Do you have any proof that Huawei is spying on people Patrick? You don’t, because there isn’t any, there isn’t any evidence of intention, there is nothing there, just smoke and mirrors.

“This, milord, is my family’s axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And…

I guessing there’s a sort of Ship of Theseus situation going on, where over decades of use every piece of the original has been replaced, repainted, or just fallen off somewhere along the line.

Preface: I’m going to be getting into the state of mental health care and awareness in the US in this post; no part of what I say below is intended to remove blame from Mr. Giles, or to say that he is somehow innocent. I’m focusing on a larger concern that is illustrated by this article, rather than trying to address…

Yeah, the deep fake technology does an amazing job at low resolution. Look at it again though. Notice how the teeth are blurry? This works because it’s taking low resolution shortcuts to blend images, when those are blown up to say the size of a motion picture screen - this would look even worse than the professional…

Every explanation of a scene is always an interpretation. If the meaning was meant to be explicit, he would’ve written an essay.

“Shouldn’t it go the other way around?” Not really, not necessarily, not at all. In art, there really isn’t such a things as “cart before the horse”. Any point on a canvas or story can be created first because it grabs your soul and the piece often just flowers from there.

yes, true, but the way Remus was introduced in the books, he was such a clear gay metaphor that i am crushed to this day that JKR didn’t have the nerve to continue with him that way. he was an empathic man, an outcast among most of his kind, taking refuge in academia, discriminated against for his “condition,” and he…

I always assumed it had just had the flesh stripped from, Terminator style, and he just never bothered to re-skin it.

Presented without comment, some running lengths of films directed by Ridley Scott.

Bad analogy. Breaking into a home may be ‘easy’, but creates noise, leaves evidence, etc. Holes in encryption can be exploited without anyone even knowing a breech occurred.

Finn was conscripted by the Imperial Remnant, but that was before they hired a bunch of expensive marketing consultants. The focus group gave high marks to a rebrand as “The First Order,” but having Kylo Ren as the moderator might have influenced their opinion a bit.

I preface this all with not reading a lick of anything from him.

He didn’t even use it to get a job at Marvel - he used it as a pseudonym to write for the competition away from his editing job at Marvel. He just happened to be GOOD at it and got the attention of his bosses at Marvel. What he should have done then is come clean to his bosses, but the fact that he didn’t immediately…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonym

Lots of people use a nom de plume.