Too true... however, it makes finding good music infinitely harder as AI is incapable of doing things that make the song special and unique while maintaining artistic integrity.

Take Creep by Radiohead. If they didn't have that guitar string scratching thing in it at one point, would the song have been as good? Once you hear that, you can almost toss out the rest of the song.

Wait, am I arguing against common music here?

You REALLY can't think of a way for this happen reasonably? Seriously?

Look, I apologize for the derisive response. It is not helpful.

You appear to be fixated on "owning" the battery. That is fine, you can keep your ultra special brand spanking new battery and even pay to have it recycled and replaced. You are not required to exchange it. You can keep recharging it all that you want... until it dies. Then, you can buy another brand spanking new battery for full price while also paying the disposal price for the now-old and used battery.

Or, you can start out with one of the "battery time" batteries that are made to be swapped out. You only pay for the first battery, but you don't have to pay for disposal or for a "new" battery. You only pay for the electricity used with a small fee on top to cover the eventual recycling of the batteries over time.

So you get to work with your toddler style ownership if you want, but I am betting that eventually, most everyone will choose the swappable batteries as the costs of recycling and repurchasing becomes too much for the average person to want to deal with. The capital costs are killer to own rather than swapping in a system.

In China, there are moped style scooters with swappable batteries. There is a vending machine where you put your uncharged batteries in and pull out charged batteries. The batteries are recycled once they fail to charge over 90% (I don't recall the exact number).

Who cares if the battery case is scuffed as it is never seen except when exchanging.

Every roadblock you have mentioned is merely a prejudiced perspective that needs to be overcome. There was not a single technical issue mentioned.

My sanity may be questioned, but seriously folks, wake the fuck up. Y'all are acting insane. Battery swapping *IS* the way forward until the tech changes.

Weird. I was told quite vigorously that Java was faster than C much of the time. How is Swift faster than Java, and by reference, C?

Bunch of crazy mother fuckers fantasizing about Reality to push their latest mental illness insight.

Dude, all of that stuff would be SO awesome; however, the price you pay is too steep. Uploading everything I see to be monitored by "others" is a step too far. It doesn't matter to me if the glasses could solve all the problem in the world, I still wouldn't agree to those terms. I will NOT surrender my Freedom for that price.

There is a term that separates officers: Officer of the Line.

If you are no a line officer, then you are not eligible for command outside of your specialty. Your rank is mostly decorative in the general sense.

This may be purely a Naval term; however, I am certain that other branches have a similar distinction: You don't want a Colonel that is a medic taking charge of combat engineers on a regular basis.

Unearned rank is another clear sign of the downfall of America. I would respect a private/seaman long before I would respect one of those "colonels".

They own 90% of the stuff, so they should have 90% of the income taxes. I think I see a problem.

Gee golly gee Beaver, if we lived in a Capitalist society, then an entrepreneur would be spinning up more plants. Why aren't more plants being opened?

The American elite are lazy and greedy. They would have cut corners on the nuclear plants and we would have had some terrible event happen. THAT is why there is so much ant-nuclear propaganda going on: The people do not trust their "leaders".

I didn't read the entire thread, but ...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

If you were arguing over the safety of nuclear vs hydro, then hydro has killed MANY more people than nuclear has... so far.

None of the election results in America are legitimate. The USA has fallen. The only question left is how will it fall and how far will it fall.

Only if everyone is operating in good faith; otherwise, you have a customer claiming that it came from the factory that way and a manufacturer claiming that you must have altered it.

You CNAME it to a domain that expired.

You have to be smart enough to use it correctly and understand its limitations.