I guess it’s “I don’t want to use fossil fuels but I don’t have an alternative. Give me an alternative! Don’t have one? Then I’ll keep using fossil fuels”

In fairness though not using fossil fuels it’s something of a luxury at present. EVs are more expensive that non EVs. Maybe this will change but slowly. Home solar is very expensive and still doesn’t get you self sufficient in most cases. Power companies need to make the grid renewable to make it accessible to the average person for home power.

So basically upset that the press do their job??

IMO the main reason for the press to exist is to hold people in power accountable for their actions. It doesn’t matter the lengths they go to to get the information or their motivation. There will always be press looking into politics on both sides of the spectrum and we as the public should be glad for it.

You should not excuse bad behaviour just because they are on your team. You should encourage the press to do their job as long as they don’t go too far into harassment, distortion of the truth or digging up irrelevant personal details about someone that affect noone outside that someone.

I really like the line “democracy does in darkness” because it is so true. Political figures who dislike the press generally have something to hide.

Looks like a Jaguar F-pace from all sides except the front.

If counter with: “We’d be well served to remember the long and cherished tradition of settling criminal matters in the courts.”

Basically they want the right to commit crimes without consequences beyond the possibility of simply not being re-elected… But only for Republican politicians. Democrats should be treated differently.

Even then you can still have someone read the source and write a spec for a second programmer to write a library. The programmer never saw the source code but it was still useful. Still legal to do this. If someone dumped original source into the projector could be similarly checked for duplication without breaking the law.

It’s Val Kilmer’s superhero name. His super villain name is “Kill more”.

That would be putting words in my mouth.

Firstly, I think that having been a justice, which is a very distinguished post , they would never have to worry about future employment, it would probably find them. I also think that a job for life means you don’t worry about scrutiny. You can do what you want almost without consequence because you don’t need to worry about what comes next. If no one can fire you, and you don’t need to worry about people being happy with your performance, you can be free so act however you want. In your own interest. In the interest of some benefactor, or should you choose to, in the interest of the people.

Second, I did not say youthfulness it’s important. There is a vast gulf between youthful and aged. I don’t want a 20 year old justice and more than a 70 year old one.

Lastly, expanding it would be great. No arguments here.

Yes I agree with that, but age is a strong indicator.

While experience is clearly an important job qualification for a judge, at some point their experience is from a different era. At the beginning of her training the world was a very different place, but she now applies her experience from that era to cases today. I don’t mean to say her experience is entirely irrelevant, just that the old have to give way to the young if progress is to be made. These guys should have age limits if not term limits. At the very least there should be a known point in time that they need to be replaced so that political games cannot be played with their appointments.

He’s speaking from personal experience. He knows how many crimes he committed last year and is extrapolating to the wider population.

You can do this with PowerPoint. After recording it makes the video an object on your slide so you can position it anywhere. Different on each slide if needed.

That’s the least of your worries - no more farting!!!

No more rolling coal in TN

Wow, that’s great!! So I guess all the chemicals coming out of the coal, oil and gas fired power plants will be stopped then.

CO2, NOx, particulates all are chemicals and are all intentionally released during combustion.

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Absolutely. It is obscene and I’m not trying to defend that My point was just that saying I could make it for this amount means nothing if I didn’t have to pay to develop it as well.

I forget about the marketing part because here, there isn’t any direct marketing to the public. I always thought it was odd on US TV, “tell you doctor to prescribe…” No. The trained professional should be deciding which drug to prescribe.

Marketing to doctors also is a thing I guess, but there is some insulation from that in a nationalised health care system.

This will be unpopular, but a new drug costs a fuck-ton of money to bring to market. It might only cost a few dollars to produce but it certainly didn’t cost that to develop. Yeah, the price is excessive but it certainly couldn’t sell for $1 right now.

It’s really easy to ignore that and think only about the material cost of production. They also presumably want to see some profit to fuel future R&D.

For insulin, there is no excuse. Its development is long since paid for. A moderate mark up is acceptable to incentive the companies to produce it and maybe pay for R&D of some other drug but beyond that it is just greed.

The companies have a moral responsibility to make life saving drugs affordable, but they also need a revenue stream to develop them in the first place.

I know someone will take exception and talk about ceo bonuses etc. Let me get in first and say I agree. They shouldn’t get millions in bonuses at the expense of people forced to pay exorbitant costs to them just to keep on living.

Reading the headline I was about to post how ridiculous it is that AI is taking over everything. Then I read that it is being used to give someone the chance to say their own words in their own voice.

This was not motivated out of using AI to replace an actress. It was motivated out of respecting the wishes and dignity of a dying person. It’s there a better use of AI than this?

I mean it’s funny, but just buy a seat belt adapter to clip them in. Everyone will be safer