Probably would get about that for a '99 Civic, maybe $30.

I enjoyed watching that, movement, "lip" syncing, and everything. Very slick. They sure can dance better than Bill and Steve.

Wage theft goes on all the time, subtley, and because a lot of workers don't know their rights it goes on and on. A good case of this in recent(ish) times here in NZ, not to the same scale like Amazon of course, with a retailer, Smith City.

I think they had maybe 20 stores nationwide, and the sales floor staff we expected to turn up at 8:45am for a "team meeting" before the store opened at 9am. It was not mandatory, be expected, as part of being a "team player". If you did not turn up, then you were slowly pushed out of a job - basically they bullied you into turning up for an unpaid 15 mins of work. Usually, the staff are younger people who do not fully know their rights under employment law.

Until, someone decided to push back - the end result was that the Smiths City had to backpay a lot of money - think about this: let's say a conservative 10 staff per store x 20 stores = 200 people x 1/4 hour = 50 hours per day for a 7 day retail business x years = starts to add up to a considerable chunk of change.

Short changing your staff is a sure fire way to screw your own business on so many levels.

The first movie I really enjoyed when I was 15 and it made me want to read the books. I got up "Chapter House Dune" before I lost interest - it seemed too drawn out (think "Wheel Of Time")

!!SPOILER ALERT!!

I recently re-watched the first movie and found it has not aged well - plot was choppy up to the middle of the movie, ornithopters did not flap, and at rains at the end of the movie (which is dumb, because from reading the books you learn that would destroy the sand worms and ultimately, the spice).

However, I did enjoy it again, even though the different lens of 35 years later. The things they got right in the first movie were things like the thumpers, the maker hooks, and the sandworms still looked pretty cool.

I hope to enjoy the 2021 version, I just hope it's not overly diverse, woke, and "re-imagined".

I'm going to have to go ahead and say "no".

This will be an excuse to make more money. This will be cheaper to produce, but the cost of a cup of coffee will not go down.

Taste right now is an issue which they will fix, but what do they add to it to make it palatable?

No, just no.

I don't know. Maybe you should ask him.

...is the obvious answer. Her near Ponzi-like scheme was backed only by her words on the back of a good idea that is not quite possible, yet.

Charles Babbage could not perfect his Difference Engine because engineering at the time could not quite achieve the tolerances he needed.

Although, I have to ask, if Elizabeth Homes was not a good looking-woman, would anyone care?

She will shed a few tears at trial, claim she was manipulated and abused, and (maybe) get off with a light sentence and a "There, there. It's not your fault".

From what I have read she was pretty power crazed and abusive to anyone who remotely questioned her "vision". She thought her force of will would make it so and convinced others that it would too, and be damned anyone who got in her way.

To all the people with comments talking about random numbers, getting lucky etc. etc.: You are missing this point..

The point is: It's cool stuff like this is why we have the internet!.

Think about the octopus who was predicting the World Cup results... although, they are pretty smart - could you move 8 arms/legs and not trip over yourself?

Be warned, soon we will welcome our new Cephalopod Overlords.

Come on, it take courage to do that!

When this started maybe 12 months ago(?) I stated elsewhere that the only this this is about is Amazon paying drivers less under the guise of "safety". To think anything else is just plain dumb.

Anyone who objects is pariahed, and asked "Why? Don't you want people to drive safely? Think of the children!"

The problem with these AI-powered devices is that they are not "smart" enough to understand the context of a situation to make an accurate judgement.

As for telling the driver they are distracted, would that too be a driver distraction?

Disney here. We already have a script for that, and you are violating out copyright is talking about it. Expect a call from our legal department.

Awesome, thank you for that!

Apple are a publicly listed corporate entity and have a fiducial responsibility to maximise profits and returns to shareholders.

That said, maybe if they had not been such douche-nozzles about it, then it might not have gone to court.

Correct me if I am wrong, they took 33% of what was transacted? That is gouging - I am surprised that it took this long for someone which a large enough army of laywers to push back.

If it was maybe 5%-10%, then it may have continued as is, or a sliding scale, something like that.

Does anyone have a problem with this statement "The whereabouts of most all of those cubes is unknown today" ?

I mean hell, it's just fissionable material, just lying around... just sayin'

Hmm, "an apparent heart attack". I would say he was enough of a thorn in the side of the establishment, he was inhumed.