can take action, just as others do against them."

There is a legal doctrine called "clean hands".

Fortunately I have no need for such a thing, but if I did I certainly wouldn't choose a system in this kind of mess.

"300 [empty] teabags were transferred into a 1 L beaker (pre-washed and sterilized) containing 600 mL of Milli-Q water at 95 C with constant stirring (750 rpm)"

Who stirs their tea at 750 rpm? The time for which they are stirred is not specified. And are all 300 in 600mL of water at once? It's not at all clear that this will produce a result similar to actual use of a teabag.

LEDs don't have that sleazy downmarket vibe that neon has.