Pretty much this. English is a living language and I've seen it change significantly in the 40 odd years I've been speaking it... Let alone writings from Victorian times or earlier. Sherlock Holmes "ejaculated" quite a bit, but when that book was written the word meant to say something excitedly. Obviously it doesn't mean that any more and that book was written less than 140 years ago.

Even reading some Arthur C Clarke or Asimov today there are marked differences in the way English is used, the definition of words changed as the context is different to what we'd expect. However English, being English means a competent speaker can still tell what the word means due to the context.

Languages change and evolve, punctuation marks like the pilcrow or even entire letters like the thorn ("Ye" olde is actual the, that Y is not a Y but a thorn that has a TH sound) or the defunct letter zog (which is still in use in some names like Menzies, which can be pronounced "Mingis" because it's based on an older language). If the semi-colon goes the same way, then so be it.

Which is why English will remain the international language long after another culture rises to dominate.

Not just people getting there on time but deliveries are now faster and cheaper, as they're not spending as long stationary in traffic.

I firmly believe that every traffic jam starts with just one arsehole who decides to do something contrary to the flow of traffic. When there is less traffic, the one arsehole cannot create as big of a wave in traffic as there is room for traffic to flow around them and adsorb the disruption. Even just 10% (which is huge considering the traffic you get in major cities like NYC, London, Sydney, et al.) would be enough.

Getting where you're going in a timely fashion relies on road users reading the conditions of traffic and fitting in with them.

Correction, the US can't.

Germany, Belgium, Denmark and the UK would jump at it. Modern pharmaceuticals are one thing that we can't produce well outside the developed world.

Yep, last week (I think) there was an article here on /. that BlueSky was dying and TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter was going gangbusters. I realised this must have been a paid advertisement when I saw the exact same article, almost word for word, in a British publication except they'd had the foresight to replace "America" with "Britain".

Brain the size of a planet and he asks me to navigate to Nutsville.

And if "customers" say no to AI, they'll just shove it down our throats even harder.

They've spent too much money on it for it not to become something we don't want but have to buy anyway.

Those methods are quite capitalist. It's just that they're not honest. He's cutting costs and forcing people to pay without receiving anything (law suits), that is the end game of capitalism.

It's mainly that people (mostly Americans) refuse to admit that capitalism need to be restrained. It's useful in some areas but left unfettered is just as destructive as any other extremist ideology.

Trump is a capitalist, he's literally selling your country's highest office as we speak.. the problem is that he represents the worst traits of capitalism.

You're having to call?

My pharmacy is entirely online, prescriptions delivered to my door. I go onto the NHS website, order my repeats and they're automatically sent to my nominated pharmacy who posts them to me. I haven't had any reason to call a shop in years, decades if we're talking about a chain store. For the most part if I need to speak to someone it's usually at the point where going into the store would be faster.

Time to abandon the 18th century I dare say.

It took this long for the first terminator comment.

I am disappoint.

Also, has anyone seen John Connor?

Whoa, are you honestly suggesting that 40 years of simplifying music, cookie cutter performers, formulaic writing and autotune have made a market where people can't tell the difference between human and computer produced music?

I guess they dug their own graves here.

I think the music industry's problem isn't that AI is producing music, getting rid of the human elemet is a wet dream of music execs. Computers don't get drug habits, they don't have delusions of grandeur and think they don't need a label, they don't have mental breakdowns... the problem is they don't control the technology. Can't have people making their own music, 40+ years of suppressing small and independent artists would have been for nought.

You've got to remember that the Republican party is now completely controlled by the far right (religious and/or racist right). They're a small majority (10, maybe 20% of registered republicans) but without them the republicans will never see power again so they control the party and are fully aware of it.

They're also the "drugs are bad mmmmmm'kay" crowd, so regardless of what the majority wants it will remain illegal.

Because when it doesn't work properly or has a limited service area you'll sue and demand the full purchase price back... or your family will sue for even more when you decided not to monitor your "self" driving car after you got drunk and told it to take you home whilst you had a snooze or fucked around on your phone.

This is bog standard liability limitation, not a government conspiracy.

Yes but Canada has those pesky workers rights laws that prevent honest, hard working company executives from fully exploiting their chattel... erm, I mean employees.

That is just the thin end of the wedge, let that kind of thinking loose and what's next... Saying "aboot", Canadian style health care, Canadian happiness... Moose and Beavers living together. Chaos

Trump Always Chickens Out.

Within two weeks a newly manufactured outrage will push this out of the 24 hour news cycle so the MAGA faithful don't notice that he's chickened out yet again. Russia is dependent on Iranian made arms so they won't let their tame American government do anything to jeopardise that.