It should also be said that recreating the wheel is a waste of time. There are *LOTS* of high-quality Star Trek-style ships out there, and Paramount’s relationship with Cryptic makes it a pretty easy basket to access.

Judges tend to frown on lying under oath, Mr. Musk....

This is sociopathy and sociopaths. The structure of the modern world and its ‘economy’ both rewards and incentivizes them and their behavior, which should come as no surprise, given that sociopaths are the ones controlling society and writing its laws. Built by and for sociopaths. What we’re seeing is the perfectly…

“I got me and mine, so fuck you and yours.” It’s the personification of the true average person. Everything else is a façade, easily peeled away the moment it becomes inconvenient.

Oh, there’s definitely some of that going on, but I’d throw *ANYONE* under the bus for all the same reasons — if you make money from that kind of shit and choose not to do something about it, I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, or what excuse you use to justify it, you are a garbage human being. Period. End…

It’s not the first time Beyonce has made some truly mindbogglingly bad choices. Or do you think her billion-dollar ‘brand’ *wasn’t* made without child/slave labor in 3rd-world countries with abusive, oppressive governments? Hint: it most definitely is.

So...when not-white people suffer from mental illness problems, it’s open season, and police can shoot them with impunity. But when *officers* ‘suffer’ from mental illness problems...we should, what? Pretend it’s no big deal? Ignore it? Refuse any sort of structural overhaul to take problem officers off the street…

Netflix’s Rebel Moon is two parts

Kind of. Sort of. Current battery technologies have an edge over hydrogen. But that’s comparing them at takeoff weight, where ‘fuel’ planes drop a substantial amount of weight through taking off and batteries don’t. The energy advantages of hydrogen are only realized at cruising speeds, at altitude. Which is part of…

As of yet, there are no good sources of ‘green’ hydrogen. All truly ‘green’ hydrogen technologies use dramatically more energy capturing the hydrogen than you get back from it. It’s not a solution. Not even close. And that’s the problem, and the part about pulling the wool over the public’s eyes. Hydrogen is still…

Your point about range for hydrogen is fantastic and I think that is a solvable solution...

Cuts should *ALWAYS* start from the top. If something is going wrong, it’s *ALWAYS* the CEO’s fault. Their job is literally to anticipate problems and stop them before they happen. So if something is going wrong, the CEO has failed spectacularly at their job. They should be the first to go. After all, the reason that…

And include taxes on gas stove purchases and usage to help pay for or at least offset the social costs that they incur to people who aren’t using them. Like, for example, the increased medical costs or environmental costs.

Ordinarily, it’s a poor creator who blames their tools. But since the tool, in this case, is Yves Guillemot, blaming him is absolutely appropriate. His repeatedly terrible decisions have put Ubisoft in its current position. He is SOLELY responsible and should have been fired years ago.

Did you think you could get a 2-, 3-, or even 4-fold increase in visual fidelity for free?? Because that’s not how computers work. All that geometry and texture data has to go somewhere.

The FEC should have doubled down and declared that the RNC could even be held liable for damages incurred by spamming Google’s servers.

Nope. If the artist is asking the AI to do it, then the *artist* is the one responsible. If they are also the original artist, then they’re not violating any of their own copyrights. If another artist does it, then, as before, the artist doing it is responsible.

Yes. And in those instances, it is the group or individual violating the copyright. Not their tools. These are tools. They are not the user. If there’s a copyright violation going on, take it up with whoever created said infringing product. As I said, these tools are not doing anything that people cannot already do…

Okay, first ‘eliminating X as a viable career path’ has no standing as a legal argument. New technologies have eliminated a LOT of careers. The world is filled with jobs that no longer exist. The people performing them had to get over it. So will artists. Second, you can’t copyright a STYLE. Third, these AI systems…

Upon second rereading, yeah, I see what you’re saying. That first sentence isn’t directly attributed to any specific party, which makes it unclear to whom it’s referring.