Consoles have been sold at pretty near at or above the cost of goods for a while now. Some manufacturers, like Nintendo, actually make a profit on their hardware. Recent price hikes for hardware have more to do with US tariffs and the AI craze jacking the price of GPU silicon than anything else.

They've announced that they are going to publish everything pretty much day and date on all platforms, including Sony. XBox hardware will probably stick around for those who can't afford a gaming PC or don't want to deal with maintaining one or people who are already heavily bought into the XBox ecosystem and don't want to have to rebuy everything on Playstation.

I expect the next generation of XBox will be more streaming focused though. They already have their "everything is an XBox" marketing campaign that heavily pushes the ability to stream your XBox games to pretty much anything that can run their app and pair with a controller.

XBox is going to be primarily a software publisher with a vestigial retail hardware division and a massive cloud computing arm, basically.

A cabbie/rideshare driver gets paid far less than cops do, and is way more likely to be killed or injured on the job, and both spend much of their day driving around. Yet police office is held up as a dangerous job requiring bravery.

Trigger warnings are for people who have some deep emotional trauma or PTSD associated with the named topic. One would hope that 10% or less are that damaged. You put a trigger warning in front of a video that discusses or depicts sexual abuse for abuse survivors suffering from PTSD, not for the general population who finds it disturbing. Hopefully everyone finds it disturbing.

No such thing as a good landlord.

The said it was stopped at a DUI checkpoint. It's probably illegal to u-turn to avoid one of these, or else all the drunks would just dip on them.

So I guess it's fine when one of these things kills or injures someone? Nobody is responsible? The device, including the code, should require sign off by a licensed, bonded professional engineer who is on the hook for the consequences. If they can't find a PE willing to do so, then I guess that's a signal that it's not ready for public testing.

We're not talking about murdering someone during a robbery here, we're talking about the advisability of using a shotgun to shoot down a drone that follows you out the store while shoplifting. Most shoplifters aren't going in armed anyway. Extra charges might not deter someone prepared to do violence, but most petty criminals are savvy enough not to put themselves in the pot for gun charges if they don't have to.

Having the coach come out and kick dirt at the ump is part of the game. It's like taking fighting out of hockey.

It can, and has been in the past, cf Andrew Jackson. This is why the court always pussy foots around matters of "national security", e.g. torture at gitmo, extraordinary rendition, mass wire tapping, etc. There is a tacit understanding between the court and the executive. There are certain things the court refuses to rule on because the executive will just ignore them and undermine their authority if it does so.

IF being standalone isn't constitutional, then they should be dissolved altogether. These are rule making organizations that congress has delegated some of it's legislative power to. Outside of enforcement, they are supposed to be independent. The executive has no constitutional right to rule by fiat.

If that is not possible then they must be disbanded and congress must regulate drugs, trade, radio spectrum, highways, etc. through statute. Of course the country would grind to a halt and all our infrastructure would crumble to dust, but small price to pay so Trump gets his way I guess, right?

You also can't use it in a commercial manner that might imply a relationship or endorsement. Coke can use Pepsi in a commercial to compare the two products. They can't have the Mets mascot dancing around in their commercial for no reason because it could be taken to imply an association or endorsement from the team.

Companies trademark different variations of their marks. Logos and characters are resigned all the time. A clip from Steamboat Willie is currently the opening logo for Disney Animation Studios so you can't even argue that particular form of the mark is not in use.

Borrower 1 has the capability to take on $45k in unsecured debt at a moment's notice. If they do this, they might be too stretched to afford to pay me back. I would rather lend to 2.

If you properly quote text, and format date cells as dates, then yes, it does.