What if the portal on the moving platform had a wall right in front of it, so moving though the portal would cause the box to run into the wall. You’d have a scenario where the box wouldn’t be able to move through the portal, but you’d have energy being generated by the moving arm “pushing down” on the box. The only way that could work is if the moving portal is transferring energy to the box, and therefore require option B.

Although that being said, portals break the laws of physics, so there probably can’t be a “right” answer.

Pretty sure most countries do this now, sadly.

I’m not defending anyone, just explaining how the law is working in this scenario as people seems to have lost the ability to understand simple taxes (tariffs).

I hate comments like this. Nintendo paid an illegal tax, so they deserve a refund. Consumers got screwed by their government, not Nintendo.

Also, if you think the tariffs, AI, threat of more tariffs, Iran war, etc. haven’t increases the cost of operations for businesses then you’re not paying attention to current events.

Are you not sure if it was a real bathroom because you might still be stuck in a dream?

It happens periodically with any digital store because that’s the risk with being leased content from a digitial storefront. They may, due to licensing issues, remove content or the store may shutdown preventing you from accessing your content.

There are many quantum resistant encryption algorithms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Algorithms

As for quantum computers, there is some debate, but a number of companies have “quantum computers” but it’s arguable if they work correctly and they have limited Q-bits meaning they can’t do anything of significance yet.

This isn’t the first game to do this, this has been happening for a while. Switch had a number of games where you only got a digital download code and PC games were doing that for years before they stopped having physical releases.

There was some recent reports estimating 2028 or even 2029, probably because you can’t make a device better than the ps5 at current prices.

Either new technology needs to come along or prices need to drop and that’s not likely for the next year or two.

This is the photo showing up on this thread (at least for some of us)

Seems like something went wrong with the cross post, I looked at the original post and the image is uncropped and clear.

What do you recommend instead for $30-40?

Gives Attack on Titan vibes

Actually most job growth has been in Healthcare, a field that is very resistant to AI right now. So if you remove that I think the trend is even less significant (and probably not anything that holds up to much scrutiny).

I mean, there is a history of a lot of nations doing this.

Tax bills are congress, the FCC is the executive. So, one requires bipartisan support, the other can just be decreed.

No, just a typo the article says 600,000 or 600K

It took Google a year to sell over a million pixels when they released, they didn’t even hit 600,000 sold in their first 3 quarters (looking at all of North America) - https://coolest-gadgets.com/google-smartphone-statistics/

So 600,000 people putting down a $100 deposit for a terrible phone is definitely suspicious.

I guess I was thinking of companies with an international presence, or did Worldcom exist outside of north America?

Damn, I didn’t realize it was still that high. I know that yahoo finance was big for a long time, but figured that had finally passed.

I guess I wouldn’t count that as dead then.